ChainCatcher news, Musk posted a personal portrait with the words "The Dogefather" on social media.

ChainCatcher news, according to IBT, Elon Musk stated at a town hall meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, that he does not want to discuss any specific cryptocurrency, but pointed out that cryptocurrency could be a "fortress" against centralized control.Musk avoided questions about whether he believes the decentralized public blockchain XRP Ledger will be integrated into the financial system in the future. He emphasized that this does not represent his endorsement or disapproval of XRP.

ChainCatcher news, according to official information, the OKX Web3 wallet has jointly launched the Sonic Adventure event with Sonic (SVM), during which, from August 30, 2024, to September 12, 2024, users trading Sonic Cartridge NFTs on the OKX NFT marketplace will receive additional Ring rewards for Sonic (SVM) Odyssey every day.It is reported that the Sonic Cartridge is a limited edition NFT series designed to provide special reward effects for Odyssey. The OKX NFT marketplace is a zero-fee multi-chain aggregation platform that combines creation, collection, and trading functions.

ChainCatcher news, Elon Musk posted an AI-generated facial portrait of "Black Myth: Wukong" based on his personal image on social media, captioned "An impressive AAA game from China." Currently, related themed Meme coins have appeared on networks such as Tron and Ethereum.

ChainCatcher news reports that the digital payment company WSPN (Worldwide Stablecoin Payment Network) has announced the appointment of former Visa President John Partridge to its board of directors, aiming to expand into the U.S. market and drive Web3 payment innovations, creating a Visa for the Web3 era. WSPN is known for its stablecoin product Worldwide USD ("WUSD") and is committed to building a Stablecoin 2.0 payment network to provide global users with a secure and efficient digital transaction experience.Mr. Partridge has over 20 years of extensive experience in the fintech sector, having served as President of Visa from 2009 to 2013. He led Visa's historic $19 billion IPO and drove its global business growth, significantly increasing the transaction processing volume of the Visa network and leading the implementation of the V.me project, which solidified Visa's leadership position in the digital payment space.In addition, Mr. Partridge currently serves as the Chairman of global fintech company Velo Payments. His addition will help WSPN promote the application of the WUSD stablecoin across various ecosystems and scenarios worldwide.

ChainCatcher message, on-chain detective ZachXBT posted on social media that four addresses profited $3.8 million in the RTR pump and dump, among which the address starting with 9G1ELG and the address starting with GHoW2 clearly belong to the same person. These two addresses received 500 SOL in new funds within minutes after the TGE.It is reported that Restore The Republic (RTR) had its TGE on the evening of August 8, with community rumors linking it to a new project by the Trump family. The token RTR reached a high of $0.156 at midnight on August 9. Subsequently, Eric Trump, the second son of Trump and current Executive Vice President of the Trump Organization, posted on social media reminding people to "be cautious of fake tokens; the only official Trump project has not been announced and will be disclosed on Twitter first." After the statement was released, RTR quickly dropped about 95%, with a trading volume of $164 million within just 15 hours of its inception.

ChainCatcher news, according to Lookonchain monitoring, Cumberland has just received 73 million USDT from Tether Treasury. In the past 48 hours, Cumberland has received 445 million USDT from Tether Treasury and deposited it into exchanges.

ChainCatcher news, according to VentureBeat, blockchain game infrastructure provider Cartridge has completed a $7.5 million Series A funding round, led by Bitkraft Ventures, with participation from Fabric, Dune, StarkWare, Primitive, and Ergodic.Cartridge, a company providing infrastructure for on-chain games and autonomous worlds, also announced the launch of Dojo 1.0, an open-source development toolkit and framework for building verifiable games.

ChainCatcher message, Slow Mist founder Yu Xian posted on social media to remind users that the browser extension "AggrTrade" will steal users' trading platform cookies and other permission information. If users have installed this extension, they should delete it as soon as possible and change their account passwords and 2FA, as well as reset their trading API, etc.

ChainCatcher news, according to monitoring by the AICoin Chinese channel, FortressTrust transferred 12,264,900 GALA to an address starting with 0x3c on February 28, amounting to approximately $504,900.

According to ChainCatcher news, as reported by Ming Pao, the list of applicants for virtual asset trading platform licenses from the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission shows that there are currently 6 companies applying for virtual asset trading platform licenses. The latest application was submitted by Futu Holdings' wholly-owned subsidiary, Cheetah Trading (Hong Kong) Limited, which submitted its license application this Wednesday (15th). The virtual asset trading platform under it is named PantherTrade.According to information, PantherTrade previously appointed Chen Zhiwu as a director on September 14. He was the investment director at Huobi Asset Management (Hong Kong) Limited, which later changed its name to New Fire Technology. Chen Zhiwu's term at New Fire Asset Management ended in May 2023 with license number 4. Another director is Hong Yimin. The company submitted its incorporation form on March 7 this year, with the first director being Fang Hangzheng. Information shows that he served at JD Securities Limited from September 2019 to July 2020.

ChainCatcher message, LayerZero Labs announced on social media the launch of the on-chain attribution solution ColorTrace, a technology that can attribute fungible tokens to the original entity (the minter) to fairly track contributions to the success of the protocol, helping to achieve fair distribution for common real-world applications such as revenue, affiliate programs, and referral links.Currently, LayerZero Labs has created a series of algorithms related to on-chain attribution, including ColorTrace, as well as ColorFloat and ColorAge.

ChainCatcher news, according to Fortune magazine, due to widespread personnel issues, the founder and CEO of the crypto custody platform Fortress, Scott Purcell, announced his resignation. This decision follows a hacking incident in early September, in which Fortress lost approximately $14 million to $15 million of customer funds. Later, the well-known blockchain company Ripple, behind the cryptocurrency XRP, compensated the customers.In addition, Fortress also laid off at least six employees, most of whom were in the sales department. Purcell confirmed his departure in a comment and stated that Fortress has hired a new CEO, Rich Hauschild, who is the former Chief Operating Officer of crypto investment firm iTrustCapital. Purcell told Fortune magazine that he will continue to serve as a board member of Fortress's parent company.ChainCatcher previously reported that in September this year, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse tweeted that the decision was made not to acquire Fortress Trust, despite having signed a letter of intent to acquire Fortress Trust a few weeks earlier.

ChainCatcher news, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse tweeted that the decision has been made not to acquire Fortress Trust, despite having signed a letter of intent to acquire Fortress Trust a few weeks ago. Brad Garlinghouse stated that Ripple remains an investor in Fortress Trust and will continue to support Fortress Trust.Previous news, Ripple announced about three weeks ago that it agreed to acquire the charter trust company Fortress Trust, which focuses on cryptocurrency and Web3, and stated that Fortress Trust would complement Ripple's business and product roadmap.

ChainCatcher news, software company Retool published details involving 27 cryptocurrency customer accounts being hacked, including the reason for the $15 million cryptocurrency theft from Fortress Trust. The report shows that the Google Authenticator cloud sync feature was the culprit of this attack, turning multi-factor authentication into single-factor authentication. Once the attacker controlled the Okta account, they also controlled the Google account, thereby gaining access to all OTPs stored in Google Authenticator.Previously, Fortress Trust CEO Scott Purcell disclosed that the company lost between $12 million and $15 million in cryptocurrency during an attack on a third-party cloud tool provider. According to sources, the provider was Retool, which also admitted to being a victim of a phishing attack.

ChainCatcher news, Fortress Trust CEO Scott Purcell disclosed that the company lost between $12 million and $15 million in cryptocurrency during an attack on a third-party cloud tool provider. According to sources, the vendor is Retool, which also acknowledged that it was a victim of a phishing attack.It is reported that Retool is a San Francisco-based company with Fortune 500 clients, and it has built funding portals for a few Fortress clients. Retool stated that the attackers targeted "a specific group of clients," all of whom are engaged in cryptocurrency business. Clients who configured their software as recommended by the company were not affected, and the vast majority of cryptocurrency clients use the product in this way. Clients deploying Retool on-premises were unaffected, as retoolon-prem runs in a 'zero trust' environment that does not trust retool cloud.Previous report, Web3 charter trust company Fortress Trust founder and CEO Scott Purcell stated that before Fortress Trust was acquired by Ripple, it lost between $12 million and $15 million in cryptocurrency during a recent hacking incident, most of which was Bitcoin, along with a small amount of USDC and USDT stolen.

ChainCatcher news, according to Fortune magazine, Scott Purcell, founder and CEO of the Web3 trust company Fortress Trust, stated that Fortress Trust lost between $12 million and $15 million in cryptocurrency during a recent hacking incident before being acquired by Ripple, with most of the loss in Bitcoin and a small amount of USDC and USDT stolen.Previously, Fortress Trust did not acknowledge the loss of funds, and on September 7, it disclosed that four Fortress clients were affected by a breach of a third-party vendor's cloud tools, stating that the affected accounts had been fully restored. On September 8, Ripple announced the acquisition of Fortress Trust. The acquisition includes compensation for user funds lost in the hacking incident. Scott Purcell indicated that the fault for the security breach lies with the third-party vendor, not Fortress Trust or the company's custody partners Fireblocks and BitGo.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Ripple has compensated the clients of Fortress, which it acquired, for their losses, and this compensation was part of the acquisition agreement.The acquisition deal still requires regulatory and due diligence approval, while Ripple stated that it plans to continue investing in Fortress and its FortressPay service, which will utilize Ripple's payment technology.