ChainCatcher news, according to Alternative data, today's Crypto Fear and Greed Index has dropped to 53, down from 56 yesterday, indicating that market sentiment is in a "neutral" state.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, the market has basically been in a range-bound state over the past week, and analysts believe this lays the groundwork for a potential strong upward movement.FxPro Chief Market Analyst Alex Kuptsikevich stated: "A prolonged consolidation usually builds momentum for the subsequent trend. The next important trigger could be the employment market data on Friday.""Over the past five days, the market's volatility range has been very narrow, showing a slight downward trend. However, it has still failed to break through its 200-day moving average, which currently stands at $3.01 trillion. If a global positive factor emerges, the market is expected to break through and potentially challenge the $3.5 trillion area," Kuptsikevich added, noting that the altcoin market may experience strong volatility.

ChainCatcher news, blockchain forensics company Crystal Intelligence plans to acquire the Web3 scam notification platform Scam Alerts operated by Whale Alert. The terms of the transaction have not been disclosed and are expected to be completed by the end of May. After the acquisition, Scam Alerts will become an independent non-commercial entity within Crystal Intelligence.Following this acquisition, Whale Alert will act as a consulting partner. Crystal Intelligence aims to enhance the collection of scam reports and victim support structures by improving language support and strengthening cooperation with global law enforcement agencies. According to a report from the FBI, financial crimes involving cryptocurrency are on the rise, with related complaint losses exceeding $9.3 billion in 2024, a 66% increase from 2023.

The Solana Policy Research Institute, Superstate Inc., and Zagreus Services LLC jointly submitted the "Project Open" proposal to the SEC, aiming to allow the issuance and trading of equity securities on public blockchain networks.The core content of the proposal includes: establishing an 18-month pilot period, limiting the number of initial issuers; requiring issuers to register "Token Shares" with the SEC and submit registration statements similar to traditional securities; all digital wallets holding Token Shares must pass KYC checks and complete investor education courses; transactions will be settled instantly through blockchain smart contracts, eliminating the need for a clearing process; transfer agents will use the blockchain as the primary record-keeping system.The proposal also points out issues that need further resolution, including the qualitative assessment of blockchain network fees, regulation of peer-to-peer transactions, and the definition of the broker's role.

ChainCatcher message, the human verification crypto project World launches in the United States, allowing users to obtain WLD tokens by verifying their identity and establishing a World ID. The project will kick off in six cities: Atlanta, Austin, Los Angeles, Miami, Nashville, and San Francisco.At the same time, World plans to launch a Visa card, allowing users to make payments using WLD tokens and other digital assets. Additionally, World is collaborating with Match Group to launch a pilot among Tinder users in Japan, aimed at helping users verify their real identities.World will also provide access to the prediction market Kalshi through its app. The project plans to rapidly scale to 1 billion users with a small Orb device and collaborate with Razer to offer human verification services in gaming.World is developed by Tools For Humanity, co-founded by Altman and Alex Blania.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bitcoin Magazine, the Ministry of Education of El Salvador will collaborate with the Bitcoin Office to launch The Little HODLer project, which will offer financial education courses for students aged 7-13. The project is titled "What is Money?" and will initially pilot in 50 public schools in the La Libertad department, with approximately 1,000 students participating.The course will provide 3 hours of Bitcoin and financial education content each week, integrating it into the national social studies curriculum. Students will learn about the history of money, the basics of budgeting, saving, and other foundational financial knowledge, as well as the importance of Bitcoin as a financial innovation. This program is an extension of El Salvador's investment in Bitcoin education, which previously launched a Bitcoin diploma course for upper-grade students and the CUBO+ scholarship program for university students.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the education finance (EduFi) RWA protocol Pencil Finance has announced the successful completion of a $10 million liquidity pool financing supported by Animoca Brands and Open Campus, aimed at supporting Pencil Finance's first on-chain education loans and debt financing for education companies. The funds have been fully deployed in the liquidity pool of Pencil Finance on the Open Campus EDU Chain.Pencil Finance will collaborate with traditional education loan companies to bring education loans from Southeast Asia and the United States on-chain, opening up a new asset class for on-chain investors. At the same time, Pencil Finance helps reduce interest rates on education loans by providing on-chain yield opportunities for traditional education loan companies.Animoca Brands founder Yatsiu stated, "Blockchain will fundamentally change the existing model of education finance. Pencil Finance will bring profound changes to the $3 trillion education loan market."

ChainCatcher news, according to Alternative.me data, today's cryptocurrency Fear and Greed Index has dropped to 56 (yesterday the index was 60), indicating that the market is in a "greed state."

ChainCatcher news, according to @EmberCN monitoring, an investor or institutional address received a distribution of 9 million UNI from Uniswap in September 2020, and earlier today transferred all 9 million UNI (approximately 47.07 million USD) to Coinbase Prime. This address had not previously made any outgoing transfers, marking this as the first large transfer.

ChainCatcher news, the SEC has postponed its decision on Bitwise's spot DOGE ETF application until June 15, 2025.

ChainCatcher message, the Eigen Foundation has released the 2025 community funding strategy, which will allocate 40 million EIGEN tokens and distribute funds quarterly to promote the development of the ecosystem.Previously, the Eigen Foundation allocated 15% of the initial total supply to the EigenLayer community program, such as incentive programs and grants for users, developers, and community contributors. The Eigen Foundation will be responsible for deploying these grants for the EigenLayer community.

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized data value infrastructure CESS Network has obtained Level 1 certification from the Blockchain Maturity Model (BMM) of the government blockchain. This certification marks CESS as the first to complete the maturity assessment of decentralized data infrastructure among global blockchain projects, becoming one of the few projects validated by international standard models. BMM is a global blockchain assessment framework endorsed by the UN IGF, covering 11 dimensions including governance, privacy, security, and scalability.It is reported that CESS is also the initiator of the IEEE P3220.02 decentralized storage international standard. CESS is contributing to various industry standards to provide secure, verifiable, and compliant infrastructure for scenarios such as AI, RWA, and DePIN. This certification further consolidates CESS's position as an industry leader in Web3 data sovereignty and compliance innovation.

ChainCatcher news, according to market news, 21Shares has submitted a DOGE ETF application to Nasdaq.According to documents submitted by Nasdaq to the SEC, Nasdaq plans to list the 21Shares Dogecoin ETF under rule 5711(d). The trust is managed by 21Shares US LLC, with Coinbase Custody holding the Dogecoin assets, tracking the DOGE-USD reference rate index published by CF Benchmarks. The ETF will only allow cash creation and redemption, with each basket unit consisting of 10,000 shares. The trust does not use leverage or derivatives, nor does it engage in staking or yield generation.

ChainCatcher news, crypto analyst @brianq posted that as Bitcoin's price rebounded to $94,000 to $96,000 over the past 5 days, market funds began to reallocate towards altcoins.The overall crypto market rose by 10.2% in the past week, with significant funds flowing into small-cap altcoins, especially Meme tokens, as traders exhibited a high-risk speculative mentality. Keywords like "altcoins" and "altcoin season" have surged in popularity on social media, but history shows that the market often moves contrary to retail expectations, and the current enthusiasm for altcoins may signal a greed top.

ChainCatcher news, Huobi HTX high-quality C2C trading area "Huobi Selection Station" has received unanimous recognition from users and merchants since its launch, thanks to its strict merchant admission standards and the business philosophy of "buying U is cheaper, selling U is the safest." The trading volume continues to rise. Platform data shows that the total weekly order volume of Huobi Selection Station has increased by 29.33% month-on-month, with the highest growth for a single advertiser reaching 603.13%; the total weekly transaction amount of the selection station has increased by 66.64% month-on-month, with the highest growth for a single advertiser reaching 241.24%.Currently, Huobi Selection Station has fully opened applications for advertisers, inviting high-quality advertisers to settle in, and providing official one-on-one application guidance to jointly build a new standard for the C2C industry.

ChainCatcher news, the official X account of Grafana stated that its investigation results show no evidence of any code being modified, production systems being subjected to unauthorized access, customer data being exposed, or personal information being accessed.Previous report, Slow Fog detected that the open-source data visualization tool Grafana was suspected of being attacked by hackers, and the attackers may have implanted malicious code.

ChainCatcher news, Professional Capital Management founder and CEO Anthony Pompliano posted that the market panic is severely exaggerated, with several indicators showing improvement recently: the stock market is rising, Bitcoin is rising, employment is growing, and inflation is decreasing. The market performance confirms his judgments from the past few weeks.Pompliano stated that many market pessimists find the current situation hard to believe.