ChainCatcher news, according to OKX market data, SOL has broken through 250 USD, currently reported at 252.34 USD, with a 24-hour increase of 15.01%.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bitget market data, TRUMP has broken through 30 dollars, with an hourly increase of over 30%, currently reported at 29.92 dollars.In addition, its market capitalization has exceeded 30 billion dollars.

ChainCatcher message, the Jupiter official stated that by working closely with the Meteora team, they ensured the perfect launch of TRUMP, which is clearly one of the largest launches in crypto history.Thanks to the team's comprehensive efforts, trading and validation proceeded smoothly, not only on Jupiter but also across the entire ecosystem using Jupiter APIs, including applications like Moonshot that are critical to the launch.The launch of TRUMP utilized the same LFG tech stack as JUP, including DLMM pools, ILM design, and tight integration with Jupiter.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa monitoring, a certain whale has been shorting BTC and ETH on both sides, increasing their BTC short position to 200 coins (20.76 million USD) half an hour ago, while also opening a short position of 5000 ETH at an average short price of 3442 USD.Currently, the total value of the short positions on both sides has reached 37.96 million USD, causing their Aave health factor to rapidly drop to 1.85.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has raised its forecast for U.S. economic growth in 2025 to 2.7%, up from the October forecast of 2.2%; the expected economic growth rate for 2026 is 2.1%, higher than the previous forecast of 2.0%.Under the new U.S. government, policy changes are likely to drive inflation up in the short term, and excessive relaxation of regulatory measures may weaken financial safety protections and increase financial vulnerabilities.

ChainCatcher news, according to Whale Alert monitoring, around 21:58 Beijing time today, USDC Treasury minted an additional 250 million USDC on the Solana chain.

ChainCatcher news, the three major U.S. stock index futures are rising, with Nasdaq 100 futures increasing by 1%, S&P 500 index futures up by 0.67%, and Dow futures up by 0.57%. (Jin Shi)

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, Messari has released the Aethir annual report, key points include:Aethir has established partnerships with companies such as EigenLayer, ai16z, Injective, Near, LayerZero, Beam, Filecoin, Metastreet, Manta Network, Sophon, Magic Eden, Animoca, and Return Entertainment;Aethir's network includes approximately 400,000 GPUs (containers) distributed across 93 locations, providing over 11 million tensor cores, serving about 191.61 million users;In December, Aethir generated approximately $7.6 million in revenue, achieving an annual recurring revenue (ARR) of about $90.68 million, with a total computing duration of approximately 266.19 million hours;The core technology integrates virtual computing containers, quality verification checkers, and resource allocation indexers, supporting 15-minute computing sessions and providing real-time dynamic pricing;As of December 31, 2024, the newly launched $100 million ecosystem fund has supported 20 AI-related projects (such as HeyAnon, ARC, TopHat, etc.), providing funding, subsidies, and decentralized GPU resource access through four batches;A total of approximately 642.83 million veATH has been staked, with about 412.12 million in the AI pool and about 230.71 million in the gaming pool.

ChainCatcher news, Starknet has released the roadmap for Q1 and Q2, expecting to launch version v0.13.4 in February 2025. The main features of this version include state compression, L2 gas fees, and a try/catch mechanism for function call failures. It may also include native support for Cairo (from Sierra to LLVM) and a nonce channel, with the expected effects of reducing costs, improving user and developer experience, and enhancing performance.In addition, Starknet will launch version v0.14.0 in the second quarter of 2025, with major updates including 2-second block times, memory pool optimization, and a fee market mechanism, introducing a distributed sorter architecture and Stwo integration. Starknet will also initiate staking phase 2 in the second quarter of 2025, where validators will begin to validate blocks, aiming to promote further decentralization.

ChainCatcher news, former Coinbase employee Griffin McShane publicly questioned Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on social media, stating that his account was frozen without reason for two months, preventing him from paying the deposit for his wedding venue. McShane emphasized that the account had always been used to receive his salary and conduct cryptocurrency transactions, including direct deposits of his salary during his time at Coinbase, and there had never been any issues before.According to McShane, Coinbase implemented the account freeze under the pretext of "protecting users," but for two months, the platform provided no explanation and offered no effective customer support. "It’s unbelievable that the only suggestion to resolve this issue was to tag Brian and Coinbase on social media and hope they would see it."

ChainCatcher news reports that according to RootData market data, the zkLink token (ZKL) has increased by 44.15% in the last 24 hours, currently priced at $0.147.According to the Web3 asset data platform RootData, zkLink is a transaction-centric multi-chain L2 network with unified liquidity protected by ZK-Rollups. dApps built on the zkLink L2 network leverage seamless multi-chain liquidity to provide rapid deployment solutions for decentralized and non-custodial order books, AMMs, derivatives, and NFT exchanges. zkLink operates as a trustless, permissionless, and non-custodial interoperability protocol designed to connect different blockchains, eliminate discrepancies between different tokens, and address the liquidity island problem formed by isolated chains.

ChainCatcher news, Bitcoin mining service provider Blockware Solutions has submitted a governance proposal to Aave, suggesting to generate new revenue streams for the protocol through Bitcoin mining operations. The proposal is currently in the preliminary discussion stage and plans to use Aave funds to purchase the latest S21XP mining machines, which are expected to achieve a net annualized return of 33.03%.According to the proposal details, Blockware Solutions will provide Aave with managed mining services. The proposal states: "Now is the ideal time to enter Bitcoin mining, as the price of the S19J Pro mining machine has fallen to the $3000-$4000 range, which is a significant advantage compared to the previous bull market peak of over $15000."The proposal emphasizes that this strategy can not only generate Bitcoin earnings through mining but also profit from the appreciation of the mining machines. At the same time, Aave's stablecoin GHO will be used to purchase mining machines, which is expected to enhance its adoption as a true on-chain stablecoin.

ChainCatcher message, USDC Treasury burned 50 million USDC on the Ethereum chain about 1 minute ago.

ChainCatcher news, Galaxy's Vice President of Research Christine Kim summarized the 203rd Ethereum Core Developers Execution (ACDE) call, which discussed the release and specification updates of Pectra Devnet 5, the testing plan for increased gas fee limits on the Holesky testnet, RPC standardization efforts, and minimum node hardware and bandwidth requirements.EF Developer Operations Engineer Parithosh Jayanthi mentioned that a gas fee estimation issue was discovered on Devnet 5 and plans to collect logs to share in the R&D Discord channel. Developers also reached a preliminary consensus on several EIP updates and established a timeline for the Pectra upgrade testnet and mainnet, aiming to complete the mainnet upgrade by March 2025.

ChainCatcher message, Base releases the 2025 roadmap, which includes increasing block space capacity to 250 Mgas/s, introducing 25 million users and 25,000 developers, and reaching a transaction volume of 1 billion by October, with on-chain asset scale reaching 100 billion within the year.On the technical roadmap, Base will focus on OnchainKit, Paymaster, and L3 to enhance the application experience. In terms of fiat experience, Base will open over 25 fiat channels to provide more distribution options for applications, developers, and creators.

ChainCatcher news, MakersPlace announced that due to ongoing market challenges and funding difficulties, the digital art platform will cease operations after six years. Effective immediately, the platform will disable minting, token imports, and new account creation, but art purchases will continue temporarily. Artists and collectors must transfer their works from the MakersPlace hosted wallet to personal wallets by June 2025, with related tools set to launch in February.MakersPlace stated that it will refund unused funds to investors and provide fair severance pay to employees. All Ethereum NFTs on the platform will still be accessible through the secondary market.

ChainCatcher news, according to Lookonchain monitoring, large holders are buying and going long on SOL. One large holder purchased 11,824 SOL for $2.49 million and withdrew 18,527 SOL (approximately $3.94 million) from Binance, subsequently depositing the SOL into Kamino to lend stablecoins.Currently, the large holder has deposited 144,817 SOL (approximately $30.44 million) into Kamino and lent out $20 million in stablecoins.