ChainCatcher news, senior officials at the White House stated that Trump plans to impose additional tariffs on semiconductors, pharmaceuticals, and potential critical minerals that are not covered by the new tariffs. Trump will respond to retaliatory measures from other countries to ensure that the emergency order is not compromised. Exemptions for goods from Mexico and Canada that comply with the USMCA will continue. (Jin Shi)

ChainCatcher news, Nasdaq-listed mining company Bitfarms announced on platform X that it has reached a preliminary agreement for a $300 million private debt financing with Macquarie Group to fund the initial HPC project development at Panther Creek in Pennsylvania. The initial financing amount is $50 million, with a maximum drawable amount of $300 million upon final document signing. It is expected that Macquarie Group will provide funding for the initial construction of the Panther Creek data center in a non-dilutive manner.

ChainCatcher news, Hu Tao Capital (00905.HK) announced that the company has entered into a cooperation agreement with Waterdrip Investment Limited ("Waterdrip"). According to the cooperation agreement, Waterdrip and the company will collaborate and jointly invest in projects identified as aligned with the group's business, including but not limited to upstream/downstream enterprises, peers, and technology holders. Waterdrip will provide services to the company, including but not limited to:(i) Communicating, negotiating, and establishing partnerships with project counterparts;(ii) Participating in project development, such as through project evaluation, due diligence, and contract drafting;(iii) Participating in project implementation, such as problem-solving, coordination, and achieving project investment goals.It is reported that Waterdrip has extensive experience in the web3.0 and blockchain fields and is committed to promoting the development of blockchain technology through capital influence. Waterdrip's group invests in multiple blockchain projects, covering areas such as public chain construction, Bitcoin ecosystem, DeFi, DePIN, and RWA.

ChainCatcher News: President Trump plans to announce new tariffs in the coming days. He expressed a certain openness to reaching tariff agreements with other countries, but he hinted that any agreements would be made after the tariff measures take effect on April 2.

ChainCatcher news, according to Decrypt, Gotbit founder Aleksei Andriunin has reached a plea agreement with U.S. authorities to forfeit $23 million in crypto assets related to market manipulation charges. Court documents cited by Law360 show that Andriunin was involved in Gotbit's actions that caused "decentralized market participants" to suffer financial "harm" as they purchased cryptocurrencies at "fraudulently inflated prices." The founder of Gotbit was extradited to the U.S. at the end of February, after being arrested in Portugal four months earlier.The plea agreement could result in Andriunin avoiding prison time and not having to pay additional fines beyond the forfeiture of assets. However, the court retains final discretion over the terms of the sentencing. The total amount of assets subject to civil forfeiture is $23 million, including stablecoins issued by Tether and Circle, held in four wallets "fully controlled" by Andriunin. Court documents indicate that Andriunin will be subject to three years of supervised release, during which he is strictly prohibited from engaging in any crypto activities.Previously, in November last year, it was reported that the U.S. Department of Justice charged Gotbit's CEO with orchestrating a large-scale scheme of false trading.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, President Trump will discuss a peace agreement for Ukraine with Putin and may announce this news on Tuesday.Trump stated that the "likelihood of reaching an agreement is very high."

According to ChainCatcher news, the decentralized user protocol platform PoPP has announced the completion of its final round of $6 million financing before the TGE, bringing the total financing amount to $12 million. This round of investors includes Oasis Labs, X-Labs, Becker Ventures, InnoAlpha, Blocklike Ventures, and others.PoPP provides users with dynamic on-chain identity labels by analyzing on-chain behavior, accurately matching DApps, and offering developers privacy-protected precise audience targeting. After the financing is completed, PoPP will advance the PoPP AI-Profile, build a Web3 user ecosystem, optimize the smart matching experience, and expand more application scenarios.According to the Web3 asset data platform RootData, PoPP uses blockchain technology to construct users' personal metaverse social relationships, allowing everyone to issue programmable soul-bound tokens and non-fungible tokens to carry their social relationships, organizational relationships, rights certificates, and works, enabling everyone who contributes to the community to earn rewards and helping users discover more valuable souls and content on the platform.

ChainCatcher news, the lending protocol 3Jane tweeted the release of its white paper, which allows users to borrow with 0 collateral. The white paper indicates that 3Jane provides funding based on verifiable financial proofs rather than on-chain collateral.In addition, it utilizes zkTLS (zero-knowledge TLS) to connect on-chain and off-chain credit data for more accurate risk assessment. Bad loans are handled through on-chain auctions, with bids from U.S. debt collection agencies.

ChainCatcher news, Paraguay's Secretariat for the Prevention of Money Laundering (SEPRELAD) signed a memorandum of understanding with El Salvador's National Digital Assets Commission (CNAD) last Friday. This is the second such agreement signed in nearly three months, following a similar regulatory cooperation between El Salvador and Argentina's National Securities Commission (CNV) last December.According to SEPRELAD's statement, both parties will work together to combat unlicensed cryptocurrency operations and strengthen anti-money laundering measures.

ChainCatcher message, the Solana Virtual Machine SOON Chinese community tweeted, "We have learned about a recent allegation against Web3port, claiming that it engaged in malicious market-making activities on Binance for one of its portfolio projects. It needs to be clarified that Web3port did participate in the COMMing SOON NFT minting like other community members, but there is no agreement between SOON and Web3port for market-making or any other services apart from participating in the NFT minting. We appreciate the community's efforts in pursuing transparency, and we want to assure everyone that SOON remains committed to fair and ethical practices."

ChainCatcher news, according to Reuters, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) stated that at this stage, El Salvador's purchase of Bitcoin does not violate the terms of the loan agreement signed earlier, but discussions on this matter will be held.It is reported that El Salvador reached a $1.4 billion loan agreement with the International Monetary Fund in January this year, which required the country to abandon the adoption of Bitcoin and cancel Bitcoin's legal tender status. However, El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele stated that despite the IMF's requests, the El Salvadoran government will not stop purchasing Bitcoin.Bitcoin analyst John Dennehy revealed that the agreement between El Salvador and the IMF was approved on January 29 and published in the official gazette the next day, but the effective date is April 30.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the derivatives trading protocol MYX Finance announced today the completion of its strategic round of financing, with participation from leading institutions such as FL Foundation, Woyong, D11-Labs, HashKey Capital, and Metalpha. Among them, institutions like D11-Labs and HashKey Capital previously participated in the seed round financing of MYX Finance.This round of financing will accelerate MYX Finance's vision of creating a "chain abstract liquidity layer," thereby addressing the two major challenges of DEX: "liquidity" and "usability." It aims to provide users with a CEX-level trading experience while retaining the composability and innovative potential of DEX. In November 2023, MYX Finance completed a $50 million seed round financing led by HongShan (Sequoia China).It is reported that MYX Finance will conduct its TGE in the first quarter of this year. Currently, the project has launched the Pre-TGE Pioneer Reward multi-task on Galxe, where community users can share 200,000 MYX tokens by completing social media community tasks, trading tasks, MLP purchase tasks, and more.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi Data reports, U.S. President Trump signed an amendment to the tariffs on Mexico and Canada, exempting products that meet the "United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement" (USMCA) from tariffs until April 2.In addition, Trump stated that there would be no changes to the tariffs on steel and aluminum. On February 1, Trump signed an executive order imposing a 25% tariff on products imported from Mexico and Canada.On February 3, Trump announced a 30-day delay in the implementation of the tariff measures on the two countries and continued negotiations. According to this decision, the relevant tariff measures took effect on March 4.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, El Salvador, under the leadership of President Nayib Bukele, apparently has no intention of stopping its accumulation of Bitcoin, regardless of the demands made by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).Bukele posted on the X platform that El Salvador will not stop accumulating Bitcoin: "When the whole world rejects us, and most 'Bitcoin believers' abandon us, it did not stop then, it will not stop now, and it will not stop in the future. Proof of Work is greater than proof of complaint."In addition, El Salvador increased its holdings by another 1 BTC early this morning, bringing its total holdings to 6101.18 BTC.

ChainCatcher message, Infini founder Christian transferred 0.1 ETH to the hacker's address and attached a message stating, "We acknowledge your ability in discovering vulnerabilities in our protocol and would like to reach a white hat agreement: you may keep 20% of the stolen assets as a bounty, and please send the remaining portion to my address or our escrow wallet. If handled this way, we will not take further legal action."

ChainCatcher News, U.S. President Trump met with visiting British Prime Minister Starmer. After the meeting, the two held a joint press conference. Regarding topics related to U.S.-U.K. trade and cooperation, Trump stated that the U.S. and the U.K. are negotiating a bilateral trade agreement.Trump mentioned that the two sides will reach a "great trade deal," and ultimately, a very good agreement for both countries is being worked on, with expectations to finalize it with the U.K. soon. Starmer stated that the two countries have begun to formulate a new economic agreement centered on advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence to strengthen their trade relationship.As for Trump's recent threats to impose tariffs on other countries, he indicated that he discussed U.S. tariffs on the U.K. with Starmer, who attempted to persuade him not to impose tariffs on Britain. Trump also stated that if the two sides reach a trade agreement, there would be no need to impose tariffs on the U.K.

ChainCatcher news, the fixed-rate protocol Tenor has announced the completion of a $2.5 million seed round financing, led by Cherry Crypto, with participation from Coinbase Ventures, Lattice Fund, Curved Ventures, and developers from Moonwell, Degenscore, and Etherfi. The funds raised in this round will be fully dedicated to the development of Tenor's products.Tenor is developing a new fixed-rate lending protocol that enables the creation of efficient fixed-rate lending AMM markets to be deployed permissionlessly through a modular approach, supporting precise matching of the needs of borrowers and lenders at fixed rates.

ChainCatcher message, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong announced, "We have reached an agreement with SEC staff to dismiss their lawsuit against Coinbase. Once we receive approval from the commission (which we are told is expected next week), this will be a complete settlement with a payment of $0 in fines, and our business will remain unchanged."