ChainCatcher news, Worldcoin announced that at the ETHGlobal New York event, the smart contract ownership recovery solution A.S.R. won its "Best Overall" award for using World ID to restore smart contract ownership in case the keys of the EOA owner are lost; the decentralized petition platform C3 received its "Best Governance Application" award for using World ID to ensure that each petition signature comes from a verified unique human.

ChainCatcher news, the crypto exchange C3 has completed a $6 million seed round financing, led by Two Sigma Ventures. Jane Street Capital, Hudson River Trading, Flow Traders, Jump Capital, and GoldenTree Asset Management, as well as crypto-native trading firms CMS Holdings, AlphaLab Capital, and Cumberland, along with C2 Ventures participated in the funding.In addition, C3 co-founder Michel Dahdah stated that C3 supports its customers in keeping their funds in non-custodial crypto wallets or using other financial custodians, such as Fireblocks or Anchorage. C3 also offers traditional email login while using multiparty computation encryption technology to verify and protect that data. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, blockchain security company Sec3 completed a $10 million seed round financing in April 2022, led by Multicoin Capital, with participation from Sanctor Capital and Essence VC. Individual investors include former ParaFi Capital partner Santiago Santos and Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko.It is reported that Sec3 was formerly known as Soteria and currently only serves Solana ecosystem projects. Its clients include Helium Network, Metaplex, and Tulip, with plans to expand to Ethereum, Aptos, Sui, and Polygon in the future. Its products Launch Audits, X-Ray, CircuitBraker, and WatchTower cover security solutions for projects from pre-launch to later stages. (source link)