ChainCatcher news, according to official IOTA news, the IOTA mainnet Stardust has successfully completed its decommissioning. Currently, 13 genesis validators are conducting the genesis ceremony to launch the new IOTA mainnet in a fully decentralized manner.

ChainCatcher news, according to official information from PayPal, the company will launch its payment service in physical stores in Germany this summer. This is the first time PayPal has introduced a payment feature in physical stores in Germany, allowing users to make payments at merchants that support Mastercard contactless payments through the PayPal App (iOS and Android).The service includes three main features: first, contactless payments via mobile phone; second, the launch of the PayPal Ratenzahlung To Go installment payment service, supporting installments of 3, 6, 12, and 24 months; third, users can activate offers in the PayPal App to receive cashback when using contactless payments at designated merchants in Germany.Joerg Kablitz, Managing Director of PayPal Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, stated that this is PayPal's largest product development investment in Germany to date, and the service will be rolled out nationwide in the coming weeks.

ChainCatcher news, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino announced on his X platform account that a new project named Tether.ai is set to launch.According to Ardoino, the core product of Tether.ai, "Personal Infinite Intelligence," will be a fully open-source AI Runtime. Its design goal is to be adaptable and operable on any hardware and device without the need for API keys, eliminating centralized points of failure, and being fully modular and composable. Notably, this AI Runtime will integrate WDK (presumably Tether's development kit) to support payments using the stablecoin USDT and Bitcoin. Ardoino envisions that Tether AI technology aims to ultimately build a peer-to-peer network composed of billions of AI agents.

According to ChainCatcher news reported by CoinDesk, Kyrgyzstan is planning to officially launch a stablecoin named Gold Dollar, with the token code USDKG, in the third quarter (Q3) of 2025.Project advisor Gabriel Guerra introduced that USDKG will be a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar at a 1:1 fixed rate, with its value supported by physical gold reserves held by the Kyrgyzstan Ministry of Finance. In the initial phase, gold worth $500 million will be used as reserves, with plans to expand this reserve to $2 billion in the future, ensuring transparency through independent audits. To address the risk of gold price fluctuations, USDKG will adopt an over-collateralization design. Its main goal is to facilitate cross-border payments and international trade, especially in the context where remittances account for up to 30% of the country's GDP. The initial market focus of USDKG will be Central Asia, with future plans to expand to Southeast Asia and the Middle East. It is worth noting that USDKG aims to anchor the value of the US dollar rather than track the price of gold (unlike PAXG, etc.), and holders will be able to redeem it for physical gold, other crypto assets, or withdraw it as fiat currency in the future.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, Binance Alpha has launched BOOP on the BSC ecosystem.The contract address is: 0x9a70815dfb644a24b57358e1041f8d0324c8f6e1.

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, early Bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem is developing a new Bitcoin faucet website 21million.com, which mimics the first Bitcoin captcha page created by early Bitcoin innovator Gavin Andresen in 2010.Users can earn Bitcoin rewards by completing captcha tasks. Currently, the website shows the available Bitcoin amount as 0, and the captcha tasks and Bitcoin receiving address input box are not yet open for use. Shrem stated that he is developing the project through AI-assisted programming (vibe coding).Bitcoin faucets played an important role in promoting and adopting Bitcoin in the early 2010s. Andresen's Bitcoin faucet website distributed a total of 19,700 Bitcoins (now worth approximately $1.86 billion), with users able to earn up to 5 Bitcoins per day. As Bitcoin prices and transaction fees rose, this model eventually became unsustainable.

ChainCatcher news, the BNBChain community meme project Jager Hunter will jointly launch the JAGER token airdrop event with the Four.meme platform. This airdrop will distribute 3% of the total supply of tokens and is open to all new and existing users of the Four.meme platform. The event will run from May 4, 2025, 18:00 to May 7, 18:00.Latest data shows that over 110,000 addresses have participated in the JAGER community airdrop within 3 days of its launch. The airdrop adopts a decreasing claim mechanism, meaning that for every 2.5% of the total amount claimed, the claim base for subsequent users will decrease by 20%.It is reported that 90.5% of the total supply of JAGER tokens will be distributed through a fair airdrop, covering users of the three major public chains: BNBChain, Solana, and Ethereum.

ChainCatcher news, according to CoinDesk, Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino revealed in an interview with CNBC that the company will launch a unique new product, which is likely to be a payment product. Tether aims to build a product that can be used by institutions, a product that can compete with CashApp.

ChainCatcher news, according to market news, Strategy is now more focused on Bitcoin rather than its software business. The company reported a first-quarter loss of $4.23 billion (per share $16.49), far exceeding expectations. Revenue fell 3.6% to $111.1 million, missing forecasts.The company launched an ambitious "42/42 plan," aiming to raise $84 billion over two years to purchase Bitcoin, following the implementation of a $42 billion "21/21 plan" last year. Analysts stated that despite market volatility, the stock remains a strong proxy for Bitcoin, trading at 2.13 times its net asset value, showing solid performance.

ChainCatcher message, Binance HODLer airdrop is live for StakeStone (STO).All users who deposit BNB into Simple Earn (Flexible Earnings or Locked Earnings) or On-Chain Yields products between April 27, 2025, 00:00 (UTC) and April 29, 2025, 23:59 (UTC) will receive an airdrop. HODLer airdrop information is expected to be released within 5 hours, and the new tokens will be credited to users' spot accounts at least 1 hour before trading begins.

ChainCatcher news, according to the decentralized AI blockchain platform Sahara AI on the X platform, the public testnet SIWA will be released on May 19.

ChainCatcher message, Bitget on-chain trading has launched the Solana ecosystem MEME tokens BOOP, MAGA, and horni. Currently, it supports popular public chains such as Solana (SOL), BNB Smart Chain (BSC), and Base.

ChainCatcher news, the privacy and scalability solution based on ZK Rollup, Aztec, has announced the launch of its public testnet on social media platforms.

ChainCatcher message, according to the official announcement, Binance will launch pre-trading for the SXTUSDT perpetual contract on May 2, 2025, at 16:30 (UTC+8), with a maximum leverage of up to 5 times.

ChainCatcher message, according to the official announcement, Bithumb will launch the Haedal Protocol (HAEDAL) KRW trading pair.

ChainCatcher news, according to Reuters, the CEO of Charles Schwab stated that cryptocurrency spot trading will be launched within 12 months.

ChainCatcher news, the JuCoin self-developed public chain JuChain has officially launched its mainnet. At the same time, the JuChain public chain co-construction summit initiated by JuCoin will be grandly held on May 15, 2025, in Bangkok, Thailand. This conference will officially release the ecosystem's first core protocol, Butterfly, marking a critical stage in the infrastructure development of the JuChain public chain.It is reported that JuChain is an innovative high-performance Layer 1 blockchain platform aimed at becoming an on-chain traffic hub and user growth engine.The Butterfly protocol is built on the "Butterfly Morgan Algorithm," integrating a bidirectional conservation protocol, a butterfly effect engine, a three-body resonance model, and a MoWa security compensation mechanism, dedicated to creating a sustainable and high-growth on-chain economic system.