Morning paper Visa incorporated Polygon into the global stabilization currency settlement plan; MoonPay spent $100 million on acquisition of security company Sodot; and the digital wallet platform Belo completed $14 million in round A financing
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Important information:
- Robinhood 2026 Q1's encryption performance dropped significantly, maintaining positive growth in trading income by predicting market revenues
- DeFi United made public the Kelp rsETH Gap Restoration Technical Program to clear the attackers about 107,000 currency positions
- MoonPay paid $100 million for the acquisition of Sodot, Israel Security Company, and the establishment of an institutional business unit
- Visa incorporated Polygon into the global stabilization currency settlement plan, which reached $7 billion annually
- Encrypted data and research platform Blockworks completes the A Round Extension Finance with $192 million, co-sponsored by Parafi Capital and Recipal Ventures
- Latin American Digital Wallet Platform Belo completed $14 million A Round Finance, Tether Award
- Q1 FUNDING LIST ISSUED BY THE ETHERWOOD FOUNDATION: ONGOING SUPPORT FOR ZK, PASSWORD AND PROTOCOL INFRASTRUCTURE
What's important about the past 24 hours
ChainCatcher NewsAccording to CNBC, the encryption data and research platform Blockworks announced the completion of the A Round Extension Finance, with a post-investment valuation of $192 million. This round was co-sponsored by Parafi Capital and Reciprocal Ventures, with the participation of a number of institutions, including Coinbase Ventures, Advancit Capital and MoonPay. More than 20 founders and operators of projects such as Solana, LayerZero, Pyth, EigenLayer, Kraken, Arbitrum, Polygon, etc. also contributed in their personal capacity, with the amount of the financing not yet disclosed。
According to the company, the encryption market had grown to trillions of dollars in the absence of traditional capital market infrastructure, but there were still problems of data fragmentation, inconsistent disclosure and lack of investor communication mechanisms, and Blockworks tried to fill that gap through the three-pronged architecture of “data + disclosure + investor relations”。
ChainCatcher News, Alex Mashinsky, founder of Celsius, entered into a settlement agreement with the United States Federal Trade Commission (FTC) agreeing to pay $10 million and is permanently prohibited from promoting, marketing or distributing any products and services related to the deposit, conversion, investment or extraction of assets。
At the same time, the court ruled that the $4.72 billion monetary judgement had been set aside for the most part - if Mashinsky was found to have concealed or misrepresented assets in the financial disclosure, the judgement would be reinstated immediately. Previously, Mashinsky had been sentenced in May 2025 to 12 years ' imprisonment for commodity fraud and securities fraud。
ChainCatcher News, ESF published a list of projects for funding and ecological support in the first quarter of 2026, focusing on cryptography, zero knowledge certification (ZK), protocol safety and core infrastructure development, and the continuous enhancement of the technology base and long-term scalability。
This quarter covers several key areas. At the protocol and client level, including geth and erigon client optimization, Lighthouse client upgrade and Pectra upgrade network monitoring tool development, focusing on enhancing network performance and resistance. At the same time, projects such as HSM Key Management, Validator Security Tool Vero and DISS-NG Node Discovery Mechanism were supported to enhance the reliability of the node level and institutional compliance capacity。
In the direction of cryptography and ZK, the Foundation continues to add the Poseidon Hash function analysis, the Gröbner Base Attack Study, the investigation of combination encryption of resistance quantum and homogeneity, and the RISC-V zkVM formalization certification project to further strengthen the zero knowledge certificate and the secure boundaries of the password infrastructure。
In terms of the developers ' ecology, the development of the BuidlGuidl education system, the standard community building of the ERC, the WalletConnect Clearing Signatory, Open Creator Railways, etc. have been continuously advanced to lower the development threshold and enhance user interaction security. At the same time, L2BEAT continues to provide Layer2 transparency analysis to enhance the extended ecological data infrastructure。
In addition, the Foundation supports privacy technologies (e.g. Tor Integrating and Privacy Pool SDK), decentrization of identity (did:ethr standard upgrade), DAO Governance Research and Public Products Experiment projects, covering the full ecological structure from the protocol to the application level. Overall, the current round of funding continues the long-term investment in the three core directions of the "Cypherics + ZK+ Protocol Project", with emphasis on supporting future layers of expansion and institutional-level application through infrastructure and standardization。
ChainCatcher, according to The Block, Solara Eco Multi-signature Agreement Squads announced the completion of $18 million in strategic financing, with the participation of Solana Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Haun Ventures, L1D, etc., and the cumulative financing of the current round was $429 million. Squads spends the current round on expanding its Stable Currency Business Finance platform Altitude。
It is known that Altitude, the Squads-based stable currency payment platform, allows businesses to make 24/7 global payment settlements in the form of stable currency through self-custody wallets and access to global payment networks through compliance and wind control systems。
ChainCatcher reports that the White House in the United States announced a list of 37 donors to the White House Building Building project of the Trump Government. The current budget for the project has increased from an initial $200 million to $400 million, mainly through taxable private donations. According to the list, a number of companies in the technology and encryption industry are involved in donations, including:
- Meta
- Apple
- Amazon
- Microsoft
- Coinbase
- Ripple
- Tether
- Palantir Technologies
It was reported that the Google parent company, Alphabet, had settled with Trump this year on the YouTube ban and spent $22 million of the settlement money on the building of the banquet hall; the military engineering enterprise, Lockheed Martin, allegedly donated over $10 million。
In addition, a number of encryption practitioners are on the list, including:
- Charles Cascarilla
- Cameron Winklevoss
- Tyler Winklevoss
According to the report, Tripp is in the process of accelerating the dinner hall project in the near future and linking it to the White House security needs. Previously, the eastern wing of the White House had been dismantled in 2025, making room for about 90,000 square feet of new construction。
ChainCatcher, according to the Wall Street Journal, an AI infrastructure company created by the former Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal, Parallel Web Systems completed a $100 million B round of financing, valued at $2 billion。
This round was led by Sequoia Capital, with the participation of older shareholders such as Kleiner Perkins, Index Ventures and Khosla Ventures. Parallel provides an efficient web search and access control infrastructure for long-cycle AI agents, with cumulative financing of $230 million, with approximately 50 employees serving more than 100,000 developers and business clients, focusing at this stage on the expansion of marketing, marketing and research and development teams, and on the continuous deployment of an "AI proxy network" at the enterprise level。
ChainCatcher reports that, according to official sources, Visa has announced the official inclusion of Polygon in its global stabilization currency settlement plan (Stablecoin Settlement Programme), and that Visa partners, including issuing and receiving agencies, are now able to complete stabilization currency settlements through the Polygon network. Polygon states that it is now the world ' s largest stable currency payment network。
According to Allium and Dune data: 34 per cent of dollar stabilization transfers took place on Polygon, twice as many as BNB Chain; 54 per cent of USDC transfers took place on Polygon, more than the sum of all other chains; 36 per cent of global USDC transactions operated on Polygon; Polygon currently has approximately 3.19 million weeks of active stable currency users; the supply of currency on the chain has reached an all-time high of $3.62 billion; and in March, US$ stabilization transactions amounted to 178.1 million。
Visa states that its stabilization currency settlement plan has been operating on an annual scale of $7 billion this quarter, an increase of 50 per cent over three months ago. Polygon emphasizes that its network has Asian-American graded transaction fees, approximately four seconds of final confirmation of transactions, and has been used by institutions such as Stripe, Revolut, Flutterwave and BlackRock to settle real financial transactions。
ChainCatcher reports that the encrypted payment company MoonPay acquired Sodot, Israel's encrypted security start-up company, as a basis for the establishment of the new department, MoonPay Informational, focusing on the demand for digital assets by service clients。
It will provide services for large traditional financial institutions such as transactions, tokenized securities, payments, wallet management and stable currency issuance. Caroline D. Pham, the former Acting Chairman of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), will head the sector and joined Moonpay at the end of 2025 as Chief Legal Officer and Chief Administrative Officer。
Latin American Digital Wallet Platform Belo completed $14 million A Round Finance, Tether Award
ChainCatcher reports that Tether received $14 million in round A for the Latin American Digital Wallet Platform Belo, which also included Titan Fund, The Venture City, Mindset Ventures and G2。
Belo indicated that new funds would be used to expand the markets of Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Paraguay and to continue to strengthen its operations in Brazil, focusing on freelancers, teleworkers and users of cross-border financial flows。
Belo, founded in 2021, is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and currently has over 3 million Latin American users. Its product is a digital wallet based on encryption infrastructure that supports users in holding and transferring local currency and “digital dollar” (stable currency)。
In recent years, stable currencies have been reported to have spread rapidly in emerging markets such as Latin America, mainly for inflation, cross-border remittances and overcost foreign exchange systems. Belo reduces the cost and delay of cross-border transfers by integrating payments, swaps and cross-border transfers into a single application process and by using the encryption infrastructure to settle them backstage。
ChainCatcher, according to The Block, the President of the Czech National Bank, Ales Michl, gave a keynote address at the Las Vegas Congress in Bitcoin 2026, publicly demonstrating the inclusion of bitcoin in the central bank reserve portfolio. Michl states that the Bank manages a reserve of approximately $180 billion and that internal studies show that the allocation of only 1 per cent of assets to Bitcoin would allow for an increase in the overall expected benefits at a largely constant risk, owing to the low relevance of Bitcoin to other reserve assets。
The Czech National Bank, which had previously completed its first test purchase of bitcoin in November 2025, was the world's first central bank to buy bitcoin。
U.S. Treasury Secretary: Targeted Iranian encryption currency use
ChainCatcher, a United States Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, wrote on platform X that the Treasury, through economic sanctions, had taken action against Iran ' s international shadow banking infrastructure, encrypted money access channels, the Shadow Fleet, the arms procurement network, regional terrorist agent funds and the independent Chinese refinery that supported Iran ' s oil trade. These actions have disrupted tens of billions of dollars of proceeds that could have been used to finance terrorism。
Under the highest pressure of the President of the United States, inflation in Tehran doubled and its currency rapidly depreciated. Iran ' s main oil export terminal, Kharg Island, is approaching the oil storage ceiling, which will force the regime to cut oil production, lead to additional daily losses of about $170 million in revenues and permanent damage to Iran ' s oil infrastructure. The Treasury Department will continue to exert maximum pressure and any individual, vessel or entity assisting the illegal movement of Tehran is at risk of United States sanctions。
ChainCatcher NewsThe Bitcoin Loan Agreement Tropykus announces the start of a gradual closure process for the current version of the agreement, whereby the deposit and loan functions will be permanently disabled, and the user will be able to perform withdrawal and repayment operations on July 27, 2026, after which the operation will only support direct interaction with smart contracts。
Officially, the decision to close was based on a long-term strategic evolution, and the existing architecture has become difficult to meet long-term development needs in the face of security challenges posed by emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence. The team recommended that all users complete withdrawals by the cut-off date and clear their lending positions。
ChainCatcher NewsRobinhood's encryption performance declined significantly in the first quarter of 2026. The company reported encryption revenues of $134 million, a decrease of 47 per cent compared to the same period last year; the nominal volume of encrypted transactions of original App was $24 billion, a decline of 48 per cent. This decline continues the trend since the end of 2025, following a 38 per cent decline in Q4 income from encrypted transactions. In the quarterly newspaper, Robinhod stated that the Bitstamp trading platform acquired contributed $42 billion in transactions, but did not provide comparable data。
Despite weak encryption, Robinhood's overall trading income increased by 7 per cent to $623 million over the same period, largely as a result of a projected surge of 320 per cent in market revenues. The increase in options income ranged from 8 per cent to $260 million, while equity income increased significantly by 46 per cent to $82 million. The net profits of the company amounted to $346 million, an increase of 3 per cent over the same period。
Polymarket responded to the data leak challenge: the chain book is publicly auditable
ChainCatcher NewsIn response to a question from the outside world that its data had been “discovered”, Polymark clarified that the data had never been leaked and that all data were publicly accessible through its public endpoints and links, an inherent feature of data transparency in the chain rather than a security loophole。
Polymarket states that one of the central advantages of the chain is that it is fully publicly auditable, and that any person can obtain the data free of charge through their API without having to pay for it。
ChainCatcherPrevious informationPolymarket, the predictive market platform, is suspected of being leaked by data, with over 300,000 records and loopholes using the toolkit。
ChainCatcher reports that, according to market sources, United States Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that the Treasury had taken action against Iran ' s shadow banking network, access to encrypted assets and oil trade infrastructure。
ChainCatcher NewsDeFi United announced on Tuesday a technical repair plan for the Khelp DAO rsETH breach. Using the Layer Zero-driven Unichain to breach the Taicha Bridge, the assailants released 116,500 rsETHs by falsifying a stop-in package, of which about 107,000 are still distributed as collateral in the seven links between Aave and Comp sound。
DeFi United indicates that sufficient ETH commitment has been obtained to restore rsETH support, to convert batches to rsETH and inject the bridge locking contract. LayerZero Labs committed more than 10,000 ETHs on Tuesday to support repairs. With regard to the settlement of the positions of the attackers, the Alliance will implement the controlled liquidation through the Aave and Compund governance proposals, which are expected to recover approximately 13,000 and 16,776 ETH, respectively。
The WETH and rsETH reserves will remain frozen during the restoration period. DeFi United has also pointed to the risks of implementation, including the progress of governance approvals, possible disruptions by attackers, and new security measures yet to be validated in the production environment。
Canaan received Tether's new order to supply immersion-freezing bitcoin mine hardware
ChainCatcher, a Bitcoin mine manufacturer, Canaan (Nasdak Code: CAN), announced on Tuesday that Tether would receive a new set of custom-made Bitcoin mining hardware orders that would supply high-density composure modules designed for leaching cooling systems, planned to be deployed at Tether's South American connection facility。
This cooperation, which continues the research and development partnership with ACME Swisttech in 2025, has resulted in a conceptual validation platform to improve mining efficiency and scalability. Tether ' s simultaneous development of its own control panels and management software shows that it is promoting the deep integration of mining hardware and software. The agreement included additional procurement options to preserve flexibility for Tether ' s infrastructure expansion。
The day before the announcement, Tether had just announced the launch of an open source mining framework to further expand the Bitcoin mining infrastructure. Canaan, a Singapore-listed company, currently holds 1,808 BTCs, valued at approximately $137 million, the highest holding level in its history。
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What are the good articles worth reading in the past 24 hours
Prophecies: The second battle behind the market war
The forecast market has become the brightest narrative of the encryption industry in the past two years. The total volume of transactions on the entire track at the end of last year was close to $10 billion, and the single-month growth could accelerate significantly in the second half of 2025。
But at the other end of the celebration, there was a role that was always standing outside the spotlight and repeatedly being yelled at by users: the prophecy machine。
DeFi, there's no two sides to the loan
There is real demand in the chain for fixed-rate borrowing. The obvious response was to issue loans at fixed interest rates, but there was no matching demand for fixed interest rate lending in the market。
The vast majority of the funds in the chain are pursuing gains and eager for immediate liquidity. Thus, the issuance of fixed-rate loans merely transfers interest rate risk from the borrower to the lender. An asset-liability mismatch occurs when the lender is a vault committed to immediate liquidity。
In the case of variable interest-rate lending, interest rates fluctuate with capital utilization and market conditions, and borrowers pay directly for such fluctuations. This is a real cost, but it is clear and transparent and ends when it is settled。
A LENDER IS ASSUMED TO HOLD A FIXED SIX-MONTH LOAN AT AN INTEREST RATE OF 3 PER CENT. IF INTEREST RATES RISE, THE SAME LOAN RETURNS WILL NOW REACH 5 PER CENT. THE VALUE OF OLD LOANS IS REDUCED BY MARKET VALUE (MTM). NEW LOANS WITH HIGHER RETURNS AT THE SAME RISK ARE OPTIONAL, AND NO ONE WILL PAY THE AMORTIZED VALUE OF THE OLD LOANS。
In traditional financial systems, “prices” are usually only assets。
Equities, interest rates, commodities — they can be traded because of the existence of uniform measurement and consensus pricing mechanisms. By contrast, those variables that really affect market volatility — policy direction, macro-data, political events — have long been in a more primitive position: discussed, predicted and rarely directly priced。
Such variables have always existed but lack standardized expression。Kalshi's appearance, and that's exactly what changed。It did not create new information, but rather provided a tradable price system for “the event itself”。
