ChainCatcher news, the Chengdu court released the top ten typical cases for 2024, which disclosed a fundraising fraud and money laundering case involving the "GUCS" virtual currency and the associated software "Wa11et Pro" APP. The defendants, including Wang, vigorously promoted the economic value and investment prospects of GUCS coin in Chengdu, Deyang, Meishan, and other places, developing downlines in a pyramid scheme manner, resulting in losses of over 1.7 billion yuan for more than 29,000 fundraising participants. Wang was sentenced to life imprisonment, deprived of political rights for life, and ordered to forfeit all personal property.In addition, the Chengdu court also disclosed a case involving a Singapore company suing a Sichuan real estate company over a "mining machine" sales contract dispute, ruling that the Sichuan real estate company must refund the Singapore company the already paid amount of 836,000 USD for the goods, along with shipping and insurance fees of 22,534 USD, while dismissing other claims from the Singapore company.

ChainCatcher news, according to Hongxing News, on the national 15th "5·15" publicity day for combating and preventing economic crimes, the economic investigation departments of the public security in Sichuan and Chongqing jointly carried out activities for the publicity day. At the event, Chengdu Public Security announced two typical cases of economic crimes. One of the cases involved a major underground bank case with an amount of up to 13.8 billion yuan, which was solved by the Chengdu Public Security Bureau. The suspects used USDT (Tether) as a medium to evade national foreign exchange supervision and illegally provided foreign exchange settlement channels. This case involves 26 provinces (cities, autonomous regions) across the country, and the public security authorities have now arrested 193 suspects nationwide.

ChainCatcher news, according to Chengdu Daily, the "Implementation Rules for the Special Policies of Chengdu for Building a National Blockchain Innovation Application Comprehensive Pilot" and the "Implementation Rules for the Special Policies of Chengdu for Promoting the Development of the Big Data Industry (Revised)" have been recently released to support the development of related industries.In terms of supporting blockchain infrastructure construction, a one-time subsidy of up to 1 million yuan will be granted to enterprises or institutions participating in national and provincial blockchain infrastructure construction, based on 20% of their investment costs; for enterprises or institutions that take the lead in establishing blockchain operation centers and actually carry out business, a subsidy of up to 500,000 yuan will be granted each year for the first two years, based on 20% of the actual operating costs.In deepening blockchain scenario applications, enterprises are encouraged to carry out application demonstrations around the key tasks of the "Chengdu National Blockchain Innovation Application Comprehensive Pilot." For projects that participate in and complete the established pilot goals, a one-time subsidy of up to 1 million yuan will be granted based on 20% of the project's construction costs;In promoting high-quality industrial development, a one-time subsidy of up to 2 million yuan will be granted to those who build blockchain technology evaluation institutions, obtain provincial-level or higher qualification certification, and provide services externally, based on 20% of the actual investment costs. Support will be provided for enterprises to explore markets outside the region, with one-time rewards of 100,000 yuan, 300,000 yuan, 500,000 yuan, and 1 million yuan for enterprises whose annual blockchain business sales revenue exceeds 50 million yuan, 100 million yuan, 500 million yuan, and 1 billion yuan for the first time, respectively;In creating a good development ecosystem, a one-time reward of 1 million yuan, 500,000 yuan, 300,000 yuan, and 100,000 yuan will be granted to enterprises or institutions that lead the formulation of international, national, industry, and group blockchain standards. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to Chengdu Daily, the Chengdu Municipal Bureau of Economic and Information Technology and the Municipal New Economy Committee issued the "2023 Chengdu Metaverse Scene Construction Work Plan" yesterday. According to the "Work Plan," Chengdu will focus on building the Chengdu-Chongqing economic circle, the Chengdu metropolitan area, and a park city demonstration area that practices new development concepts, among other major strategies. Centered around key tasks such as digital economy, strengthening the chain, and smart Chengdu, it will adhere to the development orientation of "virtual and real integration, digital and physical fusion," seize the development opportunities of the metaverse, promote the implementation of metaverse scenes, and build a metaverse industrial ecosystem through technological breakthroughs, enterprise cultivation, scene applications, and element support, creating a digital industrial cluster with international competitiveness.In 2023, focusing on the application of metaverse-related technologies and products in industries such as manufacturing, consumption, cultural tourism, and smart cities, Chengdu will create a number of innovative application scenarios that integrate and empower, launch a batch of metaverse scene benchmarks, and initially construct an urban metaverse scene system. The "Work Plan" points out that by releasing a list of urban opportunities to unlock industrial resources, it aims to attract and cultivate a number of high-quality enterprises in the metaverse field, carry out metaverse scene cluster innovation, and strive to achieve a metaverse industry scale of 100 billion yuan by the end of 2023. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, Chengdu officially released the "Comprehensive Pilot Special Policy for Building a National Blockchain Innovation Application" (hereinafter referred to as the "Blockchain Special Policy") on January 10. This policy, centered around the idea of "strengthening infrastructure, deepening innovative applications, promoting industrial development, and creating a good ecosystem," has formulated 10 special measures in 4 parts to respond to the pilot work, making it the first pilot city to introduce supporting policies for pilot work.According to Zhou Hong, Deputy Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Deputy Director of the Chengdu Municipal Economic and Information Bureau's New Economy Committee, the national-level blockchain infrastructure "Spark·Chain Network" super node has settled in Chengdu, and the Sichuan provincial blockchain infrastructure "Shuxin Chain" has developed into the largest regional blockchain application ecosystem in the country. (Jiemian)

ChainCatcher news, the Office of the Leading Group for New Economic Development in Chengdu recently issued the first policy document focusing on the metaverse, titled "Chengdu Metaverse Industry Development Action Plan (2022-2025)." The "Action Plan" proposes that by 2025, the metaverse industry system in Chengdu will take shape, with the scale of metaverse-related industries reaching 150 billion yuan. A complete metaverse industry chain in Chengdu will be established, a number of core technologies will be researched and mastered, a batch of high-quality enterprises will be introduced and cultivated, a number of characteristic application scenarios will be integrated and created, and a batch of urban IPs will be developed and reserved. This will lead to the transformation and upgrading of the industry and urban governance, promoting the realization of value in the metaverse through virtual means to enhance the real economy, improve production efficiency, and meet the people's needs for a better life. (Source link)