ChainCatcher message, Worldcoin announced: "Shortly after the launch of Worldcoin in July 2023, the Worldcoin Foundation introduced a WLD token reservation mechanism, allowing users who have not yet been verified to reserve WLD tokens for redemption at a later date. This is to enable as many people as possible to participate in Worldcoin, regardless of whether the orb device is available."The announcement further stated that the original deadline for claiming this portion of tokens was July 31, and it has now been extended by one year to July 31, 2025.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Animoca Brands stated in its latest unaudited financial disclosure that it holds $558 million in digital assets on its balance sheet, including $291 million in cash and stablecoins.The company noted that this financial data does not include the value of the company's approximately 400 minority equity investments in Web3 companies, which are currently undergoing valuation work.Animoca Brands stated that the off-balance-sheet token reserves of "all Animoca Brands Web3 subsidiaries" are approximately $1.8 billion, which includes about $1.3 billion in liquid tokens and $542 million in low-liquid tokens. Animoca Brands has multiple subsidiaries, including the metaverse platform The Sandbox.

ChainCatcher news, GAMEE Token tweeted that the GMEE token contract on Polygon was accessed without authorization via GitLab a few hours ago, resulting in the theft of 600 million GMEE tokens. The attacker then exchanged the tokens for Ethereum and MATIC.The official statement indicates that the vulnerability only affected the proprietary team token reserves, and no community-owned assets were stolen. The team has currently blocked all unauthorized access to the token contract.

ChainCatcher news, a spokesperson told Bloomberg that Binance has now created a partially automated process to ensure that B-Token (the issued token reserves) is "always transparently supported" by a system that only allows new tokens to be minted after collateral is added to the corresponding wallet.It is reported that Binance admitted last month to issues with reserve tokens, where reserves were mixed with other customer funds, and there were even cases of missing funds. Binance has decided to make its new process partially rather than fully automated to limit security risks. (Bloomberg)

ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, Binance admitted to mistakenly storing part of the B-Token (Binance-peg token) reserves together with customer funds in the same wallet (marked as "Binance 8").A Binance spokesperson responded that Binance is aware of this mistake and is in the process of transferring these assets to a dedicated collateral wallet. Additionally, all customer assets are still supported 1:1, and this incident was due to past operational oversights by Binance. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, a Binance spokesperson stated via email to Bloomberg in response to questions about recent fund outflows and concerns over transparency, "Binance's user assets are 1:1 backed, and Binance's capital structure is debt-free. We maintain hot wallet balances to ensure we always have enough funds to meet withdrawal requests, and we will recharge the hot wallet balances accordingly. We are working with Mazars to share all relevant financial information with them so they can verify the accuracy of all the data we share and the process by which we extract the data. We are working to release updates on the reserves of more tokens as soon as possible." (source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, Binance has appointed accounting giant Mazars to verify its token reserves. A Binance spokesperson confirmed in an email: "Mazars is reviewing all the information we have publicly shared about reserve proof so far and will verify future updates and tokens. The first verification update for BTC will be completed this week."It is reported that Mazars is a global accounting firm headquartered in Paris, France, and its U.S. division, Mazars USA LLP, has worked for former U.S. President Trump's company. Previously, Binance released a Merkle tree proof of BTC asset reserves, which showed from the first batch of audit results that the current BTC on-chain reserve is 582,485.9302 BTC, the net user balance is 575,742.4228 BTC, and the reserve ratio is 101%. (Bloomberg)