ChainCatcher message, the Ethereum L2 network Taiko is collaborating with the global geek movement platform DoraHacks to establish standards for community voting, providing the largest scale of anonymous community voting for a hackathon.Taiko's Grant Factory hackathon encourages developers to design projects that focus on providing innovative solutions, engaging and interesting applications, or generating positive social impact. After months of competition, the finalists will enter the final round of voting, marking a step towards greater community-driven decision-making.The Minimal Anti-Collusion Infrastructure (MACI), initially proposed by Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, is a mechanism that provides privacy and anti-collusion voting in community environments. Concerns about obstacles in traditional voting systems, such as fraud, collusion, and lack of privacy, prompted him to propose on-chain solutions to these issues.MACI uses zero-knowledge technology to ensure that votes remain confidential while maintaining integrity and preventing bribery or coercion. In a MACI round, there are two roles: operators and users. Users vote on-chain for the MACI smart contract through encrypted votes. These votes are timestamped on-chain, and only operators can see their votes, with results published after the voting is completed.

ChainCatcher news, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale deposited 1.5 million VIRTUAL to Bybit, worth 3.03 million USD. Two months ago, the whale spent 478 ETH to accumulate VIRTUAL, worth 1.72 million USD. Currently, it holds 54,311 VIRTUAL, worth 110,000 USD, with a profit of 1.41 million USD. Additionally, the whale received an airdrop of 43,185 VVV, worth 648,000 USD.

ChainCatcher message, according to on-chain analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, a certain JUP whale (34bHt...kJVJir) accumulated 13.3 million tokens (approximately 11.37 million USD) at an average price of 0.8541 USD between January 17 and January 24, and did not sell when JUP briefly rose to 1.25 USD.The whale deposited 7.7 million tokens to FalconX 11 hours ago at a deposit price of 1.012 USD, which would yield a profit of 1.215 million USD if sold. The whale still holds 5.6 million tokens, with an unrealized profit of 2.01 million USD.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, Berachain has announced that the Boyco mainnet liquidity pre-deposit activity is now live. Previously, the Berachain incentive deposit vault "Boyco" had a TVL close to 2.2 billion dollars.After the official launch of Boyco, these assets will be transferred to the Boyco DApp announced by Berachain.

ChainCatcher news, Greeks.live analyst Adam pointed out that after Bitcoin's price fell below $98,000, market sentiment turned bearish, with traders expecting the price to further dip to the $94,000-$96,000 range. Put options with strike prices between $96,000 and $98,000 have seen noticeably active trading, indicating that traders are actively building defensive positions.Analysis shows that several traders have closed or rolled over their bullish spread strategies above $104,000. The market generally believes that this round of decline is influenced by the sell-off in Nvidia and the US tech sector. The consensus in the Greeks.live community is that it is necessary to wait for a clear rebound signal around the $98,000 mark before it is suitable to re-establish long positions.

ChainCatcher news, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale deposited 5.64 million POL (worth 2.28 million USD) to Coinbase.The whale accumulated these POL at a cost of 3.6 million USD over the past two months and is currently facing a loss of 1.32 million USD.

ChainCatcher news, according to Lookonchain monitoring, 3 hours ago, a wallet associated with Cumberland deposited 17,750 ETH (approximately 54.41 million USD) to Binance.

ChainCatcher news, on January 24, the MZCC Foundation announced its lead investment in the crypto payment project MIRO, which is one of its key investment directions for 2025. MIRO optimizes on-chain payment processes through AI technology, enhancing the transaction efficiency of Bitcoin and strengthening its connection with the global economy.MIRO has partnered with Web3 projects such as Infinimos, SocialTox, Nexus Launch, Collably Network, HeLa, and Orbler, covering areas like DeFi solutions, Web3 marketing, and AI infrastructure, to further improve its crypto payment ecosystem.The MZCC Foundation has long focused on the development of crypto payment infrastructure and believes that this field is ushering in new growth opportunities. Leading the investment in MIRO is an important step in its strategic layout for crypto payments in 2025, aiming to promote more convenient and efficient on-chain payment solutions.

ChainCatcher news, according to Coinglass data, the total liquidation amount across the network in the past 24 hours was 422 million USD, with long liquidations amounting to 376 million USD and short liquidations amounting to 45.3197 million USD, of which the liquidation amount for BTC was 163 million USD and for ETH was 39.5057 million USD.

ChainCatcher message, Vitalik Buterin posted on X stating: "One of the many things we need to accelerate is the abolition of Groth16. Trust setups for every application are not feasible in the 2020s. At least there should be a universal setup, ideally no setup at all. This requires significant improvements in infrastructure and the standardization of new SNARK algorithms."It is reported that the Groth16 algorithm is an algorithm published by Jens Groth in 2016. The advantages of this algorithm are the small number of proof elements provided (only 3 are needed), simple verification equations, and reliability under integrity and polynomial computation capabilities.

ChainCatcher news, according to Onchain Lens monitoring, about 7 hours ago, the whale degentrading deposited its last 430 billion PEPE (worth approximately 6.37 million USD) into Binance.More than a year ago, he withdrew 759 billion PEPE (worth approximately 978,000 USD). By selling all PEPE, he made a total profit of about 11.08 million USD.

ChainCatcher message, Slow Mist Technology's Chief Information Security Officer 23pds disclosed on social media that the popular trading tool Debot has a security risk of exposing private keys in plaintext within data packets. It is recommended that the Debot development team enhance the product's security level to protect user asset safety.

ChainCatcher news, MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor has released SaylorTracker-related information for the twelfth consecutive week, stating: "Don't stop thinking about tomorrow."According to the SaylorTracker website, the blue line in the tracking chart represents the price trend of Bitcoin, while the green dots indicate accumulation behavior.Historical data shows that MicroStrategy typically increases its Bitcoin holdings the day after Saylor releases related information.

ChainCatcher message, the encrypted exchange Phemex announced on platform X that deposits and withdrawals on Arbitrum One, Optimism, BSC, Polygon, and BASE chains have now resumed.

ChainCatcher news, according to DL News, "Breaking Bad" actor Dean Norris's Twitter account has been hacked for the second time in six months. The hackers issued a token named Dean in his name and forged a photo of him holding a sign to promote it. The token's market value once soared to $7 million, but plummeted 90% after Norris released a video clarifying that he had been hacked.Norris stated that he was unaware of the account being compromised until he received a text message from a friend, as he does not use Twitter frequently. Last September, his account was previously used to promote the SHRADER token on the TRON chain. With events like Trump releasing the TRUMP token, users have found it increasingly difficult to discern the authenticity of celebrity-endorsed tokens.

ChainCatcher news, monitored by The Data Nerd, 1 hour ago, whale 0x502 deposited 300,000 OM (approximately 1.48 million USD) to Binance, with an unrealized profit of about 1.47 million USD. Last year, he spent a total of 485,000 USD to accumulate 17.4 million OM at an average price of 0.028 USD.So far, he still holds 3.573 million OM, worth approximately 16.97 million USD.

ChainCatcher news, according to China's Legal Daily, to implement the spirit of the Third Plenary Session of the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party, and to fully leverage the role of the rule of law in the modernization of the national governance system and governance capacity, a seminar on "Disposal of Virtual Currency Involved in Cases" was held in Beijing on January 19, organized by the Law School of Renmin University of China. Nearly 60 participants attended the meeting, including representatives from the Legislative Affairs Commission of the National People's Congress, the Supreme People's Court, the Supreme People's Procuratorate, the Ministry of Public Security, as well as legal theorists, lawyers, and business representatives.During the meeting, Wang Tuo, head of the Financial Case Handling Team of the Fourth Procuratorial Department of the Supreme People's Procuratorate, stated:We must face history and reality, and cannot ignore the decisive role of regulatory documents in curbing speculative behavior in cryptocurrencies. At the same time, we should accelerate top-level design to address various issues related to virtual currency crimes.We need to strengthen the coordination between criminal justice and administrative regulation, adhering to the principle of unified legal order.We should strive to reach a consensus on the nature of virtual currencies, especially ensuring that civil and criminal identifications do not contradict each other.We need to establish scientifically reasonable procedural norms to prevent various risks in judicial disposal.We should emphasize the complementary relationship between technology and case handling.

ChainCatcher message, according to @ai_9684xtpa monitoring, smart money ChRYJ...owqjG built a position at the bottom of $0.004381 and cleared at a high of $0.06777; $31,000 gained $460,000 in just three hours, with a return of 1446.7%.

ChainCatcher message, well-known Chainlink community contributor Zach Rynes posted on X stating: "It is highly unlikely that the U.S. government will unify the use of a single blockchain to cover all departments and agencies. Do you think the ledger requirements of the EPA and FDA are exactly the same as those of the DoD and DHS? Probably not.The U.S. government will ultimately use multiple private and public ledgers for various different purposes, such as enhancing spending transparency or automating manual processes. What is certain is:All these different public/private blockchain ledgers will need to be able to communicate and share data across agencies through cross-chain interoperability standards;Agencies need to be able to seamlessly connect their existing backend systems and infrastructure to the various public/private chains used by the government through an abstraction layer;Agencies using blockchain to automate manual processes will need access to external data resources to securely trigger smart contract functions using oracles.A unified platform is needed to meet all these off-chain data, cross-chain interoperability, and legacy system connection requirements."