ChainCatcher news, focusing on the entertainment sector's AI-Agent and AIUGC creators and fan economy ecosystem MEET48 has announced the completion of its token round financing, with a fully diluted valuation (FDV) of $100 million. Co-founder of Fosun Group, Liang Xinjun, along with Hash Global and HashKey Capital, led the investment, with participation from Animoca Brands, Infinity Labs, Promontory, Oak Grove, and several Web3 individuals. The new funds will be used to support the development of its team and the creation of related AI products. The MEET48 ecosystem community will provide users with a one-click customization feature for virtual idol AI Idol-Agent, enabling various functions such as chatting, live streaming, and virtual performances, while efficiently generating AI images, texts, songs, and dance content using AIGC technology in the virtual music and dance vertical. Additionally, the community will offer an AI-exclusive creation tool, AIShowBOX, supporting 3D character customization, intelligent choreography, and other in-depth creations, assisting users in automated operations and global dissemination of Idol-Agent.The MEET48 community's supporting MEME cultivation and launch platform, MarsProtocol, will be launched on the BNB Chain, providing a tokenized trading platform for Meme creators and serving as a source of AI creators for the entire ecosystem community. Furthermore, the AI-AGENT social foundation of the MEET48 ecosystem, the AI-AGENT large-scale music and dance simulation game, and the AI-AGENT large-scale casual game will also be launched successively, all utilizing the same governance token for community incentives.

ChainCatcher news, the Injective ecosystem report has learned that Injective has officially joined the Blockchain Association today, an organization dedicated to promoting national policies and regulatory frameworks in the United States that support cryptocurrency. As one of the most representative crypto projects in the U.S., Injective is paving the way for the country to become a global crypto hub.After joining the association, Injective will work alongside industry giants such as Brevan Howard, Circle, Coinbase, and Pantera Capital to promote effective policy changes at both local and national levels, ensuring that industry demands are reflected in future policy-making.The Blockchain Association was established in 2018 to represent leading blockchain companies, investment institutions, and projects, advocating for U.S. policies that benefit the crypto industry. It focuses on key issues such as consumer protection, market integrity, innovation support, tax regulation, regulatory clarity, and the development of open-source software.This membership brings three strategic values to Injective: first, it increases influence in industry policy-making; second, it enhances collaboration opportunities with leading companies; third, it provides greater certainty in regulatory compliance through the association's policy efforts, reducing operational risks.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, the political action committee Fairshake in the cryptocurrency industry plans to invest $1.5 million to support the campaigns for two key U.S. House seats in the Florida special election. These two seats are crucial for the Republican Party to maintain its slim majority in the House. One of the vacant seats is related to Matt Gaetz, who was nominated by President Trump for Attorney General but withdrew due to facing criminal charges.According to Fairshake spokesperson Josh Vlasto, the super PAC will invest $1.2 million to support state Senator Randy Fine in his campaign for the seat left by Michael Waltz, who currently serves as Trump's national security advisor. Additionally, Fairshake will invest approximately $345,000 to support state Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis in his campaign for the seat left by Gaetz.Both Republican candidates meet Fairshake's main criterion: support for digital assets. The Florida special election will be held on April 1, with early voting starting this weekend. While the Democrats have also invested heavily, these seats have shown a clear tendency toward the Republicans in recent voting.

ChainCatcher news, Kraken announces the acquisition of the U.S. futures trading platform NinjaTrader for $1.5 billion. Digital asset futures and derivatives services can now be offered in the U.S. as NinjaTrader has obtained CFTC registration. Additionally, Kraken's regulatory licenses in the UK, EU, and Australia will support NinjaTrader's expansion in these regions.

ChainCatcher news, according to sources cited by The Wall Street Journal, Kraken is considering acquiring the forex and futures trading platform NinjaTrader for $1.5 billion.

ChainCatcher news, according to Forbes business reporter Eleanor Terrett, the lawsuit between the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Ripple is in its final stages and may conclude soon.According to two insiders, the delay in reaching an agreement is due to Ripple's legal team negotiating the terms of last August's district court ruling, hoping to secure more favorable conditions.The ruling imposed a $125 million fine on Ripple and permanently prohibited it from selling XRP to institutional investors. Insiders indicate that Ripple believes if the new leadership at the SEC is clearing the enforcement records for all previously investigated cryptocurrency companies, then why should Ripple still be penalized. Accepting Judge Torres's ruling would essentially mean Ripple acknowledges wrongdoing, while now the SEC itself seems uncertain whether any violations occurred.

ChainCatcher message, BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes stated, "The plan is as follows: be patient, don't rush. Bitcoin may bottom around $70,000, a 36% pullback from the historical high of $110,000, which is very normal in a bull market. Then, we need a free-fall crash in the U.S. stock market, followed by the bankruptcy of major players in traditional finance. After that, the Federal Reserve and central banks around the world will start to inject liquidity to save the market, and that's when it's time to go all in. Traders will try to catch the bottom; if you are risk-averse, you can wait until the major central banks start to inject liquidity before increasing your position. You may not catch the bottom precisely, but you won't have to suffer through a long consolidation period and potential unrealized losses."

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, court documents show: The U.S. court dismissed the preliminary injunction requested by Musk in the lawsuit against OpenAI.

ChainCatcher news, Hash Epoch Foundation announced that it has invested 20 million USD in the Hash Epoch platform to launch the competitive section of the platform and establish a competitive prize pool fund, ensuring the smooth release of competitive projects and guaranteeing 100% payout of prizes.This funding will serve as a special fund pool for the initial phase of the platform and competitive projects, ensuring that participants' rewards can be distributed instantly and transparently.Hash Epoch stated that it will continue to maintain a stable and reliable guarantee mechanism to ensure that all competitive projects are conducted under completely transparent and fair conditions, fully protecting the interests of every user.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Deutsche Telekom has become a validator for the Binance Labs incubated project Injective, to help secure the Injective network and validate transactions.

ChainCatcher message, according to Arkham monitoring, during the period from February 22, 16:28 to 18:22 UTC+8, a suspected Bybit Deposit address of Fenbushi Capital withdrew a total of 10,000 ETH (worth approximately $27.02 million) from Binance and other addresses and injected all of it into the Bybit hot wallet.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement from Binance, Binance Futures will adjust the leverage and margin tiers for the 1000BONKUSDT, INJUSDT, EOSUSDT, and OMUSDT perpetual contracts on February 20, 2025, at 17:30 (Beijing time). This adjustment will affect existing positions and may cause futures grid strategies to become ineffective. Binance recommends that users make corresponding adjustments in a timely manner before the changes take effect.

ChainCatcher message, according to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, aside from the 50% PAIN held by Harold himself that has been locked, a total of 15% of tokens from the community/partners have not yet been transferred or sold.The mainstream liquidity pool distribution of PAIN is as follows: currently, a total of $11.37 million has been injected into liquidity (accounting for 82% of the mainstream liquidity pool with a 1% fee), which includes 129,000 PAIN and 52,490 SOL, with unclaimed fee income reaching as high as $344,000. Currently, only the price range [0.104251 - 0.205086] is still active, which converts to [17.88 USD - 35.2 USD], while the remaining positions have temporarily expired.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, as Bitcoin prices continue to fluctuate below the $100,000 mark, several important events this week may bring volatility to the cryptocurrency market. FTX will initiate the first round of creditor payouts this week, targeting convenience creditors with claims not exceeding $50,000, who will receive full principal and 9% annual interest compensation. 10x Research founder Markus Thielen stated that the total payout for this round is approximately $1.2 billion, which is relatively limited in scale.Mena Theodorou, co-founder of the crypto trading platform Coinstash, expects that some of the payout funds will flow into the Solana ecosystem. He stated, "Considering FTX's previous significant investments in SOL and the Solana ecosystem, along with SOL's over 500% increase in the past year and the continuously growing on-chain activity and developer numbers, these funds are likely to flow back into the network."Other important events that the market is paying attention to include:Trump will have a conversation with Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Fox News on February 19, expected to involve topics such as cryptocurrency policy and regulation;The Federal Reserve will release the minutes from the January meeting on February 20, with the market focusing on inflation data and interest rate policy direction;The Consensus Hong Kong conference will open on Tuesday, expected to attract thousands of participants from over 90 countries.

ChainCatcher message, according to @OnchainLens monitoring, a newly created wallet withdrew 8 million MOVE tokens from Binance, worth approximately 5.88 million USD. Subsequently, the wallet transferred these MOVE tokens into the liquidity pool of Uniswap. The wallet address is: 0xdaeb...1e.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa, 10 minutes ago, the TRUMP team address 2Fe47...gWSkv once again injected 1.5 million TRUMP as unilateral liquidity into the TRUMP/USDC liquidity pool through Meteora, worth $52.75 million.Currently, this pool is the main liquidity pool for the TRUMP/USDC trading pair, containing 5.13 million TRUMP and 398 million USDC, with a TVL of up to $577 million.However, the current total TVL of the TRUMP/SOL liquidity pool has surpassed, reaching $728 million, with a nearly 24-hour trading volume close to $3.3 billion, almost equivalent to the Ethereum mainnet's trading volume during the same period ($3.6 billion).

ChainCatcher message, according to Scam Sniffer monitoring, attackers are deploying malware using a fake Cloudflare verification page through clipboard injection and command execution.

ChainCatcher news, Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer paulgrewal.eth posted on the X platform that Coinbase has just won a writ of mandamus petition in the Third Circuit Court. The court rejected the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)'s order dismissing its rulemaking petition, which means the SEC must reconsider Coinbase's request and provide more substantial reasons for why they refuse to establish clear rules regarding cryptocurrencies.The judge stated, "The SEC's order is conclusory, lacking in reasoning, and therefore arbitrary and capricious. We partially grant Coinbase's petition and remand it to the SEC for a more comprehensive explanation."