According to the official announcement, MicroStrategy announced plans to raise up to $2 billion by issuing preference shares as part of its "21/21 Plan", which aims to raise $42 billion (equity and fixed income 21 billion) over three years. The purpose of this offering is to allow MicroStrategy to continue strengthening its balance sheet and acquire more bitcoin, which is expected to take place in Quarter 1, 2025. The announcement states that the decision to proceed and complete the offering is ...
On December 25th, this morning, the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council held a regular press conference. A reporter asked whether the mainland will consider giving priority to opening up mainland tourists to travel to Penghu? Chen Binhua, a spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council, said that we have always clearly supported the promotion of the normalization of cross-strait personnel exchanges and the normalization of exchanges in various fields. The crux of the cur...
Privacy-first social protocol Rarimo has announced the completion of a $2.50 million Vision round dedicated to founders. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin, Celestia co-founder Nick White, RiscZero co-founder Brian Retford, Gnosis co-founder Stefan George, Aleo co-founder Alex Pruden, Monad co-founder Keone Hon, Aztec co-founder Zac Williamson, Arnaud Schenk, Aztec co-founder and Zcash contributor Ariel Gabizon, Alpen Labs founder Liam Eagan, Polygon Zero co-founder Dan...
According to the Wall Street Journal, Scott Bessant is prioritizing Trump's tax cuts.
Varun Srinivasan has announced Farcaster's priorities for 2025: a new standard for building applications within the Farcaster framework will be launched in December 2024; Snapchain will be launched in Quarter 1 in 2025. Snapchain is a new network design that eliminates bugs and increases throughput by a factor of 10 or around 5,000 TPS; will offer smart wallet support for Farcaster accounts; provide better standards for developers; and Warpcast will run another retroactive rewards program in the...
On September 25th, Meituan (03690.HK) announced that it will issue 4.500% senior notes due in 2028 of US $1.20 billion and 4.625% senior notes due in 2029 of US $1.30 billion. The company will apply to the Stock Exchange for approval of the listing and trading of the notes by way of issuing bonds to professional investors only. The company intends to use the net proceeds from the issuance of the notes primarily for refinancing of existing offshore debt and other general corporate purposes.
On August 30, Liena posted on social media that on its path to decentralization, it will prioritize open innovation and has now incorporated OpenBlock's witch detection model into the LXP program.
On August 13th, Canto posted on X that the validator suspended the network after upgrading to the V8 version due to unforeseen secondary effects caused by the Proposer priority issue. Bharvest is building and testing a state-compatible v8.1.0 upgrade, which will automatically handle the issue of setting the Proposer priority correctly. At that time (expected to take 15 hours), validators will be able to continue generating blocks on V8 Canto where the upgrade and patch are deployed. All funds ar...
Runecoin said in an X post that it plans to launch Season 2, prioritizing mechanics and timing.
On July 3rd, Taiko announced that it has reduced the minimum priority fee for the Proposer to 0.05Gwei. It is expected that the dynamic fee will be adjusted between 0.05 and 0.09Gwei.
Taiko announced on the X platform that it has streamlined the minimum priority fee for proponents to 0.05 gwei to better support users. It is currently trying to find the best balance between all network participants. According to network needs, the fee is expected to be dynamically adjusted between 0.05 and 0.09 gwei.
Phantom official posted on the X platform that it will soon increase the priority of the search bar function. Users can search for any token from Phantom Explore, reducing the trouble of using third-party tools. Search, research and Swap exchange are all one-stop solutions. Among them, the token search function will be rolled out to all users in the next few days.
Solana validators voted to approve Solana Improvement Document No. 96 (SIMD-0096), which proposes to award 100% of priority transaction fees to validators. Previously, it was a model that transferred 50% of the funds to validators, while the other half was burned. According to early estimates, inflation will increase by 4.6% after implementation.
According to the official governance page, the Solana community has voted to approve a proposal to allocate 100% of the priority fee to validators to replace the current structure of 50% destruction and 50% reward. The vote was terminated at the end of the 620 epoch, with 51.17% stake participation, and finally passed with 77.77% approval. Previously, Tao-Stones released the "Solana Mainnet-be" on the Solana Developer Forum.
On May 13th, according to the Solana Developer Forum, the discussion of "Proposal to Enable Full Priority Fee Rewards for Validators on Solana Mainnet-beta" suggested adjusting the priority fee structure to reward 100% of the priority fee to validators. The discussion initiator stated that the implementation of this proposal requires the use of functional gating. While the payment structure for transaction submitters will not change, the software that includes this proposal will allocate a large...