ChainCatcher message, Band Protocol rebranded as Band and announced the launch of Band v3, aimed at becoming the most developer-friendly oracle in the crypto space. The new brand and Band v3 will be launched across all platforms in early 2025.

ChainCatcher news, Band Protocol announced a partnership with Stride, a leading liquid staking protocol in the Cosmos ecosystem, to launch the first liquid staking derivative of the BAND token, stBAND. Users can obtain stBAND by directly staking BAND on the Stride platform or trading on the Osmosis decentralized exchange.

ChainCatcher message, Band Protocol announced an integration with Coreum to build a bridge between RWA and enterprise use cases and the Cosmos ecosystem.This integration enhances the accessibility and utility of Band Oracle within the Cosmos ecosystem, providing developers with a simple and efficient solution through the CW-Band integration.Coreum simplifies the tokenization of RWA, allowing seamless access to real-time data provided by BandChain through CW-Band.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the scalable cross-chain decentralized oracle protocol Band Protocol announced that, based on the proposal of its co-founder Soravis Srinawakoon, it plans to remove its oracle functionality and convert the BAND token into the first fully functional inter-chain Memecoin on Cosmos.

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized oracle project Band Protocol announced that it will integrate price feeds with the XRP Ledger (XRPL) ecosystem, and Band Protocol will become the main oracle provider for the XRPL mainnet and its EVM sidechains.

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized oracle project [Band Protocol](https://www.rootdata.com/zh/Projects/detail/Band Protocol?k=MTUxOQ==) announced the launch of a grants program (Band Protocol Grants Program) to accelerate ecosystem development. This grant program will support projects in four main categories: core infrastructure, application development, community initiatives, and research. (Source link)

ChainCatcher message, the cross-chain oracle Band Protocol has voted to approve the proposal to upgrade the BandChain mainnet to v2.5, which is expected to take place at block height 16562500 (April 27th, 22:00 Beijing time).It is reported that the upgrade includes upgrading ibc-go to v4.3.0, upgrading cosmos-sdk to v0.45.15, upgrading tendermint (cometbft) to v0.34.27, and supporting statically linked binaries for bandd, among others. (Source link)

ChainCatcher message, the cross-chain oracle Band Protocol stated on Twitter: "Band Protocol monitors asset prices to ensure they meet Band standards. Due to recent events and the current market situation, we have delisted FTT and removed it from BandChain to protect our customers and end users." (source link)

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized oracle Band Protocol tweeted, "Since the situation began to develop, Band Protocol has removed FTX from its data sources. We will continue to closely monitor the situation and ensure there are sufficient sources to aggregate and report price data." (source link)