ChainCatcher news, cryptocurrency data platform CoinMarketCap (CMC) today announced the launch of CMC Launch---a launch platform specifically designed for high-quality Pre-TGE projects, aimed at connecting potential crypto projects with over 50 million monthly active users worldwide. The first project to join CMC Launch is the decentralized perpetual trading platform Aster ($AST).Compared to traditional launch platforms, CMC Launch employs a stricter review mechanism, open only to truly promising projects, helping early-stage projects reach global users. Selected projects will receive a dedicated launch page, interactive tasks that incentivize user participation, and support for wallet screening for airdrop eligibility.The first project is Aster, backed by YZI Labs, aiming to provide innovative perpetual contract services for traders from beginner to advanced levels. Core features include: a simple/professional dual-mode trading interface, catering to different user groups; various airdrop incentives; non-custodial trading without KYC, ensuring asset sovereignty; and providing deep liquidity pools, low fees, and multi-chain support, currently live on BNB Chain and Arbitrum.CMC CEO Rush stated, "The competition for traffic among projects in the cryptocurrency space is fierce. CMC Launch is dedicated to helping new projects accurately reach and connect with users looking for potential tracks. As a 'hub of cryptocurrency,' we welcome Aster as the first CMC Launch project to showcase its innovative value to the global community."

ChainCatcher news, according to Blockworks, the decentralized perpetual futures exchange Perpl announced the completion of a $9.25 million funding round, led by Dragonfly, with participation from Ergonia, Brevan Howard, Breed, L1D, and CMS.The project will build an on-chain central limit order book on the Monad blockchain, with plans to launch a testnet by the end of 2025.

ChainCatcher news, ChainCatcher will hold the "AI 3.0 New Era: How Autonomys Opens the Era of Decentralized Agents and Storage" X Space event tonight at 20:00 (UTC+8).Guests attending this Space event include: Rose, Head of Growth for the Asia-Pacific region at Autonomys, and Arthur, Partner at Candaq Venture.This Space will focus on: What kind of AI Agents are worth investing in? Where will the blockbuster Agents in the Web3 space be born? What Agent use cases does Autonomys want to see the most?Tonight at 20:00, tune in to ChainCatcher X Space to discuss the AI 3.0 New Era with us.

ChainCatcher news, at the HK Web3 Club event on May 10, the co-founder of Fufuture stated that the current derivatives market generally faces pain points such as opaque trading mechanisms, fragmented liquidity, and high user thresholds. Fufuture is advancing a decentralized, coin-based perpetual derivatives protocol aimed at solving traditional hedging challenges and enhancing asset security and trading fairness.The protocol launched its initial version in 2023, with V2 set to be released in 2024, introducing limit orders, oracles, and incentive algorithm mechanisms. In 2025, a one-click copy trading system will be integrated, and in 2026, mainstream asset trading pairs such as gold and foreign exchange will be introduced, with the goal of becoming the largest on-chain derivatives protocol provider globally. Currently, it has initiated integration with multiple public chain ecosystems and is continuously promoting global expansion.

ChainCatcher news, TokenPocket officially releases wallet-mcp, dedicated to building a decentralized wallet service based on the Model Context Protocol (MCP). The product now supports all EVM-compatible networks, TRON, and Solana, with the core code fully open-sourced. Developers can quickly integrate the MCP Server and plugin wallets to achieve trusted signing and on-chain asset interaction, providing underlying connectivity and security support for AI × Web3 applications.Currently, TokenPocket is collaborating with several MCP native projects such as DeMCP, SKYAI, and others to promote the implementation of MCP scenarios.

According to ChainCatcher, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has announced that its cryptocurrency working group will hold a roundtable on May 12 titled "Tokenization ------ Asset on the Chain: The Intersection of Traditional Finance and Decentralized Finance."Hester M. Peirce, the head of the SEC's cryptocurrency working group, stated that tokenization is a technological development that could fundamentally change many aspects of financial markets.The meeting will take place from 1:00 PM to 5:30 PM Eastern Time on May 12 at the SEC headquarters in Washington, D.C., and will be open to the public and streamed live on the SEC's official website. Additionally, the SEC announced that the roundtable originally scheduled for June 6, titled "Decentralized Finance and the American Spirit," has been rescheduled to June 9.

ChainCatcher news, decentralized AI project Gata today announced the completion of a $4 million seed round financing. This round was participated by YZi Labs, IDG Blockchain, Maelstrom Fund, Manifold Trading, Gate Ventures, Formless Capital, Anti Capital, MH Ventures, V3V Ventures, 071 Labs, and Echo.Gata focuses on developing decentralized large model inference, training, and data technologies to enable decentralized infrastructure to truly participate in and support the trillion-dollar global AI economy. Gata believes that decentralized inference, training, and data resources will bring lower costs, high availability, and censorship-resistant architectures to the AI industry, helping AI achieve sustainable and inclusive development.As one of the important milestones, Gata launched the DataAgent platform, which utilizes computing power resources contributed by global users to automatically generate the data required for AI training through AI, replacing the traditional manual data labeling method.

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 The Block, Base has implemented the first phase of Ethereum Rollup decentralization, launching a fault-proof mechanism and establishing a security council. Base developers stated that the network has reached the "first phase" of Vitalik Buterin's Rollup decentralization framework, making progress in reducing reliance on centralized participants.The Base team stated: "Base has achieved the first phase of decentralization, which is a key milestone in building an open global on-chain economy. This has been accomplished by launching permissionless fault-proof and enhancing the decentralization of the contract upgrade process through the security council."Base was launched in August 2023, developed using Optimism's OP Stack package, and has now become the largest Layer 2 rollup by TVL on Ethereum. Previously, Base was classified as a Stage 0 Rollup, mainly because it still relied on a centralized sequencer controlled by Coinbase, and its mainnet lacked fully operational permissionless fault-proof.

ChainCatcher news, Base has reached the "first phase" of Ethereum Rollup decentralization, launching a fault-proof mechanism and establishing a security council. Base developers stated that the network has achieved the "first phase" of Vitalik Buterin's Rollup decentralization framework, making progress in reducing reliance on centralized participants.The Base team stated: "Base has achieved the first phase of decentralization, which is a key milestone in building an open global on-chain economy. This has been accomplished by launching permissionless fault-proofing and enhancing the decentralization of the contract upgrade process through the security council."Launched in August 2023, Base was developed using Optimism's OP Stack package and has now become the largest Layer 2 rollup by TVL on Ethereum. Previously, Base was classified as a phase 0 Rollup, mainly because it still relied on a centralized sequencer controlled by Coinbase, and its mainnet lacked fully operational permissionless fault-proofing.

ChainCatcher message, Mira Network has launched a global campaign called "Prove You Right," aimed at revealing the systemic issues of AI large models in generating false yet credible content through public demonstrations. Users can visit the event website, input a fictional but seemingly reasonable statement, and experience how the model generates fabricated answers complete with detailed citations, which can then be screenshot and shared on social media.Mira Network provides a protocol layer trust verification mechanism, which verifies and records the AI output content of multiple large models on-chain through Verifier nodes and cryptoeconomic consensus, thereby addressing the frequent issues of centralized model hallucinations.

ChainCatcher news, according to Fortune, decentralized AI startup Nous Research has completed a $50 million Series A funding round, led by Paradigm, which values Nous Research at $1 billion.Nous Research plans to launch a decentralized training system on the Solana blockchain, utilizing blockchain technology for distributed AI model training. The company previously raised approximately $20 million in seed funding from institutions such as Distributed Global, North Island Ventures, and Delphi Digital.Karan Malhotra, co-founder of Nous Research, stated that the company uses blockchain technology mainly for coordination and incentive mechanisms, allowing users to contribute idle computing power to participate in AI model training. The system will initially allow users with data center access to participate, and the company is currently considering whether to issue a native token as a reward.

ChainCatcher news, according to dexscreener data, the decentralized MCP network token DMCP has increased by 8500% in the last 24 hours, currently priced at $0.008.Official introduction, DeMCP, as a decentralized MCP network, builds infrastructure for multiple computing participants (MCPs) and creates a trading market. DeMCP is committed to building a large-scale and secure MCP service resource library for Web3 developers.

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized storage network Aleph.im has announced its rebranding to Aleph Cloud. In the future, it will shift towards becoming a full-stack decentralized cloud provider. In addition to the rebranding, it will launch a $1 million startup accelerator program to help Web3 builders and startups break free from centralized cloud providers like AWS and Google Cloud. This accelerator will also provide computing credits, storage, and technical support for ecosystems such as Ethereum, Base, Solana, BSC, and Avalanche.

ChainCatcher news, according to Fortune, the decentralized trading platform Theo has completed a total of $20 million in funding. This round of financing consists of two parts: a $4.5 million seed round led by the quantitative investment firm Manifold Trading completed in March 2024, and a recently completed $15.5 million funding led by cryptocurrency investment firms Hack VC and Anthos Capital.Theo was founded by three former employees from high-frequency trading firms Optiver and IMC Trading. The platform allows ordinary investors to use trading strategies that are typically reserved for top high-frequency trading companies.