ChainCatcher news, according to @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, the Sandbox team associated address transferred 5 million SAND tokens to Binance one hour ago, worth approximately 2.06 million USD.The transfer address (0x010...fCc90) previously received 15 million SAND (about 10.52 million USD) from The Sandbox multi-signature wallet a month ago and distributed it to multiple addresses.The price of SAND tokens has dropped by 41% in the past month.

ChainCatcher message, Slow Mist Security Team founder Yu Xian posted a warning that the X platform account of former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has been hacked. The hacker used the account to post false token information for fraud. Tracking shows that the creator of the related token contract is associated with a historical malicious group.

ChainCatcher news, according to CNBC, payment company Stripe officially completed its acquisition of stablecoin infrastructure company Bridge on Tuesday, spending $1.1 billion. This is Stripe's largest acquisition to date, marking a significant move in the stablecoin space.The team of about 60 people from Bridge has completed onboarding at Stripe's headquarters in San Francisco. Bridge focuses on helping businesses accept stablecoin payments while reducing the complexity of directly dealing with digital assets, with clients including Coinbase and SpaceX. Stripe previously supported Bitcoin payments in 2014 but terminated related services in 2018. The acquisition of Bridge enables it to optimize cross-border payment solutions and expand its stablecoin payment infrastructure.

ChainCatcher news, according to CNBC, payment company Stripe officially completed its acquisition of stablecoin infrastructure company Bridge on Tuesday for $1.1 billion. This is Stripe's largest acquisition to date, marking a significant move in the stablecoin space.The team of about 60 people from Bridge has completed onboarding at Stripe's headquarters in San Francisco. Bridge focuses on helping businesses accept stablecoin payments while reducing the complexity of directly dealing with digital assets, with clients including Coinbase and SpaceX.Stripe previously supported Bitcoin payments in 2014 but terminated the related services in 2018. The acquisition of Bridge enables it to optimize cross-border payment solutions and expand its stablecoin payment infrastructure.

ChainCatcher message, according to monitoring by The Data Nerd, a suspected address related to the Movement Labs team, 0xdAe, transferred 1,824 ETH to Binance 30 minutes ago, worth approximately 4.97 million dollars. This batch of ETH was withdrawn from the liquidity pool a week prior.

ChainCatcher news, Binance co-founder He Yi stated in a community Space that the listing of coins on Binance will consider multiple factors. Taking the previously popular AI16Z as an example, by the time this coin was under consideration, its market capitalization was already large. Internally, there are concerns about whether it would be a "top at launch," leading to differing opinions within Binance regarding the listing.In addition, some meme coins are issued by token issuing groups, and Binance will also be cautious about listing such projects.

ChainCatcher news, according to a post by swarms on platform X, the team only holds 2% of the tokens, which is a mistake that allows the price to be manipulated by malicious holders and exchanges.swarms is launching a proposal aimed at increasing the team's token holdings to 10%, which will be achieved by establishing a DAO, and then allowing token holders to join and invest in the tokens.

ChainCatcher news, according to monitoring by Spot On Chain, the PEPE team's multi-signature wallet transferred 17 billion PEPE (approximately 2.17 million USD) to the new wallet "0x1ec" 2 days ago.In the past 15 hours, this wallet has transferred 6 billion PEPE (approximately 76,650 USD) to Binance.

ChainCatcher news, according to Digital Today, South Korean prosecutors will officially establish a special department dedicated to addressing cryptocurrency crimes and punishing cryptocurrency price manipulators and fraudsters. The Joint Investigation Unit (JIU) for virtual asset crimes operated by the Southern District Prosecutors' Office in Seoul will be officially launched "as early as February or at the latest in March."The department was established in July 2023 as a temporary task force. The latest initiative will enable the prosecution to effectively promote the joint investigation team, making it an independent organization.South Korean government officials stated that the Ministry of Justice is ready to incorporate the existence of the new agency into law. The ministry will draft an amendment to the "Prosecutors' Office Act Enforcement Decree," which may also "adjust the number of prosecutors allocated to the department," allowing the prosecution to "effectively and systematically respond to virtual asset crimes."The department is not only composed of prosecutors; its members also come from regulatory agencies such as the Financial Supervisory Service and the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU). Other government agencies involved include the National Tax Service, the Korea Customs Service, and the Korea Deposit Insurance Corporation, with representatives from the Korean Exchange also joining the team.

ChainCatcher news, SunPump today announced a joint launch of the Spring Festival Red Envelope Carnival with Huobi HTX, delivering festive blessings and wealth joy in the form of digital red envelopes. This event is hosted by SunPump and Huobi HTX, with strong support from projects such as WINkLink, APENFT, BitTorrent, JUST Protocol, SunDog, Tron Bull, CGPT (ChainGPT), NEIROCTO, and others, with a total prize pool of up to $600,000.The event officially starts on January 28, 2025, and lasts until February 12. During this period, users can receive daily limited red envelopes through the activity page on the Huobi HTX APP homepage and the designated cryptocurrency K-line page. The TRON ecosystem will primarily reward with high-quality tokens such as TRX, JST, SUN, along with various benefits like transaction fee discount vouchers, contract experience bonuses, and coin earning interest vouchers, delivering generous Spring Festival gifts to global users, with the maximum single red envelope amount reaching tens of thousands.In addition, SunPump has also specially set up the SunAgent red envelope activity, where users can interact with SunAgent on the SunPump homepage for a chance to receive a Spring Festival red envelope.

ChainCatcher news, ai16z co-founder Shaw posted on platform X, stating that more powerful models are always a good thing for AI agents.For years, AI labs have been surpassing each other in benchmarking and capabilities. Sometimes Google is ahead, sometimes OpenAI, and sometimes Claude. Today it is DeepSeek. The trend is that the largest and most capital-rich companies in the world are competing for a technology that ultimately tends towards being free, open-source, and running on home computers at no cost.The winners of this race have always been hardware and consumer products. Nvidia is always a winner. Every model is optimized for its hardware. Apple is also always a winner: they have invested in a unified memory architecture that allows high VRAM machines to run the latest models (albeit slowly).Products continue to benefit from the latest models. Cursor and Perplexity are examples that magically get better every few months, but as AI integrates into almost every product, all these products benefit from cheaper and faster AI models.AI agents represent a new application paradigm—the core argument is that applications need to migrate to the social media where users are, and agents are a form of application that can exist entirely on social media without users needing to leave. They are self-promoting and benefit from the network effects of every user interaction.When a new model emerges, integrating it into the agent framework usually requires just a few lines of code. Most model providers follow the same API conventions, adhering to OpenAI, so this work can typically be done in minutes. This allows any agent application to have immediate access to the latest models. Whenever a state-of-the-art model appears, agents become smarter.This week is a huge victory for all of us. For agents, for humanity, and for the AI model teams, who now have the motivation to work harder and do better. I am not worried at all about our position in all of this. We are building the next version of Eliza, which will only get better. Thousands of teams are building on our technology, with over 500 contributors to the core repository, and this number will continue to grow as we evolve. We are creating a template for ambitious founders on how to crowdfund their public product projects, and teams will be rolling out more content in the coming weeks and months to solidify this strategy.

ChainCatcher message, Slow Mist Technology's Chief Information Security Officer 23pds disclosed on social media that the popular trading tool Debot has a security risk of exposing private keys in plaintext within data packets. It is recommended that the Debot development team enhance the product's security level to protect user asset safety.

ChainCatcher news, Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin stated that no one is left behind. Following the release of Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht, Tornado Cash has also won an important case today. Tornado Cash team members Alexey Pertsev and Roman Storm are next.

ChainCatcher message, VItalik posted on platform X stating: "No, this game does not work that way. I am the one who decides the new EF leadership team. One of the goals of the ongoing reforms is to provide EF with a 'proper board', but until then, the decision-making power is with me. If you 'continue to apply pressure', then you are creating an environment that is harmful to top talent.Some of Ethereum's best developers have recently been messaging me, expressing their disgust at the social media environment being created by people like you. You have made my job harder. And you have also reduced my interest in doing 'what you want to do'."

ChainCatcher message, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin responded to the controversy over the leadership changes at the Ethereum Foundation (EF) in a tweet.He made it clear that the decision-making power of the current new leadership team of EF is in his hands, and the ongoing reforms aim to introduce a suitable board for the foundation, but until then, the decision-making power still belongs to him personally.Vitalik criticized the pressure tactics on social media, stating that they undermine the working environment for excellent developers. He pointed out that such behavior is not only unhelpful for achieving goals but also diminishes his interest in catering to these demands.

ChainCatcher message, Coinbase Support replied to users on X: Due to wallet maintenance or blockchain issues, Solana transactions are delayed, and the team is working on a fix.