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ChainCatcher news, Virtuals announces the launch of a new launch model, Unicorn. Compared to the previous Genesis model, Unicorn no longer solely pursues fairness but emphasizes early belief and long-term value. Each Unicorn project starts with a low valuation, allowing early participants to gain asymmetric returns. The founding team only receives funding when the project actually grows, ensuring responsibility and long-term development.The launch process includes the creation phase, early trading phase, and a transparent team allocation mechanism, with anti-bot measures and ecological airdrop rewards for VIRTUAL holders and active community members. The Unicorn model will gradually replace the Genesis points system, with the reward mechanism shifting from points to VIRTUAL staking and ecological activities. Each Unicorn Launch will allocate 5% of the total supply to true community members: 2% to VIRTUAL stakers; 3% to active participants in the Virtuals ecosystem.

ChainCatcher news, Cycle Network officially launched the UniCall section on the UnicornX platform, with an intraday peak increase of 294.47%.It is reported that Cycle Network announced a strategic investment from Diamond Hands Capital Unicorn Verse, providing support for Cycle Network's secondary market and its subsequent development. Cycle Network will focus on advancing its core business: building a "VisaNet" in the cryptocurrency field, providing efficient, secure, and seamless settlement and trading experiences for various blockchain assets, while further enhancing multi-chain settlement capabilities and ecological layout.

ChainCatcher news, Cycle Network officially announced a strategic partnership with UnicornX. After becoming the latest project of Unicall, the market capitalization of $CYC reached a new high, with an intraday peak increase of 294.47%, and FDV exceeding 100 million USD.Recently, Cycle Network completed a strategic upgrade, aiming to become the "VisaNet of seamless connections in the crypto space," further enhancing its multi-chain settlement capabilities and ecological layout.UnicornX is not only a DEX but also a hub for integrity-driven projects and resources. With the support of the liquidity strategic investment institution UnicornVerse, it provides acceleration channels for projects at different stages through flagship features UniCall and XCall. Since the launch of UniCall, projects that have gone live on UniCall have achieved an average growth rate of +507.3%, aiming to reshape the trust mechanism in Web3 and become the core hub for singularity exchanges and long-term growth.

ChainCatcher news, Bitget on-chain trading has recently launched projects showing an upward trend. Among them, UNICORN reached a maximum increase of 1066% after its launch, LuckyCoin reached 921%, and H reached 405%.Bitget on-chain trading aims to seamlessly connect CEX and DEX, providing users with a more convenient, efficient, and secure on-chain trading experience. Users can directly use their Bitget spot account (USDT/USDC) to trade popular on-chain assets. Currently, it supports popular public chains such as Solana (SOL), BNB Smart Chain (BSC), and Base.

ChainCatcher news, according to the announcement from Huobi HTX, Huobi HTX will open the deposit service for UFD on May 12 at 16:00 (GMT+8). UFD/USDT spot trading will be available on May 12 at 17:00 (GMT+8). The withdrawal service for UFD will be opened on May 13 at 17:00 (GMT+8).It is reported that Unicorn Fart Dust (UFD) is a meme coin on the Solana chain, initiated by an elderly person (boomer) who believes in "gold and silver supremacy." After hearing that the market value of Fartcoin soared to $500 million, he decided to launch his own meme coin as a social experiment to "prank" the crypto community. His view is that cryptocurrency is equivalent to "a fantasy of unicorn fart dust."

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, Austrian crypto unicorn Bitpanda has received a MiCA license issued by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), becoming the second crypto asset service provider (CASP) to obtain this license. The license is effective immediately, allowing Bitpanda to operate in all 27 member states of the EU.Bitpanda CEO Eric Demuth emphasized that the EU needs to learn from the U.S. experience and strengthen the enforcement of MiCA regulations to prevent non-compliant platforms from continuing to operate. He pointed out that the U.S. is rapidly positioning itself as a global crypto hub, and the EU needs to take more proactive measures to maintain its competitive advantage.

ChainCatcher news, liquidity strategic investment company Unicorn Verse announces the acquisition of Sweepy. Sweepy will officially be renamed UnicornX. UnicornX aims to become an on-chain trading ecosystem, committed to leading industry development through innovation.

ChainCatcher news, in 2024, the valuation of Switzerland's Crypto Valley reached $593 billion, with 17 unicorn companies.During 2024, Crypto Valley attracted $586 million in investments across 56 transactions, accounting for 29.1% of the total blockchain financing in Europe.

According to ChainCatcher news, the Shanghai Securities Journal reported that the Hurun Research Institute released the "2024 Hurun Global Unicorn List," showing that the number of unicorn companies worldwide has increased by 17% year-on-year to 803, distributed across 38 countries. Among them, the number of Chinese companies has risen from 70 in 2019 to 258, with 77 in biotechnology and 29 in AI among the 302 new companies.The data shows that over 25% of unicorn companies have applied AI technology in fields such as fintech, blockchain, and SaaS, with an average valuation of $700 million. Hurun stated that the integration of technologies such as generative AI, machine learning, AR/VR, and cloud computing has brought unprecedented development opportunities for innovative companies.It is reported that unicorn companies refer to young companies that grow rapidly like African gazelles, typically established after 2000, expected to reach a valuation of $1 billion within three years, and are unlisted companies with continuous innovation capabilities and rapid growth potential.