ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, the cryptocurrency mining chip design company Nano Labs announced that it now accepts Bitcoin as payment for its goods and services through a business account on Coinbase, with its stock price rising slightly.Nano Labs stated that as the "adoption of cryptocurrency continues to grow, especially among businesses seeking efficient and secure cross-border transactions," it is "taking a proactive stance in the evolving digital economy."According to Nano Labs, "the adoption of Bitcoin will provide greater payment flexibility," but it did not provide any details on whether it intends to hold the cryptocurrency on its balance sheet.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Jack Dorsey's mobile payment company Block, Inc. (SQ) and Core Scientific (CORZ) announced an agreement to provide Core Scientific with Block's new 3-nanometer mining ASIC, which was developed by Block's Proto team and is equivalent to approximately 15 EH/s in hash rate.

ChainCatcher news, Jack Kong, founder of Nano Labs, director of Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company, and member of the Hong Kong Third Generation Internet Development Task Force, posted on social media that leading exchanges have withdrawn their VASP (Virtual Asset Service Provider) license applications in Hong Kong. This will not have a significant impact on these exchanges, but it is not a good sign for the development of Web3 in Hong Kong.He stated that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has begun to follow the trend, and Hong Kong regulators need to keep up; otherwise, the Hong Kong government's efforts to develop Web3 will face greatly increased difficulties. Nevertheless, he remains optimistic about Hong Kong and will continue to express policies that he believes are beneficial for Hong Kong's development.

ChainCatcher news, Jack Kong, founder of Nano Labs and director of Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company, posted on the X platform stating that Hong Kong is the core hub of the Bitcoin ecosystem. The collaboration between the East and West is driving the current development of the Bitcoin ecosystem, and the Bitcoin ecosystem will give birth to the king of memes. Only the prosperity of the first layer creates opportunities for the second layer.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, earlier this week, after the introduction of the Tonado protocol inspired by Bitcoin Ordinals on the TON network, which led to a surge in activity, the network experienced prolonged delays in transaction processing.According to monitoring data from the blockchain status monitoring bot dTON, the issues began on Tuesday afternoon, and by Thursday afternoon, over 2.5 million transactions were waiting to be processed, causing the transaction processing speed of the TON blockchain to drop to less than 1 transaction per second. This situation forced the TON cryptocurrency wallets Wallet and Tonkeeper to suspend their services.It is reported that Tonano is a protocol for creating blockchain inscriptions using the TON-20 token standard on the TON blockchain, but the protocol has now had to halt its minting activities.

ChainCatcher message, the first session of the "Zhen" series events hosted by ChainCatcher was held today in Hong Kong, with the theme of "Chinese builders" and a new aesthetic perspective. Jack Kong, founder of the metaverse chip manufacturer [Nano Labs](https://www.rootdata.com/zh/Projects/detail/Nano Labs?k=MzU0NQ==) and director of Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company, delivered a speech titled "The Singularity of the Metaverse is Approaching, and It's the Right Time for Web3 Entrepreneurship."Jack Kong stated that with the integration of the new generation of AI technology and Web3, the current challenges faced in the development of the metaverse, such as high entry barriers, limited scenarios, scarcity of digital assets, high development and operational costs, and lack of support for large-scale concurrency, are being resolved one by one.iPollo, a subsidiary of Nano Labs, is committed to making metaverse development simpler than DeFi development through the integration of multiple technologies such as AIGC, AR+, and Web3D, allowing users to have a better user experience than Web2.In addition, Jack Kong shared the three laws of the metaverse proposed by Nano Labs, which state that the network value of the metaverse is at least proportional to the cube of the number of network users; the total network value of the metaverse is the sum of the values of each layer of the network; and all marginal users in the metaverse will receive corresponding network value. (Event photo live stream)

ChainCatcher news, metaverse chip manufacturer Nano Labs recently launched its self-developed A series iPollo computing device, which is equipped with high-performance graphics cards featuring high video memory and multi-core CPUs, aimed at supporting artificial intelligence generated content (AIGC) and zero-knowledge proofs (ZKP) computations. Zero-knowledge proofs play an important role in the crypto space and Web 3.0, and are highly anticipated in the expansion of Ethereum and the development of the blockchain industry. Marvin Kong, Senior Vice President of Nano Labs, stated that this product can support the computational needs of Web3, the metaverse, and other fields.Nano Labs successfully went public on Nasdaq last July, and its iPollo and iPolloverse fully support the creation of the underlying platform for the metaverse. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, 1inch Network announced the release of the latest iOS version of 1inch Wallet, which adds support for HD Wallet, Ledger Nano X, and more.In addition, according to App Store regulations, the iOS version of 1inch Wallet will no longer support fiat deposit providers, DeFi Racer, and other features; the Swap and staking functions can only be accessed through the 1inch DApp. (Source link)