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The conflict in the Middle East has led to disruptions in shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, causing global shipping costs to soar dramatically, and the war risk insurance premiums for vessels have risen rapidly.In addition, shipping companies also need to consider freight rates. Industry insiders indicate that freight rates have already increased by 11 to 12 times. The costs of insurance and detours are being passed on, continuously impacting global trade and supply chain security.

The chain abstract stablecoin system River announced its expansion to the Base network, having previously deployed on Ethereum and BNB Chain.River stated that Base is the platform with the strongest liquidity on Ethereum L2 and the highest on-chain activity. Its total value locked (TVL) in DeFi exceeds $4 billion, with a stablecoin market capitalization of $4.7 billion and nearly 500,000 daily active addresses. Currently, on-chain liquidity is mainly concentrated on Base. River's joining Base means that all Base users can natively hold, use River, and build on it.

According to BBX data, yesterday global listed companies disclosed several key data points regarding the "geopolitical competition" and "scalable positioning" of crypto reserves:15,000 holdings disclosed: Trump Media (NASDAQ: $DJT) confirmed in a strategic briefing yesterday that its treasury's holding of 15,000 BTC has completed its transformation into a "long-term strategic reserve." The company stated that this asset serves as a financial anchor for building decentralized social and payment infrastructure, with a current market value exceeding $1 billion.Vision for 100,000 coins: Metaplanet (TSE: 3350) confirmed yesterday at its Tokyo headquarters that its holding target by the end of 2026 is 100,000 BTC. As one of the largest corporate holders in Asia, the company plans to fill the current reserve gap through a new round of $250 million equity financing, aiming to achieve a top three global holding position within the year.30,000 reserve milestone: Bitcoin Standard Treasury (NASDAQ: $BSTR) disclosed yesterday that its total holdings have officially surpassed 30,000 BTC. As a representative of "standard-based" financial companies, its BPS (Bitcoin per share) grew by 8.4% month-over-month in March.23.8% annual yield: Semler Scientific (NASDAQ: $SMLR) released its latest treasury efficiency report yesterday, showing that its "Bitcoin Yield" achieved through ATM financing tools since 2026 has risen to 23.8%, far exceeding the spot price increase of BTC during the same period.1,717 holdings confirmed: Nexon (TSE: 3659) confirmed yesterday in its weekly report that its holding of 1,717 BTC remains in a "retail out" state. The company reiterated that it will showcase how it utilizes this reserve to support the economic model of next-generation blockchain games at the developer conference in April.

According to Jinshi reports, U.S. Democratic Senator Warren stated that President Trump is obstructing the Federal Reserve from lowering interest rates.

Coinbase executives have denied allegations of obstructing a tax-exempt policy for small Bitcoin transactions. Previously, Bitcoin advocates speculated on social media that Coinbase told lawmakers that Bitcoin is not widely used as a medium of exchange, and therefore does not require tax exemption. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong called the allegations "completely false" and stated that the company has been lobbying for the tax exemption for small Bitcoin transactions and will continue to do so.Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer and Chief Policy Officer also reiterated that they have "never lobbied against Bitcoin." Currently, U.S. lawmakers are considering providing tax exemptions for stablecoins pegged to the value of the dollar, but Bitcoin has not been included in the tax-exempt scope of the proposed Cryptocurrency Market Structure Bill (the CLARITY Act).

According to the official announcement, the globally leading digital asset trading platform Gate has announced a partnership with the Ethereum Layer2 network Abstract and the DeFi protocol Aborean Finance deployed on that chain, launching a liquidity incentive campaign called "Gate Abstract Incentive Carnival" aimed at the Abstract ecosystem. This program revolves around the GTBTC/GUSD liquidity pool, integrating transaction fee sharing, $ABX governance token rewards, and ecological XP incentive mechanisms, constructing a multi-layered revenue structure of "transaction fees + tokens + ecological points" to strengthen the platform's capabilities in on-chain liquidity and multi-chain collaboration.According to the rules, users can obtain LP certificates and share transaction fees after adding liquidity on Gate. If they choose to stake in Aborean, they can receive governance token rewards; during the event, they can also earn double XP and exclusive badges from the Abstract ecosystem. This collaboration precisely matches wallet binding and on-chain incentives, enhancing reward transparency and verifiability, and under the backdrop of the maturation of account abstraction and Layer2 infrastructure, it forms a new exploration direction in multi-chain collaboration and on-chain incentive mechanism design.

Vitalik posted on the X platform stating that Ethereum has been discussing account abstraction (AA) since early 2016. Now, EIP-8141 serves as a comprehensive proposal aimed at addressing all remaining issues related to AA. The core concept of this proposal is "frame transactions," where a transaction contains N calls that can read each other's call data and can authorize the sender and gas payer.This mechanism supports various use cases: ordinary account transactions (such as multi-signature, variable keys, quantum-resistant signature schemes) are completed through validating frames and executing frames; when paying gas fees with non-ETH tokens, it can be achieved through the main contract without any intermediaries.In terms of privacy protocols, ZK-SNARK verification or the addition of two-dimensional randomness can be implemented through payment contracts. Regarding security, on-chain transactions are only valid when the validating frame returns an ACCEPT with a gas payment flag, while the memory pool layer will initially adopt conservative rules, gradually expanding later.EIP-8141 is highly complementary to FOCIL, with FOCIL ensuring quick transaction inclusion and AA ensuring that complex operations can be executed as first-class transactions directly. The proposal is also discussing EOA compatibility, which is theoretically feasible. After more than a decade of research, these technologies are expected to be implemented within a year through the Hegota fork.

According to market news, Bitcoin Standard Treasury Company (BSTR) CEO Adam Back stated that despite the recent drop in Bitcoin prices to around $63,000, the company still plans to go public through a merger with Cantor Equity Partners I (CEPO) via SPAC, with shareholder approval expected as early as April this year.BSTR will debut with a balance sheet of 30,000 Bitcoins, of which 25,000 will be provided by Back and founding shareholders, and 5,000 will be contributed in kind by early investors. Back believes that the current lower Bitcoin prices are actually beneficial for the company to accumulate more Bitcoins at a discounted price after going public. He attributes the recent decline in Bitcoin to macroeconomic uncertainty rather than regulatory issues.

According to BlockSec monitoring, the account abstraction wallet Holdstation was hacked, with multi-chain assets stolen amounting to $100,000. The hacker has transferred the stolen funds to the Bitcoin network.The Holdstation team has released an on-chain message and is attempting to negotiate with the attacker.

World (formerly Worldcoin) announced the release of World ID v4, introducing account abstraction architecture into the protocol system. This upgrade transforms World ID from a single key mechanism to an abstract record in the public registry "WorldIDRegistry," supporting multiple authorization keys, allowing users to generate authentication proofs across different devices or platforms.World stated that the core improvements of the new version include: support for multi-key and multi-validator management, enhancing usage flexibility while maintaining the same identity; increased protocol resilience by introducing key rotation, revocation, and optional recovery agent mechanisms; launching a web-based reference validator to simplify the browser experience; generating one-time nullifiers through OPRF nodes to strengthen privacy protection; and introducing a trust anchor registry to help validators identify request sources, prevent phishing attacks, and lay the groundwork for future protocol fee mechanisms.

The chain abstract stablecoin protocol River has officially launched on the OKX wallet. To celebrate the launch, the official X Launch incentive event has been initiated, with a total prize pool of 33,333 $RIVER. The deadline for participation in the event is January 8th at 8 AM UTC.

The chain-abstract stablecoin protocol River announced a strategic investment from the Maelstrom Fund, a crypto fund founded by BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes. According to the official announcement, this investment will support River in expanding its chain-abstract stablecoin system and ecological development, promoting the circulation and application of on-chain capital.It is reported that River allows users to deposit assets such as BTC, ETH, and BNB on one chain and natively mint satUSD on another chain, seamlessly participating in various yield opportunities. River's stablecoin has integrated over 30 protocols, such as Morpho, Pendle, and ListaDAO, and has been deployed to mainstream ecosystems like Ethereum, BNB Chain, and Base, with a TVL exceeding $300 million and a circulation of satUSD surpassing $100 million.Before the announcement of this investment, the $RIVER token briefly rose to $25 (currently reported at $14.2), reaching new highs for several consecutive days, with a weekly increase of up to 600%. The total trading volume across the network exceeded $3 billion. Among them, the 24-hour trading volume of Binance perpetual contracts once surpassed $1.7 billion, second only to mainstream tokens like BTC and ETH, and ranked in the top five for contract trading volume on multiple CEXs.

The Ethereum Foundation posted on the X platform, stating that the account abstraction team, along with Vitalik Buterin, has released the "Trustless Manifesto" and placed it on-chain. The original intention of Ethereum was not to enhance financial efficiency, but to enable people to collaborate without the need for trusted intermediaries. This manifesto clearly articulates a series of related values, including trustless neutrality, self-custody, verifiability, and a resistance to "convenient" centralized models.The manifesto is fully stored on-chain in the form of a smart contract and provides a single operation: pledge(). This contract has no owner, no administrator, and the text is immutable, with all operations relying on the Ethereum network. When the pledge() operation is called, the system will record the caller's address and the timestamp of the first pledge, and emit a public Pledged(address, timestamp) event. This operation only consumes gas fees and does not provide any form of incentives such as airdrops, points, or early access. If relevant parties make a pledge, it indicates their concern for the importance of user self-authorized operations, their desire for their protocols not to rely on private servers and opaque relayers, and their willingness to bear the actual costs to maintain Ethereum's trustless characteristics.

ChainCatcher News, U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (Wyoming, Republican) wrote to Acting Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) Russ Vought, strongly supporting the implementation of Open Banking rules and urging regulators to "complete the final version as soon as possible" to prevent large banks from politically motivated blocking of public access to digital asset platforms and other financial services.In her letter, Lummis pointed out that large banks abuse their position as financial gatekeepers, restricting access to financial services for industries and individuals they do not agree with, including digital asset companies, firearms manufacturers, religious organizations, and even the President himself. She emphasized, "We cannot allow opponents of crypto assets to rewrite the rules, stifle innovation, and drive up costs. This will only force entrepreneurs to go overseas and undermine the United States' leadership in the fintech sector."The Open Banking framework was first proposed by the Biden administration in 2022 and is set to be finalized in 2024, aiming to allow users to securely share financial data with third-party applications via APIs, thereby connecting bank accounts with digital asset platforms. This rule is seen as an important infrastructure to promote crypto adoption.Lummis stated, "Without Open Banking rules, it is impossible to securely connect bank accounts to crypto exchanges. Especially when some bank executives, such as JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, openly oppose digital assets, users need to be protected." Several crypto industry organizations, including the Blockchain Association and the Crypto Council for Innovation, also sent letters to the CFPB on the same day, urging regulators to clarify that "Americans own their financial data, not large banks."

ChainCatcher message, according to the Web3 asset data platform RootData X tracking data, in the past 7 days, the modular chain abstraction infrastructure Tria has been the project with the most new followers among X (Twitter) top personalities. New influential figures following this project include cryptocurrency analyst Phyrex(@Phyrex_Ni), 2Lambroz(@2lambro), and well-known airdrop blogger Fengmi (@KuiGas).In addition, the projects with the most followers among X top personalities also include Brevis, Derive, CoinDesk, and Yei Finance.

ChainCatcher message, according to the Web3 asset data platform RootData X tracking data, in the past 7 days, the modular chain abstract infrastructure Tria has been the project with the most new X (Twitter) top influencer followers. New influential figures following this project include 2Lambroz(@2lambro), well-known airdrop blogger Fengmi (@KuiGas), and crypto KOL Guhen.hl(@ZKSgu).In addition, the projects with the most followers from X top influencers also include Buzzing, COMBO, The Sandbox, and Stacks.

ChainCatcher message, Abstract core contributor cygaar posted on platform X stating that starting next week, points (XP) will be distributed to users (LP) providing liquidity on Abstract.Eligible trading pairs will include major currencies (ETH, PENGU, USDC, USDT, etc.), with more tokens to be covered after observing the liquidity development.

ChainCatcher news, according to official information, the BSTR strategic reserve has announced its integration into the Bitget platform's stock token trading, becoming a core component of its value reserve; at the same time, Bitget's stock token trading will be integrated into the BSTR reserve system, further optimizing the trading and reserve layout.BigStrategy Inc. is an on-chain reserve company focused on reserving and managing assets within the USD1 ecosystem. Through a progressive reserve and trigger-based destruction model, it dynamically adjusts reserve accumulation based on market performance.