ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, the Berachain ecosystem liquidity staking protocol Infrared has completed a $14 million Series A funding round led by Framework Ventures. Combined with the previous $2.25 million strategic round led by Binance Labs and $2.5 million seed round, Infrared's total funding has reached $18.75 million.Infrared will provide liquidity staking solutions for Berachain's native tokens BGT and BERA. Users who stake the native tokens to earn validator rewards will receive the liquidity staking token iBERA, which can generate additional yields in other DeFi protocols. In addition, Infrared has also become the first project supported by the Berachain Foundation incubator "Build a Bera," which announced in January this year that it was seeking collaborative startup projects.Michael Anderson, co-founder of Framework Ventures, stated, "We believe that Infrared's protocol will unlock a significant amount of productive capital within the broader Berachain ecosystem while maximizing efficiency and returns. This will enable developers on the Berachain framework to innovate in new ways."According to the Web3 asset data platform RootData, Infrared Finance is an application based on Berachain's liquidity proof consensus mechanism. The application redesigns liquidity staking in the context of a three-token architecture and the unique soul-binding element of BGT. The protocol maximizes value for stakeholders through its infrastructure-level PoL treasury and iBGT liquidity staking derivatives, leveraging the social aggregation of BGT.

ChainCatcher news, the Web3 social dating platform MetYa officially launched its Liquid Staking V2 product. This product allows users to stake directly on the MetYa official website without the need to withdraw to the chain.The biggest feature of liquid staking is that the longer the staking time, the more ME tokens are produced daily. Compared to the fixed daily returns of on-chain staking, liquid staking has the same returns as on-chain staking during the first period, but as the staking time increases, daily returns will continue to rise, providing long-term holders with higher compound returns.This product further lowers the participation threshold and enhances the user yield experience.

ChainCatcher news, Sui ecosystem protocol Haedal tweeted to announce that it will provide liquidity staking support for the Sui ecosystem storage project Walrus. This collaboration will bring new opportunities for Sui users between decentralized storage and liquidity staking.It is reported that Haedal is a liquidity staking protocol based on Sui, allowing anyone to stake their Sui tokens to promote governance and decentralization of the Sui blockchain.

ChainCatcher message, the dYdX community has released a proposal vote on "Should the Stride liquidity staking plan be withdrawn," with a current approval rate of 98.15%, and voting will end on February 27. The proposal includes the dYdX Treasury SubDAO's suggestion to transfer the remaining 19,461,949.197705 stDYDX to the Treasury SubDAO controlled address after successful testing.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the Sui ecosystem liquid staking protocol Haedal Protocol has announced the completion of its seed round financing, with the specific amount undisclosed. Investors participating in this round of financing include Hashed, Comma3 Ventures, OKX Ventures, Animoca Ventures, Sui Foundation, Flow Traders, Dewhales Capital, Cetus, Scallop, and others. Haedal will utilize this financing and new resources to support the further development of its liquid staking infrastructure and on-chain yield products focused on the Sui ecosystem.According to the Web3 asset data platform RootData, Haedal is a liquid staking protocol based on Sui that allows anyone to stake their Sui tokens to facilitate governance and decentralization of the Sui blockchain. Meanwhile, users will receive haSUI as a reward, enabling them to continue participating in DeFi activities for additional earnings.

ChainCatcher news, the Lightning Network liquidity staking protocol UTXO Stack has completed its Series A financing with a valuation of $50 million, jointly invested by UTXO Management, CMS, and PAKA.After this round of financing, UTXO Stack will launch its first-ever large-scale airdrop incentive program targeting BTC liquidity within the Lightning Network in early January 2025. Subsequently, it will coordinate with the launch of the CKB Lightning Network Fiber Network mainnet to provide liquidity airdrop incentives for CKB and RGB++ related assets. The Token Generation Event (TGE) is expected to be completed in Q1 2025, marking the first TGE in the Lightning Network ecosystem.It is reported that UTXO Stack had previously completed a seed round of financing, co-led by ABCDE Capital and SNZ Capital, with participation from CKB Eco Fund, OKX Ventures, UTXO Management, Waterdrip Capital, Matrixport, y2z Ventures, and DRK Lab.

ChainCatcher message, the Cosmos ecosystem software development company All in Bits stated that it has discovered serious security issues with the Liquid Staking Module (LSM) of Cosmos Hub, including that most of the LSM code was written by North Korean agents; LSM is not an independent module, but a set of modifications to the existing staking, allocation, and slashing modules, which may affect all staked ATOM; vulnerabilities that allow slashing to be circumvented still exist; 19 months of code changes have gone unaudited; significant misrepresentation by Zaki Manian and Iqlusion; lack of transparency from ICF, Stride Labs, and informal systems.All in Bits recommends an immediate fix for the main staking vulnerabilities in LSM; an instant, comprehensive audit of LSM; full disclosure of the investigation timeline regarding North Korean agent involvement; a blacklist of ICF stakeholders; new audit and oversight agreements for ICF-funded projects.

ChainCatcher news, the Solana liquid staking protocol Marinade has hired former president of Fidelity Digital Assets, Hadley Stern, as Chief Business Officer. Hadley Stern will be responsible for enhancing Marinade's staking solutions and its position in the digital asset industry.

ChainCatcher news, OKX Ventures announced an investment in the MEV-supported liquid staking platform aPriori based on the Monad network. aPriori is a liquid staking platform built on Monad, planning to use the new funds to expand the team, invest in security, and promote community development. Monad's high-performance parallel Ethereum Virtual Machine creates a new design space for node-level infrastructure, and the aPriori team chose to build on the EVM-compatible L1 Monad due to its portability and high performance.aPriori focuses on reducing gas fees, optimizing network traffic, and providing sustainable incentives for validators. OKX Ventures founder Dora stated, "We are excited to participate in the investment in aPriori, which reduces spam transactions and increases validator incentives through the redistribution of MEV, achieving decentralization of the Monad network. aPriori is committed to building a transaction-centric infrastructure for Monad, enhancing throughput and user experience, and preparing for the future ecological explosion of Monad."

ChainCatcher news, the Berachain ecosystem liquidity staking protocol Infrared Finance has raised an undisclosed amount of funding from Binance Labs.It is reported that this investment is for a private token round. Infrared's co-founder and CEO Raito Bear declined to comment on the total amount of funding raised so far and the valuation.

ChainCatcher news, Tranchess posted on platform X: "With the continued growth in demand for Ethereum, we expect liquidity staking products like qETH, STONE, and related products staYSTONE, turPSTONE to remain in the spotlight. The ETH (spot) ETF will increase institutional investors' interest in Ethereum and staking, thereby driving up the value of Ethereum and network demand, which will subsequently lead to an increase in staking yields."

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized exchange Biswap has released a new strategic roadmap. The Biswap team stated that after completing important features such as the previous AMM V3, the BSW independent market, and ETH liquid staking, the next focus will be on multi-chain expansion, launching liquid staking, introducing new ecosystem projects, providing new investment tools for cryptocurrency holders, implementing a revenue-sharing system, and developing advanced trading tools.Specifically, in terms of multi-chain layout, Biswap plans to soon support Ethereum, Base, and Arbitrum networks. The team mentioned that the choice of these three networks is primarily based on Ethereum's security, Base's scalability, and Arbitrum's optimized performance.In addition, Biswap will soon launch a liquid staking feature, allowing users to maintain liquidity while staking tokens and generate additional income from staking tokens in DeFi activities. Biswap also revealed that it is developing an "extremely rare" decentralized feature, which is currently kept confidential.At the same time, Biswap will introduce a revenue-sharing model to alleviate the pressure on the BSW token and provide rewards to users. Advanced trading tools are also on the development agenda, aimed at enabling users to utilize different trading strategies more easily and efficiently.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official documentation of Zeus Network, the new landing page (UI/UX) for the first permissionless cross-chain liquid staking protocol APOLLO built on Zeus Network will be launched on April 20. The highlight of this update is the introduction of a rewards calculator.It is reported that since its establishment in late March 2024, APOLLO has successfully interacted with over 77,000 independent users.