ChainCatcher news, according to Whale Alert monitoring, at 22:42 Beijing time, USDC Treasury burned 150 million USDC on the Ethereum chain.

According to ChainCatcher news and the official announcement, Tether has released its audit report for the first quarter of 2025. As of March 31, 2025, Tether's total exposure to U.S. Treasury securities is nearly $120 billion, a record high. At the same time, Tether achieved over $1 billion in traditional investment operating profit in the first quarter, primarily due to the robust performance of its U.S. Treasury investment portfolio, while gold investments nearly offset the volatility in the cryptocurrency market.In terms of assets and liabilities, Tether's total assets are at least $149.27 billion, with total liabilities of $143.68 billion, of which $143.68 billion is related to issued digital tokens. Excess reserves reached $5.6 billion, demonstrating the company's strong risk management and liquidity position.In the first quarter, the circulating supply of USDT increased by approximately $7 billion, and the number of user wallets grew by 46 million, a quarter-over-quarter increase of 13%. Additionally, Tether has strategically invested over $2 billion through Tether Investments in long-term projects such as renewable energy, artificial intelligence, peer-to-peer communication, and data infrastructure.

ChainCatcher news, the JuCoin self-developed public chain JuChain has officially launched its mainnet. At the same time, the JuChain public chain co-construction summit initiated by JuCoin will be grandly held on May 15, 2025, in Bangkok, Thailand. This conference will officially release the ecosystem's first core protocol, Butterfly, marking a critical stage in the infrastructure development of the JuChain public chain.It is reported that JuChain is an innovative high-performance Layer 1 blockchain platform aimed at becoming an on-chain traffic hub and user growth engine.The Butterfly protocol is built on the "Butterfly Morgan Algorithm," integrating a bidirectional conservation protocol, a butterfly effect engine, a three-body resonance model, and a MoWa security compensation mechanism, dedicated to creating a sustainable and high-growth on-chain economic system.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, JPMorgan's blockchain division Kinexys (formerly Onyx) announced a partnership with eight major banks in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), including Qatar National Bank, National Bank of Saudi Arabia, First Abu Dhabi Bank, Emirates NBD, Dubai Commercial Bank, and Bank ABC. A JPMorgan spokesperson did not disclose the names of the other two banks. These banks will adopt the Kinexys platform to enhance cross-border payments, fund management, and transaction efficiency.

ChainCatcher news, the Plume Foundation announced that the claim for the first season of the Plume airdrop has officially been suspended. After the launch of the Plume mainnet, additional mechanisms will be introduced to earn rewards and participate in the ecosystem. Delayed reward claims are no longer available, and users who have not claimed can do so on the future Plume mainnet, which is set to launch soon.

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 message, the X account of Hyperliquid is suspected to be hacked. Please do not trust the content it posts or click on any links to avoid losses.

ChainCatcher news, the CEO of the US-listed company Semler Scientific, Eric Semler, announced that the company spent $15.7 million to increase its holdings by 165 BTC, bringing its total Bitcoin holdings to 3,467 BTC, with a year-to-date BTC return of 23.8%.

ChainCatcher news, decentralized AI project Gata today announced the completion of a $4 million seed round financing. This round was participated by YZi Labs, IDG Blockchain, Maelstrom Fund, Manifold Trading, Gate Ventures, Formless Capital, Anti Capital, MH Ventures, V3V Ventures, 071 Labs, and Echo.Gata focuses on developing decentralized large model inference, training, and data technologies to enable decentralized infrastructure to truly participate in and support the trillion-dollar global AI economy. Gata believes that decentralized inference, training, and data resources will bring lower costs, high availability, and censorship-resistant architectures to the AI industry, helping AI achieve sustainable and inclusive development.As one of the important milestones, Gata launched the DataAgent platform, which utilizes computing power resources contributed by global users to automatically generate the data required for AI training through AI, replacing the traditional manual data labeling method.

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin announced his focus areas for 2025: 1. Ethereum development, including single-slot finality in the L1 long-term roadmap, long-term virtual machine, statelessness, security, as well as full-stack security, open source, and privacy protection; 2. Decentralization acceleration at the macro level, involving communication tools, social aspects, governance mechanism design, cryptography, infrastructure, etc.

ChainCatcher message, the current ALPACA perpetual contract price on the Binance platform has risen over 25% in the last 5 minutes, now falling back to $1.3683.During the same period, the ALPACA spot price was $1.22, showing a significant price difference.

ChainCatcher news, Messari released the BNB Chain Q1 2025 ecosystem report, with the following network data for BNB Chain Q1:Network revenue reached $70.8 million (quarterly increase of 58.1%), daily transaction volume reached 4.9 million (quarterly increase of 20.9%), and daily active addresses reached 1.2 million (quarterly increase of 26.4%). Gas fees for wallet-to-wallet transfers surged by 122.6%.In addition, the TVL priced in BNB grew by 14.7% this quarter, with BSC DeFi TVL (in BNB) rising from 7.6 million BNB to 8.7 billion BNB (quarterly increase of 14.7%); in terms of security, the BNB Good Will Alliance was launched, reducing sandwich attacks by over 90%.Technically, the Pascal hard fork was introduced, along with EIP-7702 smart contract wallets, BLS12-381 cryptography, gas abstraction + batch transactions, improved EVM compatibility, stronger scalability, and a smoother user experience.

ChainCatcher message, the encrypted data platform CoinMarketCap posted on X stating, "CoinMarketCap has not issued any tokens. If users come across any news regarding token promotions, it is a scam. Please be aware of the risks."

ChainCatcher message shows that the Trump family's crypto project WLFI issued approximately 1 billion USD1 this morning, currently rising to 57th place in the cryptocurrency market capitalization ranking. WLFI posted on the X platform, seemingly disclosing plans to temporarily halt the issuance and stated: "The mission is complete, we can shut it down now."

ChainCatcher news, according to market data from RootData, the Alpaca Finance token (ALPACA) has increased by 70.43% in the last 24 hours, currently priced at $0.430.According to the Web3 asset data platform RootData, Alpaca Finance is a lending protocol that allows leveraged mining on the BNB Chain and Fantom. It helps lenders earn secure and stable returns while providing borrowers with under-collateralized loans for leveraged yield farming positions, significantly increasing their principal and the resulting profits.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bitcoin For Corporations, the Japanese fashion brand ANAP (ANAP Holdings Inc.) has increased its corporate treasury by 35 bitcoins, worth approximately 3.35 million USD. The company currently holds 51.6579 bitcoins.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the UK Treasury has issued a statement saying it plans to collaborate with the United States to promote innovation in the cryptocurrency industry. Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves stated that the UK will establish new regulations for cryptocurrency service providers such as Bitcoin and Ethereum through a "transformation plan" to enhance investor confidence and stimulate growth.Recently, Rachel Reeves discussed digital asset regulatory cooperation with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in Washington, including proposals put forward by SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce. The two countries' treasuries will continue to explore pathways to support the responsible development of digital assets through the "UK-US Financial Regulatory Working Group."

ChainCatcher news, Coinbase Asset Management President Sebastian Beyer recently stated on "The Scoop" that if the U.S. government reassesses the price relationship between gold and the dollar, it could accelerate its plans to purchase Bitcoin.He pointed out that Bitcoin is transitioning from a highly volatile tech asset to a value storage tool similar to gold, a trend that is attracting more institutional attention and portfolio integration. Beyer emphasized that institutional interest in Bitcoin is growing, marking its maturation as an asset class.

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.