ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, former Ethiopian Prime Minister Tamrat Admassu has joined the advisory team of the blockchain company Kula.Kula is currently leveraging blockchain-based governance to drive innovation in the real-world asset industry, aiming to combine smart contract automation with real-world accountability to manage real-world commodity projects.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Mantra has announced the destruction of 150 million OM tokens belonging to the team. The official statement indicates that this move aims to rebuild trust while demonstrating a strong commitment to building a credible, accessible, and inclusive financial ecosystem through tokenization.In addition, MANTRA is in ongoing communication with key ecosystem partners to implement an additional destruction of 150 million OM tokens.

ChainCatcher news, MANTRA co-founder JP Mullin stated on social media that over 91% of the circulating supply of MANTRA is issued on Ethereum and has been in circulation for nearly 5 years, with 90% of the circulating supply never being controlled by the team.

ChainCatcher message, after the Binance security team assisted in recovering the stolen funds from KiloEx, some community members suggested that Binance disclose specific support details regarding the incident to enhance community trust in the ecological security. In response, Zhao Changpeng stated: "Some details in the middle can help with the handling of future security incidents; if everything is fully disclosed, hackers might learn to avoid them. We must respect the opinions of all parties involved. Everything else should be transparent."

ChainCatcher news, Du Jun, co-founder of ABCDE, stated on social media that ABCDE has officially ceased new project investments and suspended the fundraising plan for the second phase of its fund. The original team will continue to be responsible for post-investment support and exit arrangements for existing projects, ensuring that commitments to entrepreneurs and LPs are fulfilled seriously.His personal work focus will also gradually shift from financial investments in the primary market to a strategy-led approach combined with deep incubation, with a greater emphasis on industrial synergy and long-term value creation.Du Jun added that he has launched a new incubator brand, Vernal, and will announce the incubator shareholders and incubation rules, as well as the first batch of incubated projects in May. In May, he will also release the first buying list, detailing how much was bought and the reasons for the purchases.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst Ember (@EmberCN), the MELANIA project team has recently continued to sell tokens by adding unilateral liquidity. In the past 7 hours, the project team has exchanged 2.95 million MELANIA for 9,009 SOL (approximately 1.2 million USD) through the Meteora platform.In the past month, the project team has sold a total of 23.45 million MELANIA, obtaining 110,000 SOL (approximately 14.75 million USD). In the last 3 days, the project team has transferred 7.643 million MELANIA (approximately 3.21 million USD) from the liquidity pool and community addresses, and sold it through the MELANIA/SOL trading pair on the Meteora platform.

ChainCatcher news, Roam officially launches the enterprise version of eSIM, providing a complete set of seamless, efficient, and flexible global data connectivity solutions for various teams, especially for Web3 conference practitioners. Compared to traditional international roaming packages, Roam's enterprise eSIM not only saves over 80% in cost expenditures but also offers a unified enterprise management account, supporting backend custom member access. Managers can monitor data usage in real-time and set spending limits, effectively managing budgets and controlling costs. Flexible payment methods include traditional credit cards and cryptocurrencies, with exclusive discounts for payments made with $ROAM. The enterprise eSIM allows users to activate in over 180 countries with one click, no need to change SIM cards, connect upon arrival, completely eliminating high roaming fees and issues like data expiration or wastage, and flexibly adapting to various work scenarios.Roam's enterprise eSIM is a global, low-threshold, and highly flexible digital mobile communication solution tailored for international teams, addressing comprehensive issues in the industry such as remote collaboration, global mobility, cost control, and privacy protection. It is the ideal choice for Web3 project teams, cross-border content creators, and technology developers engaged in multinational collaboration.

ChainCatcher message, Mantra released a statement regarding the significant unexpected drop in the price of the OM token, which stated: the MANTRA team has not engaged in any selling activities. 100% of the funds from the MANTRA mainnet OM team and advisory team remain locked, while the ERC-20 tokens are in public circulation and not controlled by the team. Currently, there are 77.5 million OM tokens in circulation, with over 200,000 mainnet OM wallets.The initial forced liquidation sell-off caused downward price pressure, which triggered automatic liquidation events for leveraged positions collateralized by OM on various exchanges. The subsequent liquidations and collateral seizures created additional downward sell-off pressure, with some significant OM traders being liquidated by centralized exchanges.MANTRA will release detailed information on the OM Token support plan, which will include a buyback and supply destruction plan for OM tokens. MANTRA CEO John Patrick Mullin has publicly committed to destroying the tokens allocated to his team.

ChainCatcher news, today AB DAO announced the official launch of a joint market plan with the world's second-largest digital asset trading platform Bitget, introducing a dual incentive event with a total prize pool of 213,307,000 $AB (approximately 2.6 million USD) around the AB TGE (Token Generation Event) to accelerate ecosystem launch.Event 1: PoolX Locked Mining: Stake AB and BGB to receive AB airdropStaking period: April 16, 2025, 10:00 -- April 30, 2025, 10:00 (UTC+8)Total airdrop amount: 135,173,000 $ABEvent 2: CandyBomb Airdrop: Trade AB or BGB to win airdropEvent period: April 16, 2025, 10:00 -- April 23, 2025, 10:00 (UTC+8)Total airdrop amount: 78,134,000 $ABIn addition, AB DAO and Bitget will carry out collaborative promotion in global markets, covering key regions such as Southeast Asia, Europe, America, and the Middle East, further expanding their global influence in the Web3 field. AB DAO will continue to expand trading platforms and ecological partners, accelerating the construction of an open, transparent, and inclusive Web3 decentralized infrastructure.

ChainCatcher message, MANTRA co-founder JP Mullin issued a statement saying that he is destroying his team tokens and will create a comprehensive burn program for the other portion of OM supply. JP Mullin added that he cannot make any statements about what impact this will have on the value of OM, but he is doing this to demonstrate consistency and long-term support for OM and MANTRA, and to build trust in the market. Members of the MANTRA team have also privately expressed support to JP Mullin.

ChainCatcher news, TRON appeared as the title sponsor at the TEAMZ Summit 2025 held in Tokyo, Japan. During the conference, TRON community ambassador Sam Elfarra delivered a keynote speech titled "The Future of Decentralized Economy - TRON Building a New Web3 Ecosystem," introducing TRON's innovative achievements in stablecoins and global payments. The circulation scale of TRON stablecoins has exceeded $70 billion, with an average of 8 million transactions per day, and the total number of global accounts recently surpassed 300 million. TRON is revolutionizing cross-border payment services by providing low-cost, fast, and borderless transfers, transforming the global financial payment system, and promoting economic growth in developing and underdeveloped regions. TRON will continue to drive the Web3 ecosystem through technological innovation, leading the future of commercial payments.

ChainCatcher news, according to monitoring by @lookonchain, the TRUMP project team removed liquidity 13 hours ago, extracting 4.6 million USDC from the pool, and then cross-chain transferred the funds to Ethereum, which has been deposited into CoinbasePrime.

According to ChainCatcher news, on-chain analyst Yu Jin monitored that the MELANIA project team sold a total of 14.06 million dollars worth of MELANIA (20.5 million pieces) in the past month through liquidity addresses and community addresses by adding unilateral liquidity. The average price was approximately 0.686 dollars.

ChainCatcher news, three programmers were sentenced to three years in prison and fined 30,000 RMB each for illegally implanting a "backdoor" in the iToken wallet application to obtain users' digital wallet private keys and mnemonic phrases.According to the appraisal, the three illegally obtained a total of 27,622 mnemonic phrases and 10,203 private keys, successfully converting 19,487 digital wallet addresses. The three defendants were responsible for writing request logic code, building the backend server, and purchasing domains and encrypting private keys.The court also ruled that the three are prohibited from engaging in network security management and network operations and related work for three years after the execution of their sentences.

ChainCatcher news, Bitget has launched a new brand partnership with La Liga (LALIGA) and collaborated with Barcelona winger Raphinha to produce three themed advertisements. The videos will be released in April, focusing on Bitget's core products: Copy Trading, Launchpool, and Pre-market trading, showcasing the clever integration of sports and trading strategies.La Liga Executive Director Jorge de la Vega stated, "In football matches, the outcome often depends on a moment's judgment. Our collaboration with Bitget highlights the strong alignment in innovative thinking and strategic execution between us, both on the field and in the trading market."As the sports industry gradually embraces digital innovation, emerging technologies like Web3 are increasingly being integrated into the sports sector. Bitget has previously partnered with football legend Messi and the Italian club Juventus. This collaboration with La Liga will further promote the application and popularization of cryptocurrency technology in the sports field, continuously exploring more possibilities for the integration of competitive sports and Web3.

ChainCatcher news, investor Shorooq Partners issued a statement clarifying: the decline was not due to a hacker attack or team sell-off, but triggered by large-scale forced liquidations, which subsequently led to panic selling during low liquidity periods. Shorooq emphasized that its position as a long-term equity investor remains unchanged and publicly disclosed relevant wallet addresses to prove transparency. Some analyses pointed out that this crash was caused by leverage requirements and forced changes at certain levels, while the lack of decentralized exchange market makers exacerbated the issue.Earlier news indicated that before the sharp drop in the price of OM, a wallet suspected to belong to Shorooq Partners, an investment firm in the Middle East, received a transfer of 2 million OM.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bitcoin.com, criminals in Pinellas County, Florida, are using fake security software McAfee pop-ups to deceive local residents by gaining unauthorized remote access to personal computers. Once they gain control, the scammers manipulate victims into transferring money through Bitcoin ATMs, purchasing gold bars, or withdrawing large amounts of cash, which are then picked up by couriers. A recent incident resulted in economic losses exceeding $530,000.The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office warns residents not to disclose sensitive information online or over the phone and urges residents to report any suspicious interactions. Sheriff's office officials emphasize the need to remain vigilant and state, "We advise citizens not to disclose personal or account information over the phone or computer."

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the OM token of the Layer 1 blockchain project MANTRA, which focuses on real-world assets (RWA), dropped by about 10% between 01:20 and 02:20 Beijing time today, and then suddenly plummeted from the then price of $5.21 to about $0.50 (as of the time of this media's report), experiencing a 90% drop in just 90 minutes. Before the project's public Telegram group became inaccessible, community leader Dustin McDaniel downplayed the accusations of team sell-offs, stating that he was not aware of the situation. At 04:51, MANTRA's X account updated that the crash was triggered by reckless liquidations and was unrelated to the project itself. Co-founder John Patrick Mullin mentioned that large OM investors faced massive forced liquidations on CEX and stated that they were addressing the issue.Previously, MANTRA had been accused of controlling a large portion of the token's circulating supply in an attempt to manipulate the token price. In response, Mullin stated, "The OM token has been in circulation since August 2020, longer than most skeptics have been in the crypto space."Some investors pointed out that DeFiLlama data shows the MANTRA protocol's TVL is only about $13 million, while its fully diluted valuation is as high as $9.5 billion, which could be a risk signal. Additionally, Insomniac, the governance lead at Castle Labs, discovered that three wallets recently transferred millions of dollars worth of OM tokens to OKX and Binance, with one wallet receiving about $36 million worth of OM tokens from Binance on March 21 and then transferring about 4.3 million tokens to OKX on Saturday, suggesting a potential sell-off.

ChainCatcher news, according to United News Network, the digital asset management platform Steaker has launched an investment plan to attract public investment in virtual currencies, allegedly illegally raising approximately NT$1.48 billion over three years. The Taipei District Prosecutor's Office has indicted Steaker and its founder Huang Wei-hsuan along with three others.In response, Steaker issued a statement clarifying that it has never engaged in any illegal activities, expressing deep disappointment over the prosecution. It stated that virtual assets are not legal tender and only provides virtual asset allocation services, without receiving any legal currency or offering exchange services, and explained the full context of the incident in the statement.