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Investment bank William Blair stated that after a decline of about 26% from its peak in the first quarter, Coinbase has basically completed its de-risking, and the market's expectations for its weak trading volume and revenue have been fully reflected in its stock price.Analysts pointed out that although the trading data in the first quarter was weak, it had limited impact on market sentiment, and the company is enhancing its competitiveness through a "full-service trading platform" that includes derivatives, staking, stock trading, and prediction markets. The report emphasized that the continued growth of the stablecoin USDC is a core positive, with its market share rising to about 27%, a significant increase from around 21% in 2024, and it continues to capture market share from USDT.William Blair believes that the expansion of USDC brings synergistic benefits to Coinbase and its issuer Circle, and is optimistic about the latter's long-term value in stablecoin payment and trading scenarios. At the same time, institutions believe that the probability of a long-term downturn in the cryptocurrency market is low, and Coinbase has "asymmetric upside potential" in the market recovery.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, analysts at investment bank William Blair say that Visa's underperforming stock this year may soon see a turnaround, with stablecoins becoming a significant positive factor for the payment giant and acting as a catalyst for Visa's structural growth.During the company's earnings call on Tuesday, Visa CEO Ryan McInerney confirmed that the company plans to support four types of stablecoins, which are distributed across four different blockchains. Visa will accept these stablecoins and convert them into over 25 traditional fiat currencies.McInerney also noted that compared to the same period last year, quarterly spending on Visa cards linked to stablecoins has quadrupled, and since 2020, Visa has facilitated over $140 billion in cryptocurrency and stablecoin transactions.

ChainCatcher news, Lair Finance officially launches the Berachain exclusive liquidity re-staking token (LRT) $LrBGT, becoming the first re-staking asset that integrates Infrared PoL Vault yields. $LrBGT is built on $iBGT, combining high yield capture capability with on-chain liquidity, innovatively enhancing the capital efficiency of Berachain.As one of the core assets of the platform on Berachain, $LrBGT will deeply participate in the subsequent re-staking and yield treasury system.The launch news has driven the trading volume and attention of $LAIR to rise rapidly, with the price increasing nearly 15% in the short term.

ChainCatcher news, the first round of AVS attracted over 74 million $rstKAIA staked, with multiple collaborative projects landing on Bybit Alpha and Binance Wallet, showcasing Lair Finance's precise selection and ecological empowerment capabilities. The second round of AVS officially launched on July 18, introducing two new projects, Weero and Kotto, and welcoming the return of Slime Miner, fully upgrading the "staking + gaming"收益 experience. At the same time, $LAIR officially joined the reward system as a core incentive, and the price of $LAIR immediately rose by 20% following the announcement, generating a strong market response.

ChainCatcher news, Lair Finance's $LsINJ is officially launched, becoming the first LSD application case for Injective. Users can stake INJ to instantly receive liquid tokens, participate in multi-chain strategies, and automatically enjoy AVS rewards, activating asset liquidity and yield potential.Relying on Injective's unique unified virtual machine architecture (a fusion of EVM and Cosmos), Lair is building cross-chain LSD infrastructure to achieve one-click staking and multi-chain yields. After the announcement, the price of $LAIR surged by 20%.

ChainCatcher news, Lair Finance announced that it will become the first DeFi protocol on Kaia to integrate the Korean Won (KRW) stablecoin, taking the lead in building a dedicated KRW yield vault (KRW Vault).This KRW stablecoin is jointly promoted by South Korean tech giants Kakao and LINE, marking an important move in the on-chain finance sector. Within 12 hours of the announcement, $LAIR continued to soar and reached a peak, drawing full market attention.

ChainCatcher news, Lair Finance announced the joint launch of the first re-staking token LrBGT based on iBGT in collaboration with Infrared Finance, a leading protocol in the Berachain ecosystem, empowering the PoL reward mechanism and cross-chain ecological integration, building Lair's all-chain yield hub.Infrared Finance occupies a core position in Berachain's liquid staking system with products like iBGT, with a TVL exceeding $1 billion, accounting for nearly 60% of the entire network. After the announcement of the collaboration, the price of LAIR rapidly surged, with an increase of over 22%.

ChainCatcher news, the LAIR-WBERA protocol liquidity pool deployed by Lair on KodiakFi currently has an APR of up to 76,906%; the APR for the WBERA-LAIR pool on Infrared Finance also reaches 749.55%. Users can participate in Farming by providing dual-token liquidity, earning high returns and multiple incentives.Currently, Lair has formed a strategic partnership with Infrared Finance, a leading LST protocol in the Berachain ecosystem, planning to launch a re-staking path based on iBGT, further expanding the incentive scenarios and application value of LrBGT. As of the time of writing, $LAIR has increased by 30% year-on-year.

ChainCatcher news, Aztec founder Zac Williamson announced on X that he has appointed former Risc Zero marketing director Claire Kart as the new Chief Marketing Officer (CMO).

ChainCatcher news, Uniswap Labs has launched a new metric called FLAIR (Fee Liquidity Adjusted Instant Return) to assess LP competitiveness in AMMs. It aims to measure any number of LP positions over any time period, including a single point in time. FLAIR can be used to attribute historical performance, backtest LP strategies, or optimize new liquidity deployments.It is reported that FLAIR captures the dynamic behavior of LPs in the pool, reflecting reasonable LP economic intentions. This means that LPs increase competition within the pool by allocating funds to pools with higher returns, rebalancing liquidity within certain price ranges, and deploying liquidity during high-fee periods. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to Twitter user Yu Jin's monitoring, Clairvoyant Labs today withdrew 1.86 million BLUR (approximately 880,000 USD) from OKX. Subsequently, Clairvoyant Labs initiated a proposal on Snapshot, suggesting that the community decide which NFT projects can be included in Blend (Blur's NFT lending protocol).It is reported that Clairvoyant Labs withdrew 1.7 million BLUR from OKX on April 22, when the unit price was 0.59 USD, and transferred all to OKX on May 2 (when the unit price was 0.62 USD). (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to Twitter user Ember Monitoring, at 11:49 today, an address marked as "Clairvoyant Labs" withdrew 1.7 million BLUR (approximately 1 million USD) from OKX to the on-chain address "clairvoyantlabs.eth". Clairvoyant Labs also withdrew 14,862 COMP (580,000 USD) and 590 MKR (410,000 USD) from Binance earlier. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire tweeted, "Circle has had no substantive contact with FTX and Alameda. FTX has been a customer of Circle Payment APIs for the past 18 months, providing card and ACH services for customer transactions, where Circle's crypto payment products have consistently utilized the BTC/ETH liquidity from FTX and other exchanges."Additionally, "Alameda has been a customer of Circle for years, using Circle's USDC services to create and redeem USDC. They have the same products and terms of use as all our institutional clients. Circle has never loaned to FTX or Alameda, has never received FTT as collateral, and has never held or traded FTT. Under no circumstances does Circle engage in proprietary trading. Circle is a minor shareholder of FTX, and FTX is a minor shareholder of Circle, but Circle is also a minor shareholder of Kraken, Coinbase, and Binance US." (source link)