ChainCatcher message, according to official news, the pre-market trading price of BERA on MEXC has surpassed $8.75, with a 24-hour trading volume of $1.031 million.MEXC will launch BERA/USDT spot trading on February 6 at 23:00 (UTC+8), and the BERA/USDT perpetual contract trading pair will go live on February 6 at 23:10 (UTC+8), supporting 50x leverage.

ChainCatcher message, U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis stated on X: "Today, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee found the first concrete evidence of Operation Chokepoint 2.0. Rest assured, the Digital Assets Subcommittee will find the relevant parties and hold them accountable."

ChainCatcher news, ARK Invest stated in the "Big Ideas 2025" report that stablecoins are one of the fastest-growing segments in the digital asset space. Despite experiencing a two-year bear market and a market cap decline of over 70%, the growth momentum of stablecoins remains unaffected.In 2024, the transaction volume is expected to reach $15.6 trillion, which is approximately 119% and 200% of the transaction volumes of Visa and Mastercard, respectively. The monthly transaction count for stablecoins reaches 110 million, accounting for only 0.41% and 0.72% of the transaction counts processed by Visa and Mastercard. In other words, the average transaction amount for stablecoins is significantly higher than that of Visa and Mastercard.

ChainCatcher news, FalconX research director David Lawant disclosed in a post on X that the ETH spot trading volume reached $38 billion yesterday, setting a new all-time high. Meanwhile, the BTC spot trading volume reached $49 billion, marking the third highest level in history.

ChainCatcher news, LayerZero announced its first round of strategic investment in Plume Network through the lzCatalyst program. Plume Network is a full-stack L1 RWA chain and an ecosystem built specifically for real-world asset finance (RWAfi). This round of financing (Series A) is led by LayerZero in conjunction with Lightspeed Faction and Animoca Ventures, aiming to accelerate its core mission of bringing real-world assets on-chain; the lzCatalyst program is designed to empower LayerZero ecosystem projects, dedicated to connecting top blockchain developers with leading crypto venture capital firms.Plume is leveraging LayerZero technology to build fully interoperable applications, and its yield protocol SkyLink achieves seamless and secure distribution of RWA yields across multi-chain ecosystems by integrating LayerZero's lzRead. By creating mirrored YieldTokens, SkyLink allows investors to access and manage institutional-grade yields on any blockchain without permission. The Plume ecosystem already includes over 180 development projects. As a full-stack L1 RWA chain, it provides a composable EVM-compatible environment that supports the tokenization and management of diverse real-world assets. The network simplifies the asset onboarding process and enables seamless DeFi integration through an end-to-end tokenization engine and a network of financial infrastructure partners.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, U.S. Senator Lummis stated that the GENIUS stablecoin bill proposed by Senator Hagerty is an important step towards maintaining the dominance of the U.S. dollar.Previous news, U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty proposed the "GENIUS Act for National Innovation and Establishment of U.S. Stablecoins," aimed at creating a regulatory framework for stablecoins.

ChainCatcher news, multiple blockchain concept stocks in the US stock market plummeted before the market opened, with Hut 8 down over 9%, Canaan Inc. (CAN.O) down over 8%, MicroStrategy (MSTR.O) down over 7%, and Coinbase (COIN.O) down over 7%.

ChainCatcher news, according to Lookonchain monitoring, Huang Licheng deposited 1,000 ETH (2.85 million USD) to Binance again before the market crash.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the Bitcoin network's transaction processing volume hit an 11-month low in January, continuing a downward trend for three consecutive months. Compared to the network's historical highest monthly transaction volume recorded in October 2024, the monthly transaction volume has decreased by more than 43%.The backlog of unprocessed Bitcoin transactions has also significantly decreased, as miners clear the memory pool of Bitcoin nodes, leading to historically low transaction fees. On February 1, several blocks were not filled.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block data, in January 2025, the total spot trading volume of mainstream DEXs reached $454.1 billion, setting a historical high. This represents a 40% increase compared to $323.89 billion in December 2024.In addition, Uniswap's spot trading volume in December reached $100.47 billion, with a market share of 22%.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jin10 data, a company based in Delaware has applied for the DeepSeek trademark, named Delson Group Inc.Delson Group claims that it has been selling AI products under the DeepSeek brand since the beginning of 2020. Its CEO and founder is named Willie Lu. Willie Lu and DeepSeek founder Liang Wenfeng both graduated from Zhejiang University.

ChainCatcher news, according to official news, the exchange Kraken has a revenue of 1.5 billion USD in 2024, a year-on-year increase of 128%, with an adjusted EBITDA of 380 million USD. By the end of the year, the total assets held on the platform reached 42.8 billion USD, with 2.5 million funding accounts. The total trading volume in 2024 reached 665 billion USD. Kraken holds over 40% of the global market share in stablecoin to fiat trading volume among major centralized exchanges.

ChainCatcher news, the dYdX 2024 Annual Ecosystem Report shows that the platform's trading volume reached $270 billion for the year, with a cumulative trading volume exceeding $1.46 trillion. The community distributed $63 million in trading rewards in 2024, the total deposits in MegaVault reached $79 million, and over 150 new markets were launched.As of January 2025, the number of DYDX token holders grew to 53,000, a year-on-year increase of 292%, with 17,700 participants in token staking, and the total amount staked reached 241 million tokens, with a median annualized yield of 14.93%.

ChainCatcher news, according to coingecko market data, Backpack Exchange's 24-hour trading volume increased by 3239.4%, surpassing 200 million USD.Previous news from yesterday, the Backpack trading platform launched its public beta, introducing "interest-bearing contract trading" and "automatic lending" features.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, on January 27, U.S. stocks closed with Nvidia's stock price plummeting by 17%. In response, Nvidia stated: "DeepSeek is an outstanding advancement in artificial intelligence and a great example of testing-time scaling.The research on DeepSeek demonstrates how to utilize this technology to create new models using widely available models and computing power that fully complies with export control regulations. The inference process requires a large number of Nvidia GPUs and high-performance networks. Today, we have three scaling laws: the continuously applicable pre-training and post-training laws, as well as the new testing-time scaling law."

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, Nvidia (NVDA.0) stock price plummeted nearly 17%, resulting in a market value loss of $589 billion, marking the largest market value drop in U.S. stock history.According to Forbes, the company's CEO and largest individual shareholder, Jensen Huang, saw his net worth shrink by $20.8 billion at the close, dropping from $124.4 billion to $103.7 billion, falling from 10th to 17th place on Forbes' real-time billionaire rankings. Oracle (ORCL.N) fell 14%, with Chairman Larry Ellison's net worth decreasing by $27.6 billion, dropping from third to fifth on the global billionaire list.The Bloomberg Billionaires Index shows that the world's 500 richest individuals collectively lost $108 billion on Monday, with tech industry giants' wealth evaporating by $94 billion, accounting for about 85% of the total decline in the index.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, due to concerns that China's DeepSeek AI model may disrupt the tech market, U.S. stock index futures plummeted during early Asian trading on Monday. As of 10:12 AM Hong Kong time, S&P 500 futures were down as much as 1%, and Nasdaq 100 futures were down as much as 1.9%.DeepSeek released an upgraded AI model last week, claiming it can compete with OpenAI's technology. Over the weekend, reports emerged that the product runs on lower-performance chips at a lower cost, raising questions about the dominance of American tech companies like Nvidia.Nirgunan Tiruchelvam, head of consumer and internet at Aletheia Capital, stated that the DeepSeek product "seriously contradicts the argument that 'Silicon Valley's massive capital and operational expenditures are the most appropriate way to respond to the AI trend.' It raises doubts about the substantial resources invested in AI."

ChainCatcher news, according to Bitcoin.com, cryptocurrency trading activity in Indonesia grew by 335.9% in 2024, reaching 6.5061 quadrillion Indonesian rupiah (40.2 billion USD). The Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency (Bappebti) attributed this growth to an increase in the number of users and trading volume.As of November 2024, the number of registered cryptocurrency users has grown to 22.1 million. Bappebti head Tirta Karma Senjaya noted that public confidence in cryptocurrency trading has increased and expressed optimism that the user base will exceed 25 million in the near future.The most actively traded cryptocurrencies in Indonesia include USDT, BTC, DOGE, PEPE, and XRP. To simplify regulation, Bappebti announced that its role in cryptocurrency regulation will be transferred to the Financial Services Authority (OJK) this year, although it will still maintain regulatory authority over commodity futures trading.

ChainCatcher news, the AI-driven asset management and investment research platform SoSoValue launched its exclusive "Index Token Staking Mining" event on its official website at 8 PM Beijing time on January 25.According to on-chain information, the staking amount of SoSoValue SSI Protocol index tokens exceeded 10 million USD within the first hour of staking, with the MAG7.ssi index token accounting for the highest staking amount of over 7.72 million USD.

ChainCatcher news, Cynthia Lummis, the proposer of the "Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Act" and chair of the Senate Banking Committee's Digital Assets Subcommittee, posted a "laser eyes" image symbolizing Bitcoin supporters on social media, with the caption "Allow me to reintroduce myself."