ChainCatcher news, economist Peter Schiff posted on X that House Republicans have just passed Trump's ugly massive budget proposal. This budget will lead to higher spending and a larger budget deficit than Biden's. Worst of all, we have just freed ourselves from the shackles of foreign lenders. Get ready for indefinite quantitative easing.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, Mastercard has announced that the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken is collaborating with Mastercard to enable cryptocurrency holders in the UK and Europe to use their digital assets for purchases at over 150 million merchants worldwide.Kraken will provide physical and digital debit cards, allowing customers to use cryptocurrencies and stablecoins in everyday transactions. This is the latest development of the Kraken Pay service, which was launched earlier this year and supports cross-border payments with over 300 cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies. These debit cards are expected to be launched in the coming weeks.

ChainCatcher news, former head of cryptocurrency at Jane Street, Thomas Uhm, joins the Jito Foundation as Chief Commercial Officer (CCO).

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum Foundation Executive Director Tomasz K. Stańczak stated, "World (formerly Worldcoin) is building on Ethereum. I spent over 100 hours analyzing the design of World from January to February, reading all the blog posts, and launching various code components locally. World looks very promising and is more robust and privacy-focused than I initially expected."World co-founders Alex Blania and Sam Altman will update the next steps for Worldcoin, World ID, and World App on April 30.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, regarding "the BitcoinDev mailing list being 'permanently removed' by Google", Bitcoin core developer Bryan Bishop stated that the ban may have been triggered by individuals or bots reporting the Bitcoin mailing list en masse through multiple accounts.Bishop noted that this is a common tactic used by attackers to ban or censor a community, and pointed out that similar incidents frequently occur on YouTube, X, and TikTok. Bishop suggested that the Bitcoin forum should not be limited to a specific platform, as there are several other platforms available to discuss the development of Bitcoin, including GitHub and the decentralized social network Nostr.

ChainCatcher message, Mask Network founder Suji Yan stated on the X platform: "The team has noticed the recent sudden drop in MASK's price and is working to gather more information/details. A solution will be announced within 1−2 days."Market data shows that the MASK token has fallen by 43.8% in the past 7 days.

ChainCatcher news, according to Business Insider, Mastercard is developing a "Multi-Token Network" aimed at replicating the success of its traditional payment network to provide digital asset trading infrastructure for consumers, merchants, and financial institutions. This system will integrate on-chain and off-chain asset flows, ensuring compliance and optimizing user experience. Mastercard has partnered with JPMorgan, Standard Chartered, and others to explore scenarios such as cross-border payments and carbon credit tokenization, having filed over 250 blockchain-related patents since 2015.

ChainCatcher news, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin attended the ETHTaipei event today wearing a mask in the style of the "Milady" series NFT.

ChainCatcher news, according to the token unlocking data from the Web3 asset data platform RootData, Masa (MASA) will unlock approximately 10.547 million tokens on April 6th at 8 AM Beijing time, worth about 1.87 million USD.

ChainCatcher News: The U.S. Department of Justice announced the disruption of an ongoing terrorism financing scheme, seizing approximately $201,400 (at current value) in cryptocurrency, which was stored in wallets and accounts intended to fund Hamas. The seized funds originated from fundraising addresses allegedly controlled by Hamas, which have been used since October 2024 to launder over $1.5 million in virtual currency.

ChainCatcher News, a statement submitted by a U.S. Treasury official in a court document indicates that the U.S. Treasury is planning large-scale layoffs in response to the efforts led by Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to reduce the size of the federal workforce.Currently, the Treasury is finalizing its plans to implement the executive order related to the DOGE initiative signed by Trump. According to the court documents, these plans will be tailored to various agencies under the Treasury, and in many cases, will involve significant job cuts through layoffs.

ChainCatcher news, according to Reuters, the Massachusetts Securities Division has launched an investigation into Robinhood due to the recent launch of an in-app prediction market center that allows users to bet on the outcomes of various events, including the results of the "March Madness" college basketball tournament.

ChainCatcher news, according to Suji Yan, the founder of Mask Network, disclosed on social platform X that the decentralized writing platform Mirror has been storing all articles only on the server and not on-chain since 12:38 AM on January 13, 2025, and this situation has lasted for two months.The comment is a response to another user's post comparing traffic on content platforms. The original post was made by crypto KOL "Xu Chonglang," who pointed out that the traditional content platform Medium has a monthly traffic of 96.5 million visits, while Mirror, as the leading Web3 writing platform, only has 670,000 visits.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, CyberArk has discovered a new type of cryptocurrency hijacking malware called MassJacker that targets users of pirated software by hijacking cryptocurrency transactions through replacing addresses stored in the clipboard. Users may unknowingly infect their devices when downloading pirated software.CyberArk found that there are 778,531 unique wallets associated with this theft, with 423 wallets having previously held cryptocurrency assets.

ChainCatcher news, Massachusetts State Representative Kate Lipper-Garabedian submitted a bill proposing the establishment of a special committee including state legislators to investigate matters related to blockchain and cryptocurrency.