ChainCatcher news, Ripple announced a partnership with Chipper Cash to expand XRP payments in the African market, which currently has five million customers across nine African countries. This collaboration will utilize Ripple Payments and XRP to facilitate faster and more efficient cross-border transactions.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, global custodian bank Northern Trust will provide custody and cash management services for trade finance-focused stablecoin issuer Haycen. Northern Trust's Asset Services division will be responsible for providing global custody services for Haycen's clients' fiat deposits, while Northern Trust's Asset Management division will offer cash management services.Haycen's founder and CEO Luke Sully stated that through stablecoins, non-bank participants can combine yield enhancement with the certainty of instant free global settlement to address the $20 trillion in annual capital flows.The report states that Haycen has received funding support from the UK government for the development of an institutional-grade stablecoin.

ChainCatcher news, according to monitoring by Spot On Chain, Curve Finance founder Michael Egorov seems to be selling CRV tokens again. Data shows that 18 hours ago, Egorov transferred 1,997,000 CRV tokens to the wallet address "0x5a8", worth approximately $1.03 million.Subsequently, the wallet sold 1,000,000 CRV at an average price of $0.515, gaining 515,058 USDC. Currently, the wallet still holds 997,000 CRV tokens, worth approximately $514,000.

ChainCatcher news, Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal posted on the X platform stating that the U.S. Treasury's response to the Fifth Circuit Court's clear ruling that the Tornado Cash sanctions are illegal is "chaotic." Despite being ordered to lift the sanctions, the Treasury continues to attempt to delay the final judicial ruling through procedural means. He emphasized that the court should immediately declare the sanctions illegal and formally revoke them.

ChainCatcher news, Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal criticized the U.S. Treasury's attempt to circumvent legal rulings regarding Tornado Cash by removing it from its global blacklist. He warned that without a final court ruling, there is no guarantee that Tornado Cash will not face sanctions again in the future.It is reported that the U.S. Treasury blacklisted Tornado Cash in 2022 due to its alleged involvement in laundering $445 million stolen by the Lazarus cybercrime group, but the appeals court ruled that blacklisting certain smart contracts is unconstitutional.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, the U.S. Treasury Department stated that since removing Tornado Cash from the sanctions list on March 21, the Tornado Cash lawsuit does not require a final ruling from the court.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, developer Gunboats has ported the Tornado Cash protocol to the MegaETH public testnet, which supports 20,000 transactions per second.Inspired by the U.S. Treasury's lifting of sanctions on Tornado Cash, Gunboats deployed it to MegaETH, naming it ETHTornado. He completed the port using the Truffle framework and stated that it is now easy to write Solidity smart contracts using Foundry.Gunboats believes such restrictions are meaningless and emphasizes that the current activity of ETHTornado is low, primarily due to the lack of a user-friendly frontend.

ChainCatcher news, Circle co-founder Jeremy Allaire announced on the X platform that the Philippine digital currency app GCash has announced that its mobile wallet supports the US dollar stablecoin USDC, allowing users to receive, buy, hold, or trade USDC.It is reported that GCash is currently preparing for an IPO, aiming to raise between $1 billion and $1.5 billion. In addition to payments, the app is also building its suite of financial products.

ChainCatcher news, according to the update announcement of the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list released by the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) on March 21, several Ethereum addresses related to Tornado Cash have been removed from the sanctions list.This update specifically mentions the Tornado Cash website and several Ethereum wallet addresses associated with it, including:0x12D66f87A04A9E220743712cE6d9bB1B5616B8Fc0x47CE0C6eD5B0Ce3d3A51fdb1C52DC66a7c3c29360x910Cbd523D972eb0a6f4cAe4618aD62622b39DbF0xA160cdAB225685dA1d56aa342Ad8841c3b53f2910xD4B88Df4D29F5CedD6857912842cff3b20C8CfaTornado Cash is a mixing protocol on Ethereum that allows users to conduct transactions anonymously. It was previously sanctioned by the U.S. Department of the Treasury for allegedly providing a money laundering channel for illegal activities, such as those associated with North Korean hackers.

ChainCatcher news, according to Hong Kong's Ming Pao, on the 13th at around 11 a.m., the Hong Kong police received a report from a 41-year-old man surnamed Wang, stating that he was attacked by a man with a wooden stick in front of the sports hall at Lai Chi Kok Park on Lai Wan Road, and had a plastic bag containing 318,000 HKD in cash stolen. The thief fled towards Yinghui Terrace. Police officers arrived at the scene to investigate and took the victim in a police car to search for the suspect nearby, but did not find him. The male victim was struck on his left hand by the stick, and after being checked and bandaged by paramedics, he refused to be sent to the hospital.It is reported that the victim had earlier traded virtual currency at Song Wong Toi, receiving over 300,000 HKD in cash, and was on his way back to his residence in Wah Lai Village with the large sum of money in a plastic bag when he was robbed. The police have classified the case as robbery and are searching for a man approximately 1.75 meters tall, who was wearing a black long-sleeve shirt at the time of the incident.

According to ChainCatcher news, monitored by Lookonchain, 3 wallets made a large purchase of 68.979 billion PEPE (total value approximately 4.3 million USD) about 11 hours ago, and their funds all came from Tornado Cash.• Address 0x7A7D purchased 43.77 billion PEPE for 1,413.4 ETH (2.72 million USD)• Address 0x9212 purchased 15.858 billion PEPE for 1 million USD• Address 0x7779 purchased 9.351 billion PEPE for 299 ETH (574,000 USD)

ChainCatcher news, according to Brazil Journal, the board of directors of the Brazilian publicly traded company Meliuz has approved a new treasury management strategy that allows for up to 10% of cash reserves to be allocated to Bitcoin. The company has already purchased 45.72 bitcoins for $4.1 million, marking the first step in implementing this strategy.Méliuz's move aims to replicate the successful model of Strategy. Strategy is one of the largest holders of Bitcoin companies globally, having achieved significant success through its strategy of continuously purchasing Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset. As a well-known e-commerce and fintech company in Brazil, this decision by Méliuz signifies the increasing acceptance of Bitcoin as a treasury asset among businesses in the Latin American region.

ChainCatcher news, according to PeckShield monitoring, the Delta Prime hacker transferred 310 ETH to Tornado Cash. Delta Prime was hacked in November 2024, resulting in a loss of approximately 4.8 million dollars.

ChainCatcher news, The ETF Store president Nate Geraci stated on social media that the CME plans to launch SOL futures on March 17, which will be cash-settled, benefiting SOL ETF applications.

ChainCatcher news, according to the announcement from Revoke.cash, its platform now supports Hyperliquid EVM, and users can revoke HyperliquidX token authorizations on Revoke.cash.

ChainCatcher news, Bitinning founder Kashif Raza posted on the X platform stating that if a bank is hacked and $1.4 billion is stolen, the subsequent process will be: freezing withdrawals, notifying the government, forming an investigation committee, years of investigation, closing branches, losing to competitors.In contrast, the process after the Bybit exchange was hacked is: CEO live streaming, industry collaboration, support from competitors, everything back to normal in 1 hour, and initiating tracking and freezing operations within the industry. In response, Binance co-founder Zhao Changpeng said, "Don't worry, most banks actually don't have $1.4 billion in cash to be stolen."

ChainCatcher news reports that, according to Global Ledger analysis, the stolen funds of $85 million from the cryptocurrency exchange Phemex are flowing through a series of transfers, protocols, and mixing services. The hackers have begun to split the funds into multiple new addresses and transfer them to the Tornado Cash mixer.The first batch of 2080 ETH (approximately $6 million) has been dispersed to 14 new addresses, with less than 4000 ETH remaining in the main attack wallet. The transfer method involves multiple hops and cross-chain interactions.In addition to directly transferring to Tornado Cash and eXch mixers to anonymize the funds, the hackers sometimes also use platforms like Wintermute, DLN Trade protocols, and THORChain to swap assets.