ChainCatcher news, Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake posted on X that today marks the four-year anniversary of the Ethereum Beacon Chain's launch. In its initial phase, only 500,000 ETH were staked. Although it did not provide direct benefits to users at the beginning, it has gradually grown into one of the most powerful foundations in blockchain history.Looking ahead, Drake believes Ethereum has the opportunity to become the settlement layer of the value internet. Although the Beacon Chain is still not perfect, the upgrade path in the coming years will remain challenging, including improvements in censorship resistance and MEV handling, reducing staking deposits, increasing finality speed, smart issuance, achieving smartwatch-level full-chain verification, and post-quantum security. Additionally, outside the consensus layer, there is hope to achieve complete sharding in the data layer and native Rollup in the execution layer.Drake stated that many L1 improvements will be gradually released in the coming years, and enhancements like post-quantum security may require a complete redesign. L2 solutions will provide significant performance improvements within months, including fast user experiences, low fees, unlimited throughput, and synchronous composability.

ChainCatcher news, Glassnode analysis indicates that the profits realized daily by long-term holders have reached as high as $2.02 billion, setting a new all-time high, surpassing the record from March. The market requires strong demand to fully absorb this excess supply, which may necessitate a re-accumulation phase to fully digest.Since the supply of long-term holders peaked in September, this group has distributed approximately 507,000 bitcoins. Although this is a considerable amount, it is still relatively small compared to the 934,000 bitcoins distributed during the historical high in March 2024. An assessment of the composition of the sell-off sources reveals that most of the selling pressure seems to come from coins held for 6 months to 1 year, indicating that further selling from longer-term holders is still possible, as they may require higher prices to be willing to sell their bitcoins.

ChainCatcher message, according to Arkham monitoring, in the past 5 hours, the BlackRock BUIDL Fund transferred a total of 1.235 million USDC to Ondo Finance.

ChainCatcher news, according to Lookonchain monitoring, a trader spent 1 SOL (worth about $169) to buy Mundi tokens early on, and has now made a profit of over $435,000, with a return of 2580 times. The address started taking profits 4 days ago, having exchanged 1428 SOL (worth about $336,900), and currently still holds 1.6 million Mundi tokens (worth about $99,000).

ChainCatcher news, according to Lookonchain monitoring, two whales took profits today on UNI and LINK: 0x2B4F sold 135,150 UNI (approximately $1.71 million), making a profit of $1.15 million. 0x6049 sold 363,814 LINK (approximately $6.88 million), making a profit of $3.06 million.

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin responded to the U.S. government's Efficiency Department (DOGE) regarding the government's small expenditure errors, stating that he does not agree with the Efficiency Department's approach. The examples listed account for only a small portion of total expenditures. If the government aims to optimize by avoiding mistakes that make it look bad on Twitter, it will miss many valuable opportunities, while large-scale projects that actually waste more will continue to exist simply because they appear respectable. For small-scale public funding, a venture capital (VC) approach should be adopted, accepting a large number of potential mistakes, as the goal is to ensure capturing those opportunities that can yield 1000 times the return. Cautious efforts should be focused on large-scale matters.

ChainCatcher news, Farcaster co-founder Dan Romero stated on social media that the types of businesses and customer groups that most fintech/cryptocurrency companies prohibit are determined by their upstream banking partners through their regulatory agencies. This is a shadow policy rather than a statutory regulation.

ChainCatcher news, Bitwise CEO Hunter Horsley posted on X: "I don't think being bearish on ETH will last long. That doesn't mean you can't be bullish on other L1s. I think the answer is both: the L1 category will grow significantly. The success of one side does not require the decline of the other."

ChainCatcher news, according to Bitcoin.com, Spain's securities regulator CNMV has approved the country's first tokenization license, opening the door for the tokenization of real-world assets (RWA).Ursus-3 Capital, in collaboration with Onyze, is the first consortium able to provide services to Spanish companies seeking to enter this field. "We firmly believe that RWA tokenization opens up endless possibilities for entrepreneurs, and ensuring legal security for investors is very important," said Juan Jurado, General Manager of Ursus-3 Capital. Third parties can now contract their tokenization services.

ChainCatcher news, according to Trader T's monitoring, this week the net outflow of Bitcoin spot ETFs in the United States was $134 million, with a trading volume of $18 billion.This is the first week of net outflow for ETFs in the fourth quarter, during which BlackRock saw an inflow of $407 million, while FBTC, BITB, ARKB, and GBTC experienced outflows this week.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, Eddid Financial Singapore Pte. Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hong Kong financial group Adept Financial, has received in-principle approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) for its capital markets services license application. Once the license is officially approved, it will be able to provide clients with capital market product trading, product financing, custody services, and more.Adept Financial stated that in the future, it will actively expand its local business footprint to include virtual assets, corporate financing, and fund management, and will establish an office in Singapore.

ChainCatcher news, according to Xinhua News Agency, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council pointed out in their opinions on the reform and innovative development of digital trade that it is necessary to vigorously develop digital technology trade, strengthen innovation in key core technologies, and accelerate the development of foreign trade in fields such as communication, the Internet of Things, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain, and satellite navigation.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the address marked as smartestmoney.eth has transferred all 1.307 million EIGEN (worth 5.09 million USD) that were bought at the beginning of the month to Binance. If sold entirely, it will yield a profit of 1.84 million USD.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, the price of ENS tokens has surged by 114% in the past week, jumping from $20 to over $40, and institutional investors have begun to gradually sell to realize profits.Blockchain Capital transferred 52,800 ENS (worth $2.25 million) to Bybit 2 hours ago, marking the institution's first sale. It is reported that they accumulated 645,800 ENS at a price of $16 between 2022 and 2023.Additionally, an address that received 180,000 ENS from the ENS Cold Wallet in April transferred 50,000 ENS (worth $2.13 million) to Binance 3 hours ago.

ChainCatcher news, according to Farside Investors data, the net inflow of the U.S. Ethereum spot ETF yesterday was $332 million, surpassing the Bitcoin spot ETF for the first time in history (which was $320 million yesterday). Among them:BlackRock ETHA: + $250.4 millionFidelity FETH: + $79.1 millionGrayscale Mini ETH: + $3.4 million

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, the no-code Telegram mini-program launcher and cryptocurrency distribution infrastructure SODA announced the completion of a Pre-Seed round of financing, led by Gagra Ventures, with participation from Kenny Li (founder of Manta Network and p0x Labs), Marat Khichikov (executive partner at Bitfury Group), Seb (founder of Sophon), and Omakase (early contributor to Sushiswap). Specific amounts and valuation information have not been disclosed.SODA supports Memecoin developers in utilizing Telegram as a distribution channel, and is expected to launch in December 2024, initially supporting Solana, EVM, and TON blockchains, with plans to expand to Sui, Aptos, and others in the future.

ChainCatcher news, the Maverick community announced its ecological development plan for 2025 at the year-end conference this Friday, and officially unveiled the upcoming new memeFi platform------Goose.run.This innovative platform is developed by an independent team of developers from the Maverick community, combining Maverick's leading liquidity technology, aiming to promote the development of the meme coin market and provide users with a brand new DeFi experience.In addition, veMAV holders will be able to participate in the incentive distribution voting for meme coin pools on the Goose.run platform and receive a share of the meme coin transaction fees based on the voting results. Through this mechanism, the application of veMAV is not limited to ecological governance but is also closely linked to the profits from meme coin trading, further enhancing the earning opportunities and participation of veMAV holders.

ChainCatcher news, according to IT Home, five major media outlets including the Canadian Press, CBC, Torstar, Postmedia, and the Globe and Mail have filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in the Ontario Superior Court, accusing it of extensively scraping their copyrighted content for training AI models like ChatGPT without permission and compensation. The lawsuit document spans 84 pages, demanding OpenAI to compensate for damages and to permanently prohibit unauthorized use of their content. OpenAI responded that its model training is based on publicly available data, adheres to fair use principles, and provides publishers with content attribution and opt-out options.

ChainCatcher message, regarding the long tweet "How Libra was killed," Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong stated that the lesson from Libra is that these tools should be released as open-source software and do not require permission.Once released, they cannot be rolled back, which is the reason for Bitcoin's success, and it is also the script that Meta later (successfully) followed on Llama. Code is speech, protected by the First Amendment.