ChainCatcher news, Fireblocks has established a regional office in Tokyo, Japan, strengthening its influence in the Asia-Pacific region. Fireblocks expects the cryptocurrency market in Japan to grow by 54% from 2024 to 2032.Fireblocks will enhance its influence in Japan by hiring a sales, professional services, and product team dedicated to providing "solutions for Japanese enterprises." The company has established a local team and plans to hire more employees by 2025.

ChainCatcher news, the Hong Kong-listed company New Fire Technology has released a positive profit forecast for the period ending September 30, 2024, disclosing an expected turnaround to profitability for the full year by the end of September, with a projected net profit of approximately HKD 60 million. The company recorded a net loss of about HKD 289 million for the same period in 2023.New Fire Technology pointed out that the expected net profit mainly comes from the approximately HKD 96.3 million generated from the sale of FTX claims completed in June this year; a reduction of about 44% in administrative expenses compared to last year due to ongoing cost management; and benefits from the rise in virtual asset prices and the continuous increase in total assets under fund management, leading to an increase in performance fee income and management fee income, which contributed to a gross profit growth of approximately HKD 34 million.

ChainCatcher news, Bitcoin Magazine posted on X that the Kenya National Fire Brigade Association has added Bitcoin to its balance sheet.

ChainCatcher news, the encrypted wallet Phantom has acquired the Web3 firewall technology provider Blowfish, with the specific acquisition amount undisclosed. The Blowfish team will introduce new security features for Phantom, including intuitive transaction previews and real-time insights into fraudulent activities.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Forta is a Web3 security company supported by a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, and other investors, which has now launched a new product called Firewall to help detect and prevent smart contract vulnerabilities.It is reported that this firewall uses a machine learning and artificial intelligence model named FORTRESS, which analyzes and detects high-risk transactions by examining transaction logs. The business model of the Forta firewall is to charge a fixed monthly fee, although Beal declined to disclose the specific amount. Initial clients include Euler, Plume, and Balmy.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, NH Bank of Korea has partnered with Ethereum infrastructure provider Fireblocks to support the crypto prototype the bank is building. The two companies have signed a memorandum of understanding, which is a non-binding agreement outlining the intent of both parties to collaborate.Specifically, NHBank will use the Fireblocks Tokenization Engine to explore the integration of digital assets into its VAT and other refund processes.This also includes its inheritance tax process, which targets the taxation of capital transferred to future generations. In addition to the refund pilot, NHBank is also seeking to identify other "blockchain-driven projects within the NHBank ecosystem and create pathways for collaboration with global financial institutions."

ChainCatcher news, investment giant Pimco's Chief Investment Officer stated that Trump's economic plan could "add fuel to the fire" for the U.S. economy, forcing the Federal Reserve to stop cutting interest rates, thereby reversing the rise of U.S. stocks after Trump's victory. (Jin Ten)

ChainCatcher news, Rocketon Labs announced the completion of a $1.2 million financing for its AI-driven token insights platform Firecoin.According to the team, Firecoin has over 3 million users and is dubbed the "enhanced TON version of CoinGecko," dedicated to making crypto trading more accessible and providing ordinary users with the necessary tools to make informed decisions. This financing will be used to further develop and expand the platform's features.

ChainCatcher news, according to TheBlock, Coinbase Ventures and a16z Crypto Startup Accelerator (CSX) announced a new strategic investment in Skyfire, a payment company focused on artificial intelligence. This investment increases Skyfire's total seed funding from the previous $8.5 million to $9.5 million. Currently, Skyfire is building infrastructure that allows AI agents to make autonomous payments, avoiding human intermediaries.Additionally, the Web3 asset data platform RootData shows that Skyfire is the financial stack of the AI economy, providing an instant, global, and open payment system for AI agents to conduct fully autonomous transactions between AI agents, law masters, data platforms, service providers, and other goods and services. The Skyfire payment network also unlocks the fastest-growing consumer segment globally for LLMs, data, and service providers—AI agents. Empowered by Skyfire, AI agents will be able to leverage a vast digital service ecosystem for everything from data analysis and content creation to complex problem-solving and decision-making, all without human supervision. All these transactions will be supported by the stablecoin USDC.

ChainCatcher message, Solana co-founder Toly tweeted that he hopes to see Firedancer launch on the mainnet soon to improve the security bus coefficient, while also enhancing consensus reduction and formal proof. Future discussions need to address increased computational load, asynchronous execution, multi-concurrent leaders, and DX improvements.

ChainCatcher news, Mossfire Capital co-founder Raymond Huang, during the "Bull Market Approaches, How Can Secondary Investors See Through Market Fog?" Space hosted by RootData, stated that the number of traders in the Telegram ecosystem and the overall scale are much lower than expected. BANANA is the token he is most optimistic about in the Ton ecosystem. Taking Banana Gun as an example, the user base is between 100,000 to 200,000, with daily active users only around a few thousand to ten thousand. This data peaked earlier in the year and has since remained flat with the overall market performance, showing no significant growth.Huang pointed out that it is still unclear whether the product itself is not attractive enough or if insufficient market demand is leading to low user activity.

ChainCatcher news, Mossfire Capital co-founder Raymond Huang, during the Space "Bull Market is Coming, How Can Secondary Investors See Through the Market Fog?" organized by RootData, stated that he has always maintained a cautious attitude towards the Sui and Aptos ecosystems, believing that although these projects issued tokens early, their actual progress is limited.He added: "Solana's performance this year has been outstanding. Whether in the Meme field or in the Depin ecosystem, Solana has made significant progress, even attracting many established EVM protocols to start expanding towards it."

ChainCatcher news, Mossfire Capital co-founder Raymond Huang, during the Space event "With the Bull Market Approaching, How Can Secondary Investors See Through Market Fog?" hosted by RootData, stated that although the interest rate cut policy was officially implemented last month, the expectations for rate cuts had already begun to take effect a year ago. He pointed out that the Crypto market is more sensitive to the Federal Reserve's liquidity policy, and without the support of macro policy "easing," it is difficult for the market to rise.Raymond Huang expects that interest rates will continue to decline over the next year to year and a half, which will have a significant impact on crypto assets as a fringe asset.

ChainCatcher news, according to MATR1X's official tweet data, MATR1X FIRE has burned another 906,112 FIRE, with the current price of FIRE at $0.97, a burning value of $880,000. This burned FIRE comes from in-game consumption behaviors such as character upgrades, repairing character health, and opening bounty chests in the Genesis Fire Seed test.According to statistics, MATR1X has cumulatively burned 14,352,934 FIRE, and future in-game consumption of FIRE will continue to burn, further promoting the deflation of FIRE. According to the "Infinite Game Plan" released earlier by MATR1X FIRE, the platform plans to reduce the total supply of FIRE to 500 million through continuous burning.Burning records:https://polygonscan.com/tx/0x47c55bf458fc396f92a17f94e5dc1b03f1b5305e627c60f1912752a8aada41e4https://polygonscan.com/tx/0x0d23f42d980ae480d723f61f12c22b1c5cee76cd7088bd1e1578bc7742f89d08Additionally, according to the Web3 asset data platform RootData, Matr1x is a metaverse brand that plans to build the Matr1x brand through self-developed high-quality games or collaborations with third parties, game IP development partnerships, and global esports events. Matr1x will interpret its game trilogy (Cyber Earth --- Mars Colonization --- Interstellar Exploration) through three large games with a unified worldview: Matr1x FIRE (first-person shooter), Matr1x WAR (shooter + MMORPG), and Matr1x EVOLUTION (SOC).

ChainCatcher news, according to DL News, Youssef Amrani, co-founder and general manager of Atom Accelerator DAO, was dismissed last week, with the core issue of controversy being the planned performance bonuses. On September 25, the employees of Atom Cooperative unanimously voted to remove general manager Youssef Amrani, with September 30 being his last day in the organization.Atom Accelerator co-founder Ryan Orr refused to continue leading the organization and suggested either dissolving it or finding someone "willing to drive the community update plan" to take over. Communications head Syed Choudhury stated he would leave by the end of this year, and CFO Patricia Mizuki also announced her departure.It is reported that Atom Accelerator has distributed millions of dollars in funding to support the Cosmos cryptocurrency, and the organization was founded by Amrani and Orr in 2023, with a small number of employees mostly funded by Cosmos Hub.