ChainCatcher news, Pudgy Penguins announced integration with the Walrus protocol to store and manage its growing digital media library, including stickers and GIFs for product and community experiences. The team will use 1TB of decentralized storage through Tusky (Walrus's user-friendly file management tool) and plans to expand to 6TB within the next 12 months.Pudgy Penguins previously used centralized storage solutions, facing challenges with long-term access and consistency with decentralized principles. Walrus addresses these issues by providing permanent, decentralized storage, ensuring that assets are always accessible and verifiable. Pudgy Penguins CEO Luca Netz stated that Walrus enables their team to easily upload, organize, and share content.Walrus is a decentralized data storage protocol based on Sui, while Tusky, as an important partner in its ecosystem, allows the team to manage access and version control without deep technical knowledge. This collaboration lays a more consistent, reliable, and scalable foundation for content management for Pudgy Penguins, while showcasing the potential of decentralized storage in practical applications.

ChainCatcher news, according to official information, the parallel MPC network Ika has announced a strategic investment from the Sui Foundation.As a result, Ika has raised over $21 million in funding, with a peak valuation of $600 million FDV during the private placement stage, and has received support from dozens of institutions in the Web3 space, including the Sui Foundation, DCG, Big Brain Holdings, Blockchange, Node Capital, Amplify Partners, Liquid2 Ventures, FalconX, Tykhe Block Ventures, Lightshift, Token Bay Capital, Collider, Zero Knowledge Ventures, NoLimit Holdings, Rubik Ventures, Dispersion Capital, Insignius Capital, Impatient Ventures, Cerulean Ventures, Earl Grey Capital, HDI Ventures, Flowdesk, TPC Ventures, Purechain Capital, Solr DAO, Heroic Ventures, as well as Naval Ravikant, NotVCs, G-20 Group, Artifact Capital, DSRV, Encapsulate, and others.It is reported that Ika is a parallel MPC network that offers sub-second latency, high scalability, decentralization, and zero-trust security, and will soon launch on the Sui blockchain.

ChainCatcher news, according to PRNewswire, FTX Exchange and the FTX Asset Recovery Trust Fund have filed lawsuits against two token issuers to recover their entitled token assets. The two issuers are NFT Stars Limited and KUROSEMI INC. (Delysium).FTX stated that after multiple attempts to communicate with these issuers were unsuccessful, they had no choice but to take legal action. Currently, FTX is reaching out to other token and cryptocurrency issuers, and if the relevant parties fail to respond in a timely manner, FTX will file more lawsuits.

ChainCatcher news, the Sui ecosystem liquid staking protocol Haedal announced on social media that it has launched an airdrop query page. 5% of the total supply of HAEDAL is allocated for this airdrop, which will open for claims on April 29 at 20:00 Beijing time.

ChainCatcher news, according to an announcement from Mysten Labs, Sui Wallet has now merged with Stashed to become Slush, creating a unified wallet experience that now covers web, mobile, and browser extensions.The Slush wallet is developed by Mysten Labs.

ChainCatcher News, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has submitted a joint statement to the Seattle federal court announcing the dismissal of the unregistered securities issuance lawsuit against the blockchain company Dragonchain and its founder Joseph Roets.The SEC stated that this move stems from the progress made by its cryptocurrency asset special working group in developing a regulatory framework. Previously, the SEC had accused the company of raising $16.5 million through an ICO in 2017.

ChainCatcher news, according to DefiLlama data, the Sui network's TVL has surpassed $1.6 billion, currently reported at $1.632 billion, with an increase of over 9% in the last 24 hours.In addition, the Sui network DEX's 24-hour trading volume has reached $599 million, an increase of 35.01% compared to last week.

ChainCatcher news, market news says that 21Shares has registered the SUI ETF in Delaware.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it will no longer refile the securities fraud lawsuit against Hex founder Richard Heart. Previously, the court dismissed the SEC's original lawsuit, stating that the regulatory agency failed to prove jurisdiction over Heart's activities. Heart called this a victory for open-source software, cryptocurrency, and freedom of speech.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph. Reported that U.S. District Judge Barbara Rothstein ruled on April 21 to transfer a lawsuit accusing Binance of aiding money laundering from Washington to the Southern District of Florida.The judge stated that the case has substantial overlap with a similar lawsuit filed in Florida in June 2023, and the transfer could avoid duplicate litigation and improve judicial efficiency. Although the plaintiff's attorney argued that there are differences between the two lawsuits, including the Washington case naming former CEO Zhao Changpeng as a defendant, the judge found that the categories of plaintiffs involved in both cases are sufficiently similar to apply the "first-filed rule."The case was initially filed in Washington in August 2024, accusing the Binance platform of being used to launder stolen cryptocurrency.

ChainCatcher news, according to a report by law360.com citing documents submitted by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last Friday, the DOJ during the Trump administration had pushed to reduce enforcement against cryptocurrencies, but this did not prevent federal prosecutors from pursuing charges against SafeMoon's former CEO Braden Karony.Karony faces fraud charges related to the collapse of the token. He is set to go on trial in May, which will be a key test of whether the DOJ's new policy will protect executives from past allegations of misconduct.On April 18, federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of New York confirmed they would continue to pursue the case. Karony is charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud, wire fraud, and money laundering, and he has pleaded not guilty, having been released on a $3 million bail since February.Previous report, SafeMoon CEO requests to delay his trial due to "policy changes" by the SEC during Trump's term.

ChainCatcher news, according to the Coinbase blog, Coinbase responded to the securities enforcement action initiated by the Oregon Attorney General, stating that the lawsuit is as baseless as the previous lawsuit filed against Coinbase by the SEC, and relies on outdated theories that have already been dismissed.Coinbase stated that it will vigorously respond to the lawsuit, defend the rights of the industry and users, and support federal digital asset legislation to regulate the industry, emphasizing that the Oregon action hinders the progress of the crypto industry.

ChainCatcher message, the decentralized data storage protocol Walrus tweeted that it has airdropped to the holders of the gaming handheld SuiPlay0X1. SuiPlay0X1 holders can claim the NFT through WAL.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, digital wallet infrastructure developer Dynamic has integrated support for the Layer 1 blockchain Sui.Sui has now become the latest ecosystem supported by Dynamic, which also supports Algorand, Base, Berachain, Bitcoin, Cosmos, Eclipse, Farcaster, Solana, TON, and other Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) and Solana Virtual Machine (SVM) networks.Additionally, developers can now integrate Dynamic's wallet software development kit (SDK), allowing Sui users to access decentralized applications (DApps) such as Crossmint, Relay, and xLabs.

ChainCatcher news, according to Decrypt, U.S. court documents reveal that on April 16, Judge Gregory Van Tatenhove of the Eastern District of Kentucky approved a 60-day pause in the lawsuit between the state attorney general coalition and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regarding cryptocurrency regulation, on the grounds that the SEC acknowledged that the case may be resolved due to a leadership transition. Both parties did not oppose this motion and are required to submit a joint status update within 30 days. Previously, the coalition of 18 states accused the SEC of overstepping its authority in enforcing regulations against cryptocurrency companies, violating the Constitution.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, on Wednesday, a federal judge in the United States agreed to pause the lawsuit filed by 18 state attorneys general and a DeFi lobbying group against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), after all parties noted that the SEC's new leadership was in place. Last November, after Trump won the 2024 presidential election, these state attorneys general (all Republicans) filed the lawsuit in conjunction with the DeFi Education Fund. They accused the federal securities regulator of overstepping its authority in suing cryptocurrency exchanges. In documents submitted on Wednesday, the SEC stated that the lawsuit could come to an end following the confirmation of Paul Atkins as the new agency chair. The judge ordered the parties to submit a joint status report within 30 days, but paused all deadlines for 60 days.On Wednesday, another lawsuit filed by the DeFi Education Fund, the Texas Blockchain Council, and the Blockchain Association against the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was also dismissed. This lawsuit argued that the IRS's DeFi broker rules exceeded the agency's authority. Last week, Trump signed a resolution passed jointly by the House and Senate under the Congressional Review Act to repeal this rule. In documents submitted on Wednesday, the parties stated that the lawsuit had become "meaningless" after Trump signed the resolution.