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ChainCatcher news, according to CNBC, payment company Stripe officially completed its acquisition of stablecoin infrastructure company Bridge on Tuesday for $1.1 billion. This is Stripe's largest acquisition to date, marking a significant move in the stablecoin space.The team of about 60 people from Bridge has completed onboarding at Stripe's headquarters in San Francisco. Bridge focuses on helping businesses accept stablecoin payments while reducing the complexity of directly dealing with digital assets, with clients including Coinbase and SpaceX.Stripe previously supported Bitcoin payments in 2014 but terminated the related services in 2018. The acquisition of Bridge enables it to optimize cross-border payment solutions and expand its stablecoin payment infrastructure.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the second phase of the CharacterX airdrop event has begun, with the social system platform UXLINK joining as a co-organizer and participant. This phase of the event has also attracted many well-known projects such as Quantlytica, MiniTON, and Gabby World.As of now, the number of registered users on CharacterX has exceeded 5 million, with daily active users reaching 200,000. CharacterX is extending decentralized identity from users to AI, bringing on-chain identities to AI characters and continuously expanding the boundaries of the AI field.The project parties in this phase of the event will provide tokens worth $10,000 and 2,000 USDT. Through a Telegram community competition model, users can deeply participate in team PK activities and share the prize pool weekly.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, Radix has launched a mobile Web3 gamified onboarding platform called RadQuest, aimed at enabling anyone to start using Web3 and DeFi on Radix. The team stated that RadQuest was developed in collaboration with ustwo, the digital product studio behind the mobile game Monument Valley.It is reported that by completing a series of onboarding tasks, users will be able to earn tokenized rewards, which can be combined into collectible 'RadMorph' NFTs.

ChainCatcher message, Aptos Labs posted on social media that Aptos Connect is the next-generation Web3 user onboarding tool. It is a web-based, cross-platform self-custody wallet that provides users with a secure access experience without keys:Create an account with one click using familiar Web2 login methods;No need to remember private keys or seed phrases;No need for wallet applications or extension plugins.

ChainCatcher news, the Web3 social protocol Lens Protocol has initiated LIP-6, which aims to standardize the onboarding process for new users and stipulates a standardized fee for all applications built on the Lens platform.The proposal states that currently, to reduce the potential risk of bot spam within the platform, new users are required to make a one-time payment to create a profile, with the transaction fee set at 8 MATIC or 10 USD. However, various applications such as Hey and Tape charge different fees for their respective onboarding processes. The proposal suggests a 50/50 split of the fees, with 50% of the fees going directly to the Lens treasury to support the broader sustainability of the platform, while the remaining 50% will be allocated to the designated wallets of the respective applications.

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized derivatives protocol KTX.Finance has launched the Mantle User Onboarding Programme, aimed at incentivizing users to bridge funds to Mantle and trade and interact with KTX.Finance.The incentive program has a reward pool capped at 25,000 MNT, which will be distributed to the first 500 users and will expand based on the number of users who join. The entire program will conclude in early October 2023, and eligible participating users must have at least 5,000 trading points.It is reported that KTX.Finance is one of the selected partners of the Mantle Journey program within the Mantle ecosystem. The Mantle Journey is an open and fair incentive program designed to allocate rewards to Mantle users.

ChainCatcher news, Coinbase's L2 blockchain Base officially announced that its ecosystem fund, Base Ecosystem Fund, has completed investments in six projects.The projects that received investment include: Avantis (an oracle-based synthetic derivatives protocol), BSX (a decentralized limit order book), Onboard (on-chain self-custody service), OpenCover (an L2 insurance aggregator working with underwriters like Nexus Mutual), Paragraph (an on-chain creator platform), and Truflation (an on-chain financial oracle).In addition, Base stated that it will collaborate with relevant teams to promote the development of the Base ecosystem and bring more builders and users on-chain.

ChainCatcher news, based on ZK Rollup, the Ethereum Layer 2 network zkSync tweeted that the next milestone of zkSync 2.0, Fair Onboarding Alpha, is coming soon. It allows developers to test code in a closed environment, and the new fee model ensures that transaction and block expansion consider the overall system costs, improves proof generation performance, and addresses all audit findings.It is reported that the duration of Fair Onboarding Alpha will be determined together with ecosystem projects. During the Fair Onboarding Alpha period, the system will be closed to external users, and after completion, it will enter the Full Launch Alpha phase and be open to external users. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, the Ethereum Layer 2 network zkSync based on ZKRollup announced the release dates for the Fair Onboarding Alpha and Full Launch Alpha milestones in its updated roadmap.zkSync stated that the Fair Onboarding Alpha milestone is expected to be delayed to the first quarter of 2023, and the Full Launch Alpha will be postponed to the second quarter of 2023, as the relevant security audits will be completed before January 2023. The release dates for all products will depend on network readiness, and the Fair Onboarding Alpha will be fully open source. (source link)