ChainCatcher news, the European Banking Authority (EBA) is the European regulatory body responsible for addressing vulnerabilities in the European banking sector. It has published two sets of guidelines, which include specific guidelines for Payment Service Providers (PSP) and Crypto Asset Service Providers (CASP). The guidelines will take effect on December 30, 2025.The EBA specifically outlines the measures that PSPs and CASPs must take to comply with EU and national sanctions regimes when transferring funds or cryptocurrencies. According to the EBA, these guidelines ensure the implementation of EU and national sanctions.The EBA stated: "This guideline clarifies how the sanctions policy and procedures interact with the broader governance and risk management framework of financial institutions to avoid operational and legal risks for financial institutions and ensure the effective implementation of sanctions."

ChainCatcher news, according to Protos, the New York City Dog Mayor election has recently been disrupted by cryptocurrency speculators, leading to the withdrawal of a popular candidate. It is reported that holders of a meme coin named BERT used improper means to campaign for the candidate dog Bertram while smearing other contenders, intending to drive up the token price.The owner of candidate dog Enzo, Olivia Caputo, announced her withdrawal on social media, stating that the competition has devolved into a "catalyst for spreading hate, negative emotions, and violent threats." Caputo accused BERT coin supporters of inducing votes through payments and giveaways, suggesting in group chats that this was a "pump and dump" scheme.According to its website, the NYC Dog Mayor competition in New York "aims to create something fun and joyful for people during a time when many are struggling; to provide a unique opportunity for community development in New York City, and to present politics and civic engagement (this time) in a positive, educational, and engaging way."

ChainCatcher news, the Tongcheng City Anti-Fraud Center received a tip-off indicating that there was a large suspicious fund transaction related to fraud in the area. It is reported that the victim, Ms. Hu, met a "rich and handsome" boyfriend named Zhang online, who claimed to be working in virtual currency investment abroad, and asked her to prepare cash to hand over to a "client manager." Fortunately, the police of Tongcheng City discovered and successfully intercepted the situation in time. Upon investigation, the so-called "client manager" was actually a "cash handler" recruited by an overseas fraud group. Currently, the suspect has been criminally detained in accordance with the law for suspected fraud, and the 730,000 yuan defrauded funds have all been returned to the victim. The case is under further investigation. (Anqing Voice WeChat Official Account)

ChainCatcher message, the official X account of the dogwifhat (WIF) community is suspected to be hacked. This account is currently promoting other suspicious meme tokens, please be cautious of phishing risks.

ChainCatcher news, the Financial Information Unit (FIU) of the South Korean Financial Services Commission has discovered at least 500,000 suspected violations of customer identity verification (KYC) obligations during its review of the business renewal of the virtual asset exchange Upbit. The FIU is examining the legality of these cases one by one.The violations found during this review include some accounts that registered using vague identification documents, which may be used for money laundering or other illegal activities. According to the Act on Reporting and Using Specified Financial Transaction Information, virtual asset exchanges are required to renew their licenses every three years, and for violations of customer identity verification obligations, each case may be fined up to 100 million won. The FIU's review of Upbit is still ongoing.KYC is a necessary procedure under anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorism financing (CTF) requirements, and exchanges must ensure that users submit valid identification and complete identity verification.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, OKX Cryptopedia has launched a special event "Meme Arena," with the first phase featuring the Hippo trading competition currently underway.During the event, users who trade more than 10 USDT on the Sui chain in the OKX Web3 trading section can participate in sharing a reward of Hippo tokens worth 100K USDT.It is reported that Sudeng (Hippo) is a cute hippo-themed meme coin project launched by the community and has collaborated with several leading SUI network projects.

ChainCatcher news, according to BeInCrypto, Indian police have arrested West Bengal resident SK Masud Alam for allegedly participating in the WazirX hacking incident. Earlier this year, the hacking incident resulted in a loss of over $230 million in cryptocurrency, leaving customers unable to withdraw their funds.Alam is accused of creating a fake account under the alias Souvik Mondal and selling that account to hackers via Telegram. The account was later used to conduct illegal operations against the cryptocurrency exchange WazirX.

ChainCatcher news, Bloomberg's compiled data shows that since Trump's re-election as president, the stock price of Destiny Tech100 Inc. (DXYZ) has surged by about 280% in the past week. The company holds shares in private market unicorns such as SpaceX and Sam Altman's OpenAI. This surge has triggered multiple fluctuations, with the stock rising 38% after a 64% jump last Friday. Meanwhile, in the context of a general rise in cryptocurrencies, Dogecoin rose nearly 20% on Monday.Aside from this closed-end fund, almost everything related to Musk's vast business empire is in high demand. Although it is well known that Trump is skeptical about electric vehicles, Tesla's stock price increased by 42% within the week. The price of Dogecoin more than doubled during the same period.In fact, Trump's victory is seen as a boon for Musk's companies, as the founder actively supports the "Make America Great Again" campaign slogan. Tesla is the only publicly traded company in the Musk empire, and after experiencing a severe decline in the first four months of this year, its market value rebounded to over $1 trillion last week.

ChainCatcher live report, Mask Network founder & CEO Suji Yan, World3 co-founder Ling, SendingNetwork business development head Paulo Carlos, and Metya COO Christy attended the "DeInsight 2024" and participated in a roundtable discussion titled "Social, AIGC and Metaverse," where they conducted an in-depth discussion on popular topics such as ideal social interactions and AIGC.Suji Yan stated that the ideal cyberspace should be free and independent, with each part, each entity, and even each AI agent possessing citizenship and being treated equally. Ling believes it should at least be decentralized and privacy-protecting, while Paulo Carlos emphasized that accessibility must come first.Regarding whether there are significant breakthroughs in this round of Web3 social, the guests had differing opinions. Christy believes that the progress in social interactions has been underestimated, and he looks forward to the impact of AIGC on various aspects of daily socializing, while Paulo Carlos thinks there hasn't been much real innovation, as most are just applications that were previously attempted but failed, now gaining more adoption.On the future trends of social interactions, Suji Yan stressed that it is not good to financialize many aspects of social interactions too early. SocialFi ultimately does not serve humanity, nor does it serve our current version of ourselves or our descendants. It is more like serving a species that will evolve into a hybrid of human and AI in the coming decades. Ling also believes that in the future, AI agents could become users.Remote participation 👉Video live link: https://www.youtube.com/live/tTVcUPumPysImage live link: https://www.pailixiang.com/album_ia7637038926.html(Source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to the monitoring by Shield, there has been a large amount of fund movement on the ARB chain DeFi project DeltaPrime, suspected to be under attack again.Previous report, on September 16, according to Cyvers Alerts monitoring, the ARB chain DeFi project DeltaPrime was suspected to have been attacked, and the administrator seems to have lost the private key, resulting in a loss of about 4.5 million dollars.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, recent investor enthusiasm for the cryptocurrency industry under the leadership of elected President Trump has sparked a wave of speculation, with a series of small cryptocurrencies outperforming Bitcoin, among which Dogecoin (DOGE) has risen by about 50% in the past five days.Additionally, ADA has increased by over 60% during this period, driven by discussions from Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson about plans to collaborate with Washington lawmakers on a podcast. Meanwhile, Polygon (POL), Cosmos (ATOM), Solana (SOL), and Algorand (ALGO) have all surpassed Bitcoin's approximately 7% increase over the past five days.BTC Markets Pty CEO Caroline Bowler stated, "A rising tide lifts all boats; Bitcoin's rapid increase has affected altcoins. The entire cryptocurrency industry is expected to be a net beneficiary of the Trump administration."

ChainCatcher news, during the "DeInsight 2024" annual summit held at Devcon in Bangkok, Alliance Director Will Robinson delivered a keynote speech on "Speculation as Entertainment in Web3."Will shared that speculation as entertainment in Web3, using the development journey of the full-chain game Primodium as an example, aims for healthy game design but fails to attract the most important users; spending more time on design at the beginning makes major iterations impossible.Will Robinson stated: Cryptocurrency speculation is like horse racing, with different statuses at each stage.From the original Ethereum protocol in 2015 to the mindset of Coinbase in 2016, the ICO boom in 2017, the industry downturn from 2018-2019, the DeFi development surge in 2020, the rise of NFTs in 2021, the collapse of Terra in 2022, the rise of friend.tech as the main social network in 2023, to the popularity of meme coins in 2024.Will Robinson concluded that in 2025, the cryptocurrency industry will see better user interfaces, more fun, and external attributes or trends becoming part of cryptocurrency speculation.Live video link: https://www.youtube.com/live/tTVcUPumPysImage live link: https://www.pailixiang.com/album_ia7637038926.html

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes is suspected of purchasing ETH through Wintermute: he received 1,071.7 ETH (3.31 million USD) from Wintermute in the past 13 hours.

ChainCatcher message, Deutsche Bank stated in a report that the Bank of England released cautious signals regarding future interest rate cuts on Thursday, indicating a positive outlook for the pound in the coming months. Analyst Michael Pfizer said that the Bank of England is unlikely to cut rates in December, as it has raised its inflation expectations for 2025-26 and economic growth expectations for 2025.The Bank of England has "clearly" taken into account the UK's recent budget, which may be more expansionary in the short term than previously expected. "This suggests that the Bank of England will continue to cut rates at a much slower pace than the European Central Bank, while the growth rate of the UK economy may be much faster than that of the Eurozone."

ChainCatcher news, according to monitoring by The Data Nerd, about 4 hours ago, a multi-signature wallet suspected to belong to the Beta Finance team transferred 170 million BETA tokens to Binance, worth approximately 7.37 million USD, accounting for about 17% of its total supply.