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The cryptocurrency payment company Alchemy Pay has announced that it has obtained a Money Transmission License (MTL) in the state of Nebraska, allowing it to conduct related payment business in compliance with local regulations. With this addition to its compliance map, the number of MTL licenses held by Alchemy Pay in the United States has increased to 14, and compliance applications are still being advanced in other states.In the past month, Alchemy Pay has successively obtained Money Transmission Licenses (MTL) in four states: Kansas, West Virginia, South Dakota, and Nebraska.

ChainCatcher news, the Nebraska legislature has just passed a bill regulating Bitcoin miners. The LB 526 bill requires large miners to bear the costs of infrastructure upgrades, mandates miners to report energy usage, and allows authorities to interrupt services. The bill passed unanimously with a vote of 49:0.The Bitcoin mining bill LB 526 in Nebraska is not a huge setback for companies in the state. The bill is just over two pages long and very straightforward. Unlike anti-mining bills, it does not address carbon emissions or other environmental impacts. Instead, it focuses almost entirely on the power grid.

ChainCatcher News, Nebraska Governor Jim Pillen officially signed the LB609 bill this Wednesday, implementing regulations on Bitcoin ATMs and other electronic transaction terminals to prevent fraud and protect consumer rights. The bill requires Bitcoin ATM operators to clearly disclose all terms of use and provide users with prominent anti-fraud warnings.In addition, users who report fraudulent activities to operators and law enforcement within 90 days can receive a full refund.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the blockchain research organization NEBRA is launching Universal Proof Aggregation technology, which allows multiple independent zero-knowledge proofs to be combined into a single compact proof to reduce blockchain verification costs.It is reported that the system will officially launch on Ethereum, aiming to lower the high costs of proof settlement. Zero-knowledge technology is a method of verification that does not disclose information, widely used in the blockchain field, such as zkVM, zkRollups, and zk co-processors.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, the blockchain and zero-knowledge proof research institution Nebra announced the completion of a $4.5 million financing round, led by Nascent and Bankless Ventures, with participation from Tim Beiko of the Ethereum Foundation, Kartik Talwar of ETHGlobal, Nick White of Celestia, and Sandy Peng and Haichen Shen of Scroll.It is reported that Nebra plans to use this funding to advance and democratize zero-knowledge proof technology, aiming to reduce proof settlement costs on Ethereum and other blockchains, thereby creating a so-called new internet shared settlement layer.

ChainCatcher news, Worldcoin announced the 28 grant recipients of the community grant program Wave0 to advance the construction of the Worldcoin Tech Tree. The grant recipients include the voting solution Votexx, the proof aggregation protocol NEBRA, the Ribbon Protocol which enhances global welfare by utilizing health and socioeconomic data from World ID users, the data protection project xx Network, Rarimo which makes World ID usable on any EVM chain, and the anti-witch-hunt voting system Wonderland, among others.It is reported that the Worldcoin Tech Tree is a visual representation of the project's key areas and potential subsets within those areas, such as user agents, hardware, operations, protocols, and governance.