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The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) announced a new round of funding exceeding 60 million satoshis (approximately $472,800) to 16 projects worldwide through its Bitcoin Development Fund, with the funded projects distributed across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. These grants aim to strengthen the Bitcoin protocol, expand the practical use of Bitcoin, and provide secure communication and community infrastructure for dissidents. This is HRF's second round of funding in 2026, following the organization's announcement in April to support 26 projects.The funded projects cover multiple areas. In terms of Bitcoin payments, BitSpenda plans to expand its mobile currency to a Bitcoin bridging tool to reduce cross-border transfer costs in Africa; Project Island Resilience, based on Jamaican developer Dread's Flash wallet, plans to add offline payment features using Bluetooth, NFC, and ecash; Bitzed helps Zambian users purchase Bitcoin directly through mobile currency. In Bitcoin development, Libbitcoinkernel, Floresta, BDK-Dart, and WalletScrutiny focus on reusing core code, lightweight nodes, cross-platform wallet tools, and wallet auditing, respectively.In the Nostr ecosystem, projects such as Vector, Flotilla Chat, OpenAlert, and 0xchat received support to provide censorship-resistant encrypted communication tools.

According to Bitcoin Magazine, Jack Dorsey, the founder of Block (formerly Square), announced the launch of the open-source decentralized group chat application Buzz, aimed at challenging team collaboration platforms like Slack. Buzz is built on the decentralized social protocol Nostr and is designed for teams composed of humans and AI agents, supporting chat, project management, coding, and PR collaboration.Block stated that the application is decentralized and open-source, allowing users to have full control over their data, and teams can collaborate with members and dedicated agents in a shared space.

AI infrastructure company IREN, which has transitioned from a Bitcoin mining enterprise, announced the acquisition of Spanish AI data center developer Ingenostrum, S.L., also known as Nostrum Group, officially entering the European market.This transaction adds approximately 490 megawatts of secured, grid-connected power resources to IREN and brings a pipeline of AI data center development located in Spain. The Nostrum team consists of over 50 employees, covering development, engineering, construction, and operations. IREN stated that Europe is one of the largest and fastest-growing AI infrastructure markets globally, and Spain, with its abundant renewable energy and strong fiber optic connections, is an important gateway to the European market.This acquisition is also the latest move by IREN to transform from a pure Bitcoin mining company into a global supplier of AI and high-performance computing infrastructure. Previously, IREN had just announced plans to build an 800-megawatt data center park in South Australia and has signed a multi-billion dollar AI cloud agreement with Microsoft, as well as established a partnership with NVIDIA.After the announcement, IREN's stock price rose nearly 4% on Monday, reporting around $62.

ChainCatcher news, the Starknet ecosystem lending protocol Nostra has discovered a serious error in its price oracle, causing the prices of xSTRK and sSTRK to be incorrectly inflated by about 3 times. To prevent unnecessary liquidation of user assets, Nostra has suspended the borrowing functions for both and advised deposit users to withdraw their collateral as soon as possible.Due to the lack of backup oracles, Nostra stated that similar risks may still exist in the future.

According to ChainCatcher news, the lending protocol Nostra Finance has initiated a governance proposal on Snapshot, suggesting to migrate the liquidity of NSTR from the Uniswap v3 pool on the Ethereum mainnet to the NSTR/USDC Nostra pool on Starknet, in order to improve the liquidity of NSTR on Starknet.

ChainCatcher news, Nostra founder David Garai resigned as CEO of the Starknet DeFi project less than two weeks after the NSTR token airdrop.Garai stated: "I have stepped down as CEO of Nostra, and this is the first time in 4 years that I will take a break for a while, and then I will come back. Please stay tuned for my future plans."

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the Starknet ecosystem lending protocol Nostra announced on social media that NSTR is now open for claiming, and the claiming window will close on September 13, 2024, at 22:00 Beijing time.

ChainCatcher news, Starknet ecosystem DeFi protocol Nostra announced the standards and snapshot details for its first airdrop. The snapshot for the Nostra Points Program Season 1 coincides with the end time of the NSTR token liquidity bootstrapping auction (LBP), which is June 13 at 22:00 (Beijing time). The total amount of this airdrop is 10 million NSTR (10% of the total supply), which will be distributed to 217,789 participants of the Points Program Season 1. Additionally, 1 million NSTR (1% of the total supply) will reward active Discord members, with 500,000 being evenly distributed among 308 users who submitted wallets, and the remaining 500,000 being rewarded linearly based on the number of messages sent.Nostra Season 2 is scheduled to start on June 13 at 22:00 and is expected to last at least 6 months, with the final date, distribution, and standards to be determined through governance in the coming months. Meanwhile, the official Nostra will launch the airdrop claim portal on June 17, where users can claim their airdrop rewards.

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the Starknet ecosystem lending protocol Nostra has announced its tokenomics, with a total supply of 100 million NSTR tokens, all unlocked at launch.During the TGE (Token Generation Event), 11% of the tokens will be airdropped to the community;Liquidity Bootstrapping Pool (LBP): June 10 to 13 (all proceeds will be used for DEX liquidity);Token Generation Event (TGE), including airdrop: June 17.

ChainCatcher message, CKB community member Retric proposed the Nostr Binding Protocol, where Nostr is an information distribution protocol suitable for large-scale adoption in consumer applications.The Nostr Binding Protocol creates a one-to-one mapping relationship between Nostr Events and CKB Cells. Ordinary users can create and distribute native assets on the Nostr social network based on this protocol, and through RGB++, these assets on Nostr can also be controlled by Bitcoin addresses. Client developers can build products on it; unlike ETH dApps which split into two systems (one being off-chain servers and the other on-chain smart contracts), the Nostr Binding Protocol brings a new development paradigm for dApps, using a consistent system with different data levels to build dApps.It is reported that the Nostr Binding Protocol can be seamlessly integrated into the CKB Lightning Network in the future, addressing the native payment issues in social networks. The CKB Ecological Foundation will promote consumer applications based on the Nostr Binding Protocol to land in the BTC ecosystem.

ChainCatcher message, Nostr Assets Protocol posted on platform X stating that the two tokens TRICK and TREAT will be merged into a platform token, and the unairdropped portion, which is 80% of the total supply, will be burned. Holders of the platform token will receive protocol revenue from various sources, including revenue from LN Exchange. Further exchange information will be released in subsequent announcements.

ChainCatcher news, DefiLlama data shows that the Starknet ecosystem DEX & lending protocol Nostra's TVL has surpassed 120 million USD, while the current Starknet total TVL is 227 million USD, accounting for 52.8%. According to the protocol data, the current TVL is mainly composed of STRK and nstSTRK, amounting to 78 million USD.

ChainCatcher news, Starknet ecosystem DeFi protocol Nostra announces the launch of the liquid staking token stSTRK for STRK.Users can stake their STRK as stSTRK through the Nostra application, and they can also unstake stSTRK back to STRK. By holding stSTRK, users can not only maintain asset liquidity but also accumulate points rewards, and automatically earn staking rewards once the STRK staking feature goes live in the coming months.

ChainCatcher news, Nostr Assets announced on platform X that a new round of Fair Mint will be held, with the project being the Bitcoin ecosystem naming protocol Taproot Name Assets (TNA), and Fair Mint tokens accounting for 15% of the total supply.

ChainCatcher news, Nostr Assets has released a development plan, aiming to solve Bitcoin congestion issues through Taproot assets and play a long-term role for Nostr Assets.It is reported that the recent plan includes addressing liquidity issues in the Lightning Network; discussing Fair Mint with more projects and adjusting Fair Mint rules; and adding more use cases for Treat and Trick.

ChainCatcher message, in response to Damus CEO William Casarin's refusal to accept donations and claims that his keys have been blacklisted and locked out of the website unable to transfer funds, Nostr Assets Protocol has issued a response.Nostr Assets emphasizes that their original intention was to help Damus and expresses regret over William Casarin's decision to block them directly without seeking further understanding or assistance. Although there may be differences in vision between the two parties, Nostr Assets stresses that their intentions are pure and expresses a willingness to provide guidance to resolve any issues. Nostr Assets also confirms that 50,000 NOSTR (approximately $200,000) has been transferred to William Casarin's address, reiterating their sincerity in the donation and emphasizing an attitude of open cooperation.