ChainCatcher news, BounceBit announces mainnet launch. The BounceBit chain operates as an independent Layer1 network, with BB serving as the gas fee token.In addition, the BounceBit mainnet has launched a series of new features, allowing users to stake and delegate nodes through its portal; generate Premium Yield; liquidity custody, and more.

ChainCatcher message, the Ethereum liquid staking protocol Rocket Pool will undergo the Atlas upgrade on April 13, allowing node staking with just 8 ETH (subject to Rocket Pool requirements). The features of this Atlas upgrade include improved protocol efficiency, higher rewards for node operators, increased rETH capacity, and it remains completely permissionless.The most important feature of Atlas is the Rocket Pool validator node Minipools LEB8's. Currently, when node operators wish to create a mini pool, they must provide 16 ETH and receive 16 ETH on behalf of the protocol, which means a 32 ETH staking validator needs to be created on Ethereum. With the introduction of LEB8, the required amount will be reduced from 16 ETH to 8 ETH. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, the Fantom community has proposed to lower the staking FTM threshold for validator nodes. The proposal states that when Fantom's mainnet was launched in 2019, the minimum staking requirement for validators was 3.175 million FTM, which has since been reduced to 500,000 FTM, and today it is proposed to lower it further to 50,000, 75,000, or 100,000 FTM.It is reported that this move aims to reduce financial barriers to allow more participants globally to join the Fantom network and enhance the decentralization of Fantom. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, Gnosis core developer dapplion.eth tweeted that Gnosis staking service providers must update their node clients by November 30. Gnosis will support Nethermind v1.14.6, Teku v22.11.0, Lodestar v1.2.2, Lighthouse v3.3.0, while the Nimbus client is pending, and service providers using the Prysm client must switch. (source link)