ChainCatcher news, Lista DAO announced that its BNB validation node is officially online, dedicated to building top nodes on BSC, providing users with higher staking rewards and safer, more stable asset protection, and contributing to ecological development.According to RootData, Lista DAO is a decentralized stablecoin lending protocol supported by LSDfi. Users can stake and liquid stake on Lista, and can also borrow lisUSD based on various decentralized collateral. Lista aims to utilize innovative liquid staking solutions to make lisUSD the number one stablecoin in the cryptocurrency space.

ChainCatcher news, Canadian blockchain investment company Sol Strategies announced plans to acquire three blockchain validation nodes and related assets. This transaction will increase the delegated amount by 554,714 SOL, with a total value of 174.7 million CAD.The company expects this move to generate a net income of 2.6 million CAD annually. After the transaction is completed, the total delegated amount of the company's validation nodes will reach 1,493,378 SOL, valued at 470.4 million CAD.The transaction includes a cash payment of 750,000 USD (or equivalent SOL/USDC), along with up to 5.75 million USD in common stock issuance (depending on performance targets). The completion of the transaction requires approval from the Canadian Securities Exchange and does not involve any intermediary fees.It is reported that previously, Sol Strategies acquired four validation nodes from Cogent Crypto, adding 699,012 SOL (valued at 203.7 million USD), and the ranking of validation nodes jumped from 174th to 83rd. The company has also expanded its validation business in blockchain ecosystems such as SUI, MONAD, and ARCH, further consolidating its position in the industry.

ChainCatcher news, according to Coindesk, the crypto investment firm Sol Strategies (HODL), led by former Valkyrie Investment Company CEO and co-founder Leah Wald, has acquired four validator nodes for nearly $18 million in cash and stock.The Toronto-based company, formerly known as Cypherpunk Holdings, plans to acquire these validator nodes from Cogent Crypto. Cogent Crypto is a high-performance validator node operator operating within the Solana ecosystem. According to a statement released on Thursday, the total value of the investment is close to $18 million, divided into three phases: $1 million in cash and approximately $1 million in company stock will be paid upon completion of the transaction, with the remainder to be distributed in stock over three years, Sol Strategies stated.The company will acquire validator nodes for Solana (SOL), Sui (SUI), Monad (MONAD), and ARCH (ARCH) networks from Cogent Crypto, with most of the funds focused on SOL.

ChainCatcher news, Superfast founder Martin Tromp has launched a Solana validation node at the Teraco data center in Johannesburg. Solana is a fast, scalable blockchain platform that competes with Ethereum, and as a proof-of-stake (PoS) system, validation nodes play a key role in network security and transaction validation.Tromp initially deployed the node in Cape Town, but moved it to Johannesburg due to network latency issues caused by a submarine cable break. Despite being further from the coast, performance has improved at the new location thanks to hardware upgrades.

ChainCatcher news, EigenLayer announced that it has lowered the staking threshold for EigenDA validator nodes from 320 ETH to 96 ETH.EigenLayer stated that this change will allow more new validator nodes to participate in EigenDA's AVS validation service; re-staking users can also choose to delegate their tokens to validator nodes with a lower total staking amount, thereby increasing the decentralization of the network; Rollups can achieve better performance support through a larger cluster of validator nodes.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, the French state-owned energy company EDF's subsidiary Exaion has become a network validator node for Chiliz Chain, as the company aims to expand its blockchain business and increase its investment in the sports and entertainment sectors.

ChainCatcher news, according to official information, the Sui mainnet has been upgraded to version V1.13.0, and the Sui protocol has been upgraded to version 30. Other upgrade highlights are as follows: When running the Prover, warnings about the current Move Prover support level of Sui will now be printed; the protection mechanism for validation nodes has been strengthened to prevent accepting transactions when there are long-running transactions waiting to be executed in a certain object queue, or when there are a large number of transactions waiting in a certain object queue; for errors using const-in-const, the error message has been changed to point to feature gating; a configuration item has been added to the protocol configuration to support providing an empty provider configuration 30, which is the first step in deprecating the protocol configuration to check supported providers and switching to using node configuration; Sui now verifies the old zkLogin address (derived using the padded address_seed), upgrading the protocol version to 29 to enable verification of old addresses.

ChainCatcher news, Japanese media giant MIXI announced its participation in the game public chain Oasys blockchain, becoming a validator alongside SoftBank Group, KDDI, and gaming company Nexon. As of now, the total number of Oasys validation nodes has reached 25.It is reported that MIXI owns entertainment and sports products, including the mixi social network and the sports-focused NFT marketplace DAZN MOMENTS. (Source link)

According to Chain Catcher news, data provided by OKLink shows that during the Ethereum PoW era, the total number of historical on-chain transactions exceeded 1.71 billion, with a total of 15,537,393 blocks, over 2.62 million ETH burned, and a total of 5,624 miner nodes, with a historical maximum hash rate of 1.05 EH/s.According to monitoring by OKLink's multi-chain browser, after Ethereum's consensus mechanism officially transitioned from PoW to PoS, as of now, the total number of Ethereum validation nodes is 429,509, with a staking amount exceeding 13.7 million ETH, among which Lido has the highest staking amount, accounting for 30.28%. (source link)