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Kaiko announced the acquisition of digital asset data and analytics provider Amberdata. After the completion of this transaction, Kaiko stated that it will form a comprehensive service capability covering digital asset market data, analytics, pricing, indices, and data infrastructure, and will continue to expand into the tokenized asset sector.

The crypto data platform Dune Analytics announced a major restructuring on Thursday, cutting 25% of its workforce while shifting its strategic focus to two main areas: AI-driven data tools and the on-chain asset adoption by financial institutions. The company stated that it is well-funded and emphasized that it has built a complete end-to-end technology stack for crypto data infrastructure, covering data collection, quality assurance, storage, cleaning, standardization, and querying. Its core product, Dune MCP, allows teams and agents to build dashboards and workflows without the need for SQL knowledge or managing data infrastructure costs.Dune stated that it currently serves almost all leading crypto companies and is expanding to large financial institution clients to address the trend of traditional assets such as currencies, stocks, bonds, and commodities migrating on-chain. Since its establishment in 2018, Dune has experienced multiple market cycles, and this restructuring reflects a broader trend in the industry towards institutional-grade infrastructure and AI integration tools.

According to PR Newswire, BitMine Immersion Technologies (NYSE AMERICAN: BMNR) announced the appointment of Tom DeMark and his DeMark Analytics firm as strategic advisors.BitMine Chairman Tom Lee stated that as the world's largest holder of Ethereum, the company purchases hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Ethereum each week, thus requiring Tom DeMark's systematic analytical model to optimize its acquisition strategy. The DeMark indicators have proven particularly accurate in the Bitcoin and Ethereum markets.Tom DeMark is the founder and CEO of DeMark Analytics, with over 50 years of experience in financial markets, having provided consulting services to top institutions such as Goldman Sachs and Citibank, as well as renowned investors like George Soros and Paul Tudor Jones.

ChainCatcher news, Pine Analytics released the smart trading protocol Flying Tulip fundraising and mechanism analysis, stating that Flying Tulip aims to raise one billion dollars, with each dollar corresponding to 10 FT (initial price 0.1 dollars), and if the target is not met, the issuance will be reduced proportionally.The fundraising assets include USDC, USDT, USDS, USDe, ETH, SOL, AVAX, and S. Original subscribers will receive transferable NFT packages containing FT along with a redeemable PUT: FT remaining in the NFT can be redeemed for an amount equivalent to the invested assets, and withdrawing will forfeit the PUT. The expected annualized return on the fundraising assets is approximately 44.27 million dollars, prioritizing the repurchase and destruction of FT, covering about 500,000 dollars in OpEx. The team and foundation will not pre-allocate, and will later acquire FT from the protocol revenue at a ratio of 40:20:20:20.Related reading: AC's new work Flying Tulip: aiming to "nurture" a trading giant with DeFi government bond yields.

ChainCatcher news, Linear Finance has released its latest development roadmap for 2025, which includes:Q1: Enhance Perp DEX FeaturesLaunch alliance program: Reward new traders through onboarding.Multi-chain deposits: Frictionless asset transfers for seamless trading.Targeted marketing push: Expand influence through targeted marketing campaigns.Q2: Establish AI FoundationsAI smart currency tracker (pilot build): Start with historical data backtesting to track key wallet activities on BNB and Solana.Enhanced on-chain data pipeline: Upgrade real-time feeds to improve AI-driven insights.Social media and influencer tracker: Monitor key accounts (e.g., changes in Elon Musk's profile) to flag emerging meme trends in real-time.AI model validation and testing: Backtesting, performance benchmarking, and risk assessment.Q3: Advanced Analytics and Dashboard IntegrationLiquidity and risk dashboard: Identify potential risks using detailed on-chain risk trackers.Meme market prediction consulting: AI-driven analysis assigns probability scores for meme token uptrends/downtrends.AI anomaly detection: Machine learning detects abnormal trading patterns before significant market fluctuations.Enhanced social sentiment integration: Smarter tracking of social signals with continuous improvements.Q4: Fully AI-Driven Trading AssistantPersonalized AI trading assistant: Customized trading suggestions, risk insights, and interactive interface.Copy trading module: Pilot program with built-in risk control and transparency.Automated buy/sell execution: AI-driven trade execution on BNB and Solana for a seamless transition from insights to action.Ecosystem and community enhancements: Leaderboards, social feeds, and engagement-driven features.

ChainCatcher news, Solana re-staking platform Solayer tweeted that it has acquired blockchain analytics company Fuzzland. The merged team will focus on Solayer infiniSVM (hardware-accelerated SVM chain for Solana scaling), optimizing Solana validators (to increase throughput and maximize returns for sSOL holders), as well as dynamic analysis, formal verification, and real-time protection of SVM.Fuzzland created the smart contract hybrid fuzzer Ityfuzz, which supports many Web3 security companies today.

ChainCatcher news, the blockchain data analysis platform Dune Analytics officially announced that it has opened a range of features previously available only to paying customers to all users who create on Dune. Dune Analytics stated that now all users can use the LiveFetch feature to obtain data from any source. The version history of all scheduled queries has been extended to one year. There are no longer restrictions on scheduled and materialized views. Free users and teams can now schedule dashboards.

ChainCatcher news, the Solana ecosystem protocol Analysoor posted on X that it has discovered a blocking vulnerability in the Dune Analytics NFT data, which has forced the team to postpone the release of its first external NFT minting project again.

ChainCatcher news, OKX Ventures announced a seed investment in the DeFi analytics platform DEXTools, establishing a partnership aimed at advancing blockchain innovation and laying the groundwork for DEXTools' integration into the OKX Web3 platform.It is reported that DEXTools has an average of 20 million users per month, surpassing X (formerly known as Twitter), Google, YouTube, and Amazon in terms of visit duration.

ChainCatcher news, Trader Joe announced on social media that the front end has now been restored after investigating and removing vulnerable third-party analytics code, and it has been marked as safe for all activities, such as trading, liquidity, staking, lending, etc.ChainCatcher previously reported that the decentralized exchange Trader Joe issued an important security alert on social media, stating that it received alerts about potential vulnerabilities in the front-end interface. The team is conducting a thorough investigation immediately and strongly advises all users not to trade or execute any transactions on the Trader Joe DEX.

ChainCatcher news, the cryptocurrency retirement investment solution BitcoinIRA has announced the acquisition of the on-chain trading and analytics platform Shrimpy.io, with the specific acquisition amount not disclosed. The founder of Shrimpy.io will join the BitcoinIRA executive team.Shrimpy primarily offers customizable automated strategies, comprehensive social trading, and in-depth historical analysis services. Following the completion of this transaction, it will help more U.S. users add digital assets to their available retirement plans and investment toolsets. In the coming quarters, BitcoinIRA plans to launch an upgraded platform.

According to ChainCatcher news and research from the blockchain analytics platform Footprint Analytics, the market capitalization of tokens in the Web3 gaming industry grew by 15.8% in October, with a total of 2,651 games available. However, 73.1% of the games (1,937 games) had fewer than 10 active users.Among the games on Polygon, there are 38 games with more than 1,000 active users, accounting for 8.1% of the total on-chain games. On the BNB Chain, this percentage is 5.4%, and on Ethereum, it is 1.7%. Nevertheless, investment in the Web3 gaming sector continued to grow in October, with a total of $50.9 million raised across seven funding rounds.In October, investment in the Web3 gaming sector continued to grow, with a total of $50.9 million raised across seven funding rounds.In October, investment in the Web3 gaming sector continued to grow, with a total of $50.9 million raised across seven funding rounds.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Terra developer Terraform Labs announced the acquisition of cross-chain portfolio management and analytics startup Pulsar Finance.It is reported that Pulsar's analytics platform was established in 2021 and currently supports 96 networks and over 700 protocols. The startup provides users with a simple way to track the performance of a range of tokens, DeFi positions, and NFTs.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, Singapore-based Web3 data company Treehouse has acquired the NFT analytics platform Origins to expand its product range in the NFT space.It is reported that Origins Analytics provides data analysis related to NFTs using on-chain and off-chain data. As part of the acquisition, the founding team of Origins, which raised $4 million last year, will join Treehouse to offer services including an algorithmic tagging NFT wallet notification system, NFT analytics bots, and an NFT wallet analytics API.According to the crypto data platform RootData, in March 2022, Treehouse completed a $18 million seed round financing, with participation from Jump Capital and others.

ChainCatcher news, MicroStrategy released its third-quarter financial report, having purchased 6,067 bitcoins at a price of $167 million since the end of the second quarter, with an average price of $27,531. In October, it purchased 155 bitcoins for $5.3 million. As of October 31, 2023, MicroStrategy holds 158,400 bitcoins, with a total cost of $4.69 billion, which means an average cost of $29,586 per bitcoin.

According to ChainCatcher news reported by The Block, one of the Big Four accounting firms, Ernst & Young (EY), has partnered with Fidelity Digital Assets. Fidelity Digital Assets becomes the first enterprise client to utilize EY's blockchain SaaS platform's on-chain analytics tool, which helps it independently obtain and query on-chain data to enhance its internal risk management processes.

ChainCatcher news, Indian blockchain data analytics company Decimal Point Analytics has received a $750,000 donation from the Swiss non-profit organization The Hashgraph Association, aimed at developing an asset tokenization platform network based on Hedera distributed ledger technology.According to Decimal Point Analytics, the company has received approval from Indian regulators to introduce tokenization products and new asset classes for government infrastructure assets in its sandbox environment, and will subsequently develop regulatory-compliant tokenization solutions for the local financial market. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, blockchain analytics company TRM Labs announced the completion of a new funding round of $70 million, led by Thoma Bravo, with participation from Goldman Sachs, PayPal Ventures, Amex Ventures, and Citi Ventures. Founded in 2018, TRM Labs has expanded to the UK, Singapore, Australia, Brazil, and the United Arab Emirates.Previously, ChainCatcher reported in December last year that TRM Labs announced the completion of a $60 million Series B funding round, led by Tiger Global.It is reported that TRM Labs helps financial institutions and governments investigate instances of crypto fraud, money laundering, and other financial crimes by analyzing blockchain data and packaging it into Statistical Analysis System (SAS) applications and APIs, enabling its clients to filter wallets and monitor transactions of over 900,000 assets across 23 different blockchains. (source link)