ChainCatcher news, Polyhedra Network announced the launch of the Layer 1 public chain EXPchain testnet.The core technology of EXPchain is Polyhedra Network's pioneering ZKP and AI technologies, including the Expander proof system, zkPyTorch integration, and smart proofs (PoI), aimed at revolutionizing the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and blockchain.

ChainCatcher news, Layer1 public chain Masverse announced a partnership with Asia Digital Bank to leverage advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and blockchain to enhance the Web3 ecosystem in Malaysia.It is reported that Masverse and Asia Digital Bank are committed to enhancing digital financial solutions in ASEAN and Islamic alliance countries, setting new standards in legal compliance and financial technology services.

ChainCatcher news, Layer1 public chain Berachain officially announced that it has completed a $100 million Series B funding round, led by Brevan Howard Digital's Abu Dhabi subsidiary and Framework Ventures, with other participants including Polychain Capital, Hack VC, Samsung Next, Laser Digital, Hashkey Group, Nomad Capital, Hypersphere, Cypher Capital, Rubik Ventures, Arrington Capital, Tribe Capital, and angel investors including Antony Lewis, Director of Crypto and Blockchain Venture Capital at Temasek, Sandeep Nailwal, founder of Polygon, Feng Bo, founder of Dragonfly, and Yat Siu, founder of Animoca Brands. The funds will be used for international expansion.According to the RootData page, Berachain is a DeFi-based EVM-compatible L1 built on the Cosmos SDK, supported by liquidity consensus proof. It completed a $42 million Series A funding round last April, with a valuation of $420 million.

ChainCatcher news, co-hosted by ChainCatcher and ZAN (the Web3 brand under Ant Group) and Artela, held an offline communication event titled "Focusing on Web3 Infrastructure, Unlocking New Scenarios for DApp Applications" today in Nanshan District, Shenzhen. During the event, Artela's CTO CP shared a presentation titled "EVM++, Unlocking Parallel EVM and On-Chain Scalability."In the presentation, Artela's CTO CP mentioned that EVM++ is Artela's upgrade to the next-generation EVM execution layer technology. It unlocks the extensibility and scalability of EVM blockchains through EVM+WASM, while also supporting parallel execution of EVM.EVM++ aims to expand the boundaries of EVM, allowing existing EVM assets, protocols, and infrastructure to seamlessly connect with new ones, facilitating mass adoption applications and accelerating the integration of crypto with mainstream at the application level.Additionally, Artela has made innovations at the infrastructure layer compatible with EVM, launching Aspect programming, which allows developers to build EVM+ applications using the EVM+Aspect paradigm, and has developed many innovative extension use cases covering areas such as AIpto, full-chain gaming, DeFi security, and middleware.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, Layer1 public chain Berachain has raised over $69 million in funding co-led by Brevan Howard Digital and Framework Ventures. The project is raising funds through the sale of digital tokens, with a valuation reaching $1.5 billion. It is currently unclear whether this round of financing has been completed.It is reported that Berachain has three main tokens: BERA, BGT, and the Honey stablecoin. The test version of the blockchain was released to the public in January, but the project has not fully launched yet.According to the crypto data platform RootData, in April 2023, Berachain completed a $42 million financing round, led by Polychain Capital, with participation from OKX Ventures and others.

ChainCatcher news, the Bitcoin-driven Layer1 public chain Core (Core DAO) has launched the Core Creator Program, which plans to provide over $300,000 in rewards to support Web3 developers, aiming to allow developers to focus on implementing decentralized applications in the Bitcoin ecosystem.According to the crypto data platform RootData, Core is a Bitcoin-driven, Ethereum EVM-compatible Layer1 blockchain that employs a novel Satoshi Plus consensus mechanism, integrating the best aspects of proof of work and proof of stake.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Layer1 public chain Berachain has launched a public testnet called Artio. Berachain introduces the concept of "liquidity proof" consensus, aiming to coordinate incentives between security and liquidity.According to a statement, Berachain's previous private testnet was hosted under non-disclosure agreements with multiple partners, with about 50 teams deploying contracts within a month. Berachain stated, "Currently, there are over 30 local teams building on Berachain, and more than 100 teams from other networks plan to deploy on the testnet and mainnet, including well-known brands such as Pendle, Redacted, Sudoswap, and Abracadabra."It added that when it is finally released later this year, Berachain is also expected to receive support from custodians, cross-chain messaging and bridging protocols, as well as data availability solutions. The mainnet of Berachain is scheduled to launch in the second quarter of this year.According to the crypto data platform RootData, Berachain completed a $42 million funding round in April 2023, led by Polychain Capital.

ChainCatcher news, based on the DAG Layer1 public chain COTI tweeted that it has temporarily suspended gCOTI trading activities. The team is progressing with the gCOTI community activities as planned, which will be announced soon. Additionally, COTI is still advancing the initial use case of gCOTI, which is the APY enhancement for the treasury application.It is reported that on May 25, COTI announced that it will airdrop 82 million native gCOTI tokens to participants of the gCOTI airdrop event on June 1. The first batch of eligible users for gCOTI distribution will also be the first users to utilize the APY feature, which will be enabled at the end of June, allowing users to deposit gCOTI along with COTI into the treasury and be entitled to a larger share of the treasury rewards. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news reports that, according to official sources, the Layer 1 public blockchain Berachain has completed a $42 million financing round, led by Polychain Capital, with participation from OKX Ventures, Hack VC, Dao5, Tribe Capital, Shima Capital, Robot Ventures, Goldentree Asset Management, former partners of Dragonfly Capital, Celestia founder Mustafa Al-Bassam, Tendermint co-founder Zaki Manian, and over 20 other DeFi project founders.It is reported that Berachain is an EVM-compatible Layer 1 blockchain built on the Cosmos SDK, utilizing a Proof of Liquidity consensus mechanism for protection. The Berachain token economy introduces a three-token system for the Bera network, which includes the network gas token BERA, the ecological algorithmic stablecoin HONEY, and the non-transferable Bera governance token BGT. Currently, the Berachain project's Discord community has over 50,000 members, with more than 100 teams building new and existing protocols on the recently released local version of the development network (Devnet). The Berachain ecosystem has already secured a total committed locked value of over $250 million and will launch a public incentive testnet in the coming weeks. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, Layer1 public chain Radix announced a partnership with the interoperability protocol LayerZero, planning to integrate LayerZero with the Radix Babylon public network to encourage cross-chain communication and asset transfers to the Radix ecosystem. It is reported that the Web3 interoperability integration between Radix and LayerZero will be launched in the second half of 2023. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, Layer1 public chain Radix announced the completion of a $10 million financing round, fully invested by DWF Labs, with a post-investment valuation reaching $400 million. Radix CEO Piers Ridyard stated that DWF has already provided $8 million in funding, with the remaining $2 million to be provided in the near future.It is reported that Radix has its own consensus system and execution environment, expected to launch its mainnet named Babylon in the second quarter of this year. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, Shardeum, a Layer1 blockchain founded by WazirX co-founder and CEO Nischal Shetty, has launched the Sphinx Betanet 1.1 version, allowing permissionless operation of validation and staking testing of SHM through GUI or CLI. Within 1 hour, there have been 239 community validators running on the network. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, WazirX CEO Nischal Shetty tweeted that his founded Layer1 public chain project Shardeum will launch on February 2nd on Sphinx Betanet.According to previous reports from ChainCatcher, the public chain project Shardeum announced the completion of a $18.2 million funding round in October 2022, with participation from institutions such as Spartan Group, Big Brain Holdings, Jane Street, and Foresight Ventures. (source link)