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According to ChainCatcher news, NUVA Digital, a software development company on the RWA trading platform, has completed a $5.2 million seed round of financing, led by Morgan Creek Digital. Created by Animoca Brands and Nuva Labs, NUVA supports users to mint yield-bearing composable tokens through one-click deposits with stablecoins, and provides on-chain proof of reserves with no minimum deposit or lock-up requirements. This round of financing will be used to accelerate platform development and ecological expansion, including enriching the treasury market, introducing more issuers, multi-chain deployment, institutional-grade tool construction, and promoting the issuance of NUVA utility tokens. The company said that the current financing marks its move from the early development stage to the TVL and user scale expansion stage, aiming to solve the problem of fragmentation in the RWA market and create a unified entrance.

ChainCatcher news, CFTC Chairman Mike Selig said in an interview with CoinDesk that the CFTC is building tools that use AI to review registration applications and monitor transactions in the U.S. crypto market. Mike Selig pointed out that AI and automation technology will be used to fill the manpower gap and improve document review efficiency due to federal layoffs that have reduced the agency's staffing by more than one-fifth. Its employees are currently being trained on Microsoft Copilot, while the agency is also developing internal tools for reviewing swap data and market monitoring. Additionally, Mike Selig stated that the CFTC's joint digital asset classification guidelines with the SEC are the most significant initiatives during his tenure, aiming to provide regulatory clarity to market participants. In terms of prediction markets, Mike Selig reiterated the CFTC's exclusive jurisdiction and emphasized that strict enforcement action will be taken against violations such as insider trading.

Odaily Planet Daily News Monad co-founder Keone Hon posted on the X platform that the Monad account was frozen without any warning, which is presumed to be caused by a system error. Monad did not perform any unusual operations or use the API in violation of regulations. The X platform support team has been contacted through various channels, and the account is expected to be restored soon.

ChainCatcher news, according to market news, about 1 hour ago, BlackRock transferred 6,040 ETH to Coinbase Prime through its Ethereum exchange-traded fund ETHA, worth $13.79 million. In addition, BlackRock also transferred a total of 362.682 BTC, worth $27.73 million, to Coinbase Prime through its Bitcoin exchange-traded fund IBIT.

According to the statement, the UAE announced its withdrawal from OPEC and OPEC+ from May 1. (Jin Shi)

ChainCatcher news, Polymarket issued a statement stating that the upgraded CLOB v2 trading platform has been launched, the API has begun to accept orders, and the public website will resume access soon. A $1 million liquidity incentive has been launched: $500,000 will be distributed in the first 2 hours, and the remaining $500,000 will be distributed for the rest of the day.

According to ChainCatcher news, crypto derivatives trading platform Liquid has completed a $18 million Series A financing, co-led by Neo and Left Lane Capital, with participation from Haun Ventures, K5 Global, SV Angel, AntiFund and Sunflower Capital. The company previously closed a $7.6 million seed round led by Paradigm. Founded by Franklyn Wang, a former Two Sigma quantitative researcher and Harvard graduate, Liquid started as a perpetual contract aggregation platform and has since expanded to multi-asset trading such as stocks, forex, commodities, and prediction markets. The platform supports up to 200x leverage and integrates trading across multiple asset classes, including Polymarket positions.

ChainCatcher news, according to Gate Ventures' latest weekly report, there are signs of phased repair at the macro level, the performance of major stock indexes is differentiated but overall upward, and market risk appetite has rebounded. Against this backdrop, the crypto market rebounded simultaneously, with BTC rising 6.6% and ETH rising 4.7%, and recording net inflows of about $823.7 million and $155 million in spot ETFs, respectively, indicating an increase in capital returns. The overall market capitalization rose by 5.2%, while the market capitalization excluding BTC and ETH increased by 2.6%, indicating that the upward momentum is starting to spread to a wider range of assets, but the pace is still relatively moderate. In terms of asset and industry dynamics, structural opportunities continue to emerge. The top 30 assets rose by an average of 4.2%. At the same time, the promotion at the on-chain and industrial levels continues, including the continuous evolution of digital currency infrastructure and asset on-chain direction. In terms of investment and financing, a total of 12 transactions were completed last week, with a total disclosed financing of approximately US$54.89 million, an increase of about 31% month-on-month, with funds mainly flowing to the DeFi and infrastructure sectors. Among them, JPYC completed US$17.62 million in financing to promote the construction of yen stablecoin infrastructure; 3F completed a $4 million seed round of financing, with participants including Gate Ventures. In the context of marginal improvement in the macro environment, investment and financing activity has rebounded, and funds are still focusing on long-term application scenarios and underlying capacity building in a volatile environment.

Odaily Planet Daily News Market news: Saudi Aramco has extended its LPG delivery moratorium until the end of May. (Jin Shi)

According to ChainCatcher news, the Israeli Capital Markets Authority has approved Bits of Gold to issue the country's first shekel-pegged stablecoin, BILS. The token is a regulated asset launched by Bits of Gold after a two-year evaluation and pilot with the support of the Solana network, Fireblocks, as well as Ernst & Young. Bits of Gold said that the introduction of the shekel on-chain aims to put it on par with currencies such as the euro, yen, and Singapore dollar that have already entered the blockchain financial system. With a stablecoin market size of over $300 billion, this issuance aims to address the dominance of USD-pegged tokens in on-chain payments and maintain digital sovereignty.

According to official news, Polymarket is undergoing a coordinated upgrade of the exchange stack: including new smart contracts, a rewritten order book, and a new collateral token. During the switchover, trading will be suspended for approximately 1 hour (until approximately 20:00 UTC+8).

ChainCatcher news, according to Cointelegraph, US President Donald Trump's attitude has softened significantly just days after criticizing the prediction market. "I know some very smart people who like to predict the market," he said. A lot of other countries are doing this, and if we don't, other countries will isolate us. ” Previously, Trump had said in the White House that he was "unhappy" with prediction markets, saying that the whole world had become a casino and that he "conceptually didn't like" such a thing.

According to Cryptoquant data, the total inflow of stablecoins on the Binance platform in the past two months exceeded $6 billion.

According to ChainCatcher news, according to Hyperinsight monitoring, the long position of the largest ETH long "BIT-related whale" on the chain has fallen back underwater, with a current floating loss of about $110,000 (-5%). The address holds 20,000 long orders of 20x leveraged ETH, worth approximately $45.6 million, with an average entry price of $2,287. The position was opened on April 20, during which the floating profit peak reached $2 million, and as the market fell, the floating profit has been given up. It is reported that the address belongs to the digital financial services group BIT, which has received funds from its name many times, and has previously long ETH on a scale of hundreds of millions. Address: 0x6c8512516ce5669d35113a11ca8b8de322fd84f6.

Odaily Planet Daily News Pharos posted on the X platform that Pharos Pacific Ocean Mainnet has been launched and is the first native asset-grade L1 network designed for high performance and regulatory compliance.

ChainCatcher reported a cumulative loss of $17.1 billion in the past decade, involving 518 incidents; Approximately $15.2 billion was lost in the past five years, involving more than 450 incidents; Approximately $2.5 billion was lost over the past year, involving more than 140 incidents. Recent losses show that crypto attacks have shifted from smart contract vulnerabilities to private key leaks and access controls.

ChainCatcher news, according to market news, whales are continuing to buy ETH. Address 0xE5eB raised 4,361 ETH worth approximately $9.98 million from Kraken 5 hours ago after 3 months of silence. Additionally, a newly created wallet address, 0xA605, raised 2,000 ETH worth approximately $4.58 million from Binance 1 hour ago.

Odaily Planet Daily News A sharp weakening of the yen may prompt the Bank of Japan to take action, as the Bank of Japan said in a report that it will continue to raise interest rates based on economic, price and financial conditions. Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities strategist Naomi Rokucha said this marks a change in the Bank of Japan's "policy response function". In this report, the Bank of Japan said that foreign exchange rates are increasingly likely to affect prices, and that such fluctuations could affect potential inflation by changing inflation expectations. The Bank of Japan does not directly target the yen, but if the yen's depreciation significantly accelerates price increases, the central bank may adjust its policy. (Jin Shi)

Nikolai Tangen, CEO of Norway's sovereign wealth fund, said that the arrival of the era of artificial intelligence is offsetting some of the inflationary impact of soaring energy prices caused by the war in the Middle East and helping the market absorb the shock. "This is striking because based on the current situation in the Middle East, you would expect this to transmit to higher energy prices, higher fuel prices, higher fertilizer prices," Tangan said in an interview on Tuesday. "To some extent, this has begun to hit Asia," he noted. We expect it to be transmitted to Europe and the United States through price increases. This is usually bad for the market. But the market is indeed taking it easy. Tangan said he was surprised that there had been no major imbalances in the financial markets. Inflation is usually a factor that hits the market. This is something we must pay close attention to. On the other hand, we have AI, which we consider to have a deflationary effect. I think that's exactly what the market is currently digesting. (Jin Shi)