ChainCatcher news, Franklin Templeton has officially submitted the S-1 filing for a spot Solana ETF to the U.S. SEC.

ChainCatcher news, Bitkevin, the head of IQ AI in China, posted on X that IQ AI has launched the Agent Tokenization Platform (ATP), which integrates Frax Finance and NEAR Protocol, allowing AI agents to autonomously own, trade, and manage assets on-chain.The $IQ token is the core support of ATP, with all transactions and fees paid in IQ. AI agents hold IQ trading pairs to ensure liquidity, while IQ holders govern the platform to ensure decentralization.

ChainCatcher news, Franklin Templeton has announced the launch of an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that holds both spot Bitcoin and Ethereum. The Franklin Crypto Index ETF (EZPZ) is the second cryptocurrency index ETF to enter the U.S. market, following the launch of the Nasdaq Crypto Index US ETF (NCIQ) by asset management company Hashdex on February 14.The EZPZ fund holds assets referenced by the U.S. CF Institutional Digital Asset Index. As of February 20, this index only tracks Bitcoin and Ethereum. According to CF Benchmarks data, as of February 20, the market-cap weighted index consists of approximately 87% BTC and 13% ETH.Franklin Templeton plans for the EZPZ to hold more cryptocurrencies in the future, ultimately providing U.S. investors with a one-stop crypto portfolio as the index expands.

ChainCatcher news, DeepBrain Chain founder Feng delivered a keynote speech titled "From Code to 'Autonomous Intelligent Agents': How DBC AI Public Chain Reshapes the Trillion-Dollar Human-Machine Collaboration Economy" at the "DBC Decentralized AI Ecosystem Conference・2025 Hong Kong Station." He introduced the development history of DBC, its technical characteristics, and its positioning and goals in the global AI infrastructure market, providing forecasts for the global AI infrastructure market size from 2025 to 2030, and predicting the realization of autonomous AI Agents after 2029.In addition, he emphasized DBC's potential in addressing the existing problems and challenges in the current AI field, and painted a future scenario driven by decentralized AI, highlighting its importance in promoting a fairer, more transparent, and efficient global economic system.

ChainCatcher news, EigenLayer announces the redefinition of AVS (Active Verification Service) as "Autonomous Verifiable Service".EigenLayer stated that when it first introduced the concept of Active Verification Service (AVS) in February 2023, it intended to describe how EigenLayer ensures the correctness and security of services built in a decentralized environment. Currently, there is a better way to describe what AVS represents; "active verification" describes how these services are continuously monitored and verified to ensure they are functioning properly. The two key features of the autonomous verifiable framework are: autonomy and verification. The combination of autonomy and verifiability will be EigenLayer's uniqueness.EigenLayer further added that its implementation has no technical changes, but is simply an improvement in terminology to better reflect the potential of these services.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, global asset management giant Franklin Templeton has announced the launch of the first fully tokenized U.S. Treasury fund, the Franklin OnChain U.S. Government Money Fund, in Luxembourg.The fund will be open to institutional investors in eight European countries: Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, the Netherlands, Spain, and Switzerland. Fund shares will be recorded and transferred via the Stellar network. The U.S. version of the fund has attracted over $580 million in assets since its launch in 2021.

ChainCatcher news: At the Telegram Growth Hub DemoDay, MetYa COO and co-founder Christy detailed MetYa's latest developments and future plans within the TON ecosystem.She stated that MetYa plans to deepen its development in the TON ecosystem. In addition to optimizing the Mini App experience and pushing the user base to exceed 10 million, it will further integrate DEX, payment systems, and infrastructure on the TON chain to enhance the smoothness and scalability of Web3 social products. In the future, MetYa will also introduce decentralized identity (DID) and social asset evaluation systems within the TON ecosystem to achieve verifiability of on-chain data and confirmation of user assets, empowering Web3 social interactions.In terms of AI, MetYa is developing AI Agent technology, which aims to improve intelligent matching efficiency and plans to launch features such as AI companionship and AI dating assistants to help users socialize across languages and cultures. At the same time, MetYa is exploring AI-generated content (AIGC) to provide users with personalized virtual social experiences, combined with the NFT system of the TON ecosystem.In the future, MetYa will strengthen cooperation within the TON ecosystem, planning to integrate payment solutions from the TON ecosystem to achieve seamless transactions of TON and MET. Additionally, MetYa will promote more SocialFi features, such as incentive mechanisms based on social influence and community governance, allowing users to create and gain more economic benefits through social interactions.Christy emphasized that MetYa's goal is to build a truly decentralized Web3 social network, enabling users to control data security while also gaining value returns through social interactions.

ChainCatcher news, according to official information, Newton (NEW) has officially been renamed to AB, and the exchanges HTX, MEXC, and 4E have successfully completed the trading code change from $NEW to $AB.Currently, trading, deposits, and withdrawals for the AB token have been switched on these three exchanges, and users' holdings remain unchanged, requiring no additional actions. At the same time, AB ecosystem projects such as NewSwap, NewMall, Andverse, and NewBridge will continue to operate normally. To better facilitate the transition of user experience, the NewPay wallet currently still displays as NEW, and will switch to AB after an upgrade later.

ChainCatcher news, the cryptocurrency market research firm Santiment has released a chart report: Ethereum has shown signs of a mild rebound, rising to $2,745, with gains this week exceeding most altcoins. In the long term, ETH continues to be withdrawn from exchanges to cold wallets at an astonishing rate, with 0.83% of the entire ETH supply withdrawn from exchanges in the past two weeks, leaving only 6.38% of the available supply on platforms (the lowest level since inception).Meanwhile, in February, the crypto community has shown renewed interest in Ethereum. Although ETH has underperformed significantly compared to large-cap tokens in 2024, the community has begun to anticipate a significant rebound for ETH when the entire market starts to recover.

ChainCatcher news, MetYa COO and co-founder Christy shared MetYa's innovative vision and development direction at the Wave2025 roundtable.Christy emphasized that MetYa achieves personalized matching through an innovative AI Agent model and provides real-time translation across languages, breaking down language barriers and facilitating seamless interaction among global users. MetYa's goal is to enable users to gain economic rewards through social interactions via a decentralized economic model, thus promoting the popularity and development of Web3 social platforms.Currently, MetYa has launched a Mini App in the TON ecosystem, with over 500,000 monthly active users, and plans to expand to 10 million in the future. MetYa's native token MET successfully completed its TGE in January 2025, with stable market performance.Looking ahead, Christy stated that MetYa will continue to expand its decentralized social network, launching more new features such as live streaming and video social, further enhancing user experience. At the same time, MetYa will strengthen cooperation with the Web3 ecosystem, advancing cross-chain technology and diversified economic incentive mechanisms to enhance the platform's sustainability and attractiveness.

ChainCatcher news, according to the Washington Post, two insiders revealed that the government efficiency department (DOGE) led by Musk is seeking to access the IRS system, which includes detailed financial information of every taxpayer, business, and nonprofit organization in the United States, raising deep concerns within the IRS.Under pressure from the White House, the IRS is considering signing a memorandum of understanding that would allow officials from the government efficiency department broad access to the tax agency's systems, properties, and datasets. This includes the Integrated Data Retrieval System (IDRS), which enables tax agency employees to access IRS accounts (including personal identification numbers) and banking information.

ChainCatcher news, according to official news from Coinbase, the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has reached a global partnership with the Aston Martin Aramco team, becoming its exclusive cryptocurrency partner.According to the partnership agreement, the Coinbase brand logo will appear on the head protection device and rear wing endplates of the AMR25 race car, as well as on the racing suits of drivers Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll.It is worth noting that Coinbase will fully invest in this partnership using the US dollar stablecoin USDC, while also including the Aston Martin Aramco team in the Coinbase Prime client list. This move aims to demonstrate the application potential of stablecoins in the payment sector.

ChainCatcher news, according to Chainwire, the innovative department of the crypto trading platform BingX, BingX Labs, has invested $10 million in the cross-chain liquidity infrastructure StakeStone to accelerate the development of cross-chain liquidity staking and StakingFi applications.As part of this collaboration, the $10 million fund will support the development of the StakeStone ecosystem, and both parties will explore innovative growth directions, including cross-chain asset protocols and StakingFi product integration, while expanding the practical applications of cross-chain staking technology.

ChainCatcher news, the innovation department of the cryptocurrency exchange BingX, BingX Labs, has provided $10 million in funding to the cross-chain liquidity infrastructure StakeStone to accelerate the development of cross-chain liquidity staking and StakingFi applications. As part of this collaboration, the $10 million fund will support the development of the StakeStone ecosystem, and both parties will explore innovative growth directions, including cross-chain asset protocols and StakingFi product integration, while expanding the practical applications of cross-chain staking technology.

ChainCatcher news, the cross-chain liquidity protocol Stargate tweeted that the TON mainnet has launched Stargate, allowing users to cross-chain to TON from the Stargate frontend. Yesterday, LayerZero was deployed to TON.

ChainCatcher news, DeFi oracle RedStone Oracles has released the RED token economics. The total supply of RED is 1 billion, of which 48.3% will be allocated to the ecosystem and community (10% will be used for protocol development, 28.3% will be used for ecosystem and data providers, 10% will be used for community and genesis distribution), 20% will be allocated to core builders, and 31.7% will be allocated to early supporters.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, asset management firm Franklin Templeton, with an asset management scale of $1.5 trillion, has expanded the trading of its OnChain U.S. Government Money Market Fund (FOBXX) to Solana.It is reported that FOBXX was launched in 2021, becoming the first money market fund to use a public blockchain to track transactions and ownership.