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Meta announced that starting June 15, users will no longer be able to build, publish, or update virtual reality worlds on Meta Quest headsets, nor will they be able to access Meta Horizon Worlds through Quest headsets. This virtual world feature will continue to be available on the Meta Horizon mobile app.A Meta spokesperson cited a blog post from February of this year, which mentioned that the company is shifting the focus of Worlds to "almost entirely mobile-centric." Earlier in January of this year, Meta had cut about 1,000 jobs from the Reality Labs division and closed several virtual reality game and content studios. Andrew Bosworth, head of Reality Labs and Chief Technology Officer, stated in a memo to employees that Meta will primarily focus on mobile experiences rather than immersive virtual worlds accessed through headsets.This move marks Meta's further retreat from the metaverse strategy previously championed by Mark Zuckerberg. Resources in Reality Labs have shifted from VR gaming to advancing wearable products aimed at AI goals, including Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.

The decentralized lending protocol Aave stated on platform X that its Horizon RWA market's net deposits have exceeded $600 million, making it one of the largest RWA collateralized loan markets.

Aave founder Stani posted on X that Aave's three strategic pillars for 2026 are Aave V4, the institutional lending solution Horizon, and the mobile application Aave App.

ChainCatcher news, Aave Labs announced the official launch of the Horizon platform, an innovative service aimed at institutional users that allows qualified financial institutions to obtain stablecoin loans using tokenized real-world assets (RWA) as collateral. The platform is built on a permissioned version of Aave V3 and aims to provide efficient capital utilization and 24/7 lending infrastructure that meets institutional compliance requirements.According to the official statement, qualified institutions can use tokenized securities as collateral to borrow various stablecoins, including USDC, RLUSD, and GHO, enjoying instant access and predictable liquidity support. The platform employs a mechanism to execute regulatory compliance at the token level while maintaining the permissionless nature of the stablecoin market to preserve the composability of DeFi.Horizon’s first partners include Centrifuge, Superstate, Circle, RLUSD, Ant Digital Technologies, Ethena, KAIO, OpenEden, Securitize, VanEck, Hamilton Lane, WisdomTree, and Chainlink.

ChainCatcher news, the Belo Horizonte City Council in Brazil passed a Bitcoin-related bill with 20 votes in favor, 8 votes against, and 6 abstentions. The bill will provide incentives for businesses that accept Bitcoin payments, including promotion in city advertising campaigns and initiating educational activities to help citizens adapt to digital transformation. The bill is now submitted to the mayor's office for final approval.

ChainCatcher news: During the global blockchain event TOKEN2049 in Dubai, Becker Ventures, in collaboration with OneMax Labs, Draper Dragon, Web3Link, and Oasis Labs, will co-host a high-end investor gathering "VC Horizon @ Dubai" on April 30. This event aims to bring together top Web3 projects and investment institutions from around the world to promote in-depth communication and collaboration between capital and ecosystems. The event will take place on April 30 from 18:00 to 22:00 at the famous rooftop lounge Atelier M in Dubai Marina, and is expected to attract over 300 global investment institutions and more than 200 high-quality project parties to participate on-site, engaging in deep discussions about the next growth path for Web3.Event highlights include: keynote speeches from heavyweight guests, closed-door roundtable forums, high-quality project showcases, and immersive high-end social experiences. VC Horizon aims to create an exclusive communication platform for project parties and investment institutions to explore the core directions of future industries amidst the ever-changing global landscape and technological waves.Sponsors of this event include: HOTCOIN, ATT Global LTD, Ark of Panda, Dotswap, Biking, HF RealX, Siren, Openverse, RingProtocol, TGE.FUN, MAITRIX, Flipflop.Registration link: https://lu.ma/ciznhvcg

ChainCatcher news, at the "Web3 Future Night" gala held during the Hong Kong Web3 Carnival, Uweb founder and president Yu Jianing delivered a keynote speech on "Key Trends and Outlook for Web3.0 in 2025." He stated that the current Web3.0 is experiencing regression phenomena such as increased centralization, declining project quality, and weak capital inflows.He pointed out that from 2024 to 2030, Web3.0 digital assets will evolve along "two main lines": one is the market capitalization growth of individual assets driven by spot ETFs (vertical uplift), and the other is the expansion of asset pools driven by RWA tokenization (horizontal expansion). Compliance is key for mainstream institutions to enter the market.In addition, he also predicted that the Web3.0 industry will welcome nine major trends in 2025, including crypto-friendly policies driven by the Trump administration, widespread adoption of Bitcoin as a reserve asset, expansion of the RWA market, Hong Kong leading the compliance wave, explosive growth of Web3 AI Agent applications, continuous growth of the Meme ecosystem, Layer1/Layer2 reshaping on-chain logic, simplification of development experience through chain abstraction, and the Bitcoin ecosystem moving towards a new era of programmability and staking economy.

ChainCatcher news, Matrixport analysis shows that the Bitcoin ETF IBIT's 30-day actual correlation with Nasdaq is approaching 70%, a level that has only occurred twice in history, indicating that Bitcoin is currently driven by macro factors and is moving in line with other risk assets.The high correlation mainly stems from the market's reassessment of earnings expectations ahead of the first-quarter earnings season and the uncertainty surrounding tariff policies.However, historical data indicates that such a high correlation is difficult to sustain, and Bitcoin may experience a divergence in trends from Nasdaq in the future.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Aave founder Stani Kulechov stated that he will not create new tokens for the product Horizon proposed by Aave. The proposal page shows that if a token is created, the Aave DAO may receive a 15% allocation and revenue-sharing arrangement. However, many opposing users believe that the new token could dilute the value of the existing AAVE tokens, undermining AAVE's status as the sole governance and utility token.

ChainCatcher news, according to Aave co-founder Stani's post on the X platform, the overall consensus of Aave DAO is that they are not interested in other tokens. This consensus will be respected, as Aave DAO is a true DAO. Once the right approach is found, the exploration of RWA will continue, and currently only AAVE exists.Previous news, Aave Labs announced the launch of the RWA product Horizon, suggesting that a Horizon token may be launched, with part of the profits from Horizon being allocated to Aave DAO, and if the token is launched, 15% will be allocated to Aave DAO. This has faced skepticism from the community, which believes that new tokens and branding will detract from Aave's value.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Aave Labs has announced the launch of a new initiative called Horizon, aimed at developing RWA products (such as tokenized securities) to facilitate institutional adoption of DeFi, with the goal of leveraging the Aave ecosystem as a foundation to bridge the gap between traditional finance and DeFi.It is reported that Horizon's first product will be a structured real-world asset solution that allows institutions to use tokenized money market funds as collateral to obtain stablecoin liquidity, with the stablecoin GHO serving as the primary source of liquidity. Aave Labs stated that this move could create new revenue streams for Aave DAO.

ChainCatcher news, according to the official X message from the project, the computing power RWA project Miners.Club will officially launch its brand upgrade on March 13, 2025, and release the new computing power RWA ecological roadmap Hash Horizon 2025.The project will focus on "computing power equity" as its core vision, committed to deeply integrating real Bitcoin computing power assetization (RWA) with gamification and financialization models through technological innovation and ecological construction, providing users with a very low-threshold participation channel, and promoting the transparent, compliant, popular, and global development of the computing power economy.In addition, the C-end Bitcoin computing power RWA application developed by Miners.Club will also be launched in late March.

ChainCatcher news, tomorrow more than twenty executives, investors, and prominent figures in the cryptocurrency field will gather at the White House Cryptocurrency Summit to plan the future direction of the cryptocurrency sector under Trump's leadership.Insiders reveal that this event is likely to become a platform for promoting multiple administrative initiatives related to cryptocurrencies, with various proposals currently under consideration.According to insiders, Trump may announce that the government will stop selling cryptocurrencies seized in criminal cases and instead use these assets to establish a national reserve. They also indicated that Trump might issue an executive order to create a genuine Bitcoin reserve, which is expected to purchase more of this digital currency.One insider mentioned that another potential proposal would involve the tax treatment of cryptocurrencies, and it will likely require review and approval by Congress. These insiders stated that these actions are still under discussion and may ultimately not be implemented or could change.