ChainCatcher news, according to Hong Kong's Ta Kung Pao, Zhu Haokang, the head of digital asset management and family wealth management at Huaxia Fund (Hong Kong), stated that to encourage mainland enterprises with investment and financing needs to raise funds in the Web3.0 industry through Hong Kong's compliant tokenized securities laws and virtual asset trading platforms, Hong Kong can take the following measures:First, Hong Kong should fully leverage its advantages as an international financial center and actively improve the legal and regulatory framework for tokenized securities.At the same time, professional institutions in Hong Kong can provide legal and financial consulting services for mainland enterprises regarding Hong Kong RWA tokenization, helping them familiarize themselves with the issuance and trading processes of tokenized securities.Finally, Hong Kong needs to establish a sound investor protection mechanism to ensure that investors' rights and interests are effectively safeguarded.

ChainCatcher news, according to @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, Wintermute and Amber Group may be market makers for the AI agent token VIRTUAL. Both major market makers have been interacting frequently since a month ago.Wintermute holds 0.31% of the total VIRTUAL tokens through the address 0xDBF...dC080, valued at approximately $1.53 million, ranking 47th in holdings. Amber Group deposited 500,000 VIRTUAL, worth about $2.13 million, into Gate exchange two hours ago.There is also an address suspected to be a market maker for Binance's new mining project PORTAL (not yet identified to a specific institution) that withdrew tokens worth $6.07 million from Bybit and currently holds 2.04 million VIRTUAL (approximately $8.05 million), making it the 38th largest holding address.

ChainCatcher news, the Cyberspace Administration of Hebei announced the results of the "Clear and Bright · Clean Internet" network ecological governance in Hebei Province for December 2024. The provincial cyberspace system investigated and dealt with 137 illegal websites; 31 accounts of internet users were penalized; among them, websites such as "Hui Shijie" and "Ai Quan She," which provided download links for mobile applications for virtual currency trading platforms, were ordered to rectify and remove illegal links according to the law.

ChainCatcher news, according to Phoenix Network, the Public Security Bureau of Neijiang City, Sichuan Province held a press conference announcing that the Neijiang police recently cracked a case of illegally obtaining computer system data, which was supervised by the Ministry of Public Security, and arrested 5 people. It is reported that the gang consists of high-end "hackers" engaged in network technology, one of whom is an employee of a large cybersecurity company. They obtained citizens' personal information by writing hacking programs to gain unauthorized access, and ultimately sold citizens' personal information on overseas websites for virtual currency, with prices reaching up to 5 yuan per piece.According to police investigations, the case involves 57 government and enterprise websites, and the gang stole 208 million pieces of citizens' personal information, including flight trajectories, diplomas, and addresses, with illegal profits exceeding 6.4 million yuan. The special investigation team seized illegal gains of over 5.6 million yuan, confiscated more than 30 sets of core code for hacking tools written by the suspects, over 10 hacking virtual machine penetration attack systems, and 270 penetration scripts. The case has now been transferred for prosecution and is currently under trial.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, the smart contract of the blockchain company Virtuals Protocol was accidentally found to have vulnerabilities by security researcher Jinu (pseudonym) during a review. Virtuals Protocol quickly released a fix and restarted its bug bounty program. On December 3, Jinu stumbled upon the issue while reviewing the contract and immediately reported it to Virtuals Protocol, only to learn that the company did not have an active bug bounty program, which meant his discovery did not qualify for a reward. According to Jinu, the Virtuals Protocol team also closed the Discord group specifically for reporting the vulnerability.In a post on the X platform, Jinu stated, "This vulnerability could impact the Virtuals ecosystem; if exploited, it would prevent the generation of AgentTokens until the contract is fixed." After making this information public on the X platform, Virtuals Protocol contacted Jinu and promptly released a fix. Despite the timely release of the fix, Virtuals Protocol has not yet announced a bug bounty reward for Jinu. In the message to the researcher, the company thanked Jinu for reporting the issue and apologized for the previous communication breakdown.

ChainCatcher news, Hong Kong stock market data shows that as of the market close, the trading volume of 6 Hong Kong virtual asset ETFs today was approximately 18.24 million HKD.Among them:Huaxia Bitcoin ETF (3042.HK) had a trading volume of 10.84 million HKD;Huaxia Ethereum ETF (3046.HK) had a trading volume of 2.58 million HKD;Harvest Bitcoin ETF (3439.HK) had a trading volume of 1.83 million HKD;Harvest Ethereum ETF (3179.HK) had a trading volume of 140,300 HKD;Bosera HashKey Bitcoin ETF (3008.HK) had a trading volume of 2.44 million HKD;Bosera HashKey Ethereum ETF (3009.HK) had a trading volume of 413,800 HKD.

ChainCatcher news, the Solana Virtual Machine SOON will launch its Alpha mainnet today. SOON is dedicated to addressing the scalability and high transaction fee issues faced by large-scale networks, especially Ethereum. By adopting Rollup technology, it aims to reduce transaction costs and increase transaction speed.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, a certain smart money transferred 850,000 VIRTUAL to Bybit 2 hours ago, worth approximately 3.82 million USD. From October to December 2024, it successively spent 531,000 USDC on-chain to purchase 1,048,000 VIRTUAL, currently making a profit of about 4.24 million USD.

ChainCatcher news, according to Xiamen Evening News, a man stole virtual currency from others and cashed out over 1.6 million yuan after incurring losses while helping a friend invest in futures. Recently, the Huli District Procuratorate in Xiamen, China, reviewed and prosecuted this theft case.In September 2021, the defendant Chen met the victim Hong through a friend's introduction. Hong entrusted Chen to help operate virtual currency investments and provided his account and login password.At the end of September 2022, Chen fabricated a story about the account being offline to trick Hong into providing various verification codes. He then successfully changed the account's login password and replaced the linked email with his own. At this point, Hong's account was under Chen's control.After that, Chen repeatedly used the excuse of the account being offline to deceive Hong into giving real-time verification codes, continuously transferring the virtual currency from Hong's account to his own. He then quickly sold these virtual currencies for a profit of over 1.6 million yuan, using all of it to repay personal debts.In May 2024, Chen voluntarily went to the police station to confess and truthfully admitted to his crimes.The Huli District Procuratorate filed a public prosecution against Chen for theft. According to Article 264 of the Criminal Law, theft of public and private property, with particularly large amounts or other particularly serious circumstances, is punishable by more than ten years of fixed-term imprisonment or life imprisonment, and may also involve fines or confiscation of property.

ChainCatcher news, GMGN market data shows that the Virtual Protocol ecosystem tokens have fallen today, including:VIRTUAL market cap currently reported at $4.58 billion, 24-hour decline of 3.02%;GAME by Virtuals (GAME) market cap currently reported at $290 million, 24-hour decline of 21.8%;Luna by Virtuals (LUNA) market cap currently reported at $130 million, 24-hour decline of 19.2%;VaderAI by Virtuals (VADER) market cap reported at $120 million, 24-hour decline of 15.6%;sekoia by Virtuals (SEKOIA) market cap reported at $35 million, 24-hour decline of 15.1%.

ChainCatcher news, according to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, DeFiance Capital transferred 500,000 VIRTUAL (2.33 million USD) to Bybit 40 minutes ago.DeFiance Capital is the leading investor in the Virtuals Protocol, having acquired 10.5 million VIRTUAL through investment in February 2024. They began selling VIRTUAL in May 2024 and have sold a total of 7.2 million VIRTUAL so far, with an average price of 1.48 USD: 2.2 million VIRTUAL sold on-chain; 5 million VIRTUAL transferred to Bybit. They currently still hold 3.3 million VIRTUAL (15.68 million USD).

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, Hong Kong stock market data shows that as of the market close, the trading volume of 6 Hong Kong virtual asset ETFs today was approximately 25.69 million HKD.Among them:Huaxia Bitcoin ETF (3042.HK) had a trading volume of 12.71 million HKD;Huaxia Ethereum ETF (3046.HK) had a trading volume of 6.46 million HKD;Harvest Bitcoin ETF (3439.HK) had a trading volume of 1.42 million HKD;Harvest Ethereum ETF (3179.HK) had a trading volume of 10.7 thousand HKD;Bosera HashKey Bitcoin ETF (3008.HK) had a trading volume of 1.80 million HKD;Bosera HashKey Ethereum ETF (3009.HK) had a trading volume of 3.29 million HKD.

ChainCatcher message, according to Lookonchain monitoring, 19 days ago a whale spent 10 million USDC to purchase 4.25 million VIRTUAL, currently valued at 21.5 million dollars, with an unrealized profit of 11.5 million dollars.

ChainCatcher news, OSL Chief Business Officer Guoliang Hao stated that a previous report by Chainalysis indicated that the digital asset usage rate in Hong Kong is 24%, which is considered moderate compared to other countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Furthermore, there has been a significant increase in Hong Kong enterprises consulting or registering with OSL for virtual asset investment services in 2024, particularly from traditional companies in sectors such as listed companies, foreign trade, family offices, trust funds, and payments.Guoliang Hao mentioned that as virtual assets are gradually accepted by global investors and mainstream markets, the Hong Kong government continues to strengthen legislative regulation in the digital asset sector. It is expected that by 2025, institutional investors' interest and investment in deploying digital assets will continue to rise, and the demand for custody, over-the-counter trading platform services, and PayFi payment financial solutions will further increase in the future.

ChainCatcher news, Xu Youxi, the president of the Financial Investment Association, stated in his New Year's address that he will promote the expansion of the digital asset market as a future growth driver for the capital market by advancing token securities legislation and virtual asset ETFs. He will also strive to innovate financial infrastructure to help financial investment companies find new growth opportunities in the digital asset market.He committed to supporting the business expansion and capability enhancement of financial investment companies, assisting large securities firms in becoming top securities companies in Asia, and promoting the expansion of comprehensive financial investment companies into overseas markets. In addition, the president also stated that he will actively promote policy reforms, including corporate payment and settlement, and support measures such as the BDC system and expanding financing channels for small and medium-sized securities companies.