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The stablecoin financial services platform UnblockPay announced the completion of a $4.5 million seed round financing, led by Prelude, with participation from Plug and Play, Wintermute, Reverie, Signature Ventures, Triaxis Capital, Crescera Capital, and a group of angel investors. The new funds will support its development of regulated financial products, helping businesses integrate stablecoins into their daily financial operations and enabling enterprise users to seamlessly exchange between fiat currency and mainstream stablecoins like USDC and USDT.

According to official news, the prediction market DeFi layer protocol Gondor has completed a $2.5 million Pre-Seed funding round, with participation from Prelude, Castle Island Ventures, and Maven 11.It is reported that Gondor will launch a protocol next week that allows users to borrow against their Polymarket holdings as collateral and trade with 2x leverage.

Bitfinex Alpha's latest report indicates that Bitcoin has dropped by 30.6% over the past month, exceeding the 24% decline during the consolidation phase of 2024, with the bottom still elusive.Short-term holders are typically the most sensitive group to price fluctuations, and their selling speed has reached the highest level since the FTX collapse in 2022. Additionally, the total liquidation amount across the network has risen again, highlighting the immense pressure faced by the perpetual contract market due to large-scale deleveraging. Seasonal factors are usually reliable indicators, but this time they have failed to play a role. Despite Bitcoin's average increase of 40% in the fourth quarter over the past decade, the current decline in November has reached 21.3%, and October has set a record for the first decline in seven years.

According to Jinshi reports, Federal Reserve's Goolsbee stated that they may be unwilling to continue the rate cut cycle.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, Binance Alpha is the first platform to launch CeluvPlay (CELB), with Alpha trading starting on August 29, 2025, at 17:00 (UTC+8).After trading begins, users holding at least 220 Binance Alpha points can claim an airdrop of 3,200 CELB tokens, on a first-come, first-served basis. If the event has not ended, the score threshold will automatically decrease by 15 points every hour. Please note that claiming the airdrop will consume 15 Binance Alpha points. Users must confirm their claim on the Alpha event page within 24 hours, or it will be considered a forfeiture of the airdrop.

ChainCatcher news, August 27, according to the official announcement, Binance Alpha will launch CeluvPlay (CELB) on August 29.Eligible users can claim airdrops using Binance Alpha points on the Alpha event page after trading opens. More details will be announced soon.

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized trading platform Dexari announced the completion of a $2.3 million seed round financing, led by Prelude Ventures and Lemniscap, with participation from several well-known angel investors in the Hyperliquid ecosystem.

ChainCatcher news, according to Nate Geraci, president of The ETF Store, who posted on X: "A year ago, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission 'unexpectedly' approved the spot Ethereum ETF, I maintained my initial view: because Grayscale won its lawsuit against the SEC, the regulators had no choice, hoping that one day they could understand the full story. Since then, although the regulatory environment has changed significantly, there has still been no formal approval for other spot cryptocurrency ETFs."

ChainCatcher news, according to the official announcement, OKX will periodically delist certain perpetual contracts and leveraged trading pairs. The specific delisting schedule is as follows:Perpetual contract trading:GALUSDT: July 15, 2024, 4:00 PM ~ 5:00 PM (UTC+8);CELUSDT: July 15, 2024, 4:00 PM ~ 5:00 PM (UTC+8);OMGUSDT: July 15, 2024, 4:00 PM ~ 5:00 PM (UTC+8);SPELLUSDT: July 15, 2024, 4:00 PM ~ 5:00 PM (UTC+8);KSMUSD: July 15, 2024, 4:00 PM ~ 5:00 PM (UTC+8).Leveraged trading pairs:GAL/USDT: July 11, 2024, 2:00 PM ~ 4:00 PM;CEL/USDT: July 11, 2024, 4:00 PM ~ 6:00 PM;OMG/USDT: July 11, 2024, 6:00 PM ~ 8:00 PM;SPELL/USDT: July 12, 2024, 2:00 PM ~ 4:00 PM;NEO/BTC: July 12, 2024, 4:00 PM ~ 6:00 PM;GRT/BTC: July 12, 2024, 6:00 PM ~ 8:00 PM.

ChainCatcher message, Scroll has launched the "Scroll Saga: The Prelude" points task on Galxe, with the event running from now until mid-March.

ChainCatcher news, cryptocurrency management platform Beluga announced the completion of a $4 million seed round financing, led by Fin Capital, with participation from Anagram, UDHC, Dispersion Capital, Aptos Labs, 2 Punks Capital, Borderless Capital, Kyber Capital, 186 Ventures, W11 Capital, Rubik Ventures, and others. Angel investors include Litecoin founder Charlie Lee, former Coinbase Chief Risk and Legal Officer Mike Lempres, Kraken Ventures head Brandon Gath, former MoonPay Chief Technology Officer Akash Garg, and others.Beluga stated that its software toolkit allows users to manage their cryptocurrency portfolios, and its management team consists of cryptocurrency veterans from Silicon Valley and companies such as Robinhood Crypto, dYdX, CoinDesk, Coupa Software, and more.

ChainCatcher news, according to monitoring by Shield, the stablecoin trading platform on Arbitrum Beluga Protocol has been attacked, resulting in a loss of 59 ETH. The attacker's address initially funded with 0.1 ETH from OKX.