ChainCatcher news, according to Binance announcement, Binance Earn on the blockchain has launched Solv Protocol BTC staking.

ChainCatcher news, according to Bitcoin Magazine, the Ministry of Education of El Salvador will collaborate with the Bitcoin Office to launch The Little HODLer project, which will offer financial education courses for students aged 7-13. The project is titled "What is Money?" and will initially pilot in 50 public schools in the La Libertad department, with approximately 1,000 students participating.The course will provide 3 hours of Bitcoin and financial education content each week, integrating it into the national social studies curriculum. Students will learn about the history of money, the basics of budgeting, saving, and other foundational financial knowledge, as well as the importance of Bitcoin as a financial innovation. This program is an extension of El Salvador's investment in Bitcoin education, which previously launched a Bitcoin diploma course for upper-grade students and the CUBO+ scholarship program for university students.

ChainCatcher news, despite the government suspending Bitcoin-related activities to obtain a $1.4 billion loan, El Salvador has quietly bought more Bitcoin through its Bitcoin office, adding 32 coins last month, and currently holds over 6,160 Bitcoins, worth approximately $584 million.The IMF confirmed that the country's finance department has fulfilled its "no new holdings" commitment, but the Bitcoin office "operates outside these fiscal definitions," circumventing restrictions through "technical loopholes." To unlock IMF funds, El Salvador will eliminate Bitcoin as a mandatory payment and tax method starting May 1. President Bukele remains "committed to the Bitcoin strategy."

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, the founders of the crypto fintech company Bankera have been accused of using funds raised from the 2018 Initial Coin Offering (ICO) to purchase luxury properties worldwide.According to leaked company records and bank statements, founders Vytautas Karalevičius, Justas Dobiliauskas, and Mantas Mockevičius transferred nearly half of the ICO funds (approximately $114 million) into a bank they purchased in Vanuatu. The bank subsequently issued loans to companies owned by the three for the acquisition of luxury properties in the French Riviera and Lithuania.Bankera had promised to become "the bank of the blockchain era" and obtain an EU banking license, but this has not yet been realized. Its originally planned profit-sharing program was suspended in 2022. The founders' lawyer denied any fraudulent activity in the ICO but declined to comment on specific transactions.

ChainCatcher news, the new banking platform ether.fi has announced the launch of a $40 million venture capital fund, ether.fi Ventures Fund I, aimed at supporting fearless entrepreneurs who are redefining the possibilities of the industry.In addition, the fund has now disclosed its first batch of investment projects, namely Resolv, Rise Chain, and Symbiotic.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official WeChat account of Sunwu County People's Court, the Sunwu Court is hearing a case involving fraud and money laundering through over-the-counter trading of virtual currency. The individuals involved used two wallets to transact 30,396,278.76 U coins, engaging in nearly 10,000 U coin transactions with multiple parties, involving nearly 10,000 receiving accounts, with a total transaction amount reaching 120 million yuan. The virtual currency funds they handled were used in 7 telecom network fraud cases to gain the victims' trust, transferring funds back to the victims, or directly or indirectly receiving accounts of the fraud proceeds.The Sunwu Court lawfully sentenced the individuals involved for concealing and disguising criminal proceeds, imposing corresponding penalties and fines, and confiscating all their illegal gains.

ChainCatcher news, according to official news from The Bitcoin Office in El Salvador, El Salvador has increased its national Bitcoin strategy reserves by 1 Bitcoin, bringing the total Bitcoin reserves to 6159.18 Bitcoins.

ChainCatcher message, the lending protocol Loopscale on the Solana chain was attacked today, resulting in approximately 5.7 million USDC and 1,200 SOL being stolen. The protocol has released event updates on the X platform and has now re-enabled loan repayments, deposits, and the closure of revolving loans. Other application functions (including Vault withdrawals) remain temporarily restricted, and an investigation is ongoing to ensure the mitigation of this vulnerability.Loopscale further stated that the root cause of this vulnerability has been identified as an independent issue related to collateral pricing based on RateX, which is not related to RateX itself. The financial loss only affects the depositors of the SOL and USDC genesis treasury, and a complete technical post-analysis will be released later.

ChainCatcher news, according to a disclosure by Shaw, the founder of ElizaOS (formerly ai16z), there were significant issues at the launch of the Quill project, involving liquidity consumption. The project team previously invested liquidity worth 30,000 SOL in the SOL/Quill and ai16z/Quill trading pairs, purchased and sent 10 million Quill tokens to developers, and simultaneously burned the remaining 3 million. Shaw stated that the related issues have been resolved.

ChainCatcher news, Rodrigo Valdes, Director of the Western Hemisphere Department of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), stated at the spring meeting press conference that El Salvador is still adhering to its commitment not to accumulate more Bitcoin in the overall fiscal sector, which is a key performance indicator agreed upon with the IMF.It is worth noting that, according to data from the El Salvador Ministry of Finance website, El Salvador has increased its holdings by 7 Bitcoins in the past 7 days, bringing its total Bitcoin holdings to 6158.18 Bitcoins.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, U.S. Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff publicly supported the impeachment of President Trump during a town hall meeting in Georgia, directly targeting his plan to host a private dinner for TRUMP token holders.Ossoff stated, "The current president is effectively selling political access through tokens, which constitutes an impeachable offense," but acknowledged that impeachment would be difficult to advance with the Republican-controlled Congress.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York recently sentenced Long Island resident Eugene William Austin Jr. (also known as Hugh Austin) to 18 years in prison for charges including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering, and interstate transportation of stolen property.The court found that Austin conspired with his son Brandon Austin to falsely promise victims large cryptocurrency transactions, short-term high-return investments, and services to introduce high-net-worth investors to startups, while actually defrauding them to fund personal luxury expenses.Brandon Austin pleaded guilty in 2023 and was sentenced to 4 years in prison. The two caused over 20 victims to suffer cumulative losses exceeding $10 million. Eugene Austin's sentencing date is set for February 20, 2025, and he faces a maximum of 45 years in prison.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York recently sentenced Long Island resident Eugene William Austin Jr. (also known as Hugh Austin) to 18 years in prison for charges including conspiracy to commit wire fraud, money laundering, and interstate transportation of stolen property.The court found that Austin conspired with his son Brandon Austin to falsely promise victims large cryptocurrency transactions, short-term high-return investments, and services to introduce high-net-worth investors to startups, while actually defrauding them to fund personal luxury expenses.Brandon Austin pleaded guilty in 2023 and was sentenced to 4 years in prison. The two caused over 20 victims to suffer cumulative losses exceeding $10 million. Eugene Austin's sentencing date is set for February 20, 2025, where he faces a maximum of 45 years in prison.

ChainCatcher message, Cyvers Alerts posted on platform X stating that its system detected suspicious transactions on the Base chain involving Zora, where an attacker stole approximately 5,500 ZORA tokens, worth about $129,000. The stolen funds have now been exchanged and bridged to the Ethereum network.

ChainCatcher news, today at the routine press conference of the Ministry of Commerce of China, spokesperson He Yadong responded to the U.S. claim of "tariff cooling" by stating that the U.S. abuse of tariffs violates basic economic and market laws, which not only fails to help solve its own problems but also severely disrupts the international economic and trade order, interferes with normal production and operation of enterprises, and affects the consumption of the public, facing strong opposition from the international community and within the U.S.The unilateral tariff measures were initiated by the U.S. If the U.S. truly wants to resolve the issue, it should face the rational voices from the international community and domestic parties, completely cancel all unilateral tariff measures against China, and find a way to resolve differences through equal dialogue.

ChainCatcher message, according to SoSoValue data, yesterday (Eastern Time April 21) the total net inflow of Bitcoin spot ETFs was $381 million.The Bitcoin spot ETF with the highest single-day net inflow yesterday was the ETF ARKB from Ark Invest and 21Shares, with a single-day net inflow of $116 million. Currently, ARKB's historical total net inflow has reached $2.601 billion.The second was the Fidelity Bitcoin ETF FBTC, with a single-day net inflow of $87.6104 million. Currently, FBTC's historical total net inflow has reached $11.369 billion.As of the time of writing, the total net asset value of Bitcoin spot ETFs is $97.611 billion, and the ETF net asset ratio (the market value compared to the total market value of Bitcoin) is 5.63%. The historical cumulative net inflow has reached $35.756 billion.

ChainCatcher news, according to an official statement, the Bitcoin Office of El Salvador (ONBTC) announced that it has signed a letter of intent with NVIDIA to pursue artificial intelligence collaboration. As part of the partnership, El Salvador will benefit from NVIDIA's AI tools, resources, and expertise to develop autonomous AI capabilities addressing cultural, linguistic, environmental, and economic priorities.It is reported that El Salvador will focus on building domestic artificial intelligence infrastructure, enhancing workforce skills, and creating solutions to tackle local challenges, such as improving healthcare services, advancing education, and increasing economic productivity.

ChainCatcher news, according to Chainwire, the DeFi platform R0AR has announced the implementation of a regular buyback plan in response to a previous staking contract security incident. The platform will repurchase $1R0R tokens through weekly open market purchases, aiming to maintain token liquidity.ChainCatcher previously reported that SlowMist issued a security alert, stating that the root cause of The R0AR (@th3r0ar) vulnerability was a backdoor in the contract. During the deployment process, the R0ARStaking contract tampered with the balance of a specified address (user.amount) by directly modifying the storage slot. Subsequently, the attacker extracted all funds from the contract through an emergency withdrawal function.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, OKX has announced an extension of the SOLV airdrop event and added a prize pool of 5,726,000 SOLV tokens. Users can earn corresponding SOLV token rewards by staking BTC through OKX's on-chain earning products from April 21, 2025, 14:00 to May 20, 2025, 14:00 (UTC+8). Users who have already participated in staking do not need to unstake and can automatically participate in the new round of prize pool distribution.It is reported that the Solv Protocol is a Bitcoin staking platform that abstracts the complexity of Bitcoin staking through a Staking Abstraction Layer (SAL). It also provides a universal Bitcoin token (SolvBTC) that can be used across multiple chains. Solv offers diverse earning opportunities for retail and institutional investors while ensuring asset liquidity by seamlessly integrating Bitcoin into the DeFi ecosystem.

ChainCatcher news, Binance co-founder posted a statement on social media stating that she is not involved in any project investments, communications, token launches, or endorsements, and the only project she is involved in is BNB. She reminded the public to be cautious of AI-generated fake voices and videos, emphasizing the need to independently verify information.