ChainCatcher news, DWF Labs Executive Partner Andrei Grachev stated on social media that as long as users have the stablecoin USD1 of WLFI in their on-chain wallets, they can directly access the closed testing of the stablecoin protocol Falcon Finance and enjoy its benefits earlier than others.

According to ChainCatcher news, the Financial Times reported that OpenAI has significantly reduced the time and resources allocated for testing the safety of its powerful AI models, raising concerns about the rushed launch of its technology without sufficient safeguards. Compared to a few months ago, staff and third-party teams have recently had only a few days to "evaluate" OpenAI's latest large language model.According to eight individuals familiar with OpenAI's testing process, the startup's testing has become less thorough, with insufficient time and resources dedicated to identifying and mitigating risks, as the $300 billion startup faces pressure to rapidly release new models and maintain a competitive edge.Insiders revealed that OpenAI has been aiming to release its new model o3 as early as next week, giving some testers less than a week for safety checks. Previously, OpenAI allowed several months for safety testing.

ChainCatcher news, the modular DeFi lending market Loopscale has completed 6 months of closed testing and is now live. Loopscale is built on Solana and is supported by CoinFund, Solana Ventures, and Coinbase Ventures.

ChainCatcher message, Matrixport stated today that despite showing strong resilience, the likelihood of Bitcoin retesting the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement level (around $73,392) is gradually increasing. Currently, Bitcoin has faced multiple obstacles at the 23.6% retracement level (around $87,000), which has become a key resistance.The report pointed out that Trump's latest tariff policy has triggered widespread market liquidation, and the backdrop of rising risk aversion is putting pressure on Bitcoin prices. In addition, concerns among American consumers about inflation have intensified, and Federal Reserve Chairman Powell recently hinted at maintaining the current interest rate stance, which may limit Bitcoin's ability to benefit from loose monetary policy in the short term.

ChainCatcher message, according to on-chain data analyst @ai_9684xtpa's monitoring, 10 minutes ago, the Mt.Gox address in Mentougou transferred 0.000017 BTC to the Kraken deposit address, possibly for testing.Previously, 893.41 BTC had been transferred to the new address 1FodP...b28DB, with no further transfers yet.

ChainCatcher message, on-chain data shows that the WLFI token is suspected of conducting transfer function tests. Five hours ago, the WLFI token transferred 199,999,953 WLFI to a certain address.

ChainCatcher news, Ethereum core developer Tim Beiko posted on social media that the new testnet Hoodi has been launched, aimed at helping to complete the testing of Pectra. The Pectra upgrade will be launched on the Hoodi testnet next Wednesday.Meanwhile, the Holesky testnet will continue to be maintained until September and can still be used to test everything, but it does not support validator exit testing.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cryptonews, the Central Bank of Russia has invited the Republic of Tatarstan to assist in testing the smart contract functionality of the digital ruble. The Tatarstan Ministry of Finance has established a working group that will conduct conditional targeted funding expenditure experiments using the central bank's testing platform, with the tests expected to conclude in the third quarter of 2025.A month prior, the Central Bank of Russia had "indefinitely postponed" the nationwide rollout plan for the digital ruble originally scheduled for August this year, but this testing indicates that the digital ruble project is still progressing. Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina stated that the new launch date will be announced later.At the same time, the Moscow Metro also announced the expansion of its digital ruble pilot project, collaborating with the central bank and VTB Bank to test the functionality of recharging Troika smart cards using the digital ruble. These developments are similar to the pilot projects of China's digital yuan, but Russia has previously stated that one of the main functions of the digital ruble is to assist Russian enterprises in making cross-border payments with other countries that use digital fiat currencies.

ChainCatcher message, Zhao Changpeng stated on Binance Square regarding the recent purchases of TST and Mubarak tokens that it was to "do some testing over the weekend."

ChainCatcher message, according to official news, the BTFS airdrop rewards have been launched with the public testing of the BTTC testnet. This upgrade introduces smart contracts for distributing airdrop rewards, ensuring that eligible miners can receive rewards daily, while enhancing the transparency and openness of the distribution process, providing miners with a more convenient and efficient user experience.The airdrop claiming process in this testnet will operate based on data from the mainnet environment, offering users a more authentic experience.

ChainCatcher news, MegaETH co-founder Lei Yang posted on social media that yesterday's RPC outage exposed an interesting edge case. Debugging the RPC method calls led the server to allocate a large amount of memory for an excessively long string, ultimately resulting in memory exhaustion.The MegaETH team decided to build their own RPC stack to apply multiple optimizations on the RPC stack to improve performance. From a performance perspective, the results are excellent, but the trade-off is that the team has to handle the infrastructure's operational maintenance themselves.More outages are expected in the future, and more post-mortem analysis reports will be released, hoping these reports can spark interesting discussions. They encourage everyone to provide more edge cases for testing now rather than encountering issues months later.

ChainCatcher news, the upcoming Pectra upgrade for Ethereum was activated on the Sepolia testnet around 14:30 Beijing time today.It is reported that the Sepolia version is the last major release before the mainnet upgrade launch, which is expected to start next month. This deployment marks the second phase of the Pectra testnet activation, following Pectra's launch on the Holesky testnet on February 24.The Pectra upgrade is named a combination of "Prague" (execution layer changes) and "Electra" (consensus layer updates), introducing several changes aimed at improving Ethereum's scalability. If performance is good, developers expect to determine the mainnet activation date during the All Core Developers (ACD) call on March 6, 2025. The potential launch time for the mainnet is set for early April.

ChainCatcher news, according to HTX market information, RAY briefly dropped over 15%, currently priced at 3.4912 USD.

ChainCatcher news, according to Aggr News, pump.fun may be internally testing an AMM liquidity pool. It may plan to replace Raydium as a third-party provider to collect more fees on Solana, or adopt some mechanism to reward token holders.

ChainCatcher message, in response to community users asking why Zhao Changpeng purchased TST, Zhao Changpeng stated that TST is a test token used for testing.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, Real Vision analyst Jamie Coutts' data shows that the market reshuffle on February 7 resulted in 24% of the top 200 tokens hitting a new 365-day low, the highest level since August 5, 2024 (28%).IntoTheBlock analyst Juan Pellicer stated that the recent market adjustment has led to a significant amount of liquidations (especially in Solana), with the total market capitalization of the crypto market dropping to $3.13 trillion. This indicates that excessive leveraged positions are being cleared, and the market may be experiencing a capitulation. Considering the impact of tariffs and AI valuations (influenced by DeepSeek), the bull market may still continue, and the current adjustment could be a correction for certain tokens rather than a broader downtrend.Brickken CEO Edwin Mata further pointed out that the meme coin craze is disrupting the allocation of market liquidity. Meme coins promoted by celebrities are causing a distortion in the flow of funds, pulling liquidity away from more mature projects. This trend increases market volatility, making traditional market recovery patterns harder to predict.

ChainCatcher news, according to Jinshi reports, Weibo Zhiso has integrated DeepSeek and is currently undergoing internal testing. This integration of DeepSeek by Weibo will not only help improve the quality and experience of Weibo search but also provide users with intelligent services in more scenarios.

ChainCatcher news, according to 36Kr, Baidu is currently conducting a gray test for the integration of DeepSeek and Wenxin Yiyan's deep search functionality, with some users already able to experience it.Baidu stated that it is expected to go live at 0:00 on the 18th. Users can click "AI+" on the Baidu PC homepage to enter AI search, and then switch to the DeepSeek R1 model by clicking the "Deep Thinking R1" button at the bottom of the input box; or in the Baidu APP, enter any search term, complete a round of search, and then click "AI+" on the search results page to enter AI search, and click "Try DeepSeek R1" at the bottom to converse with DeepSeek.