ChainCatcher message, the Lido V3 whitepaper is now live and open for feedback. Lido V3 will be launched in February 2025, improving the current protocol and introducing stVaults: staking primitives that support the creation of non-custodial, permissionless, and customizable staking products, backed by on-demand liquidity provided by stETH. While the V3 concept has been established, key components are still in progress. Contributors are particularly seeking feedback on stVault design and risk management to balance the risk profile and redeemability of stETH with operator choices driven by stakeholders, reserve ratios, and risk levels.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it will delay its decision on BlackRock's Bitcoin ETF physical subscription mechanism and has begun soliciting public opinions. If approved, this mechanism would allow investors to directly subscribe and redeem ETF shares with Bitcoin instead of cash, enhancing trading efficiency.The rule amendment submitted by Nasdaq in January shows that the iShares Bitcoin Trust intends to adopt this model, but the SEC has previously favored a cash settlement mechanism. On the same day, the SEC also delayed the approval of Grayscale Litecoin Trust and Grayscale Solana Trust, requesting public input. On Tuesday, the SEC also sought public opinions on the 21Shares Dogecoin ETF.

ChainCatcher news, the Securities Commission of Malaysia (SC) today released a consultation paper aimed at gathering public opinions on the draft regulatory framework for tokenized capital market products. The public consultation period will last from May 6, 2025, to June 16, 2025.The SC pointed out that tokenized capital market products digitize traditional financial products such as stocks, bonds, and funds through distributed ledger technology (DLT) and should be distinguished from digital tokens and digital currencies, as the latter are regulated under different frameworks.The SC stated that the establishment of the regulatory framework is in response to the growing market interest in tokenized products. The framework will focus on exploring the application of DLT in the capital market, including programmable assets, fractional ownership, and enhanced transparency, while ensuring investor protection. The draft also addresses key areas such as public disclosure requirements, governance controls, and technology risk management, and proposes additional requirements for relevant licensees.

ChainCatcher message, Alpaca Finance stated on social media that although its market makers had requested to mint more ALPACA from the reserve funds to cope with today's high trading volume, they have decided not to mint this portion of tokens after receiving feedback from the community.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, the NFT trading platform OpenSea has announced the suspension of its newly launched listing and bidding points reward mechanism. Previously, the platform introduced an experience points (XP) system in the OS2 beta version launched on January 28, which was intended for future eligibility for the platform token SEA.Due to the mechanism being accused of promoting wash trading and neglecting builder contributions, OpenSea CEO Devin Finzer stated that the strategy will be adjusted, focusing on the XP shipments mechanism launched on February 14, and increasing rewards for NFT buying and holding behaviors.

ChainCatcher news, Slow Mist founder Yu Xian posted on X platform stating, "AdsPower fingerprint browser transparently disclosed an incident of being hacked. If you are using AdsPower and installed the extension wallet or manually updated the extension wallet between January 21, 18:00 and January 24, 18:00 (UTC+8), then the extension wallet on your AdsPower (such as MetaMask, etc.) may be a backdoored version, which could steal your mnemonic phrase/private key.Currently, based on our intervention investigation, the risk is controllable, and the official emergency response is timely. If users are stolen due to this situation, they can submit relevant information to Slow Mist channels."

ChainCatcher news, the Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) of the UAE has released a draft regulation for securities and commodities token contracts and invited the public to provide feedback by February 14, 2025. According to the draft, securities tokens include equity tokens, bond tokens, and Islamic bond tokens, while commodities tokens include gold tokens, oil tokens, and others. These tokens are all built on blockchain/DLT platforms and can be traded on virtual asset DLT platforms. Among them, securities tokens and commodities tokens can only be traded and settled through markets or alternative trading systems, while bonds and Islamic bonds can be traded and settled over-the-counter.

ChainCatcher message, Interactive Brokers' chief strategist Steve Sosnick pointed out last week that MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor's strategy is to issue convertible bonds and use the proceeds to buy Bitcoin, which is essentially the definition of leveraged trading------borrowing money to purchase financial assets.This approach works very well when the price of the asset moves in your favor, and Bitcoin has performed quite well. But if it moves in the opposite direction, this method can collapse in an unpleasant way. Steve Sosnick emphasized that MicroStrategy benefits from a "self-fulfilling feedback loop."It buys more Bitcoin, helping to push the price up, and then sells more debt and equity to buy more Bitcoin, further driving up the price. But such things never last forever and often end badly------the question is when? The short-term answer seems to be not yet.

ChainCatcher news, according to TheBlock, some Coinbase users reported that their accounts were suddenly restricted by the platform over the weekend. The official Coinbase Support account on X responded to users in a series of posts, asking them to "please be patient and not to trust everything on the X platform." In recent weeks, there has been an increase in reports of attacks targeting Coinbase users. According to a message posted on the X platform by pseudonymous security researcher and SEAL 911 team member @pcaversaccio, multiple accounts were attacked and funds were stolen on Saturday night.The official Coinbase Support account stated, "The increase in new users after the U.S. elections and the reactivation of old accounts has led to a 2-3 times surge in fraud attempts, but the anti-fraud system successfully saved tens of millions of dollars in losses." Researchers have recently advised Coinbase users to use virtual private networks, and Coinbase's Product Director Scott Shapiro stated in a post on December 2 that since attackers often use virtual private networks, even legitimate use may be seen as a risk signal. Using a virtual private network alone will not trigger a flag, but when combined with other factors (such as logging in from unknown devices and sending large amounts of cryptocurrency), it may trigger a security review. @pcaversaccio, in response to Shapiro's original post, stated that virtual private networks are a digital umbrella for users, helping to protect privacy. Competitor Kraken's Chief Security Officer Nick Percoco criticized Coinbase for forcing users to choose between financial freedom and privacy protection.

ChainCatcher news, the Australian financial regulator is seeking feedback on updates to its digital asset guidelines. These changes aim to clarify how the Corporations Act 2001 applies to digital assets and provide guidance for entities offering related financial services.The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) listed 13 practical examples in a document to illustrate how the current definition of financial products applies to digital assets and related products.The updated guidelines will detail how businesses can obtain an Australian Financial Services (AFS) license to deal with digital assets classified as financial products. It will also outline the criteria used by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to assess license applications, emphasizing the need to comply with financial services laws.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, Binance's Chief Marketing Officer Rachel Conlan stated in an interview that Binance's team conducts detailed due diligence on the project's founders, team members, and roadmap. She emphasized that Binance's "secret research team" takes multiple factors into account, among which community feedback and opinions, as well as observing trends and insights from the community, are very important, and denied the idea that hype alone can drive listings.Although Meme coins often face negative reports due to a lack of utility, Conlan stated that some emerging Meme coins have built-in utility, "and that is exactly what we all need, because we need this use case." Conlan predicts that within the next 18 to 24 months, the cryptocurrency community will "experience exponential growth," which means there will be an increased focus on cryptocurrency projects with real use cases.

ChainCatcher message, Zhao Changpeng posted some recorded screen information about the introduction screen of his Web3 education platform Giggle Academy on the X platform, while stating that no user/child voices were recorded. In addition, Zhao Changpeng suggested that the community could provide feedback if they have already tried the application. Zhao Changpeng recommended users to try the "storybook" feature before bedtime, which is the second icon in the upper right corner of the app and seems to be very useful.

ChainCatcher news, TRON founder Justin Sun stated that TRON has joined Chainlink Scale, adopting Chainlink Data Feeds as TRON's official oracle.

ChainCatcher news, the leading decentralized artificial intelligence agent DeAgentAI announced the launch of its community's first model based on the DeAgentAI feedback training mechanism ------ AlphaX.DeAgentAI is the first AI feedback mechanism incentive protocol in Web3, which tightly couples the feedback mechanism with the training process, realizing the concept of Proof of Insight for the first time, aiming to solve the challenge of rapidly implementing large models in various niche scenarios.AlphaX is developed by an AI team from top academic institutions such as Carnegie Mellon University, University of California, Los Angeles, and State University of New York, and has received widespread recognition from industry leaders and traders during its internal testing phase. It is reported that users can leverage AlphaX to obtain BTC and ETH price prediction signals generated by DeAgentAI's self-developed AI model, and provide feedback to the model by choosing to trust or not, offering more parameters for the team to train the model.To promote the marketization of AlphaX, DeAgentAI has engaged in strategic cooperation with multiple ecological partners such as Bitlayer, KiloEx, and oooo to jointly hold market activities. In addition, DeAgentAI has launched an incentive program worth 1 million USDT, giving users the opportunity to share in the 20 million tokens prepared for the AA's Dog activity season.DeAgentAI successfully completed a $6 million financing this year and held an ecological joint event GUESS2049 in September in collaboration with more than ten leading project parties such as B2Network, with a total of 300,000 users conducting over 440,000 on-chain transactions.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, Pyth Network has announced the launch of the EIGEN/USD oracle price feed, and real-time price information for the BLAST/USD pair can be accessed on over 75 blockchains.

ChainCatcher news, Pyth Network announced on the X platform that it supports MOTHER/USD price feed services. It is reported that the price feed service for the Solana ecosystem Memecoin project MOTHER will support over 75 blockchains.

ChainCatcher message, zkLend announced on social media that it has integrated the price feed service of the oracle service Chainlink, which will cover the prices of USDC, USDT, BTC, ETH, wstETH, STRK, and DAI on zkLend.