On January 27, the White House stated that the ceasefire agreement between Lebanon and Israel will remain in effect until February 18, 2025. The governments of Lebanon, Israel, and the United States will also negotiate the return of Lebanese prisoners captured after October 7, 2023.
THORChain, a decentralized cross-chain liquidity protocol, this morning announced the implementation of a 90-day network restructuring plan. Node operators have suspended THORFi lending and deposit redemption functions, but core functions such as swap trading, liquidity provision (LP) operations, and RUNE transfers remain operational. The project side said that during the restructuring period, it will focus on community proposals to achieve a reasonable reorganization of liabilities. The node op...
On January 26th, Virtuals Protocol co-founder everythingempty announced that its platform will be expanded to Base and Solana. Developers can choose to generate proxies and corresponding tokens on the two chains, and provide initial liquidity on Uniswap or Meteora respectively. The team plans to launch the Solana platform in the first week of February, when it will launch the $VIRTUAL/SOL liquidity pool and finalize the relevant details with LayerZero. In addition, for the proxy team on the Base...
Solana on-chain DEX Jupiter has announced the launch of a full-chain network called Jupnet. Jupnet will consist of three key components: 1. DOVE network, DOVE stands for Decentralized Oracles, whose function is to verify and execute. 2. The Omnichain distributed ledger network, by creating a single decentralized trusted source between oracles, validators, and executors, makes it easy to implement the next big feature - J...
On January 25th, Solana chain DEX Jupiter announced the launch of a new community website jup.com, which is now open for user registration. The website will release the latest project progress to the Jupiter community from the DAO to the research forum to the Jupiverse Projects ecosystem.
Thumzup announced that the company's board of directors has authorized the holding of 90% of the company's remaining cash in bitcoin. This decision supports the company's ongoing bitcoin acquisition efforts as part of its fiscal asset strategy announced on November 15, 2024.
AgileGTM Blockchain Fund, a blockchain fund owned by AgileGTM, announced the completion of the first round of fundraising of $2 million. It is reported that the size of the fund is 10 million US dollars. After the first round of funds is in place, the AgileGTM Blockchain Fund will start deploying this month to invest in 3-6 startups. The fund aims to invest in 40-50 projects in the Pre-Seed round stage after all funds are in place.
AgileGTM Blockchain Fund, a blockchain fund owned by AgileGTM, announced the completion of the first round of fundraising of $2 million. It is reported that the size of the fund is 10 million US dollars. After the first round of funds is in place, the AgileGTM Blockchain Fund will start deploying this month to invest in 3-6 startups. The fund aims to invest in 40-50 projects in the Pre-Seed round stage after all funds are in place.
Binance announced that it will list the VINEUSDT perpetual contract at 10:00 (UTC) on January 24, 2025, and the PIPPINUSDT perpetual contract at 10:15 (UTC), both supporting up to 25 times leverage.
Bitcoin payments startup Breez announced the completion of a $5 million funding round, with participation from Entrée Capital, ego death capital, Plan Fund and Timechain.
Ranger Labs announced a $1.90 million funding round at a $30 million valuation, with participation from Asymmetric, Big Brain Holdings, RISE Capital and Anagram and RockawayX. Ranger Labs has developed Ranger Protocol, a Solana-based crypto derivatives trading protocol, which is currently planning to add new product lines that will allow clients to use artificial intelligence to assist trading strategies.
Senator Cynthia Lummis has announced her chairpersonship of the Senate Banking Digital Assets Panel. Senator Cynthia Lummis said that digital assets are the future, and if the United States is to maintain its leadership in global financial innovation, Congress needs to pass bipartisan legislation as soon as possible to establish a comprehensive legal framework for digital assets, while strengthening the dollar through strategic bitcoin reserves. She promised to bring the bill to President Trump'...
Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ), who is worth about $70 billion, announced that Binance Labs will be renamed YZi Labs and transformed into a family office. It is reported that YZi Labs currently manages about $10 billion in crypto-related assets. Former Binance Labs founding head Ella Zhang will return to manage the agency. In addition, YZi Labs will also manage the assets of Binance co-founder Yi He.
OKX has announced that it is the first virtual asset exchange in the world to be pre-licensed by MiCA. OKX will provide localized crypto services to more than 400 million European users through its European Economic Area (EEA) operations center in Malta. This milestone achievement not only highlights OKX's long-term commitment to compliance operations, but also reflects its consistent commitment to responsible growth and user...
Fasanara Capital, a UK-based asset manager, has announced the launch of FAST, a tokenized money market fund based on the Polygon blockchain. The fund will focus on the crypto industry and target stablecoin issuers, DeFi repositories, and crypto funds. Fasanara plans to offer a 4.7% return and the fund portfolio will include Treasury bonds, long-term Treasury bonds, other money market funds and commercial paper.