ChainCatcher news, according to Bitcoin Magazine's disclosure on the X platform, one of Europe's largest telecommunications companies, Deutsche Telekom, will begin utilizing surplus energy for Bitcoin mining.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Information, AI search startup Perplexity is raising a new round of funding at a valuation of at least $8 billion. X, Notion, and OpenAI have all made acquisition offers to Perplexity ranging from $150 million to $200 million, and Microsoft has also expressed interest in acquiring the company.

ChainCatcher news, the artificial intelligence search startup Perplexity is in discussions for funding, with its valuation set to more than double to $8 billion.Perplexity has completed two additional funding rounds in 2024, raising its valuation to $250 million, and then to $3 billion.

ChainCatcher news, Evernode plans to introduce Hooks and a new token Codii on the XRP Ledger (XRPL) to enhance programmability, which has been questioned by Ripple's Chief Technology Officer David Schwartz.Schwartz believes the plan is overly complex and offers no clear benefits, warning that it could lead to increased transaction fees across the network due to higher resource demands.Evernode co-founder Scott Chamberlain proposed that the Codii token would be used to pay for the execution fees of Hooks, but Schwartz argued that XRP should be used directly to simplify the system and avoid unnecessary cost increases.

ChainCatcher news, after the release of the US CPI data, the three major US stock index futures fell sharply in the short term, with Dow futures down 0.66%, S&P 500 index futures and Nasdaq futures down 0.45%. (Jin Ten)

ChainCatcher news, according to market information, after the U.S. election debate, Trump Media & Technology Group (DJT.O) fell 13% in pre-market trading.Blockchain concept stocks generally declined, with MicroStrategy (MSTR.N) and Riot Platforms (RIOT.O) down about 3%, and Coinbase (COIN.O) down 2%. (Jin Shi)

According to ChainCatcher news, data from RootData shows that the Rocket Pool token (RPL) has increased by 22.66% in the last 24 hours, currently priced at $11.5.Additionally, the Web3 asset data platform RootData indicates that Rocket Pool is a decentralized Ethereum 2.0 staking protocol. The purpose of establishing Rocket Pool is to allow anyone to trustlessly stake as little as 0.01 ETH into a fully autonomous decentralized node operator network supported by RPL collateral, catering to various forms and scales of stakers.

ChainCatcher news reports that, according to Ember monitoring, following Binance's announcement of the launch of the RPL contract, the price of RPL surged by 28%. The investment firm 1kx took this opportunity to sell 200,000 RPL, worth approximately $2.38 million. Data shows that 1kx has been frequently selling RPL through Amber Group recently.In the past 12 days, the firm has transferred a total of 313,737 RPL (about $3.71 million) to Amber Group addresses, and these tokens subsequently entered Binance. As an investor in Rocket Pool, 1kx received an allocation of 570,393 RPL in December 2021 and staked all the tokens to Rocket Pool nodes in 2023.Currently, 1kx still has 315,835 RPL (about $3.63 million) in a staked status.

According to ChainCatcher news, data from RootData shows that the Rocket Pool token (RPL) has increased by 28.77% in the last 24 hours, currently priced at $12.06.Earlier news reports that Binance Futures will launch the RPLUSDT perpetual contract on September 9, 2024, at 20:30 (Beijing time), offering up to 75x leverage.Additionally, the Web3 asset data platform RootData indicates that Rocket Pool is a decentralized Ethereum 2.0 staking protocol. The purpose of establishing Rocket Pool is to allow anyone to trustlessly stake as little as 0.01 ETH into a fully autonomous decentralized node operator network supported by RPL collateral, catering to various forms and scales of stakers.

ChainCatcher message, Binance Futures will launch the RPLUSDT perpetual contract on September 9, 2024, at 20:30 (Beijing time), with a maximum leverage of 75 times.

ChainCatcher News, Tokyo Electric Power Company's subsidiary Agile Energy X in Japan has begun experimenting with Bitcoin mining using surplus power from renewable energy sources such as solar energy. The company has installed mining equipment next to solar power plants in Tochigi and Gunma Prefectures as part of its green energy utilization efforts.Company representative Kenji Tateiwa stated that mining can provide a new source of revenue for power generation companies and promote further adoption of green energy.The Japanese government plans to achieve net-zero greenhouse gas emissions, or carbon neutrality, by 2050, and it is expected that the share of renewable energy will further increase in the future. According to Agile Energy X's estimates, if renewable energy accounts for nearly half of the national power supply, approximately equivalent to the annual electricity consumption of 70 million households will be wasted. If 10% of this can be utilized for Bitcoin mining, it is expected to generate an annual revenue of about 360 billion yen (2.5 billion USD).

ChainCatcher message, Ripple announced key announcements this week in South Korea and Japan. The Ripple and XRP community is committed to bringing new programmability to the XRPL ecosystem by 2025 through the XRPL EVM sidechain (which is already in progress), including smart contracts, and exploring native functionalities on the XRPL mainnet. Additionally, the metaverse startup Futureverse has partnered with Ripple Custody to securely host its assets. Futureverse has adopted the XRPL NFT standard, using XRP as its gas token on the Root network, and integrated with the XRPL DEX to provide network liquidity.

ChianCatcher news, this morning the cryptocurrency market plummeted. Institutional analysis suggests that major tokens are digesting the boost received last week from Federal Reserve Chairman Powell's hint that the Fed will lower the benchmark interest rate from a more than twenty-year high. (Jin Ten)

According to ChainCatcher, Polymarket, a prediction market that allows users to bet on real-world events, is partnering with the AI-driven search engine Perplexity to display news summaries of events.When users click on an event on Polymarket, they can now see news summaries based on Perplexity search results, along with a search box that users can use to ask more questions.Polymarket will also create a section using Perplexity's Pages feature (which allows users to create shareable pages from search results) and display it on Perplexity's Discover page. Perplexity stated that it will explore more third-party partnerships to showcase content in its Discover section.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, the blockchain sector of the US stock market has plummeted, with MicroStrategy (MSTR.O) down over 23%, Canaan Technology (CAN.O) down over 21%, Coinbase (COIN.O) down over 18%, and Riot Platforms (RIOT.O) down over 11%.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, the three major U.S. stock indexes opened sharply lower, with the Dow Jones down 1,070 points, the S&P 500 index down 4.2%, and the Nasdaq down 6%. Star tech stocks plummeted, with Nvidia (NVDA.O) down 13%, falling below the $100 mark; TSMC (TSM.N) down 10%, Apple (AAPL.O) down 9%, and Tesla (TSLA.O) down about 11%. The Nasdaq Golden Dragon China Index fell 2.4%.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, U.S. chip stocks fell in pre-market trading, with Arm (ARM.O) and AMD (AMD.O) down over 10%; AMD (AMD.O) fell over 6%, Qualcomm (QCOM.O) fell over 5%, Broadcom (AVGO.O) fell over 8%, and Intel (INTC.O) and Micron Technology (MU.O) both fell 5.8%.

ChainCatcher news, U.S. stocks fell sharply before the market opened, with Tesla down over 7%, Intel down nearly 4%, Micron Technology down 7.3%, Qualcomm down 3.15%, AMD down 3%, Microsoft down 4.2%, TSMC down 8%, NVIDIA down 8.2%, and Apple down over 7%.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, South Korean Web3 startup studio Girin Labs has announced that it has received funding from the newly established XRP Ledger (XRPL) Japan and Korea Fund, which is supported by Ripple. This is also the first funding support from the XRPL Japan-Korea Fund.It is reported that Girin Labs will use this funding to accelerate the development of Girin Wallet (a wallet focused on XRPL) and the Lotus protocol for DeFi services.