ChainCatcher news, the Meme coin Ponke on the Solana blockchain has launched PonkeSwap. PonkeSwap is designed for seamless token swapping and rewards, leveraging Solana's fast and low-cost infrastructure to create an accessible decentralized trading experience.

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized exchange BulbaSwap announced the completion of a $1.3 million seed round financing, led by Foresight Ventures, with participation from Morph Foundation, MEXC Ventures, and Kronos Research.According to RootData, BulbaSwap is a decentralized trading aggregator based on Morph, supported by a multi-source liquidity providing search engine that helps users find the best trading rates.BulbaSwap will launch a consumer-facing Telegram Bot, enabling users to achieve seamless cross-chain and trading mining functionalities on Telegram.

ChainCatcher news, 0xScope released the 2024 CEX market report. The report assesses significant changes in market share among various centralized exchanges (CEX) over the past year, collecting data from October 9, 2023, to October 9, 2024.In this year's report, the 0xScope team covered 22 centralized exchanges, with the following key points:Binance remains the leader in the global centralized exchange (CEX) market; however, its market share has decreased from 51.2% to 41.68%, with OKX, Bybit, and Bitget being the biggest beneficiaries of Binance's shrinking market share;Spot trading volume: Binance's market share decreased by 13% year-on-year but still leads, while Bybit jumped from seventh to second;Derivatives trading: Binance's market share fell by 8.4% year-on-year, while OKX, Bybit, and Bitget saw significant increases;Platform tokens: BNB dominates the market, while MNT surpasses other tokens due to its Layer-2 platform.

According to ChainCatcher news, Bisonswap has completed its Series A financing, with strategic participation from institutions such as Alves Ventures and Dekrypt Capital.Bisonswap is a decentralized exchange based on UTXO, supporting the trading of various crypto assets and attracting user participation through liquidity incentive mechanisms to enhance overall liquidity. In the future, Bisonswap will continue to expand its ecosystem, optimize user experience, and promote the development of decentralized finance.

ChainCatcher message, according to a recent report by Kaiko, privacy coins have experienced nearly 60 delistings on centralized exchanges this year, the highest record since 2021.The report tracks Monero (XMR), Dash (DASH), Decred (DCR), Mask (MASK), Rose (ROSE), and Zcash (ZEC). XMR had the highest number of delistings, increasing sixfold year-on-year, while DASH had the second highest.The report states that these delistings are mainly due to regulatory pressures from various jurisdictions over the past few years.

ChainCatcher news, the crypto market data provider Kaiko stated that despite the spot ETH ETF attracting over $1 billion in trading volume on its first day, the ETH trading volume on centralized exchanges has seen little change.

ChainCatcher news, recently, the crypto data platform CCData released its outlook report for the second half of 2024. The report outlines the landscape of centralized exchanges and the evolving dynamics of market share. In the first half of the year, centralized exchanges (CEX) experienced significant growth, with total spot trading volume reaching $10.6 trillion, an increase of 145% compared to the second half of 2023. Among them, Bitget saw the largest market share increase, reaching 38.4%, followed by Crypto.com and Bybit, which grew by 24.6% and 22.2%, respectively.In the derivatives market, the open interest across exchanges grew by 30.5% in May, reaching $55.2 billion. The top three exchanges with the highest increase in open interest were Bitget (up 39.2%), Binance (up 33.2%), and OKX (up 22.1%).

ChainCatcher news, the first decentralized exchange (DEX) based on RGB++ Layer, UTXOSwap.xyz, has officially launched on the mainnet. UTXOSwap utilizes bridge-less cross-chain and smart contract functionalities, aiming to release liquidity for all assets on UTXO chains.UTXOSwap adopts an off-chain matching and on-chain verification model, allowing users' intent orders to be directly matched with AMM liquidity pools. In the future, the platform will also introduce third-party liquidity providers. Currently, UTXOSwap supports asset trading in the RGB++ and CKB ecosystems, with plans to expand to more UTXO ecosystem assets, striving to become an important infrastructure for Bitcoin finance (BiFi).

ChainCatcher news, citing CCData reported by BeInCrypto, in June, the trading volume of stablecoins on centralized exchanges fell to the lowest point in seven months, decreasing by 18% to $97 billion.Despite the decline in trading volume, the total market capitalization of stablecoins grew by 0.53%, reaching $161 billion, the highest level since April 2022, although the growth rate has slowed since May. Amid increasing market uncertainty, investors are seeking safe havens, and the market share of stablecoins rose from 6.22% in May to 6.83% in June. USDT remains dominant, with a market share of 70%, while other stablecoins like Ethena's USDe also saw significant growth. The overall slowdown in trading volume reflects broader market uncertainty.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the distributed supercomputing platform DSC has announced the launch of Pancake V3 and the listing of the DSC/USDT trading pair. Users providing liquidity can earn trading fee incentives.DSC contract address: 0xa86a86B8ACDC55812bec2971a2fc8a989455858c

ChainCatcher message, Cryptoquant.com data shows that the Bitcoin reserves of centralized exchanges are declining. From May 13 to June 13, centralized exchanges saw an outflow of 105,706 BTC, worth $7.05 billion. Ethereum also decreased by 1.08 million during the same period, worth $3.7 billion.Meanwhile, the amount of ERC20 stablecoins across all exchanges slightly increased from $21.46 billion to $22.09 billion.

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized perpetual contract and spot exchange HMX announced that it has completed a strategic round of investment. This round of financing was participated by Finlink Capital, 99 Capital, Rise Capital, among others, with Manifold and Mythos Research serving as advisors.According to the Web3 asset data platform RootData, HMX is a decentralized perpetual contract and spot exchange where users can open long or short positions with up to 88 times leverage, with no slippage.

ChainCatcher news, the Aptos ecosystem decentralized trading platform Merkle Trade has completed a $2.1 million seed round financing, led by Hashed and Arrington Capital, with participation from Morningstar Ventures, Amber Group, Aptos Labs, Re7 Capital, and Dorahacks. This round of financing will take place after the platform's launch at the end of 2023, and the funds will be used for the protocol's growth plans.According to the RootData page, Merkle Trade is the first gamified perpetual decentralized exchange built on Aptos. The platform aims to become the largest decentralized leverage trading hub, emphasizing user-friendliness and accessibility.

ChainCatcher news, according to official information, Vortex has officially launched a trading points activity. During the event, participants can earn 1500 points for every 10,000 U traded, and the points can be redeemed for a corresponding amount of token airdrops after VTX goes live.It is reported that Vortex is a multi-chain compatible decentralized exchange supported by ZK-SNARKs technology, which will soon support BRC20 trading zones and ERC6551 growth NFTs. In addition, the official has also launched more points carnival and trading incentive activities. For more details, please follow the Vortex website or official social media channels.

ChainCatcher news, the oracle project Pyth Network tweeted that it has partnered with the decentralized exchange Trader Joe, which will provide real-time market data to Pyth to enhance Pyth's coverage of assets in the Avalanche and Arbitrum ecosystems.

The V2 upgrade of the decentralized order trading platform Bluefin has been launched on the Sui network. The new version adds features such as sub-second, Optimistic trading, spot and full-margin trading, as well as privacy features that allow trading without the need for a crypto wallet.It is reported that Bluefin v1 will remain operational, allowing users to trade perpetual contracts on Arbitrum.