ChainCatcher message, according to Scam Sniffer's disclosure, a user lost $520,000 due to signing a malicious transaction on a fake bridging website. The scammers targeted DeFi Telegram groups, waiting for users to inquire about faster bridging solutions.

ChainCatcher message, according to Scam Sniffer monitoring, 8 hours ago a user lost EIGEN tokens worth $155,256 due to signing a phishing transaction for "increaseAllowance".

ChainCatcher message, according to @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, smart money/insider address "77AvS...LsLcq" has accumulated a profit of $2.076 million by trading HYPER tokens within 7 hours, with an investment cost of only 10 SOL (approximately $2,133), achieving a return rate of 103,019%. This address previously built a position of 22 million HYPER at a low of $0.00009694, and has now sold 83.14%, with an average selling price of $0.1253, still holding tokens worth $638,000.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, in 2024, the transaction volume settled through the Bitcoin network will exceed $19 trillion, more than double the $8.7 trillion settled by the network in 2023, reversing the trend of declining transaction volume over the past two years since 2021.According to data from Pierre Rochard, Vice President of Research at mining company Riot Platforms, Bitcoin transaction volume peaked during the bull market in 2021 at approximately $47 trillion and sharply declined in 2022 and 2023.

ChainCatcher message, Onchain Lens monitoring shows that a suspected insider's address turned $1,168 into $3.47 million through the transaction of FOCAI within 3 hours. The address purchased 123.32 million FOCAI on PumpFun for 5.39 SOL ($1,168). It then sold all FOCAI for 16,070 SOL, worth $3.47 million, realizing a profit of 2,973 times.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, the first Bitcoin genesis block (commonly known as block 0) was mined on January 3, 2009. Over the past 16 years, more than 1.13 billion transactions have been permanently recorded in approximately 800,000 blocks on the Bitcoin blockchain.As Bitcoin adoption continues to grow, the network's computational demands have also risen exponentially. The network difficulty, which is the relative difficulty of mining new blocks, has reached a new high of 1.1 trillion.ChainCatcher previously reported that the Bitcoin genesis block was mined by Satoshi Nakamoto on January 3, 2009, at 2:15:05 AM Beijing time (January 4, 2009). The block reward was 50 BTC, and as of today, it has been 16 years, with the total Bitcoin block height reaching 877566.

ChainCatcher news, HashKey Global has launched Seraph (SERAPH) in the innovation zone. Deposits will open on January 3, 2025, at 15:00 (UTC+8), spot trading will start on January 6 at 20:00 (UTC+8), and withdrawals will be available on January 7 at 20:00 (UTC+8). Deposits and withdrawals will be supported on the BSC network.To celebrate the launch of SERAPH, HashKey Global is offering a limited-time promotion: from January 3, 2025, at 15:00 to January 11 at 0:00 (UTC+8), users who make their first deposit of at least 300 SERAPH, or deposit at least 50 USDT and trade an equivalent of 50 USDT in SERAPH to complete their first spot trade, will receive a reward of 5 HSK. The total reward pool is up to 10,000 HSK, available on a first-come, first-served basis, while supplies last.

ChainCatcher message, according to Scam Sniffer monitoring, a certain VIRTUAL holder lost all tokens due to a phishing transaction of "Increase Allowance," with a loss of approximately $196,396.

ChainCatcher news, ai16z founder Shaw tweeted that the team will enable the Eliza agent to autonomously handle Bitcoin transactions. Currently, the agent can receive service payments on-chain and via L2 (Ark Protocol), make payments to other agents, and manage its Bitcoin wallet.

Chaincatcher news, announced by UXUY, incubated and invested by Binance Labs: actively supporting on-chain transactions on BNB Chain, encouraging more users to explore the on-chain ecosystem, and planning to reward on-chain traders on BNB Chain with 100 million UXUY Points ($UP).Users can participate in cryptocurrency top-ups on BNB Chain through on-chain tasks in the UXUY Telegram wallet, trading assets based on $USDT (BSC), $BNB, and completing tasks to earn super rewards in $UP. Since the launch of the UXUY Point ($UP) points system, the number of on-chain traders has continuously reached new highs, with active users of UXUY on Telegram, iOS, and Android platforms exceeding 4.5 million.UXUY founder Kevin stated: "BNB Chain has the most active on-chain ecosystem, having processed over 6.58 billion transactions since its mainnet launch, making it an excellent choice for new users to explore the on-chain ecosystem. UXUY will continue to promote user on-chain trading."

ChainCatcher news, according to Dune data, the total transaction volume of Blend, the NFT lending platform under Blur, has reached $7.28 billion, with a total of 834,989 loans. The current number of independent borrowers on the platform is 12,788, and the number of independent lenders is 4,722.

ChainCatcher news, according to official information, BNB Chain announced today that the "Zero Gas Fee Carnival" event will continue until March 31 next year to further promote the adoption and application of stablecoins. Users withdrawing stablecoins from centralized exchanges to BSC and opBNB will be exempt from gas fees. The stablecoins covered include: USDT, USDC, and FDUSD.Currently, the centralized exchanges supporting the event include: Binance, Bitget, MEXC, Bitmart, Ourbit, Flipster, Gate, etc. Wallets include Bitget Wallet, SafePal, UXUY Wallet, etc. During the event, transfers to BNB Chain via the cross-chain bridge cBridge and Meson.if will have no cross-chain fees, aiming to provide users with a smooth stablecoin transfer service.The stablecoin zero transfer fee event, which started in September 2024, contributed to 8.8% of BNB Chain's overall trading volume. Currently, the market capitalization of stablecoins on BNB Chain is nearly $5 billion, ranking third in stablecoin market capitalization.

ChainCatcher news, the U.S. Treasury Department announced on Friday that it has finalized rules requiring certain decentralized finance brokers to report the total proceeds from digital asset sales. According to a statement released by the U.S. Treasury, the new regulations require "DeFi brokers" to act like traditional brokers handling securities and are required to collect information about their users' transactions and send them 1099 forms.Brokers must send these 1099 forms to clients, which are used to report payments that typically do not come from employers, such as income outside of wages. Now, some "decentralized finance industry participants" must submit tax returns disclosing "the name and address of each customer."

ChainCatcher news, according to the announcement from the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, the "Measures for the Administration of Bank Foreign Exchange Risk Transaction Reporting (Trial)" have been issued and will take effect immediately. The "Measures" are a supporting document to the "Measures for the Administration of Bank Foreign Exchange Business (Trial)", aimed at strengthening banks' foreign exchange risk management, and early identification, early warning, and early handling of high-risk transactions such as suspected false trade, underground banks, and illegal cross-border financial activities involving virtual currencies.The main contents include: clarifying the responsibility for bank foreign exchange risk transaction reporting, requiring the establishment of a monitoring system and submission of reports; specifying the scope of information reporting, including activities suspected of illegal cross-border capital flows; clarifying the report content, such as basic information and proposed measures; and strengthening internal management measures, including internal control systems and data confidentiality management, etc.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Base's trading volume has maintained strong momentum throughout the fourth quarter, processing over 8 million transactions in a single day. Since March, the network has experienced steady growth, with transaction volume increasing from about 500,000 per day to over 7.5 million in December. Additionally, the TVL of the Base network has grown to over $3.5 billion.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, rune transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain now account for only 3-5% of the transaction volume, down from 80% at launch.

ChainCatcher news, CryptoQuant CEO Ki Young Ju stated, "Whales are accumulating Bitcoin through privacy transactions. The annual number of CoinJoin transactions has tripled over the past two years. While some attribute this surge to hackers laundering money, Chainalysis reports that this year's total hacker losses amount to $2.2 billion, which is less than 0.5% of the $377 billion in Bitcoin realized market inflows.In 2024, 1.55 million BTC flowed into accumulation addresses, mainly related to ETFs, MicroStrategy, and custodial wallets. Whales often transfer funds to emerging institutional investors through privacy transactions. Aside from the disclosed holdings, approximately 240,000 to 420,000 BTC remain with unidentified accumulators. Who are these whales?"

ChainCatcher news, the Bitcoin re-staking protocol Babylon tweeted that on December 15, during the Cap-3 mainnet staking cap period, an anonymous staker staked a total of 10,000 bitcoins in three transactions, worth over 1 billion dollars at that time. In addition, the official website shows that Babylon currently has a total stake of over 57,000 BTC (over 5.6 billion dollars).