ChainCatcher news, according to Decrypt, the crypto payment service provider Alchemy has hired former Stripe Web3 head Guillaume Poncin as the engineering director. Poncin will be responsible for the engineering and technical management of Alchemy's existing products and new products, as well as expanding services.Guillaume Poncin launched fiat-to-crypto channels and cross-border payment products using stablecoins at Stripe.

ChainCatcher news, the cross-chain liquidity protocol Catalyst for modular blockchains has completed a $4.2 million seed round financing, led by Spartan Group, with participation from Foresight Ventures, Robot Ventures, Maven11, Alchemy Ventures, HashKey Capital, Circle Ventures, Superscrypt, and angel investors Calvin Liu, Aditi Sriram, and David Phelps.It is reported that in the coming months, Catalyst will focus on the release of its white paper and testnet, and plans to expand into the Ethereum ecosystem. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, a one-stop Web3 application development platform Mirror World has announced that it has received strategic investment from Alchemy Ventures in its Pre-A round.According to the crypto data platform RootData, Mirror World previously announced in March last year that it had secured seed round investments from institutions such as Galaxy Interactive, Republic Crypto, YGG SEA, OKX Ventures, LD Capital, Sky9 Capital, and B1V.Mirror World CEO Chris Zhu stated that the vast majority of Web3 applications currently face issues such as low purchase conversion rates and unreasonable overall R&D pipelines. Mirror World is committed to building a conversion engine for blockchain applications to help more clients solve these problems. In addition, Chris Zhu also revealed that Mirror World has already started its subsequent financing, and it is expected to complete a new Series A financing soon.