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According to market news, the decentralized derivatives exchange Decibel, incubated by Aptos Labs, announced the launch of its protocol-native stablecoin USDCBL before its mainnet goes live this month. This token is issued by Bridge and aims to serve as collateral for on-chain perpetual contracts, retaining the earnings generated from cash and U.S. Treasury reserves within the protocol.Decibel stated that users will need to deposit USDC and exchange it for USDCBL for trading after the launch. The USDCBL reserves are supported by a mix of cash and short-term U.S. Treasury bonds, and the reserve earnings will be used for protocol development and ecosystem building, reducing reliance on trading fees and incentive programs. The foundation emphasized that this move is not "issuing another stablecoin," but positioning USDCBL as a core exchange infrastructure.

Global leading full-stack Web3 security company ExVul has established a long-term strategic partnership with high-performance financial public chain Pharos, jointly setting up a $1.25 million security audit Grants to support the development of early startup teams within the Pharos ecosystem.The Grants are aimed at early projects in the Pharos incubator, providing complete security audit services for core smart contracts and key system modules, along with funding and ongoing security advisory support. The collaboration between Pharos and ExVul fully reflects a high level of trust in their professional capabilities and highlights the close binding of both parties in the long-term construction of the ecosystem. Through this cooperation, ExVul will build a sustainable, secure, and compliant infrastructure for Pharos's early projects, solidifying the foundation for the ecosystem's long-term development.

Pharos Network has announced the launch of a builder incubation program called Native to Pharos, with a funding scale of over $10 million. The program aims to accelerate innovation in its on-chain financial ecosystem, focusing on the intersection of real-world assets (RWA), DeFi, and blockchain infrastructure.The incubation program is supported by partners such as Hack VC, Draper Dragon, Lightspeed Faction, and Centrifuge. Participating projects will receive technical guidance, strategic direction for product launch and scaling, as well as support from a network of investors and ecosystem partners. Pharos Network is a RealFi Layer 1 blockchain developed by former executives and engineers from Ant Group. The program is currently open for applications, with the first recruitment event set to launch in Hong Kong.

According to official news, YZi Labs announced the upgrade of the EASY Residency to a year-round rolling incubation program, establishing long-term centers in New York and the San Francisco Bay Area.The program offers entrepreneurs in the fields of Web3, AI, and biotechnology up to $500,000 in investment, workspace, living stipends, and a partner resource package. Three global Demo Days will be held in 2026, with the first taking place in April during TOKEN2049 in Dubai. YZi Labs manages over $10 billion in assets and has incubated 65 portfolio companies.

Web3 wallet company Zerion's incubated L2 network Zero Network has announced that it is back online and fully operational. Zero Network stated that user funds are safe, with support from Caldera and ZKsync for the resumption of operations.Previously reported, Zero Network had stopped block production for over 3 weeks. Zero Network indicated that it is working with Caldera and ZKsync to resume block production as soon as possible, with plans to restore by mid-January, ensuring user funds are safe.

Crypto KOL @y_cryptoanalyst posted on the X platform that the L2 network Zero Network, incubated by the Web3 wallet company Zerion with a total financing of $22.5 million, has stopped producing blocks for over 3 weeks.

According to The Block, a cryptocurrency class-action lawsuit accusing Mark Cuban and the Dallas Mavericks of deceiving investors by promoting the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency lending platform Voyager Digital has been dismissed.The lawsuit claims that Cuban made multiple false statements about the company before Voyager filed for bankruptcy protection (Chapter 11) in 2022. At the time of Voyager's bankruptcy filing, the value of the cryptocurrency assets on its platform was approximately $1.3 billion. Voyager's collapse was part of a broader market downturn triggered by the collapse of the Terra blockchain, which resulted in about $40 billion in market value evaporating and ultimately led to its founder Do Kwon being sentenced to 15 years in prison earlier this month.

The open-source AI trading system NoFx developer Tinkle issued a statement yesterday regarding the community controversy sparked by early project participant Zack. It stated that Zack joined the project on October 29, 2025, after it was open-sourced, participated for about 14 days, and contributed a small amount of code. He then demanded 50% equity in exchange for introducing Amber for commercialization. After being rejected, he withheld the project's Twitter account and demanded 500,000 USDT through a lawyer's letter, while also spreading false information through multiple channels. Tinkle stated that relevant records are verifiable and that the team will no longer respond to personal disputes, focusing instead on product development.In response, Zack issued a statement refuting the claims, stating that the allegations are seriously false and damage his personal reputation. The lawyer's letter was sent by a law firm, evidence has been preserved by the lawyer, and the claims are legal and compliant. If the dispute cannot be resolved through legal channels, he will publicly disclose complete video, audio, chat records, and timelines as evidence.The official NoFx X account subsequently published an open letter stating that recent discussions regarding community members, code usage boundaries, and intellectual property have been handed over to a professional legal team for unified handling. It denied rumors involving financing and利益输送, emphasizing that NoFx is a community-driven open-source project rather than a commercial company. The team also reiterated that the project is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and will legally uphold open-source standards and contributor rights, focusing on building an AI Trading OS that supports self-hosting and multi-platform trading access.Additionally, the ecosystem accelerator amber.ac under Amber Group also issued a statement, clearly stating that there is currently no formal incubation, investment, or commercial cooperation relationship with the NoFx project. The two parties have only engaged in open industry exchanges and called on all parties to return to technical and rational communication to promote healthy ecological development.

Bybit CEO Ben Zhou stated at the Solana Breakpoint conference that Bybit is transforming from a pure exchange into an "infrastructure" that connects traditional finance with the crypto world. The company's focus this year is on global compliance and licensing acquisition, having already obtained licenses in the UAE and the European MiCA license, and is committed to helping unbanked populations enter the crypto world by connecting with local banks in emerging markets such as Latin America and Africa.Ben Zhou highlighted Bybit's DEX project "Byreal," which is incubated on Solana. He emphasized that although the project is incubated by Bybit, it is striving to maintain its independence. Byreal aims to address on-chain liquidity pain points and focuses on the RWA (real-world assets) sector, particularly assets like tokenized stocks. Furthermore, Ben Zhou believes that DEX and CEX are not in competition; CEX is responsible for attracting "crypto curious" individuals through an optimized user experience, and as users mature, they will naturally transition to a more liberated on-chain world.

Binance founder CZ posted on social media, "Welcome to the new prediction market predict.fun built on BNB Chain. When users make predictions, the funds are not idle but generate returns. The founder of predict.fun previously worked at Binance (years ago). The project is incubated/invested by YZi Labs."

According to market news, the new crypto incubator Obex team stated in an interview that it has raised $37 million in funding to support the construction of the next-generation yield-bearing stablecoin led by Framework Ventures, LayerZero, and the Sky ecosystem.The plan aims to invest in and fund projects that introduce real-world asset collateral strategies on-chain, bringing institutional-level risk control and underwriting practices to this rapidly evolving field. Obex will become the latest funding allocation partner for Sky, providing financial support to projects, helping them achieve scale expansion from the protocol's large reserves, and generating yields through strategies.The initiative will focus on stablecoins backed by high-quality real-world assets, with a particular emphasis on three core areas: computational credit (such as tokenized GPU infrastructure), energy assets (such as municipal-level solar and battery deployments), and loans to large fintech companies.The incubator will conduct a 12-week program for early teams, providing funding, technical resources, and access to Sky infrastructure. Teams that undergo risk and governance reviews may qualify for additional funding support from Sky. Recently, Sky authorized the deployment of up to $2.5 billion in USDS to the Obex project in a governance vote.

ChainCatcher news, the high-performance L1 ValueChain incubated by SoSoValue has officially launched its mainnet, and its high-performance trading sub-chain SoDEX will simultaneously open whitelist applications to global users. The platform token $SOSO will also be fully upgraded to a mainnet native Gas and governance token. According to official information, SoDEX currently achieves a performance of 100,000 TPS. The architecture of this high-performance trading chain has two distinctive features:SoDEX achieves a truly decentralized matching architecture through the distributed deployment of a matching engine across different validating nodes. This makes SoDEX one of the very few trading systems in the industry that can truly put the matching logic entirely on-chain, consistent with the Hyperliquid technical path, but achieving higher scalability and modular design at the architectural level.SoDEX supports Spot and Perps through two independent high-performance trading sub-chains, using an EVM sub-chain as the account system, and structures multiple high-performance sub-chains on the consensus layer of ValueChain, thereby supporting various assets such as crypto-native assets and RWA. It provides users with a trading experience for spot and perpetual contracts comparable to centralized exchanges; each transaction can be queried in real-time on the block explorer, achieving a trading experience on-chain that combines security, high performance, and transparency.The Mirror Protocol infrastructure system reuses the SoSoValue Indexes Protocol, adopting a solution that combines third-party custody and Bridge to enhance the security of multi-asset cross-chain transactions.According to on-chain data, the SoDEX testnet has attracted over 400,000 sign-ups, with 40,000 users qualifying for the testnet whitelist, and an average daily on-chain order volume of 3.9 million. Currently, over 80,000 users have signed up for the mainnet early bird whitelist. The official announcement states that SoDEX has opened Closed Alpha whitelist applications and will distribute airdrop rewards to users who participate in Closed Alpha trading activities and earn points in early 2026. Users can apply for the whitelist at the official website sodex.com. The SoSoValue crypto research platform has over ten million registered users globally, with a vision to enable the general public to participate in crypto investments simply and equally, enjoying the long-term growth dividends of the crypto industry.

ChainCatcher news, the Australian gold exploration project PC GOLD (ASX: PC2) has officially been listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).PC GOLD is one of the first real-world asset (RWA) projects incubated by the Web3 mining finance platform Asteroid X. The project previously launched the PC GOLD NFT series, which tokenizes equity in the listed company to achieve a digital representation of physical mining assets. Asteroid X co-founder Ben stated that this listing marks a deep integration of traditional mining and Web3 finance, and is an important milestone for the RWA tokenization model. "From Asteroid X to ASX, this step is not only a leap for traditional industries but also a validation of the integration of blockchain and real assets." It is reported that Asteroid X's physical company Web3in Tech-Lab has obtained Australia's IRD (Independent Reserve Digital) and Digital Currency Exchange (DCE) licenses, allowing it to provide a complete service for RWA projects within a compliant framework, from asset tokenization, compliant issuance, trading matching to settlement and circulation.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the Ethereum Layer 2 network Ink supported by Kraken has officially launched the white-label lending protocol Tydro, built on Aave v3, and supports its native token INK as an incentive tool.Tydro will serve as the core infrastructure of the Ink ecosystem DeFi, initially supporting assets such as wETH, kBTC, USDG, USDT 0, and GHO. Users can accumulate points to participate in future airdrops, and Kraken also plans to integrate Tydro into its centralized trading products. The total value locked on the Ink chain has currently surpassed 140 million dollars.

ChainCatcher news, YZi Labs announced on platform X that the second season of its EASY Residency global incubation program will kick off next week.

ChainCatcher news, Zhao Changpeng posted on X platform stating that he noticed discussions on social media about "Hyperliquid co-founder Jeff appearing in a group photo released by Binance Labs in 2018." Many people may not know that Jeff was one of the members of the first incubation program of YZi Labs (which was then Binance Labs) in 2018. Unfortunately, the project ended in failure, and YZi Labs lost its investment, which is a common occurrence in the venture capital circle. At that time, he had little contact with Jeff and had long forgotten about this matter. Originally, he was supposed to have a phone call with Jeff a few months ago, but due to a scheduling error, he missed the opportunity and has not found a chance to reschedule since then.Zhao Changpeng added that YZi Labs did not obtain and does not hold any investment rights in Hyperliquid (whether equity or tokens).

ChainCatcher news, the decentralized exchange Byreal has opened to all users on September 30th on Solana. As a decentralized exchange incubated by Bybit, Byreal has attracted over 374,000 whitelisted waiting users since its Beta phase launch on June 30th.According to DefiLlama data, Byreal's cumulative trading volume has surpassed $356 million, with a TVL peak of over $14.22 million, ranking 12th among Solana DEXs.According to Solscan statistics, Byreal Route protocol has a success rate of over 98%, with quotes completed in as fast as 10 milliseconds and transaction execution speeds under 200 milliseconds, maintaining zero downtime throughout.During the Beta phase, Byreal launched the first one-click copy liquidity strategy tool Real Farmer in the Solana ecosystem, allowing users to view real-time LP yield leaderboards and copy price ranges to complete liquidity additions with one click.Byreal founder Emily Bao stated that the opening to all users marks Byreal's official entry into a new phase, and in the future, it will continue to focus on building an efficient on-chain liquidity infrastructure.

ChainCatcher news, according to BitcoinTreasuries.NET, billionaire Mark Cuban stated that Bitcoin Treasury companies are an alternative to hedge against fiat currency.

ChainCatcher news, on August 26, YZi Labs incubation program EASY Residency announced the list of selected projects for the first season. A total of 16 projects were selected, including the decentralized AI ecosystem AMMO, AI-native oracle APRO, Bitcoin-native lending protocol Bitway, food delivery agent Byte A.I., compliance process platform ComplyGen, universal video agent Freebeat.AI, on-chain data terminal Hubble AI, and decentralized data network Robata.