ChainCatcher message, according to Unisat Explorer data, the Fractal Bitcoin mainnet block height has reached 21000, ordinal activation has been carried out, supporting the inscription of Fractal BRC20 assets.

ChainCatcher message, Terra tweeted that the Terra chain briefly halted at block height 11430400, during which no transactions will be processed. Terra will work with validators on Terra (phoenix-1) and subsequently apply an emergency patch to fix the suspected vulnerability.

ChainCatcher message, mempool data shows that about an hour ago, miners mined an empty block at Bitcoin height 847280 (i.e., the block only contains the block reward coinbase transaction).Note: Miners package empty blocks for economic reasons. To fully utilize this time for mining and avoid conflicts with transactions packed in the parent block, miners cannot fill the block with transactions.

ChainCatcher news, according to BTC.com data, the Bitcoin mining difficulty experienced an adjustment at block height 842,688 (2024-05-09 19:00:14), with the mining difficulty decreased by 5.6%, dropping to 83.15 T, marking the largest decline since December 2022.

ChainCatcher news, the NFT project CyberKongz announced that the Prometheans snapshot will take place at block height 841,269. Users must hold their Promethean before this block is mined to be eligible for the DECENTRALIZED airdrop.It is reported that the airdrop distribution will be based on each Promethean rather than per wallet, so users do not need to move or separate their Prometheans.

ChainCatcher news, Layer 2 scaling solution Metis announced that the second phase of its decentralized sequencer upgrade has officially gone live through a hard fork at block height 16500000. This upgrade mainly introduces new features such as multiple transactions within a block, a transaction pool, and sequencer mining.In this upgrade, Metis has increased the number of transactions that a single block can contain from 1 to multiple, and has fixed the transaction confirmation time to 2 seconds. A transaction pool has also been introduced to cache pending transactions. These two improvements will significantly enhance network throughput and reduce block production costs.Additionally, this upgrade introduces a sequencer mining mechanism aimed at better coordinating the incentives of all participants in the network. Sequencer nodes will receive METIS token rewards for sorting, packaging, and submitting transactions to the Ethereum mainnet. Users can stake METIS tokens to receive liquid staking tokens as a receipt, which can be used in other DeFi protocols.Currently, the Metis community has selected Artemis Finance and Enki Protocol as the two liquid staking service providers for the Alpha phase through the CEG mechanism. Users can now participate in staking mining through Artemis, and Enki will also launch on the mainnet soon.In the coming year, sequencer nodes will receive 20% of the mining rewards, and related DeFi products such as DEX liquidity pools and lending pools are expected to provide deeper use cases for METIS staking token holders. Metis will also establish strategic partnerships with several crypto institutions to ensure the full decentralization and high participation of its decentralized sequencer.

ChainCatcher news, Buoyant Capital announced on platform X that Rune 9 LOBO•THE•WOLF•PUP will airdrop LOBO to Rune Doors and Runestone holders, with the snapshot taking place at block height 840,574. Each Rune Doors will receive an airdrop of 367,500 LOBO, each Runestone will receive an airdrop of 102,772 LOBO, and each Pair will receive an airdrop of 206,084 LOBO.It is reported that Rune 9 LOBO•THE•WOLF•PUP will be fully airdropped to Runestone and Rune Door holders, deployed by Buoyant Capital.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, the Bitcoin Layer2 network Stacks has begun the Nakamoto upgrade at block height 840360. This upgrade aims to address congestion issues and will be fully activated in May.It is reported that the Nakamoto upgrade will separate Stacks' block production schedule from Bitcoin's and will introduce a new method of Stacks block production, updating its proof-of-transfer consensus algorithm.

ChainCatcher message, Runestone initiator Leonidas posted on social media that the snapshot will be taken at block height 840,269 (approximately 27 hours later), and each Runestone NFT will receive 889,806 DOG•GO•TO•THE•MOON runes (Rune No. 3). Holding multiple Runestones in a single address will not affect the amount of airdrop received.

ChainCatcher news, according to OKLink data, Bitcoin completed its fourth halving at block height 840,000 on April 20 at 8:11 AM Beijing time. The price of Bitcoin at the time of halving was $63,734. After the halving, the BTC block reward was reduced from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC.It is reported that a block halving refers to the process of reducing the amount of digital currency produced in a unit of time, mainly achieved by lowering the block reward. So far, the Bitcoin network has experienced three halvings in 2012, 2016, and 2020.

ChainCatcher news, according to BTC.com data, the Bitcoin mining difficulty experienced an adjustment at block height 838,656 (2024-04-11 05:17:33), with the mining difficulty increasing by 3.92% to 86.39 T, setting a new historical high.Currently, the average network hash rate is 631.69 EH/s.

ChainCatcher news, according to mempool data, Bitcoin miners received a reward of 8.595 BTC at block height 837090.It is reported that the gas fee was 2.345 BTC, which is more than ten times the usual value.

ChainCatcher news, according to BTC.com data, the current block height is only 36 days away from the Bitcoin halving time, which is expected to occur on April 19, 2024. The remaining number of blocks until the halving is 5412, and the current price of BTC is 73119 USD.

ChainCatcher message, Mempool data shows that at Bitcoin block height 833061, an empty block was mined, which only contained a transaction for the block reward Coinbase, and occurred just 7 seconds after the previous block. Mining an empty block is not common; generally, miners prefer to package transactions to earn transaction fees and incentives. This situation may be due to network congestion or other technical issues.

ChainCatcher news, according to BTC.com data, the Bitcoin mining difficulty experienced an adjustment at block height 832,608 (2024-03-01 08:45:37), with a decrease of 2.91% to 79.35 T. The current average network hash rate is 582.28 EH/s.

ChainCatcher news, according to official information, Klaytn V1.12.1 has been released. Klaytn v1.12.1 includes bug fixes and configuration for the Cypress mainnet hard fork block number. These hard forks have been applied to the Baobab testnet. This version contains two different hard forks. The first corresponds to the functionality of the Ethereum Cancun hard fork, and the second is an optional hard fork that implements Randao on-chain randomness.The hard fork for the Cypress mainnet will take place at block height 147534000 (expected time: March 4, 10:00 AM UTC+9). Public network operators can enable the rpc.gascap configuration to reduce the load caused by a large number of RPC calls. It is recommended to add the -rpc.gascap 300000000 (300mil gas) flag, but an appropriate value should be chosen based on the capacity of the node.

ChainCatcher news, according to BTC.com data, the Bitcoin mining difficulty experienced an adjustment at block height 826,560, with the mining difficulty decreased by 3.90% to 70.34 T.

According to ChainCatcher news and data from BTC.com, there are currently less than 100 days remaining until the next Bitcoin halving. Since halving occurs every 210,000 blocks, the next Bitcoin halving is expected to take place in April 2024 when the block height reaches 840,000, at which point the block reward will decrease from 6.25 BTC to 3.125 BTC.

ChainCatcher news, according to BTC.com data, the Bitcoin mining difficulty underwent an adjustment at block height 820512, with a decrease of 0.96% to 67.31 T. The current average network hash rate is 484.726 EH/s.