ChainCatcher news, the privacy public chain Namada announced that the Anoma Foundation is launching the Namada delegation program, with applications now open and a deadline of October 31, 2024. This program will be used to delegate up to 50 validator nodes. Accepted validators will receive a 6-month delegation from the Anoma Foundation to help with the network's decentralization, stability, and security.

ChainCatcher News, Taiwan's "Financial Supervisory Commission" announced the opening of foreign virtual asset ETFs for professional investors through a discretionary investment method. Qualified professional investors include: professional institutional investors, high-net-worth institutional investors, high-asset clients, legal entities or funds that qualify as professional investors, and natural persons who qualify as professional investors.To ensure that investors have sufficient investment experience and knowledge, securities firms must establish a comprehensive suitability assessment system when providing virtual asset ETF services, which must be reviewed and approved by the board of directors. Before a client purchases a virtual asset ETF for the first time, the securities firm must assess whether the client has relevant investment experience and professional knowledge to ensure the suitability of the client's investment risk.In addition to professional institutional investors, other investors must sign a risk disclosure statement before their first purchase of a virtual asset ETF. Securities firms must provide relevant product information to investors before accepting their first purchase of a virtual asset ETF to assist investors in fully understanding the characteristics and related risks of the virtual asset ETF they are investing in.

ChainCatcher news, the liquid staking protocol Marinade on Solana has released a roadmap update on X. Marinade Finance will launch the staking auction market SAM delegation on August 14, a rewards report generator will go live in the third quarter, and in the fourth quarter, native instant unbonding, SAM-based accelerated delegation, and staking recommendations will be introduced.

ChainCatcher news, MetaMask's parent company Consensys has released a new toolkit called "MetaMask Delegation Toolkit" to simplify the user experience of blockchain applications and plans to allow developers to use its new product.The toolkit allows users to log in instantly without interacting with traditional wallets, eliminating confirmation pages or pop-ups when users switch between DApps and wallets.Additionally, Consensys stated that the toolkit is designed to simplify the development of smart contracts and allows developers to reallocate gas costs, enabling certain individuals to not have to pay any fees.

According to ChainCatcher, citing informed sources from CoinDesk, over 30 validators were kicked out of the Solana Foundation's delegation program last weekend. Although they remain validators on the network, they are no longer eligible to receive rewards for validating transactions on the Solana blockchain. Another source stated that many of the operators are Russian. In total, 32 operators were removed, who collectively held 1.5 million SOL, accounting for about 0.5% of the staked amount in the program.ChainCatcher previously reported that, according to The Block, the Solana Foundation announced that it had removed a group of validator operators from the delegation program due to their involvement in "sandwich" attacks on Solana users.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the Solana Foundation announced that it has removed a group of validator operators from its delegation program due to their involvement in "sandwich" attacks on Solana users.Mert Mumtaz, co-founder of Solana RPC provider Helius, explained that this move will ensure that the foundation does not delegate to validators that engage in malicious sandwich attacks on retail users.

ChainCatcher news, according to Dune data, the current number of W token staking addresses has reached 71,781, with the token threshold for the top 1000 stakers being 10,599 tokens, and the token threshold for the top 5000 stakers being 4,329 tokens.In addition, according to Tally page information, a total of 80.45 million W tokens have completed voting delegation designation.

ChainCatcher message, encrypted KOL TOBI posted on social media, stating that the delegation feature of the suspected ZK token has just been deployed on ZK Nation.Previously, the official Ethereum L2 network zkSync reminded users to pay attention to the "community account ZK Nation, which is dedicated to managing, protecting, and developing the zkSync protocol."

ChainCatcher news, according to the tally page information, 53.68 million Wormhole tokens have completed voting delegation. Blockworks Research, Wormhole Foundation co-founder Dan Reecer, and crypto KOL olimpio.eth are the top three in delegated voting rights.On June 6, Wormhole announced the launch of Stake For Governance, requiring W token holders to bridge W tokens to the EVM chain and "stake" tokens to participate in governance. Meanwhile, as a security feature of Wormhole Guardian, the daily transfer limit of W tokens from Solana to the EVM chain is set at 100 million tokens.

ChainCatcher message, in response to community feedback that the Taiko protocol is more expensive than other L2 networks, Taiko stated that the Taiko Rollup protocol involves more logic and storage, utilizing several upgradable proxies, which increases the additional delegation call costs. Furthermore, Taiko blocks are not proposed or proven in batches. Proposers interact with Ethereum more frequently to compete for block space and ensure on-chain activity. The on-chain ring buffer has also not been exhausted yet, which makes the storage write costs higher; this situation is expected to improve in about 40 to 60 days.

ChainCatcher news, according to @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, half an hour ago, BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes retrieved 1.55 million PENDLE from the Pendle voting delegation address, worth 9.41 million dollars.Arthur Hayes holds a total of 1.65 million PENDLE, of which 100,000 were received from the project team a year ago, and the remaining 94% were purchased from Binance and Wintermute between September 2023 and June 2024, at an average price of 2.36 dollars, currently showing an unrealized profit of 6.29 million dollars.

ChainCatcher news, the Uniswap Foundation has postponed the UNI token staking and delegation rewards vote originally scheduled for Friday due to a stakeholder raising issues that require more attention. The Foundation stated on social media platform X that they decided to delay the vote due to the immutability and sensitivity of the proposal upgrade. This news caused the UNI price to drop by 8.7%, currently trading at $10.20. The proposal aims to compensate Uniswap stakers and delegators for their high-quality participation, with the vote originally set for May 31. The Foundation stated that they will keep the community informed of any significant changes and will provide updates once they have a clearer understanding of the future timeline.

ChainCatcher news, the NEAR Foundation announced today that the NEAT protocol has received 1 million NEAR tokens in staking delegation from the NEAR Foundation.It is reported that NEAT is an aggregation protocol designed to scale AI applications on NEAR, and all NEAR token rewards from the delegation will be redistributed to NEAT stakers.

ChainCatcher news, Moonchain, as a representative of the trade delegation, followed Berlin Mayor Kai Wegner to visit Tokyo and had productive exchanges with companies such as Mitsubishi and Fujitsu. Moonchain reached a consensus with Mitsubishi on how their yen stablecoin and DePIN Chain can collaborate.During this visit, Moonchain showcased its leadership in the DePIN technology field. Mayor Wegner invited Mitsubishi to participate in the "AsiaBerlin Summit" to be held in Berlin on November 25. Additionally, Moonchain discussed potential cooperation opportunities in public service digitization and AI applications with Fujitsu, further strengthening ties with Japanese tech giants.These preliminary discussions are hopeful steps towards integrating cutting-edge blockchain technology into the operational frameworks of Mitsubishi and Fujitsu, which will significantly contribute to technological advancements in Berlin and Tokyo. Moonchain is expected to apply its largest DePIN L3 native blockchain technology to the Japanese market.The Moonchain team was established in 2017, based in Berlin, Germany, and is dedicated to building the largest DePin and L3 native chain. According to official tweets, its native token $MXC remains the only token on the Moonchain network.

ChainCatcher news, BounceBit announces mainnet launch. The BounceBit chain operates as an independent Layer1 network, with BB serving as the gas fee token.In addition, the BounceBit mainnet has launched a series of new features, allowing users to stake and delegate nodes through its portal; generate Premium Yield; liquidity custody, and more.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, MetaMask has launched a validator delegation service supported by Consensys, open to users willing to stake at least 32 Ethereum. The current annual yield is approximately 4%, and the official will charge a 10% fee from the earned rewards.

ChainCatcher news, the on-chain aggregation代打 protocol Rocket3 will conduct its first round of community fundraising on January 8, 2024, at 21:00 (UTC+8). This round of fundraising will be used for multi-chain development of the protocol and market promotion.It is reported that Rocket3 aims to facilitate on-chain collective interactions for the ETH mainnet and other networks to help users save up to 80% on Gas fees. Previously, Rocket3 completed a $1.2 million Pre-seed round of financing, jointly completed by SOSV, Bex Venture, and three other institutions.

ChainCatcher news, a16z crypto announced the details of the third phase of the Token Delegation Program. This phase of the token delegation program has a total of 17 delegates, with 8 million OP tokens delegated to 8 Optimism representatives (focusing on community leaders, startups, and professional representatives), and an additional 2.5 million UNI tokens delegated to 9 Uniswap representatives.a16z crypto stated that the delegates in its token delegation program have complete autonomy to vote as they see fit. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, members of the DAO for the cross-chain liquidity protocol Stargate based on LayerZero discussed how to handle the allocation of 1.6 million ARB tokens, including holding, selling, deploying, or delegating. Some participants suggested that the DAO should distribute the ARB tokens to users or deploy them as liquidity incentives, while others recommended delegating the ARB tokens so that Stargate could participate in Arbitrum governance. ( CoinDesk )