ChainCatcher news, according to TASS, in 2024, experts from Rosseti North Caucasus branch, together with law enforcement agencies, stopped 6 cases of electricity theft from mining sites. The total amount of stolen energy was nearly 3.5 million kilowatt-hours. In terms of losses caused to the regional power grid complex, the losses exceeded 30 million rubles.

ChainCatcher news, SunPump today announced a joint launch of the Spring Festival Red Envelope Carnival with Huobi HTX, delivering festive blessings and wealth joy in the form of digital red envelopes. This event is hosted by SunPump and Huobi HTX, with strong support from projects such as WINkLink, APENFT, BitTorrent, JUST Protocol, SunDog, Tron Bull, CGPT (ChainGPT), NEIROCTO, and others, with a total prize pool of up to $600,000.The event officially starts on January 28, 2025, and lasts until February 12. During this period, users can receive daily limited red envelopes through the activity page on the Huobi HTX APP homepage and the designated cryptocurrency K-line page. The TRON ecosystem will primarily reward with high-quality tokens such as TRX, JST, SUN, along with various benefits like transaction fee discount vouchers, contract experience bonuses, and coin earning interest vouchers, delivering generous Spring Festival gifts to global users, with the maximum single red envelope amount reaching tens of thousands.In addition, SunPump has also specially set up the SunAgent red envelope activity, where users can interact with SunAgent on the SunPump homepage for a chance to receive a Spring Festival red envelope.

ChainCatcher message, the Ethereum L2 network Taiko is collaborating with the global geek movement platform DoraHacks to establish standards for community voting, providing the largest scale of anonymous community voting for a hackathon.Taiko's Grant Factory hackathon encourages developers to design projects that focus on providing innovative solutions, engaging and interesting applications, or generating positive social impact. After months of competition, the finalists will enter the final round of voting, marking a step towards greater community-driven decision-making.The Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure (MACI), initially proposed by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, is a mechanism that provides privacy and anti-collusion voting in community environments. Concerns about obstacles in traditional voting systems, such as fraud, collusion, and lack of privacy, prompted him to propose on-chain solutions to these issues.MACI uses zero-knowledge technology to ensure that votes remain confidential while maintaining integrity and preventing bribery or coercion. In a MACI round, there are two roles: operators and users. Users vote on-chain for the MACI smart contract through encrypted votes. These votes are timestamped on-chain, and only operators can see their votes, with results published after the voting is completed.

ChainCatcher news, Layer 1 network developer Pod announced the completion of a $10 million seed round financing, led by a16z CSX and 1kx, with participation from Flashbots, Blockchain Builders Fund, and Protagonist, as well as several angel investors from Celestia, Babylon, and Axelar.It is reported that Pod plans to build a "consensus-less" Layer 1 network, with transaction speeds comparable to the response time of Google searches. Pod expects to launch a developer network in the coming weeks, with a testnet scheduled for release in the third quarter of 2025 and a mainnet planned for the first quarter of 2026.

ChainCatcher message, Uniswap CEO Hayden Adams posted on X: "Honestly, I've been thinking about an EIP for years, which is to acquire top DeFi projects and L2 through one-time ETH inflation.DAOs can submit on-chain in advance, so everything happens simultaneously. Make DeFi + L2 free, and the only remaining code is ETH. All supplementary projects are commoditized.I have never advocated for this initiative, as it seems unlikely to be realized, but the impact it brings cannot be ignored, and in my opinion, it is worth it for Ethereum."

ChainCatcher news, Binance Wallet and Haedal announced the launch of a New Year event, where users can participate by staking SUI tokens on Haedal.It is reported that this event will draw 500 participating users to share a reward of 20,000 USD equivalent in Haedal tokens, and the event will end on January 30, 2025, at 7:59 (UTC+8).

ChainCatcher news, according to Petra, Jordan has announced plans to develop a comprehensive regulatory framework for virtual and digital assets within a year, aimed at aligning with global standards and promoting the development of its digital economy.The plan will be led by the Jordan Securities Commission (JSC) and supported by the National Future Technology Committee, focusing on creating the necessary legal and technical infrastructure to oversee cryptocurrency trading platforms and virtual asset activities.A ministerial committee led by the Minister of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship will manage the challenges and guide the implementation of these regulations, consisting of officials from the country's central bank, JSC, and the National Cybersecurity Center.This move comes as Jordan seeks to address the vulnerabilities highlighted by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Due to concerns over virtual asset risks and money laundering loopholes, the task force placed Jordan on the gray list in 2023.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Huobi HTX has officially launched the "Spring Festival Fun, $600,000 Red Envelope Grab" event in collaboration with the TRON ecosystem on January 28 at 10:00 (UTC+8).This event is jointly hosted by Huobi HTX and SunPump, with strong support from diamond sponsors TRON, WINkLink, APENFT, BitTorrent, JUST Protocol, SunDog, Tron Bull, CGPT (ChainGPT), and NEIROCTO.From January 28 to February 12, Huobi HTX will distribute 10,000 red envelope gifts daily, with a total prize pool exceeding $600,000. Users can participate in the event with zero threshold upon registration. The red envelopes will refresh daily at 10:00 (UTC+8), and additionally, there will be an extra round of red envelopes at 0:00 on January 29 (midnight on New Year's Eve).

ChainCatcher news, Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart posted on X that Tuttle Capital has submitted applications for 10 leveraged crypto asset ETFs to the U.S. SEC, including several meme coin products and assets that have not yet launched ETPs, as well as the first ETP applications in the U.S. tracking cryptocurrencies such as Chainlink, Cardano, Polkadot, BNP, and Melania.

ChainCatcher news, MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor responded on the X platform to Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong's discussion about restructuring the token listing process, stating that establishing a reasonable digital asset framework will unleash the potential of the free market and drive the crypto industry to achieve a hundredfold growth.

ChainCatcher news, Ola announced a collaboration with the Bitcoin Layer 2 project Bitlayer to launch the first round of mobile "dual mining" activities. The event will take place from January 27, 2025, to February 26, 2025, allowing users to experience the "one-click dual mining" feature on the Massive platform while earning OLA tokens and Bitlayer points.During the event, participants will share 5.74 million OLA tokens and 20 million Bitlayer points, and Bitlayer points can be redeemed for tokens during the TGE period in the second quarter of 2025.Participation is simple: download and register on Massive (available on the App Store, Google Play, Android, and Solana app markets), connect to the Bitlayer chain, and start mining. By checking in daily, staying active, inviting friends, and participating in social interactions, users can further enhance their earnings.This event offers generous rewards to users while deepening the collaboration and development between Ola and Bitlayer in the Bitcoin ecosystem.

ChainCatcher news reports that in 2024, TIDO Capital will deeply invest in the Web3 sector with a systematic investment strategy, completing investments in 21 high-quality projects throughout the year, with a total investment amount reaching 23 million USD. By the end of the year, it will establish a secondary market investment fund with a scale of 100 million USD and form strategic partnerships with over 30 top trading teams, covering liquidity management, quantitative strategies, and ecological collaboration. Its brand event, Venture Horizon, successfully held three sessions in Dubai, Singapore, and Bangkok, facilitating over 50 institutional investments in accelerated projects, partners, and portfolios, and plans to hold the fourth session during Consensus HK on February 19, 2025, to deepen resource integration in the Asia-Pacific region.Core capability upgrades include: completing a brand strategy renewal, building a full-cycle project accelerator system covering business model design, technology development, global financing, and listing guidance, serving 22 accelerated projects within the year, deeply incubating 9 benchmark cases, with customer satisfaction reaching 100%; the ecological empowerment network covers 20+ high-growth public chain ecosystems, 1000+ global partner institutions, and 30,000+ industry nodes, forming a cross-regional resource synergy effect.2025 Strategic Plan:Primary market strategy focus: Anchor on three strategic tracks: Infrastructure, AI, and Mass Adoption, with a focus on decentralized infrastructure, AI, and large-scale application ecosystems;Secondary market efficiency enhancement: Expand the secondary fund size to 150 million USD, iterate multi-factor quantitative models and risk hedging mechanisms, aiming for an annualized return rate in the top 10% of the industry;Global ecological infrastructure: Hold 10-15 VC brand special events in global core hub cities (Hong Kong, Dubai, Singapore, Tokyo, etc.), building a cross-regional capital-project-technology hub network;Accelerator system iteration: Launch the TIDO Labs 2.0 plan, integrating compliance, liquidity, and exchange resources, aiming to incubate 5 projects with valuations exceeding 100 million USD.TIDO Capital is committed to consolidating its leadership position as a top crypto asset investment institution and ecological accelerator in the Asia-Pacific region through capital empowerment, ecological collaboration, and technological innovation, driving the value paradigm upgrade of the Web3 industry.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, Jesse Pollak, head of the Base protocol, recently stated in a conference call with Ethereum founders and developers that based rollups are "a flexible and powerful tool that will allow us to use them for Base, bringing it closer to Ethereum and increasing the security guarantees it provides."Ben Jones, a director at the Optimism Foundation, added that based rollups will improve collaboration between the Ethereum base layer and L2.Ethereum L2 networks (such as Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base) have charged hefty fees by deploying high-speed, centralized sorters (i.e., the order of transaction processing and addition to blockchain blocks), but this comes at the cost of unification.Based rollups, proposed by Ethereum core developer Justin Drake in March 2023, return this process to the base layer, improving the decentralization of the network, as the block building process will be executed by all Ethereum validators rather than a single centralized sorter.At the same time, native rollups will enhance the way transactions are executed on the base layer, making the network more composable.However, these L2s will forfeit a significant portion of their revenue gained through maximum extractable value. Data from Dune Analytics shows that Arbitrum, which supports the transition to based rollups, has generated $210 million in revenue from its centralized sorter, while Base's revenue stands at $96.2 million.It is worth noting that based rollups or native rollups may bring more revenue to Ethereum's base layer and positively impact the price of ETH. However, the decentralized sorting of the Ethereum base layer means that transactions will be confirmed within 12 seconds, rather than the approximately 1 second typical of many Ethereum L2s. Several Ethereum L2 leaders also support the deployment of "FABRIC," an infrastructure that supports based rollups.Daniel Wang, CEO of Ethereum L2 Taiko, stated that the protocol is willing to adopt the FABRIC standard to "address" Ethereum's interoperability issues, saying, "We have been waiting for the FABRIC standard so that we can work together and provide a complete solution."

ChainCatcher message, Slow Mist Technology's Chief Information Security Officer 23pds disclosed on social media that the popular trading tool Debot has a security risk of exposing private keys in plaintext within data packets. It is recommended that the Debot development team enhance the product's security level to protect user asset safety.

According to ChainCatcher news, on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa disclosed that the Jupiter protocol's revenue in 2024 reached $102 million, ranking 7th among Solana DApps, with Jupiter Perps being its main source of income, holding an 84% market share in Solana PerpDEX.The revenue in December 2024 grew 7 times compared to January (from 3M to 21M), and in the past two weeks, there was explosive growth due to TRUMP, with revenue reaching $35.86 million, accounting for nearly 40% of last year's total revenue.Therefore------ if we estimate based on last year's protocol revenue, approximately $50 million is expected to be used for repurchasing JUP; the current market capitalization of JUP is $2.04 billion, equivalent to 2.4% of the current market cap.

ChainCatcher message, Jupiter officials announced on social media that 50% of the revenue from Jupiter protocol fees will now be used for JUP buybacks.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the meme coin trading platform Pump.fun set a new daily fee revenue record of $15.5 million on January 24. Since its launch in the Solana ecosystem on January 19, 2024, the platform has achieved $100 million in revenue in just 217 days, becoming the fastest-growing application in crypto history. In the past two weeks, the platform's trading volume has exceeded $4 billion, accumulating over 2.5 million SOL in fees.The new round of growth for the platform is primarily driven by Vine co-founder Rus Yusupov's launch of Vine Coin, which once had a market cap exceeding $425 million. Although Pump.fun promotes the issuance of compliant projects through innovative mechanisms, there are still U.S. law firms representing affected investors in lawsuits against the platform. Previously, the New York State Department of Financial Services classified such tokens as "emotion-based virtual currencies."

ChainCatcher message, according to the official announcement, Binance Futures will adjust the leverage and margin tiers for the OMUSDTU perpetual contract on January 26, 2025, at 11:00 (UTC). Existing positions will be affected, and users are advised to adjust their positions and leverage before the adjustment to avoid potential liquidation risks.