ChainCatcher news, Ethereum ecosystem developer Max Resnick announced that he has left his job at Consensys to join Solana development company Anza.Resnick plans to write specifications for the Solana protocol as much as possible in the initial 100 days, prioritizing the fee markets and consensus implementations that he believes will have the greatest impact.Resnick stated that he will continue to collaborate with the Consensys team as a research advisor while focusing on his new role.

ChainCatcher news, according to Globenewswire, U.S. publicly traded company Banzai International, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNZI) announced that its board of directors has approved the purchase of Bitcoin as a financial reserve asset. The board has authorized Banzai to use company funds to purchase and hold Bitcoin, up to 10% of the company's corporate financial accounts, to achieve diversification of financial assets and hedge against inflation.Banzai founder and CEO Joe Davy stated, "We believe that Bitcoin will diversify our assets and allow us to benefit from the potential long-term value of Bitcoin."It is reported that Banzai is a marketing technology company that provides essential marketing and sales solutions.

ChainCatcher news, the East African country of Tanzania has restricted access to the social media platform X. The internet monitoring organization Netblocks has confirmed this ongoing disruption.Meanwhile, the police have issued a warning that the opposition plans to attack police stations. Politician Tundu Lissu and four other opposition officials from the Chadema party have been arrested in Tanzania. The Tanzanian police warned Chadema members organizing protests via Zoom that these meetings are being used to plan small-scale attacks. The Tanzanian public is using virtual private networks to access X and express their dissatisfaction. Last year, the government considered introducing a mandatory licensing system for the use of virtual private networks.

ChainCatcher news, Tanzanian fintech startup Nala has raised $40 million in Series A funding to support its B2B payment platform called Rafiki. This round was oversubscribed and led by San Francisco venture capital firm Acrew Capital, with participation from DST Global, Norrsken22, and HOF Capital.

ChainCatcher news, Anza, the head of developer relations, revealed the results of the recent Solana developer community call on the X platform, which mentioned:The enterprise-level Web3 cloud infrastructure Syndica has made significant progress with its Zig client (Sig);The Solana light client Tinydancer has launched its testnet;Ongoing work related to the Solana node validator Firedancer is continuing to advance.

ChainCatcher news, Solana's new software development company Anza tweeted that it has made significant progress after collaborating with core contributors to analyze the root causes of Solana network congestion and evaluate multiple potential changes, with hopes to start releasing fixes next week. In addition, the Anza team tested a patch for the current network congestion yesterday. The officials stated that the core issues are related to the QUIC implementation and the behavior of the Agave validator client when handling a large number of requests. The team will roll out more improvements and changes over the coming months.

ChainCatcher news, Solana announced on the X platform that a new software development company in the Solana ecosystem, Anza, has been established today. Anza intends to develop its own validator client, Agave, and join the list of core contributors helping to build the Solana network. It is reported that the company was founded by a group of executives and core engineers from Solana Labs and is building a next-generation developer hub centered around Solana.

ChainCatcher news, according to Fortune magazine, about 45 of the 100 existing employees at Solana Labs are transitioning to a new entity called Anza, to help further "decentralize" the Solana ecosystem, maintain and improve the existing infrastructure of the blockchain, and develop other applications and products.Jed Halfon, former strategic lead and former consul general of Solana Labs, serves as the Chief Strategy Officer of Anza, along with Solana co-founder Stephen Akridge and former operations lead Amber Christensen, who have also moved to Anza. Anza is currently funded by grants from the Solana Foundation. Solana Labs holds a 13% stake in the company.When asked whether the creation of the new legal entity is related to the increased legal scrutiny of blockchain over the past year, a spokesperson for Solana Labs insisted that the spin-off is part of a broader strategic plan.

ChainCatcher news, focusing on the South African market, blockchain financial company Canza Finance announced the completion of a $2.3 million strategic financing round, led by Polychain, with participation from ProtocolLabs, AvaLabs, 99 Capital, BitscaleCapital, StratifiedCap, ContangoDigital, and others. This round of financing enables us to further develop innovative tools and services aimed at reducing the costs of doing business on the African continent.According to the crypto data platform RootData, Canza is building the world's largest non-institutional financial system, leveraging decentralized finance (DeFi) and a robust network of experienced local market participants to distribute financial and transaction-based services to the masses. Canza Finance's solutions involve five different but interconnected areas, including cryptocurrency on-ramps and off-ramps, cross-border settlements, treasury services, decentralized finance, crypto ATMs, agent-based banking, and IPFS storage.

ChainCatcher news, according to China.com, Hainan Tancang Technology Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Tancang Technology") has recently completed a Pre-A round financing of over ten million yuan. This round of financing was led by China Mobile Capital (with China Mobile Group as the actual controller), and followed by Shunwei Capital (co-founded by Lei Jun), with the financing amount exceeding ten million yuan.Tancang Technology has previously collaborated with several domestic museums to issue diverse digital collectibles. Gao Lei, Chief Operating Officer of Tancang Technology, stated: "After completing this Pre-A round of financing, we will accelerate the layout and construction of the digital asset trading platform under Tancang Technology in the near future. At the same time, our professional Web3.0 team is confident in creating a benchmark project for domestic digital asset trading platforms, laying a solid foundation for the overseas expansion of Chinese traditional culture and embracing the Web3.0 trend."