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According to official news, the cross-chain bridge aggregator Relay announced the completion of a $17 million Series B funding round, led by Archetype and Union Square Ventures. At the same time, Relay announced the launch of Relay Chain.It is reported that Relay Chain is an underlying infrastructure specifically designed for cross-chain settlement and exchange. This architecture aims to address the issue of liquidity fragmentation, achieving per-order settlement (not batch packaging) at extremely low costs, significantly reducing transaction delays and costs while improving capital efficiency.

According to official news, the cross-chain liquidity unified layer Euclid Protocol has announced the completion of a $3.5 million seed round and seed round extension financing, with participation from KuCoin Ventures, Gate Ventures, 0G Labs, ATOM Accelerator, and Kahuna.It is reported that the protocol aims to build a unified global liquidity layer, allowing multiple applications and networks to share liquidity sources across ecosystems.

According to The Block, the cross-chain liquidity protocol CrossCurve (formerly known as EYWA) has confirmed that its cross-chain bridge protocol "is under attack" due to a vulnerability in its smart contract being exploited, resulting in approximately $3 million in funds being stolen across multiple networks. Blockchain security firm Defimon Alerts discovered that the attack vector was a gateway validation bypass vulnerability in CrossCurve's ReceiverAxelar contract.Analysis shows that anyone can use a forged cross-chain message to call the contract's expressExecute function, thereby bypassing the expected gateway validation and triggering unauthorized token unlocks on the protocol's PortalV2 contract. The protocol is supported by Curve Finance founder Michael Egorov, who previously raised $7 million.

Circle announced on the X platform that the cross-chain forwarding feature on the CCTP mainnet is now live.As a fully managed service provided by Circle, the cross-chain forwarding feature can automatically execute CCTP transactions on the target chain. The launch of this feature can reduce end-to-end transfer times, lower operational costs and third-party risks, and improve the experience for developers and users.

SolanaFloor posted on platform X that in the past 7 days, nearly 80 million dollars have been cross-chained to Solana from other blockchains, with over 50 million dollars coming specifically from Ethereum.

According to BeinCrypto, the native token GHOST of GhostWareOS saw its price surge by nearly 60% as the project announced a significant expansion of its privacy-centric product suite on Solana.It is reported that GhostWareOS is a privacy infrastructure project based on Solana, aimed at providing anonymous payments, covert transfers, and privacy-protecting liquidity tools for a fully transparent blockchain.

On January 21, Saga discovered and responded to a security incident affecting the SagaEVM chain. The incident involved a coordinated deployment of contract sequences, cross-chain operations, and subsequent liquidity extraction. Based on the principle of prudence, the SagaEVM chain has been paused at block height 6593800, and an active investigation and mitigation work is underway. Approximately $7 million worth of USDC, yUSD, ETH, and tBTC has been transferred to the Ethereum mainnet.The team is collaborating with exchanges and cross-chain bridge platforms to blacklist the attack wallet and recover the stolen tokens, and will repair and strengthen the affected cross-chain and deployment components. This incident did not involve a consensus mechanism failure, validator compromise, or private key leakage.According to previous news from ChainCatcher, the Saga chain was allegedly attacked by hackers, resulting in approximately $7 million in assets being stolen.

According to official news, Circle announced that its cross-chain solution Circle Gateway now supports the Solana network.Developers can use this tool to integrate non-custodial, cross-chain abstract USDC, enabling instant liquidity access in scenarios such as DeFi, payments, and fund management. Currently, Circle Gateway supports 12 blockchains including Arbitrum, Avalanche, Base, Ethereum, Polygon, and Solana, and is expected to expand to more networks in the future.

According to official news, the distributed AI small model (SLM) infrastructure network Another Me has officially announced that it has received special ecological support from the Layer1 public chain ENI Network. The cross-chain bridge function has now officially launched, allowing users to securely migrate assets from BNB Chain to the ENI mainnet through the official entrance.It is reported that Another Me is committed to training high-performance vertical small models (SLM) through distributed user data and feedback. The project employs an "interaction is mining" mechanism, enabling users to contribute computing power and capture token rewards while running AI digital twins. With the launch of the cross-chain functionality, users participating in Another Me interactions will simultaneously activate a 1.5 times ENI mainnet points bonus, achieving dual value capture at both the public chain infrastructure and AI application layer.

Genius announced on the X platform that, in response to community feedback regarding platform trading issues, several vulnerabilities have been fixed, including:Significant reduction in Gas fees: Fixed the issue of overestimation of Gas limits on-chain due to EIP-1559 and the problem of maxPriorityFeePerGas being set too high;Optimized BNB cross-chain exchange: Added a small Gas buffer to prevent transaction failures due to insufficient Gas, while not significantly increasing Gas fees;Fixed the cross-chain transaction fee sponsorship issue using EIP-7702: Updated the process to correctly execute cross-chain transactions sponsored by third parties (no longer experiencing issues from the old version).

According to Specter monitoring, a wallet transferred 7 million dollars from multiple wallets on the TRON chain to Ethereum via cross-chain.The source of the funds indicates that this money is suspected to originate from a cryptocurrency "pig butchering" investment scam. This conclusion is drawn based on the involved blockchains and the services used. Of this, 3.1 million dollars has been deposited into Tornado Cash.

SolanaFloor posted on the X platform that in 2025, nearly $9 billion in assets will be transferred to Solana from other blockchains via cross-chain bridges. Among them, over $5 billion in assets will come solely from Ethereum.

According to the official announcement, Gate Web3 Swap has completed a major upgrade on December 30, 2025, restructuring the underlying trading logic and integrating Swap with Bridge mode. This upgrade adds support for 9 public chains and native assets, including Bitcoin (BTC), Litecoin (LTC), and Zcash (ZEC), allowing users to experience extreme efficiency without distinguishing between single-chain or cross-chain through a unified entry point. In addition, the new features support custom receiving addresses and transparent routing, aimed at providing a smoother and more flexible asset flow experience.Gate Swap is an AMM DEX deployed in the Gate Layer ecosystem, focusing on providing deep liquidity support and efficient trading experiences for the Gate Layer ecosystem. Through optimized trading mechanisms and smart liquidity management, it helps users achieve seamless and cost-effective asset exchanges.

According to data from the official Twitter account, the total amount of BTTC cross-chain transactions will strongly exceed $1.63 billion in 2025, with over 10,000 efficient transactions completed. Among them, TRON accounts for $9.178 billion, Ethereum accounts for $6.928 billion, and BNB Smart Chain accounts for $203 million, with the three major networks collaboratively building a liquidity matrix worth tens of billions. As an infrastructure specifically designed for high-speed cross-chain transactions, BTTC continues to provide strong momentum for the scaling of AI-native assets, accelerating the evolution of the decentralized finance ecosystem into the smart era.

According to official news, Gate Layer has officially launched its cross-chain bridge feature and completed integration with the cross-chain infrastructure Stargate, bringing more efficient and secure cross-chain asset transfer capabilities to the ecosystem. With the number of on-chain addresses exceeding 100 million and cumulative transaction volume reaching tens of millions, this upgrade will further enhance the network connectivity of Gate Layer, providing developers and users with a smoother multi-chain interaction experience.After the launch of the cross-chain bridge, Gate Layer will possess more efficient cross-chain asset transfer capabilities, higher network interoperability, and ecosystem connectivity, significantly improving the scalability and flexibility of dApps in multi-chain scenarios.The implementation of this feature is an important step for Gate Layer in advancing the construction of high-performance, open Web3 infrastructure, and marks a new phase for the Gate ecosystem towards broader cross-chain interconnectivity.

Near Protocol announces that its native token $NEAR has officially launched on the Solana network, achieving seamless cross-chain support through NEAR Intents and Orb Markets.Users can now directly deposit and withdraw $NEAR on Solana without the need for multiple wallet configurations or switching gas fee networks.

Ondo Finance has announced the launch of the Ondo Cross-Chain Bridge for on-chain securities. The Ondo Cross-Chain Bridge is now live on Ethereum and BNB Chain, enabling cross-chain transfers of over 100 stock tokens and ETF tokens.The cross-chain bridge is built in collaboration with LayerZero and is secured by a decentralized validation node network (DVN) that includes Canary Protocol, and it is implemented through Stargate, allowing for the following functionalities: cross-chain transfers of Ondo stock tokens and ETF tokens at a 1:1 asset parity; facilitating applications on Ethereum and BNB Chain to easily add support for Ondo assets; and rapid large-scale expansion to other Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) compatible chains.