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ChainCatcher news, Block's payment company Square launched a Bitcoin payment pilot on May 28 during the Bitcoin 2025 conference in Las Vegas. Attendees can complete real-time settlements using the Lightning Network by scanning a barcode, with the exchange rate automatically calculated by the Square system. This feature will be available to all customers in 2026, pending regulatory approval.Miles Suter, Bitcoin product lead at Square's parent company Block, stated that this initiative aims to provide merchants with an open, decentralized, low-cost payment solution. The current Bitcoin price is $108,877.70, and the pilot will last for three days.

ChainCatcher news, according to a post by Kalos, co-founder of Parallel and Wayfinder, Wayfinder will release an overview of approximately 90 days next week, gradually rolling out features including scalability, enhanced security, path creation release, validator release (pilot), partial switch to Crow-32B, more agent types and functionalities (contract agent testing framework, portfolio handling), additional network support, Wayfinder API, and more.In addition, Kalos also plans to update Parallel, Colony, and Sanctuary in the coming week.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Web3 infrastructure provider QuickNode has announced the launch of the "RollOut" accelerator program, with a scale of $65 million, aimed at supporting the next generation of Layer 2 projects. The program will kick off in March, providing participants with technical tools, funding support, and industry resources, with partners including Google, Coinbase Ventures, Dragonfly, Arbitrum, Chainlink, Fireblocks, and Protocol Labs among over 30 institutions.RollOut will last for eight weeks and will offer training in ecosystem building, community development, token economics, and market strategies, as well as providing data availability grants and security audit discounts for selected projects. QuickNode expects that by 2030, the Layer 2 market size could reach $1 trillion, hoping to incubate high-quality projects through this program to drive innovation in decentralized applications (dApps).

ChainCatcher news, according to official sources, the first vertically integrated all-in-one L1 public chain Supra has announced the launch of its mainnet and the initiation of TGE, providing MultiVM support, native oracles, on-chain randomness, cross-chain communication, and automation features. The SUPRA token for this TGE will be listed on ByBit, Kucoin, Gate, and MEXC on November 27, 2024, with plans to launch on more exchanges in the future. This significant milestone marks a new phase for Supra, bringing great potential to the Web3 ecosystem.Supra has completed $38 million in funding, with investment institutions including Coinbase, HashKey, and Animoca. Since the launch of Supra's testnet in August 2024, it has processed over 9 million transactions. Meanwhile, the Blastoff event attracted 510,000 users, becoming a model for the Web3 community. Many developers plan to launch dApps on the Supra mainnet by the end of this year, further driving ecosystem growth.

ChainCatcher news, the Atomicals Protocol has released the Atomicals Virtual Machine (AVM) white paper. The software release will be completed in phases, starting with the interpreter operation, followed by modifications to the indexer nodes.The white paper states that currently, all overlay digital asset protocols on Bitcoin create and transfer digital assets according to fixed rules. By allowing programmers to define state machine logic to establish creation and transfer rules, fully flexible (Turing-complete) smart contracts can be created for overlay digital assets. It proposes a solution called the Atomicals Virtual Machine (AVM), which utilizes Bitcoin as a global database, storing smart contract code in transactions and executing this code in a sandbox runtime environment, thereby enabling smart contracts. The proposed solution is a natural step in the evolution of overlay digital asset protocols on Bitcoin, while also serving as a testing platform for the original Bitcoin opcodes to demonstrate their flexibility and security.