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Self-hosted digital bank Tria launches the independent nonprofit organization Tria Foundation.The foundation will support research and development of technologies related to routing, execution, and security, provide funding for developer tools, integrations, and ecosystem grants, promote transparent governance and protocol management, and expand partnerships to drive the practical application of self-hosted finance in everyday life.

Self-hosted Web3 bank Tria has announced the launch of its one-month Treasure event to reward users who have been using Tria consistently. Specifically, from November 19 to December 15, Tria will fully reimburse one eligible X user for a Tria expense each day.

ChainCatcher message, according to the Web3 asset data platform RootData X tracking data, in the past 7 days, the self-custody new banking and payment infrastructure Tria has been the project with the most new X (Twitter) top influencer followers. New influencers following this project include Zeneca (@Zeneca), cryptocurrency analyst Phyrex (@Phyrex_Ni), and crypto KOL Wolfy (@Wolfy_XBT).

ChainCatcher news, according to Bloomberg, the founder of cryptocurrency custody service provider Copper Technologies Ltd., Dmitry Tokarev, has launched a new company, Bron Labs, aimed at addressing the growing security risks of self-custodied digital assets. Bron Labs is a self-custody platform that offers additional security protections previously only affordable to large enterprises for consumers and professionals.According to Tokarev, Bron Labs raised approximately $15 million earlier this year from around 140 friends, family, and other individual investors, with backers including institutions such as LocalGlobe, Fasanara Digital, and GSR.

ChainCatcher news, the self-custodied new bank and payment infrastructure Tria has announced the completion of a $12 million pre-seed and strategic funding round, aimed at building a global self-custodied new bank for humans and AI agents.The round was participated by P2 Ventures (Polygon), Aptos, the Tria community, and several executives from institutions and projects such as Polygon, the Ethereum Foundation, Wintermute, Sentient, 0G, Concrete, and Eigen. Polychain and Polygon served as advisors during the pre-seed phase.Tria aims to address the practical usage barriers of cryptocurrencies, allowing users to spend, trade, and earn from a self-custodied balance without worrying about gas fees, cross-chain bridges, or mnemonic phrases. Its Visa card supports usage in over 150 countries and regions worldwide and is compatible with over 1,000 tokens, with transactions optimized through its BestPath engine.Tria states that its vision is to become a consumer-grade new bank and programmable payment infrastructure in the Web3 space. The Tria team members come from companies like Binance, Polygon, and OpenSea. Additionally, Tria is preparing for a community-focused public sale round.

ChainCatcher news, self-hosted new bank and payment infrastructure Tria announced the completion of a $12 million Pre-seed and strategic round of financing, aimed at building a global self-hosted new bank for humans and AI agents.The investors in this round include P2 Ventures (Polygon), Aptos, the Tria community, and several executives from institutions and projects such as Polygon, the Ethereum Foundation, Wintermute, Sentient, 0G, Concrete, and Eigen. Polychain and Polygon served as advisors during the Pre-seed phase.Tria aims to address the practical usage barriers of cryptocurrency, allowing users to spend, trade, and earn from a self-hosted balance without worrying about gas fees, cross-chain bridges, or mnemonic phrases. Its Visa card supports usage in over 150 countries and regions worldwide and is compatible with over 1,000 tokens, with transactions optimized through its BestPath engine.Tria states that its vision is to become a consumer-grade new bank and programmable payment infrastructure in the Web3 space. The Tria team members come from companies such as Binance, Polygon, and OpenSea. Additionally, Tria is preparing for a public sale round aimed at the community.

ChainCatcher message, multiple community users reported that their balances in the self-hosted Bitcoin wallet Alby were "stolen," allegedly deducted by Alby. Alby's updated terms of service in March 2025 state: "Users have been notified for over a year to withdraw excess funds from their old Alby accounts created in 2023 and earlier that use the shared wallet architecture. In order to manage these long-term inactive accounts more effectively, we reserve the right to deduct the entire remaining balance from such accounts after 12 consecutive months of no transaction activity (i.e., no completed transactions)."

ChainCatcher news, the chain abstraction DeFAI project Golden Goose announces the official launch of its V3 version. Users only need to hold stablecoins to invest in the full-chain yield protocols on the Goose platform with one click, without the need to switch networks, prepare native Gas, or use cross-chain bridges; the underlying strategy integration, inter-chain asset flow, and rebalancing are automatically settled by Cycle Network, allowing users to truly experience "No Chains Anymore."Currently, Goose has integrated multiple high-yield protocols from the Berachain ecosystem, with the highest annualized yield reaching 39.2%; in the future, it will continue to integrate key ecological yield strategies from BNB, Sonic Labs, HyperChain, Monad, and others, continuously expanding the coverage of on-chain investments and comprehensively enhancing users' on-chain yields.The Golden Goose team stated: "What we are building is not an ordinary yield platform, but a crypto yield entry point that allows Web2 users to use it with zero barriers. Currently, nearly 300,000 TikTok users are enjoying on-chain yields through Goose. By solving the multi-chain asset interaction and settlement issues with Cycle Network, and combining DeFAI's smart yield strategy engine, the team will continue to provide smarter aggregated yield solutions to serve global users."

ChainCatcher news, according to Public Pool and Umbrel, at 08:30 Beijing time on March 23, an individual miner successfully mined the first Bitcoin block (888989) using a self-hosted Umbrel node and Bitaxe mining machine through the Public Pool protocol, with a block reward of 3.15188086 BTC.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the privacy technology company Proton announced that its self-hosted Bitcoin wallet Proton Wallet is now officially open to all users, supporting iOS, Android, and Web. Previously, the wallet was only available to early experience users.Proton was founded in 2014 in Switzerland by CERN scientists, and its products include privacy protection services such as Proton Mail, Proton VPN, and Proton Drive, with a total user base of over 100 million. Proton stated that the wallet is designed to allow users to hold and trade Bitcoin more securely and conveniently, while also supporting sending BTC via email and using end-to-end encryption to enhance privacy.

ChainCatcher news, the self-custody digital trading company Shuttle Labs announced that it has completed a $6 million seed round financing, with participation from Anthony Scaramucci, CMCC Global, SALT Fund, Flow Traders, and several former FTX employees.Shuttle Labs also announced the launch of the self-custody digital trading platform Genius beta, which aims to address a series of issues that led to FTX's bankruptcy, such as security, user control, and decentralization, while exploring the elimination of third-party custody risks through a self-custody model, ensuring that users always hold their own private keys.

ChianCatcher news, officially announced by UXUY, incubated and invested by Binance Labs: the self-hosted multi-chain wallet @UXUYbot based on the Telegram ecosystem fully opens its customizable mainnet features.Users can autonomously create and manage over a hundred EVM-compatible mainnets and testnets on the UXUY Telegram wallet, including emerging second-layer networks like DuckChain, providing infrastructure support for diverse application scenarios such as real-world assets (RWA), on-chain gaming (GameFi), and decentralized finance (DeFi) on Telegram, greatly facilitating 900 million users to participate in new public chain airdrops, DApp interactions, and other operations.UXUY founder Kevin stated: "The announcement of UniChain by Uniswap is a landmark event that will redefine the competitive relationship between DApps and public chains. It is foreseeable that public chains will tend towards specialization. The Telegram ecosystem, as a new growth point in the crypto world, will give rise to richer application scenarios and public chains and infrastructure. UXUY will actively support the integration of emerging public chains and new infrastructure, welcoming the arrival of a new cycle of multiple chains launching simultaneously."

ChainCatcher message, the UXUY incubated by Binance Labs officially launched its first self-custody multi-chain wallet based on Telegram, @UXUYbot, on August 27, introducing over 100,000 assets to the Telegram ecosystem and leading users into the multi-chain era.After one month of operation, @UXUYbot has surpassed one million users. Following this upgrade, it supports any Bot to connect to any ecosystem through the UXUY Wallet Bot without permission, including public chains like Bitcoin, EVM, Solana, TRON, TON, and more. Telegram users can easily store, receive, transfer, and trade multi-chain assets through self-custody. In the future, more public chains and projects will be gradually introduced, bringing the MetaMask experience and usage habits into the Telegram ecosystem, becoming an important Web3 infrastructure.UXUY founder Kevin stated: "Telegram should not just be a playground for the TON single ecosystem, but a carnival for established public chains or future emerging public chains. The last Defi Summer happened on Chrome+Metamask, and this time it must happen on Telegram+UXUY."

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, privacy and security company Proton has launched the Proton self-custody Bitcoin wallet. Its new wallet solution aims to allow users to buy, store, and transfer Bitcoin, and leverage existing infrastructure to integrate features such as sending Bitcoin via email and enhanced security. The integration entry of Proton Wallet enables users in over 150 countries to purchase Bitcoin.

ChainCatcher news, according to Crowdfundinsider, self-custody cryptocurrency trading platform Rails has announced the completion of a $6.2 million seed round financing, with participation from Slow Ventures, CMCC Global, Round13 Capital, and Quantstamp.It is reported that Rails uses a centralized order book to drive the execution of optimal trades, and combines a self-custody decentralized solution on the blockchain to achieve transparent fund custody, thereby protecting user funds and gaining user trust, avoiding issues similar to FTX.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official Twitter announcement, the Blast ecosystem's self-hosted futures exchange Blitz is officially launched, and users can now trade on Blitz.Previously, it was reported that Blitz is supported by Vertex Edge and was included in the winner group of the Blast Big Bang event.

ChainCatcher message, NFPrompt posted on platform X stating that the team has detected issues with users utilizing Web2 wallet services. However, user funds are safe, and it is recommended that users use self-custody Web3 wallets. For users encountering issues, they can open a ticket in the project's Discord to resolve the problem. Every asset in the MPC wallet created through Web2 social login will be tracked and returned to the rightful owner.

ChainCatcher news, according to FinSMEs, cryptocurrency investment application service provider Sock announced the completion of a $2.8 million seed round financing, led by Haven Ventures, with participation from Designer Fund, Expansion, Spacecadet Ventures, Sunflower Fund, and Olive Capital.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the self-custody lightning wallet Mutiny Wallet has entered the public testing phase.Mutiny Wallet states that it leverages Jack Dorsey's Block's lightning development kit project, which provides developers with customizable control over various aspects of the lightning stack, including the ability to compile for the network. To simplify users' liquidity management, Mutiny has also partnered with the lightning infrastructure project Voltage to help users receive payments without worrying about opening channels or managing liquidity.Mutiny Wallet reminds that the testing phase may still encounter some bugs and limitations, so please exercise caution when transferring large amounts of funds into the wallet during the early stages. (Source link)