ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Binance Futures will adjust the funding fee settlement frequency for the AERGOUSDT U perpetual contract on April 16, 2025, at 22:30 (UTC+8).The funding fee settlement frequency will be changed from every four hours to every two hours.

ChainCatcher message, Slow Mist issued a security alert, stating that the root cause of the R0AR (@th3r0ar) vulnerability is the existence of a backdoor in the contract. During the deployment process, the R0ARStaking contract tampered with the balance of a specified address (user.amount) by directly modifying the storage slot. Subsequently, the attacker extracted all funds from the contract through the emergency withdrawal function.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, the Binance futures platform will launch perpetual contracts at the following time: April 16, 2025, 19:00 (UTC+8): AERGOUSDT perpetual contract, with a maximum leverage of up to 15 times.

ChainCatcher news, according to monitoring by @lookonchain, the TRUMP project team removed liquidity 13 hours ago, extracting 4.6 million USDC from the pool, and then cross-chain transferred the funds to Ethereum, which has been deposited into CoinbasePrime.

ChainCatcher message, Binance Futures will launch the INITUSDT perpetual contract for pre-trading on April 16, 2025, at 06:30 (UTC), with a maximum leverage of 5 times.

ChainCatcher message, according to the official announcement, Binance will adjust the minimum price fluctuation unit (TickSize) for 20 U-margined perpetual contracts including VOXELUSDT and MBOXUSDT on April 17, 2025, at 14:00 (Beijing time). For specific adjustment values, please refer to the announcement. This adjustment will not affect existing orders.

ChainCatcher message, ZKsync posted on platform X stating that, after investigation, the administrator accounts of three airdrop distribution contracts have been compromised. The attacker invoked the sweepUnclaimed() function, minting approximately 111 million unclaimed ZK tokens from the airdrop contract. This incident only involves the airdrop distribution contracts, and all mintable funds have been fully minted, making further exploitation through this method impossible.The ZKsync protocol, ZK token contracts, all three governance contracts, and all active token cap minters have not been affected by this incident and will not be affected. They are currently coordinating with exchanges to restore operations and recommend that the attacker return the funds to avoid legal consequences.

ChainCatcher message, ZKsync posted on platform X stating that, after investigation, the administrator accounts of three airdrop distribution contracts have been compromised. The attacker invoked the sweepUnclaimed() function to mint approximately 111 million unclaimed ZK tokens from the airdrop contract. This incident only involves the airdrop distribution contracts, and all mintable funds have been fully minted, making further exploitation through this method impossible.The ZKsync protocol, ZK token contract, all three governance contracts, and all active token cap minters have not been affected by this incident and will not be affected. They are currently coordinating with exchanges for recovery efforts and advise the attacker to return the funds to avoid legal liability.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official report from ZKsync, the security team discovered that an administrator account of the airdrop contract was compromised, allowing the attacker to control and sell approximately 5 million dollars worth of unclaimed ZK airdrop tokens. The incident was caused by a single key leak and did not affect the protocol itself or the ZK token contract, with user funds remaining secure. The official team is conducting an investigation and will release a detailed report later.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Bitget has launched the U-based WCT perpetual contract, with a leverage range of 1-75 times. The contract trading BOT will also be opened simultaneously.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Binance Wealth Management, One-Click Buy, Instant Exchange, Leverage, and Contracts will launch WalletConnect (WCT).Among them: Binance's full margin and isolated margin will add WCT borrowable assets on April 15, 2025, at 19:20 (UTC+8), as well as WCT/USDT and WCT/USDC full margin and isolated margin trading pairs;Binance will launch WCT 1-75x USDT perpetual contracts on April 15, 2025, at 19:00 (UTC+8), supporting 75x leverage.

ChainCatcher news, according to official information, MEXC has officially launched WalletConnect (WCT) in the innovation zone on April 15, 2025, at 18:07 (UTC+8) and opened the WCT/USDT trading market, followed by the WCT/USDC trading market at 18:27. On the same day at 18:20, the WCT U-based contract was launched, supporting 1-50x leverage, with both full and isolated margin modes. At 19:07 on April 15, the WCT swap function was launched, allowing users to seamlessly and instantly exchange with other assets.To celebrate the launch of WalletConnect (WCT), MEXC has launched the Airdrop+ event, with a total prize pool of 273,000 WCT and 50,000 USDT. The event has already started and will end on April 25, 2025, at 18:00.

ChainCatcher news, according to official information, OKEx will officially launch the WCTUSDT perpetual contract on the web, App, and API at 7:30 PM (UTC+8) on April 15, 2025, and will launch leveraged trading and simple coin earning for WCT at 12:00 PM (UTC+8) on April 17, 2025.

ChainCatcher message, Slow Mist Technology's Chief Information Security Officer 23pds tweeted that "The root cause of the KiloEx attack lies in the serious vulnerabilities in the price oracle access control. Simply put, the oracle should have its price information updated by trusted entities, but due to the lack of necessary permission restrictions, attackers were able to bypass the verification mechanism and arbitrarily tamper with asset prices, thereby manipulating the contract logic."

ChainCatcher message shows that the on-chain contract platform KiloEx address has been hacked, resulting in a loss of approximately 7.4 million USD, involving assets from multiple chains such as BNB and Base.

According to ChainCatcher news and the official announcement, Huobi HTX has launched the KERNEL/USDT perpetual contract on April 14, with a maximum leverage of 20 times. At the same time, Huobi HTX is holding a KERNEL contract trading party from April 14, 22:00 to April 21, 22:00 (UTC+8), with a total prize pool of up to 10,000 USD.The event includes:New user benefits: Users who have never traded contracts complete KERNEL/USDT contract trading, and have a personal cumulative trading volume ≥ 100 USDT, can receive an equivalent of 3 USDT in $HTX (the prize pool is a total of 3,000 USDT equivalent in $HTX);Trading party: Users participating in KERNEL/USDT contract trading, with a cumulative effective trading volume ≥ 10,000 USDT, can share an equivalent of 7,000 USDT in $HTX based on their trading volume ranking. It is important to note that users need to click to register for the event.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Bitget has launched the U-based KERNEL perpetual contract, with a leverage range of 1-75 times. The contract trading BOT will be opened simultaneously.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Binance Wealth Management, One-Click Buy, Flash Exchange, Leverage, and Contracts will launch KernelDAO (KERNEL). The KERNEL principal-protected earning product will be available on the Binance principal-protected earning platform for subscription starting from April 14, 2025, at 20:00 (UTC+8).Binance's full-position and isolated-margin leverage will add KERNEL as a borrowable asset on April 14, 2025, at 20:20 (UTC+8), along with KERNEL/USDT and KERNEL/USDC full-position and isolated-margin trading pairs, supporting up to 75x leverage.

ChainCatcher message, according to official news, MEXC has officially launched KernelDAO (KERNEL) in the innovation zone on April 14 at 19:10 (UTC+8), and opened the KERNEL/USDT trading market, with the KERNEL/USDC trading market opening at 19:20. On the same day at 19:25 (UTC+8), the KERNEL U-based contract was launched, supporting 1-50 times leverage, with both full margin and isolated margin modes. At 20:10 (UTC+8) on April 14, the KERNEL swap function will be launched, allowing users to seamlessly and instantly exchange with other assets.To celebrate the launch of KernelDAO (KERNEL), MEXC has launched the Airdrop+ event, with a total prize pool of 135,000 USDT. The event has already started and will end on April 18, 2025, at 18:00 (UTC+8).

ChainCatcher message, the secure blockchain application standard OpenZeppelin has released Solidity Contracts v5.3, with core highlights including: the new multi-token standard ERC-6909, featuring minimal implementation, metadata support, supply tracking, and content URI extension; a new proposal guardian role, added sequential proposal IDs, and new supermajority mechanism among other governance improvements.