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The UK Bitcoin treasury company The Smarter Web Company announced the acquisition of the digital marketing agency Squarebird Agency for a transaction price of £1.69 million, aiming to enhance overall financial health, recurring revenue, and operating cash flow. The transaction will be paid through a combination of newly issued equity and cash, and Squarebird will temporarily remain independently operated.

Binance founder CZ announced that there will be a bilingual Chinese and English live AMA at Binance Square today at 23:00 Beijing time, where you can ask him any questions.

According to the official announcement, Gate Square will open additional content mining rewards from February 10 to March 11. During the event, both creators and viewers will have the chance to win generous rewards. Creators will receive up to 60% in creation rebates. Creators who earn more than 0.1 USDT in mining rewards during this event can share a 1500 USDT new miner prize pool. Meanwhile, viewers who click on any content card's trading component in the square and complete a transaction will have the opportunity to be among the top 20 users by trading volume to receive up to 50 GT in rewards and exquisite Gate merchandise.

According to official news, Gate Square has recently completed the upgrade of its "content mining" mechanism and has simultaneously launched the public beta of the Renewal Season, focusing on optimizing content incentives and trading rebate paths to promote the conversion of content value into actual earnings. During the public beta, creators who publish qualified content on Gate Square and guide users to complete real transactions such as spot, contracts, or Alpha can participate in the fee rebate sharing, with a single creator able to receive up to 60% of the fee rebate.In terms of the revenue structure, all eligible creators can receive a 10% basic rebate guarantee, while the platform introduces an interactive incentive mechanism, allowing for additional rebate bonuses upon achieving posting or interaction targets. Furthermore, Gate Square will conduct weekly rankings based on the number of posts and interaction performance, providing extra rewards to the top 100 creators; for newly onboarded and returning creators, a double rebate benefit will be offered during the public beta.Gate stated that it will continue to optimize content incentives and trading conversion mechanisms in the future, encouraging more creators to cultivate long-term engagement in Gate Square and jointly build a more vibrant and sustainable content and trading ecosystem.

Zhao Changpeng stated during the Binance Square AMA live stream that X and Binance Square have different "genes," and most users of Binance Square have KYC. It is unclear whether X will conduct KYC for users if it opens up to cryptocurrency.

Zhao Changpeng posted on platform X that a Chinese AMA will be held at Binance Square in a few minutes.

The Binance Square has added a "Shared Holdings" feature, which can display the "Shared Holdings" and "Shared Trading" of users and the current homepage account.Community screenshots show that Binance CEO He Yi's Square homepage displays "You all hold Binance Life," which may be one of the reasons for the sentiment that "Binance Life" has surged over 60% in 24 hours. However, this feature has some delays, and the "Shared Holdings" information confirmation cannot be quickly obtained when buying; there will also be prompts for those who have previously traded "Binance Life."Square information shows that He Yi's asset increase on the Binance platform over 7 days is 5.91%, and over one year is 30.03%; 94.13% of his holdings are BNB, 4.15% are USDT, and BTC only accounts for 1.08%.CZ has not enabled the "Asset Report" and "Holding Distribution" features in the Square.

Focusing on embodied intelligence, Chinese high-tech startup X Square Robot (X²) announced that it has completed a 1 billion yuan A++ round of financing. This round was jointly invested by top investment institutions and various local platforms, including ByteDance, Sequoia China, Beijing Information Industry Development Fund, Shenzhen Capital Group, Nanshan Zhanxin Investment, and Xichuang Investment.It is reported that this is also the first investment since the establishment of the Shenzhen Capital Group AI Fund. Notably, in addition to ByteDance, X Square has also received investments from Meituan and Alibaba in previous financing rounds, making it the only embodied intelligence company in China to be simultaneously invested in by these three major internet giants.

According to Arkham data, at 16:25, 492,500 UNI (worth approximately $3.02 million) was transferred from Galaxy Digital to Coinsquare.

According to the official announcement, Binance will cease the services of the Binance Live platform on December 31, 2025. Thereafter, Binance Square will continue to provide live streaming services for users. The Binance Live web and app platforms will stop being accessible from January 1, 2026, at 07:59 (UTC+8).From the date of the announcement until December 1, 2025, at 08:00 (UTC+8), hosts who create at least one Binance Live session will automatically gain access to Binance Square Live on December 1, 2025, at 08:00 (UTC+8). All points, gifts, and vouchers on Binance Live will become invalid after January 1, 2026, at 07:59 (UTC+8).

Payment giant Square has launched a Bitcoin payment feature, allowing merchants to activate it at the POS terminal. Currently, it only supports offline and terminal payments, with online and invoicing features in development. The official announcement states that there will be no transaction fees until 2027, after which a fee of 1% is expected. Currently, the Square ecosystem covers 8 countries and over 4 million merchants; some users have reported experiencing this feature at coffee shops in the United States, and Cash App has simultaneously launched a global map supporting BTC merchants.

According to an official announcement from Square, its Bitcoin payment feature has officially launched, allowing merchants to choose from four payment methods: BTC → BTC, BTC → fiat, fiat → BTC, or fiat → fiat.Square founder Jack Dorsey stated on the X platform that this feature allows sellers to directly receive Bitcoin into their Square wallet or choose to automatically convert it to USD for settlement, marking the formal integration of Bitcoin payments into the mainstream merchant system.

ChainCatcher Binance Alpha announces the launch of the second batch of BSquared Network (B2) airdrops. Users holding at least 225 Binance Alpha points can claim the token airdrop.Claim 16 B2 tokens airdrop on the Alpha event page. If the rewards are not fully distributed, the points threshold will automatically decrease by 15 points every hour. Please note that claiming the airdrop will consume 15 Binance Alpha points. Users must confirm their claim on the Alpha event page within 24 hours, otherwise it will be considered a forfeiture of the airdrop.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Binance will launch the BSquared Network (B2) trading competition on October 25, 2025, at 16:00, and the event will last until November 8, 2025, at 16:00.Participants trading B2 on Binance Wallet (no private key) or Binance Alpha will have the chance to share a reward of 285,600 B2 tokens, with the top 8,400 users each receiving 34 B2.

ChainCatcher news, according to Decrypt, this week, a coffee shop in Washington D.C. became the world's first merchant to accept Bitcoin payments through Square's point of sale.Compass Coffee is a popular chain coffee shop in Washington D.C. with 27 locations, showcasing this new technology during "DC Fintech Week," allowing customers to use the Lightning Network to pay for coffee with Bitcoin via standard Square registers. This pilot is the first actual deployment of the new Bitcoin payment system announced by Square's parent company Block last Wednesday. Starting from November 10, merchants will be able to accept Bitcoin payments and convert up to 50% of daily sales into Bitcoin, with zero fees for the first year.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Binance founder CZ will be a guest on threadguy's podcast interview program at 00:30 Beijing time on October 11, and will be live-streamed simultaneously on Twitch, X, and Binance Square.It is reported that threadguy (real name Michael Jerome) is an influential content creator in the cryptocurrency and NFT community, known for posting in-depth analysis posts on X, while also being active on live streaming platforms like Twitch, focusing on discussions about NFT projects, market trends, and Web3 culture. Through hosting community events and interactive programs, he has become a prominent voice in the Web3 ecosystem.

ChainCatcher news, Jack Dorsey's payment company Block announced that its sub-brand Square has launched a new Bitcoin payment and wallet product aimed at small and medium-sized merchants using the Square point-of-sale system, with the goal of promoting Bitcoin into everyday business payment scenarios.Merchants can automatically convert payments to BTC through Square's Bitcoin network, with no fees. Starting from November 10, merchants can also directly accept Bitcoin payments and choose to automatically convert up to 50% of their daily sales revenue into BTC.