ChainCatcher message, to celebrate the global launch of HSK, HashKey Global proudly introduces the HSK Mega Launchpool event, providing HSK holders with an exclusive prize pool worth millions of dollars.Users can stake HSK and simultaneously earn rewards in three tokens: HSK, ALEO, and KAIA, with a mining period of up to 30 days. The page will go live on November 27, 2024, at 16:00 (UTC+8), with staking starting from November 28 at 16:00 (UTC+8), and earnings will be calculated from 17:00 (UTC+8) on the same day.The total staking cap for this event is 15,000,000 HSK. Users can participate after completing KYC verification, with a staking range from a minimum of 1 HSK to a maximum of 500,000 HSK. During the event, the prize pool will distribute ALEO and KAIA rewards daily, while HSK rewards will be distributed uniformly after the event ends, allowing users to unlock more value with triple rewards.

ChainCatcher news, Elon Musk has offered investors who supported his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter (now named X) a 25% stake in xAI. xAI was founded last year with the aim of competing with companies like OpenAI and Anthropic.Insiders revealed that xAI is set to complete a new round of $5 billion financing as early as Wednesday, with its valuation doubling in just six months to reach $50 billion. By the end of this week's financing, xAI will have raised approximately $11 billion in total to cover the massive expenses required to build AI models and one of the largest supercomputer clusters in the world.This means that, due to the significant increase in the startup's value, some of Musk's supporters can profit handsomely from their stakes in xAI, while these supporters faced losses of billions of dollars during his acquisition of Twitter. Beneficiaries as investors in Musk's two companies include Fidelity, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, and Silicon Valley venture capital firms Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

ChainCatcher news, perpetual contract DEX KiloEx collaborates with First Digital to provide at least 15% annual yield for FDUSD stakers. Users can purchase FDUSD using USDT from Binance and withdraw it to the opBNB chain, or lend FDUSD on the opBNB chain through the Venus lending protocol and deposit it into the KiloEx Hybrid Vault to earn returns.It is reported that KiloEx is a leading perpetual contract DEX on the BNB Chain, opBNB Chain, and Manta, supported by institutions such as Binance Labs, Foresight Ventures, and Manta Foundation.

ChainCatcher news, according to sources cited by Bloomberg Terminal, Cantor will acquire approximately 5% ownership interest in Tether.

ChainCatcher news, Bitget is about to launch the Launchpool project Zircuit (ZRC), with a total prize pool of 9,125,000 ZRC. The locking period is open from November 25, 18:00 to November 30, 18:00 (UTC+8).This round of Launchpool opens two locking pools, details are as follows:BGB Locking PoolRegular user staking limit: 20,000 BGBVIP user staking limit: 50,000 BGBTotal prize pool: 8,750,000 ZRCUSDT Locking Pool (exclusive for new users)Staking limit: 2,000 USDTTotal prize pool: 375,000 ZRC

ChainCatcher news, according to Lookonchain monitoring, a certain whale bought 100,000 SOL within 2 days and staked them.This whale currently holds 231,919 SOL (55.58 million USD).

ChainCatcher news, Slow Mist founder Yu Xian posted on X stating that a user encountered a phishing attack with a wallet address similar to their own, mistakenly transferring 129 million USDT to the phishing address. However, the phishing gang returned 90% of the amount within less than an hour, and then after more than 4 hours, they returned the remaining 10% as well.

ChainCatcher news, according to monitoring by The Data Nerd, a whale (0x651) exchanged 3,172 mETH (8.35 million USD) for 2,172 cmETH the day after the mETH Protocol launched cmETH. Three days later, it staked 2,000 cmETH (5.22 million USD) on the cmETH staking platform TreeHouse, from which it can earn EigenLayer, Symbotic and Karak points, Veda points, 20X Powder, and future AVS rewards.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bitcoin.com, the full-chain liquidity asset protocol StakeStone announced the completion of a $22 million financing round led by Polychain Capital. This financing also includes strategic investments from Binance Labs and OKX Ventures, with the seed round led by SevenX and participation from Nomad Capital, HashKey Capital, HashKey Cloud, Amber Group, Coinsummer, Bankless Ventures, DAO5, Symbolic Capital, Arcane Group, Quantstamp, and others. This financing will drive StakeStone to achieve accelerated growth while expanding its product services and strengthening its influence in key markets.StakeStone is committed to building the first liquidity ETH/BTC asset standard based on a highly scalable staking network, which supports a risk-free consensus layer for various native assets. With the support of this financing round, StakeStone has also launched its liquidity BTC products, including liquidity index BTC ------ SBTC and interest-bearing liquidity BTC ------ STONEBTC, to enhance the application of native BTC in the EVM ecosystem and other blockchain networks. StakeStone aims to drive real applications by providing high-utilization liquidity, empowering ecosystem partners and DeFi protocols such as Berachain, Movement Labs, Monad, Plume Network, Corn, Pendle, and AAVE DAO.StakeStone will also launch payment products, providing flexible savings account features based on its interest-bearing liquidity ETH asset STONE, while offering a "buy now, pay later" (BNPL) option to bring greater transaction flexibility to users. Leveraging the real-time processing capabilities of MegaETH, this product aims to establish a sustainable model that drives real-world applications and supports large-scale adoption."We are very happy to collaborate with the world's leading crypto funds to build a new generation of full-chain liquidity infrastructure," said Charles K, co-founder of StakeStone. "Their expertise and support are crucial for our ongoing innovation and the global adoption of our products. At the same time, through this financing, we are committed to bringing decentralized finance into the real world. Together with the next generation of high-performance blockchain networks, we aim to increase the number of users served from hundreds of thousands to tens of millions or even hundreds of millions through RWAFi and PayFi, pushing the crypto industry into the era of super applications."

ChainCatcher news, Bitget is about to launch the Launchpool project peaq network (PEAQ), with a total prize pool of 12,125,000 PEAQ. The lock-up period is open from November 12, 17:00 to November 19, 17:00 (UTC+8).This round of Launchpool has two lock-up pools available, details are as follows:BGB Lock-up PoolRegular user staking range: 5-20,000 BGBVIP user staking range: 5-50,000 BGBTotal prize pool: 10,250,000 PEAQUSDT Lock-up Pool (exclusive for new users)Staking range: 5-2,000 USDTTotal prize pool: 1,875,000 PEAQ

ChainCatcher message, the user who mistakenly transferred 7912 ezETH to a contract address, 2024.qklpj.eth, has issued a bounty announcement: "Urgent request for help, a large amount of funds has been lost in a contract, and immediate assistance is needed to recover it. A reward of 10% will be provided upon successful recovery of the funds, which is approximately $2.5 million at current prices."According to previous reports, the address 2024.qklpj.eth seems to have mistakenly transferred 7912 ezETH to a transit contract address, resulting in the funds being locked and unable to be withdrawn. This address transferred 5477 ezETH to the multi-signature address 0x5E6...A1c19, likely intending to write a smart contract to quickly grab the redemption quota, and this portion of funds has been normally withdrawn in batches. One of the transactions even went directly into the transit contract 0xe9a...696C4 (marked by Arkham as CoboSafeAccount), which cannot be transferred or upgraded.

ChainCatcher news, according to the Financial Times citing informed sources, BlackRock is in preliminary discussions with Millennium Management about a strategic partnership that could allow the world's largest asset management company to acquire a stake in this highly profitable hedge fund management firm.Although any stake may be small, this potential collaboration reflects BlackRock's pursuit of expanding into the alternative investment space, while also showing that Millennium's 76-year-old founder, Izzy Englander, is continuing to grow and diversify his business.Informed sources indicate that negotiations are still in the early stages and may not result in an agreement. If BlackRock does indeed acquire a stake in Millennium, it would mark the first time in 35 years that Englander has accepted external investment into Millennium's management company.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, Zhao Changpeng reflected on his forced departure from Binance and his four-month imprisonment during an interview. During that time, he passed the time by exercising, writing a book, and discussing cryptocurrency with his cellmates. CZ stated, "I feel like I don’t want to go back to being the CEO of Binance. I have led the company for seven years. I really enjoy this job. Although it is a heavy workload. But I think that chapter is over."In addition, Zhao Changpeng mentioned that he even received offers to sell his stake in the exchange—these stakes constitute a large part of his personal net worth, but he refused to disclose who the buyer was or the price.Zhao Changpeng declined to comment on the U.S. elections but expressed satisfaction with the direction of X (formerly Twitter).Zhao Changpeng stated, "I think after Musk took over, Twitter has developed much faster. It has launched new features, and the pace of change has accelerated significantly. I’m not too worried about the fluctuations in investment value. We are long-term investors."

ChainCatcher news, according to Cryptonews, a Bitcoin mining scam gang in South Korea was caught by the police after mistakenly targeting a detective as part of their "high-yield investment crypto scam." In April this year, a detective from the Gyeonggi Southern Provincial Police's Mobile Crime Investigation Unit received a scam call from the gang and pretended to fall for the scam, providing bank account information and other details to assist in the investigation. The police subsequently tracked down the organization's "headquarters" located in Incheon using this information.A total of 81 people were arrested in this operation, including individuals suspected of purchasing leaked personal data. The police pointed out that the gang also used fake SIM cards to carry out the scams. On November 6, the Mobile Crime Investigation Unit announced the detention of 9 individuals, including the gang's "leader," while the remaining 7 were granted bail after being charged with similar offenses.

According to ChainCatcher's message, on-chain analyst Yu Jin monitored that in the past hour, F2Pool co-founder and stakefish founder @satofishi withdrew 9,480 ETH (23.13 million USD) from Binance, and then deposited 6,400 ETH into Ethereum staking through StakeFish. He currently holds 128,000 ETH (312.89 million USD) through two addresses.

ChainCatcher news, according to Coindesk, a new academic paper published by the crypto research firm Exponential Science indicates that a complete ban on Bitcoin mining in certain jurisdictions could actually lead to an increase in the overall carbon emissions of the industry, as affected miners may relocate to new areas that rely on fossil fuel-based grids. Bans in the U.S. and Europe typically worsen the situation, while the ban in Kazakhstan has a positive impact on emissions.

ChainCatcher message, Zircuit posted on social media that the Zircuit Fairdrop is now open to Eigenlayer (EIGEN) holders and stakers. This event will allocate 2% of the total supply of ZRC tokens, and all eligible wallet addresses will receive the same rewards (regardless of the amount staked). In addition, the official announcement stated that there will be future airdrops of ZRC tokens to EIGEN holders on trading platforms.

ChainCatcher message, according to the official news from Orderly Network, the total amount of staked Order tokens has exceeded 80 million, with a staking APR of 22%.According to RootData, Orderly Network is a liquidity platform built on the Near protocol, relying on smart contracts for peer-to-peer trading and providing users with risk management and shared asset pools.

ChainCatcher news, Solana ecological liquid staking protocol Jito announced on X that it has reached the restaking deposit limit ($25 million), and the subsequent deposit limit will be increased. Users are advised to pay attention to the phase two announcement or any potential user withdrawals that may free up deposit space.Previously reported yesterday, Solana ecological liquid staking protocol Jito announced that it has opened restaking deposits, accepting assets including SOL and SOL LST, with an initial deposit limit of 147,000 SOL.