ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, the U.S. April ADP employment change is 62,000, expected 115,000, previous value 155,000.The U.S. April ADP employment change increased by 62,000, the smallest increase since July 2024, significantly lower than expected.

ChainCatcher news, decentralized AI project Gata today announced the completion of a $4 million seed round financing. This round was participated by YZi Labs, IDG Blockchain, Maelstrom Fund, Manifold Trading, Gate Ventures, Formless Capital, Anti Capital, MH Ventures, V3V Ventures, 071 Labs, and Echo.Gata focuses on developing decentralized large model inference, training, and data technologies to enable decentralized infrastructure to truly participate in and support the trillion-dollar global AI economy. Gata believes that decentralized inference, training, and data resources will bring lower costs, high availability, and censorship-resistant architectures to the AI industry, helping AI achieve sustainable and inclusive development.As one of the important milestones, Gata launched the DataAgent platform, which utilizes computing power resources contributed by global users to automatically generate the data required for AI training through AI, replacing the traditional manual data labeling method.

ChainCatcher news, according to official social media announcements, Huobi HTX will hold a live stream today at 8 PM titled "Trump Crypto Dinner: Real Benefits or Fake Hype? Discussing the Compliance and Risks of TRUMP Coin."At that time, crypto KOLs such as Tony Fu, Data Alchemist, Shiwen.Eth, Big Brother, and Archie Li will be invited to attend, sharing stories behind the Trump dinner and unveiling the mystery of "Politicians and Crypto Narratives."

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Binance has completed the conversion of the following token balances to USDC. The conversion will take place from October 29, 2024, 08:00 to April 29, 2025, 07:59 (UTC+8).Token conversion:0.981 USDC/VAI8.511 USDC/TORN0.385 USDC/OMG1.51 USDC/WAVES0.0181 USDC/XEM1.0025 USDC/BOND0.0028 USDC/DOCK0.00219 USDC/MDX0.285 USDC/POLS0.000072 USDC/PURSE

ChainCatcher news, Web3 startup Terminal 3 announced the completion of an $8 million seed round financing, led jointly by Illuminate Financial and CMCC Titan Fund, with participation from Animoca Brands, Progression Fund, IDG Blockchain, Cherubic Ventures, 500 Global, Consensys Mesh, Hard Yaka, and BlackPine. The new funds will be used to build decentralized identity and credential data infrastructure, as well as to develop a brand new data privacy and security protocol to be released later this year.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the education finance (EduFi) RWA protocol Pencil Finance has announced the successful completion of a $10 million liquidity pool financing supported by Animoca Brands and Open Campus, aimed at supporting Pencil Finance's first on-chain education loans and debt financing for education companies. The funds have been fully deployed in the liquidity pool of Pencil Finance on the Open Campus EDU Chain.Pencil Finance will collaborate with traditional education loan companies to bring education loans from Southeast Asia and the United States on-chain, opening up a new asset class for on-chain investors. At the same time, Pencil Finance helps reduce interest rates on education loans by providing on-chain yield opportunities for traditional education loan companies.Animoca Brands founder Yatsiu stated, "Blockchain will fundamentally change the existing model of education finance. Pencil Finance will bring profound changes to the $3 trillion education loan market."

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized 3D high-precision map protocol ROVR Network has completed a $2.6 million seed round financing, led by Borderless Capital and GEODNET, with participation from IoTeX and several angel investors. The new funds will support its integration of LiDAR and RTK technology to provide real-time, compliant geospatial data for autonomous driving and spatial AI. Its platform token ROVR, launched on Solana, is expected to have its TGE in May.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Base has implemented the first phase of Ethereum Rollup decentralization, launching a fault-proof mechanism and establishing a security council. Base developers stated that the network has reached the "first phase" of Vitalik Buterin's Rollup decentralization framework, making progress in reducing reliance on centralized participants.The Base team stated: "Base has achieved the first phase of decentralization, which is a key milestone in building an open global on-chain economy. This has been accomplished by launching permissionless fault-proof and enhancing the decentralization of the contract upgrade process through the security council."Base was launched in August 2023, developed using Optimism's OP Stack package, and has now become the largest Layer 2 rollup by TVL on Ethereum. Previously, Base was classified as a Stage 0 Rollup, mainly because it still relied on a centralized sequencer controlled by Coinbase, and its mainnet lacked fully operational permissionless fault-proof.

ChainCatcher news, the modular Bitcoin Layer2 solution B² Network announced on social media that users who complete the airdrop registration before the TGE (Token Generation Event) will receive the B2 airdrop on April 30 at 20:00. Users who register after the TGE will receive airdrop rewards within 24 hours of registration.

ChainCatcher news, according to Fortune magazine, the crypto company Unto Labs, founded by former Jump Crypto employees, has completed a $14.4 million funding round, led by Framework Ventures and Electric Capital, with a valuation of $140 million.Heeger is developing its own virtual machine ThruVM for the planned Unto blockchain, which will use RISC-V. Unto Labs aims to use this funding round to hire more employees, hoping to expand the team size from 5 to 10 by the end of the year.

ChainCatcher news, according to Fortune, the crypto startup Camp Network announced the completion of a $25 million Series A funding round, led jointly by venture capital firms 1kx and Blockchain Capital, with participation from OKX, Lattice, and Paper Ventures. Camp Network is building a blockchain platform to help content creators store and license their intellectual property, addressing the issue of AI models misusing copyrighted content.This round of financing is in the form of equity financing and includes a token warrant, which is a commitment to issue cryptocurrency at a future date. According to Nirav Murthy, co-founder and co-CEO of Camp Network, this round of financing could value the startup's token at up to $400 million.

ChainCatcher message, according to the official announcement, Binance has completed the integration of USDC (USDC) on the Sonic network and has opened deposits. Withdrawal services will be available once there are sufficient deposits, and no further notice will be given.Please note that the USDC on the Sonic network supported by Binance is a bridged asset, managed by Sonic Labs, and is not issued by Circle, nor can it be redeemed through Circle.

ChainCatcher news, according to Fortune, the privacy blockchain project Miden, co-founded by former Meta engineers, announced on April 29, 2025, Beijing time, that it has completed a $25 million seed round of financing, led by the crypto division of Andreessen Horowitz along with Hack VC and 1kx, with participation from Finality Capital Partners, Symbolic Capital, and several angel investors in the crypto space.Polygon Labs did not invest directly but reached an agreement to allocate about 10% of Miden's future token issuance to Polygon token holders. Miden focuses on achieving transaction privacy through zero-knowledge proofs while balancing the performance and decentralization of the blockchain.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the BNB Chain has completed the Lorentz mainnet hard fork upgrade for BSC and OpBNB. The block time for BSC has been reduced to 1.5 seconds, while the block time for OpBNB has been reduced to 0.5 seconds. The on-chain transaction confirmation speed has significantly improved, decentralized applications (dApps) respond more quickly, and the overall user experience has been optimized.

ChainCatcher message, the full-chain derivatives liquidity layer Orderly Network tweeted that it has completed the upgrade. New features include the display of the maximum open contract limit, support for LayerZero v2, and optimization of the strategy Vault. Currently, all systems are back online.

ChainCatcher news, Deribit Asia Pacific Business Head Lin posted that the current Bitcoin Volatility Index (DVOL) is 47.08, which is in a low volatility range, with implied volatility below the level for 96.4% of the past year.Lin stated that under the current market conditions, if investors choose to sell Bitcoin call options with a strike price of $98,000 at the end of May, they can achieve a 4.2% coin-based yield, with an annualized return of approximately 25.58%. Profit is realized if the BTC at expiration is below $102,000 (breakeven point).

ChainCatcher news, according to FF News, the blockchain-driven B2B payment startup Next Generation announced the completion of a $5 million seed round financing, with participation from two companies in Cyprus, one Austrian company, and an international investor consortium. Specific details about the investors have not been disclosed. This round of financing will accelerate the launch of the company's B2B payment ecosystem, which aims to connect traditional finance and digital finance through its proprietary MiCA-compliant, euro-pegged stablecoin.

ChainCatcher news, Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal announced in a post that Joe Salama will join Coinbase as Chief Compliance Officer, succeeding Melissa Strait.Joe Salama previously served as the Global Head of Anti-Financial Crime at Deutsche Bank and General Counsel for the Americas.