ChainCatcher news, reported by Bitcoin.com, indicates that concerns are growing within the Ethereum ecosystem about its pace of development.Jesse Pollak, head of Base (the second-layer network of Bitcoin), criticized Ethereum's current roadmap, stating that it is too conservative and calling for the originally scheduled updates in 2027 to be moved up to early 2026.Ethereum Foundation developer Dankrad Feist shares a similar view, stating that the current growth plan "lacks ambition" and pointing out issues with the existing upgrade process. Feist also questions the notion that scalability can only be achieved on second-layer networks, emphasizing that large-scale scalability of the Ethereum base layer is feasible.

ChainCatcher news, according to official news, Coinbase has listed Official Trump (TRUMP) on its coin listing roadmap.

ChainCatcher news, Starknet has released the roadmap for Q1 and Q2, expecting to launch version v0.13.4 in February 2025. The main features of this version include state compression, L2 gas fees, and a try/catch mechanism for function call failures. It may also include native support for Cairo (from Sierra to LLVM) and a nonce channel, with the expected effects of reducing costs, improving user and developer experience, and enhancing performance.In addition, Starknet will launch version v0.14.0 in the second quarter of 2025, with major updates including 2-second block times, memory pool optimization, and a fee market mechanism, introducing a distributed sorter architecture and Stwo integration. Starknet will also initiate staking phase 2 in the second quarter of 2025, where validators will begin to validate blocks, aiming to promote further decentralization.

ChainCatcher message, Base releases the 2025 roadmap, which includes increasing block space capacity to 250 Mgas/s, introducing 25 million users and 25,000 developers, and reaching a transaction volume of 1 billion by October, with on-chain asset scale reaching 100 billion within the year.On the technical roadmap, Base will focus on OnchainKit, Paymaster, and L3 to enhance the application experience. In terms of fiat experience, Base will open over 25 fiat channels to provide more distribution options for applications, developers, and creators.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement from Maple, governance proposal MIP-013 has been released, suggesting that 20% of the protocol revenue for Q1 2025 be used to repurchase SYRUP tokens and distribute them to SYRUP stakers (stSYRUP). This move aims to reward long-term stakers, strengthen the alignment of interests between the protocol and stakers, and enhance staking incentives.Proposal highlights:• The current annual revenue (ARR) of the Maple protocol is approximately $5 million, proposing to use 20% of Q1 revenue for monthly market repurchases of SYRUP.• The repurchased SYRUP will be allocated to stSYRUP holders through a smart contract, expected to provide stakers with an annual yield of about 5.0%.• 20% of the inflation supply will also be added to staking rewards, with the remaining 80% retained in the DAO treasury for other strategic projects.Voting will open on January 20, 2025, and is limited to stSYRUP holders.

ChainCatcher news, according to official news, Coinbase will list Toshi (TOSHI) on its coin listing roadmap.

ChainCatcher news, the blockchain analysis and visualization application Bubblemaps announced on platform X that the official token BMT is about to be launched, with a maximum supply of 1,000,000,000 tokens, and it will be launched on Solana.

ChainCatcher news, the TON ecosystem MEME project DOGS has released its roadmap for the first to second quarter of 2025. The roadmap outlines the game plans themed around DOGS, community engagement through local charities, and the expansion of payment use cases for the DOGS token.Later this year, users will have the option to use DOGS tokens for online and offline purchases, such as gift cards and travel bookings.

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized streaming platform Theta has released its roadmap for 2025. In the first half of 2025, the focus will be on launching the hybrid cloud edge architecture of EdgeCloud in June and expanding the rapidly growing edge network. This release will fully support a distributed edge architecture across devices, regions, and configurations, capable of prioritizing and opting out of specific job types, as well as analyzing completed jobs. A developer API interface will also be released, providing developers with the tools needed for efficient development on EdgeCloud. Other key features will be launched based on the needs of current EdgeCloud customers, such as persistent storage, GPU node upgrades, and on-demand API access to AI models. These features, along with the beta version of the AI Agents platform, will automatically utilize AI models through on-chain autonomous interactions to enable a wide range of use cases and encourage adoption by customers in key target areas such as academia, private enterprises, professional sports, and esports.In the second half of the year, the Theta Hackathon will be expanded into an offline event, providing ongoing support for Theta ecosystem projects. Discussions are underway with several well-known professional sports and esports teams, hoping that EdgeCloud can assist them in formulating AI strategies and potentially launching sub-chains to support their business use cases. Third-party platforms are also considering integrating TDROP as a user participation token, starting with OpenTheta, with more platforms expected to launch by 2025. Additionally, there is an evaluation underway to possibly rebrand TDROP to extend its utility to AI agents, RAG chatbots, and other consumer-facing AI and video AI applications built on EdgeCloud. Finally, the hybrid edge cloud architecture of EdgeCloud will be fully launched in 2025, including intelligent job orchestration and optimization, as well as comprehensive support for Linux, Windows, and Mac.

ChainCatcher news, L1 public chain Kava announced plans to transform into the first decentralized artificial intelligence (DeAI) blockchain in 2025.Kava will release three important updates in January: the DeAI light paper, the 2025 AI development roadmap, and a product that supports developers in embedding AI features in dApps.

ChainCatcher news, the Solana re-staking platform Solayer has released its 2025 roadmap, which will introduce the hardware-accelerated SVM blockchain Solayer InfiniSVM. This network will achieve infinitely scalable multi-execution cluster architecture through SDN and RDMA technologies, reaching network speeds of 100 Gbps while maintaining atomic state consistency.Solayer InfiniSVM aims to address the issues caused by the Solana network bandwidth consumption of nearly 0.8Gbps per validator, such as validator propagation failures, connection drops, and consensus breakdown. Additionally, this blockchain will adopt a hybrid proof-of-authority and proof-of-stake consensus mechanism.

ChainCatcher news, Dmail Network has released its 2025 annual plan on social media, focusing on the AI and Depin sectors. Additionally, the plan includes: NFT trading market, Web3 workspace (covering features like cloud storage, meetings, Chat, etc.), relay nodes, Read2Earn, mobile app, and the TGE and airdrop plan for the ToB product Subhub.It is reported that the Dmail team aims to serve 50 million Web3 users by the second quarter of 2025 and to serve over 100 million Web3 users by the fourth quarter. According to public information, Dmail currently has over 37 million users and has long been in the top tier of Web3 application products.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, Ethena has released its 2025 roadmap "Convergence." Ethena's next phase of growth will primarily be driven by extending product offerings to traditional finance, with a new product "iUSDe" set to launch next month. This product aims to export sUSDe in a regulated form to the TradFi sector. "iUSDe" is similar to sUSDe but includes a simple wrapping contract that adds some transfer restrictions at the token level, allowing traditional financial entities to hold and use it. This enables traditional finance to efficiently access the product without engaging with the cryptocurrency space.Ethena will announce the initial TradFi distribution partners for iUSDe this month. Additionally, Ethena plans to address payment and savings tool use cases by building dedicated applications within the Telegram and TON ecosystems, specifically by launching a dedicated use case for sUSDe in the Telegram app, where users can send, spend, and save tokens in a mobile banking-like experience.Beyond its core products, Ethena will continue to transition from a single-asset issuer to a best-in-class builder, leveraging and implementing on-chain financial innovations. There are currently two potential initiatives: the spot trading platform Ethereal and the on-chain options and structured products protocol Derive. Ethereal will open its testnet next month, while Derive will launch its token within the next two weeks. These are just the first examples of the entire DeFi ecosystem built on sUSDe, with more examples set to be released in the first quarter of 2025.

ChainCatcher news, Santa Agent releases the latest roadmap, including:Community Fission and Interactive Products: Create an interactive airdrop game through Twitter data and fission mechanisms to incentivize genuine contributors to join the ecosystem.Agent Swarm Product Development: Integrate Questflow's Agent Swarm technology to empower Santa Holders to achieve social fission and deep interaction.Enhanced Fund Management Capabilities: Strengthen fund management and revenue capabilities to provide robust support for community building, public welfare, and donation management, assisting in the management of the Virtuals ecosystem fund.Global Community Expansion: Collaborate with the Virtuals community and global ecosystems to connect more regional users and introduce global KOLs through Agent social fission, supporting AI developer events held by Virtuals in various regions.It is reported that Santa Agent is part of the world's largest AI agent ecosystem, supported by the GAME platform of Virtuals and the MAOP protocol of Questflow, embodying the concept of Agent for Good.

ChainCatcher news, Slow Mist founder Yu Xian posted on X, stating that the BitmapPunks project contract, which is raising the Gas on the Ethereum mainnet, has not been open-sourced for verification, and he hasn't looked into whether there are any risks yet.

According to ChainCatcher news, on December 31, Metya released its 2025 development roadmap, focusing on three main directions: ecological construction, technological upgrades, and commercial applications.In terms of ecological construction, Metya will launch the token TGE in Q1 and further improve the MSN ecological network. It will strengthen global social network coverage through a regional node incentive program and promote $MET to become the core asset of social payments in a multi-chain ecosystem.The technological upgrades will focus on optimizing AI large models, launching an embedded decentralized wallet, and expanding the entire chain ecosystem to create a smoother and safer user experience, facilitating on-chain interoperability.In commercial applications, Metya will expand token application scenarios through innovative SocialFi and DePIN models and accelerate the deep integration of tokens with the social economy.

ChainCatcher news, Parity Technologies, the parent company of Polkadot, has released the Polkadot 2025 roadmap, with the following key points:Smart Contracts: Asset Hub increases support for EVM and Solidity, while PVM provides a lightweight, secure, and scalable solution.Elastic Scalability: Multi-core architecture enhances capacity to meet the growing on-chain demand.XCM v5: The cross-chain messaging upgrade elevates interoperability to new heights.Unified Address Format: Polkadot and all Rollups use a single address—simplifying and streamlining the process.Fast Unlocking: The waiting time for DOT unlocking is reduced to improve user experience.DOT as a Universal Fee Token: Supports fee payments in Rollups—making DOT the universal fee token for Web3.JAM SDK: New tools provided for developers to easily build scalable services.SAFROLE Technology: Block production using zkSNARK technology for performance optimization.

ChainCatcher news, Multicoin Capital co-founder Kyle Samani posted on X that currently Helium, Hivemapper, and io.net have generated over $50 million in total. By 2025, the revenue from these three projects will exceed $100 million.Along with many other DePIN projects on the Solana chain, 2025 will be remembered as the breakthrough year for DePIN.

ChainCatcher news, as reported by Chainwire, UTXO Stack has officially released its white paper titled "Decentralized Liquidity Staking Layer for Hybrid Lightning Network," along with its 2025 roadmap and a newly designed website.The white paper elaborates on the role of UTXO Stack as a liquidity staking layer for the Lightning Network, integrating core components such as Hybrid Lightning Network (Hybrid LN), Decentralized Liquidity Staking (DLSP), exchange nodes, wallets, and SDKs to address key challenges in the Lightning Network, including liquidity shortages, high entry barriers, and limited stablecoin support. By combining the Lightning Network with the fiber network of Nervos CKB, UTXO Stack aims to create a scalable and efficient payment network to facilitate the widespread adoption of Bitcoin payments.According to the 2025 roadmap, UTXO Stack will launch its first large-scale BTC liquidity incentive program on the Lightning Network in January 2025 and plans to complete the first Token Generation Event (TGE) of the Lightning Network ecosystem in the first quarter of 2025, further advancing liquidity development and ecosystem growth.