ChainCatcher live report, Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal delivered a speech titled "The Age of Aggregation" at the TOKEN2049 conference, exploring the current state and future trends of the blockchain industry. Sandeep pointed out that although the blockchain industry has achieved some success, core issues such as scalability and interoperability still need to be addressed. He emphasized that to achieve global adoption of blockchain, it is essential to break the limitations of traditional frameworks and pursue infinite scalability and unified protocols.In his speech, Sandeep introduced Polygon's innovative attempts to solve these problems, particularly how its latest products achieve cross-chain interoperability and security guarantees by adding an additional layer of architecture. This architecture not only unifies liquidity but also allows developers to maintain full control over their projects while enjoying infinite scalability. He mentioned that Polygon's goal is to enable every application to launch its own chain without being isolated, thereby building a true value internet.Sandeep also shared Polygon's optimistic outlook for the future of the blockchain industry and called on developers to actively embrace change and work together to promote the healthy development of the industry. He stated that with continuous technological advancements and the increasingly完善 ecosystem, blockchain will play an important role in a wider range of fields, injecting new vitality into the global economy.Finally, Sandeep revealed new features and tools that Polygon is about to launch, aimed at further lowering the development threshold and enhancing user experience. These innovative initiatives will undoubtedly bring more possibilities and opportunities to the blockchain industry.

ChainCatcher news, according to official information, the OKX Web3 Runes market web version has been newly upgraded. This upgrade includes several new features such as K-line charts, aiming to simplify the process and enhance the user trading experience. Currently, the OKX Web3 Runes market can display all key information on a single screen, allowing users to perform all operations on one page; additionally, the new K-line feature supports the analysis of transactions across the entire network, providing users with the most comprehensive data analysis, further meeting the diverse needs of users.It is reported that the new version of the trading page for the OKX Web3 Runes market app is currently under testing and will be launched soon.

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized exchange Biswap has released a new strategic roadmap. The Biswap team stated that after completing important features such as the previous AMM V3, the BSW independent market, and ETH liquid staking, the next focus will be on multi-chain expansion, launching liquid staking, introducing new ecosystem projects, providing new investment tools for cryptocurrency holders, implementing a revenue-sharing system, and developing advanced trading tools.Specifically, in terms of multi-chain layout, Biswap plans to soon support Ethereum, Base, and Arbitrum networks. The team mentioned that the choice of these three networks is primarily based on Ethereum's security, Base's scalability, and Arbitrum's optimized performance.In addition, Biswap will soon launch a liquid staking feature, allowing users to maintain liquidity while staking tokens and generate additional income from staking tokens in DeFi activities. Biswap also revealed that it is developing an "extremely rare" decentralized feature, which is currently kept confidential.At the same time, Biswap will introduce a revenue-sharing model to alleviate the pressure on the BSW token and provide rewards to users. Advanced trading tools are also on the development agenda, aimed at enabling users to utilize different trading strategies more easily and efficiently.

ChainCatcher news, May 15, the decentralized derivatives trading platform dYdX announced that it will officially release the V4 software version Release 5.0 in the coming weeks, which will include two new features: "Isolated Markets" and "Isolated Margin.""Isolated Markets" refer to markets that have independent collateral pools and insurance funds, allowing the protocol to support more markets with different risk profiles. Correspondingly, "Isolated Margin" allows users to manually adjust their collateral for specific positions, providing a more intuitive way to control and understand their collateral management. dYdX stated that the new market widget will expand from about 20 markets to over 800 potential markets. Additionally, Raydium will become the first decentralized trading protocol that can query prices on the dYdX Chain as a validator.dYdX emphasizes that, given the high volatility of crypto assets, traders should carefully assess their risk tolerance before trading in "Isolated Markets" and fully understand key attributes such as the price oracle sources and spot liquidity of the relevant markets. As the sources of oracles decrease and liquidity thins, the risks in the market will also increase.

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, the encrypted asset data platform RootData has released version 2.5, allowing users to grasp market investment trends in a more multi-dimensional and visual way. The highlights of this product update are as follows:Token inflow/outflow exchange leaderboard: Users can easily view the inflow and outflow of various tokens on exchanges. Additionally, a token inflow and outflow chart has been added to provide users with a more intuitive understanding of market capital flow trends and changes;Entity 7-day holding changes: In the existing on-chain holding module, users can now track the dynamic changes in institutional holdings;Entity fund tracking: In the on-chain holding module on the detail page, users can now view the fund flow of all addresses belonging to that entity;More filtering options added to the market行情 page: The market行情 page has added more filtering options, including investment institutions, listed exchanges, unlisted exchanges, FDV range, market cap range, etc., allowing users to more flexibly filter the market indicators and information they are interested in.Previous report, RootData completed a $1.25 million seed round financing led by NLVC. While RootData continues to enrich its data products with a user-oriented approach, it is also gradually optimizing the way points are earned, launching a series of community activities based on points to reward users who have made outstanding contributions to RootData.

ChainCatcher message, Manta Network announced on the X platform that Manta Renew Paradigm V3 is now live, introducing two new features:Unlock additional benefits by burning NFTs early: Users can burn NFTs early to ensure airdrops, and tokens will be distributed according to the project's TGE;M-Stone Points (StakeStone Points) display: Users can now track M-Stone Points on the "My Portfolio" page, with M-Stone Points distributed daily at 8:05 AM.

ChainCatcher news, Scroll co-founder Sandy Peng posted on social media that 4844, DA Compression, Proof Aggregation, and more user-centric innovations will be launched on Scroll in the coming months. In addition, decentralized and on-chain interaction rewards are also coming soon.

ChainCatcher news, the Web3 social platform friend.tech tweeted that its v2 version will launch new features such as Money Club, a new points program, and custom curves.

ChainCatcher message, the aggregator project Birdeye posted on its social platform in a reverse writing manner, stating "We recommend users to bind their wallets to Birdeye, a new feature will be released, and there will be surprises soon."

ChainCatcher message, the encrypted asset data platform RootData announced the launch of new features such as the Web3 character database and the primary half market, and has completely iterated the chart page to enhance the composability of platform data, further enriching the platform's use cases and user experience.In the Web3 character database, based on the 7,000 characters and their work and educational backgrounds collected by RootData, users can view the latest career dynamics of important industry figures, as well as the universities and companies that supply the most talent to the industry.In the primary half market, RootData has built a bridge between the Web3 primary market and secondary market, aggregating the buying and selling demands of project equity/SAFT from professional institutional investors, thereby improving the efficiency of market resource allocation.On the chart page, RootData has enhanced the composability of various charts, supporting users in locating chart content based on multi-dimensional information such as time, track, and investors, and has added several charts including the regional distribution of financing.

ChainCatcher news, the NFT marketplace Magic Eden enhances its support for Polygon with several new features, including: simplified statistics and analytics, an aggregation tool that can integrate multiple marketplace listings, redesigned profile and collection pages, a tab for managing orders, bulk buy lists, real-time events, and better feature sorting. Magic Eden has also implemented royalty enforcement on its Polygon PoS marketplace and publicly released its Polygon API to allow projects to integrate marketplace functionalities.Magic Eden initially launched on Solana, and the platform added support for the Ethereum scaling network Polygon in November 2022.

ChainCatcher news, the cryptocurrency payment application Strike, built on the Bitcoin Lightning Network, announced the launch of new features such as direct deposit, wire transfer, and debit card payments. Specifically, it includes: 1. Support for wire transfers, allowing Strike customers to transfer unlimited funds and purchase any amount of Bitcoin, all of which can be withdrawn immediately; 2. Direct deposit, where users can receive any portion of their salary paid in Bitcoin through Strike; 3. Expanded supported payment methods, including debit cards and enhanced bank connection support; 4. Some customers can use Strike with their associated payment methods without needing to pay a deposit first, making Lightning payments with debit cards and sending Bitcoin to cold wallets using bank accounts, etc.

ChainCatcher news, the crypto analytics platform Nansen has announced that the Nansen 2 early access version is now live and is being gradually opened to whitelisted users.Nansen 2 is powered by artificial intelligence, providing faster, smarter, and more intuitive data analysis. It introduces a smart search feature, allowing users to simply use the Command+K key to input the desired token, wallet, and entity names, and Nansen 2 will guide users to the most relevant pages on the website. Additionally, Nansen 2 supports the creation of custom smart segments, allowing users to organize and categorize the addresses they care about most.

ChainCatcher news, according to Reuters citing informed sources, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is working with lending institutions to launch new features to promote the central bank's CBDC digital rupee. These features include allowing customers to conduct digital rupee transactions offline and linking the digital rupee with India's Unified Payments Interface (UPI). UPI is an instant real-time payment system that allows users to transfer money between multiple banks without revealing bank account details.The Reserve Bank of India has been urging banks to enable interoperability of the digital rupee with UPI through QR codes. Informed sources say that private lender HDFC Bank is collaborating with technology company IDEMIA to build an offline CBDC transaction version for feature phones.Currently, India's CBDC retail transaction volume averages nearly 18,000 transactions per day, far below the Reserve Bank of India's target of achieving 1 million transactions per day by the end of 2023.

ChainCatcher news, the results of the voting activity for the new features of the OKX AA wallet have been officially announced today. The social recovery feature has become the users' top choice, followed by on-chain copy trading and one-click leveraged mining features. OKX stated that the top-ranked social recovery feature has been added to the development schedule, and future product iterations will continue to listen to user feedback.It is reported that the first phase of the OKX AA wallet has supported users in creating AA smart contract wallets on seven popular public chains: Ethereum, OKTC, Arbitrum, Polygon, Optimism, BNB Chain, and Avalanche. Users can directly pay Gas with stablecoins USDT/USDC, complete multi-step interactions with on-chain DEX and DeFi in one click, and the open-source smart contract code has been implemented.

ChainCatcher news, the encrypted data platform RootData announced the completion of a comprehensive upgrade iteration, launching four new features: a points incentive system, wallet login, token pricing and economic model, and a Vietnamese version. At the same time, RootData also airdropped points to users who had previously collected or provided feedback, with the specific amount depending on the number of collections and feedback.Specifically, the points incentive system allows users to earn platform points through content contributions and redeem corresponding benefits; the wallet login feature significantly enhances user convenience, laying the foundation for more Web3 experiences in the future; the token pricing and distribution model improves the platform's secondary market information, further helping users gain a comprehensive understanding of project information; the Vietnamese version aims to meet the rapidly growing localization reading needs of Vietnamese users.It is reported that RootData is a visual and structured encrypted project data platform that provides information on various projects' financing, teams, news, etc., and connects all projects through ecosystems, tags, and compilations, aiming to become a data entry point for users to discover quality crypto assets.