Selected News:

1. Polygon Labs CEO: Depositing 10.6 million MATIC into Binance's address does not belong to the Polygon Foundation;

2. BNB Chain has announced the 20 winning projects of its Ecological Catalyst Award, covering DeFi, gaming & NFT, infrastructure, and innovation fields;

3. Ethereum Foundation announces the 18 project teams that won the ERC-4337 account abstract funding round.

4. The Algorand Foundation announced its investment in the ecological wallet Pera in collaboration with DWF Labs and others.

5. aelf launches $50 million venture capital fund, aelf Ventures.

Project Updates

MistTrack: Ordinals Wallet official account was attacked by SIM card replacement, users need to guard against phishing risks

SlowMist's Web3 security tool, MistTrack, has released a phishing warning. The Twitter account of Ordinals Wallet is suspected to have been targeted by a SIM card swap attack by pinkdrainer. MistTrack advises users not to click on any suspicious links to prevent personal assets from being stolen.

Polygon Labs CEO: The address that deposited 10.6 million MATIC into Binance does not belong to the Polygon Foundation

Regarding the news that "suspected Polygon Foundation related addresses recently deposited 10.6 million MATIC into Binance", Polygon Labs CEO Marc Boiron clarified that this is not the wallet address of the Polygon Foundation, and Lookonchain's labeling is incorrect.

BNB Chain has announced the 20 winning projects of its ecological catalytic award, covering DeFi, gaming & NFT, infrastructure, and innovation.

BNB Chain has announced the winners of its Ecological Catalyst Award, including: DeFi category, which includes PancakeSwap, Maverick Protocol, iZUMi Finance, Helio Protocol, Alpaca Finance; Game, NFT & Metaverse category, which includes SecondLive, Element NFT Marketplace, BurgerCities, Playbux, Meta Merge; Infrastructure track, which includes Polyhedra Network, LayerZero Labs, Galxe, BscScan, CyberConnect; and Innovative Excellence Projects, which includes Dmail Network, Hooked Protocol, MathVerse, ChainGPT, DexCheck.

Starknet ecosystem derivative protocol ZKX announces the launch of ZKX application chain

Derivative trading protocol ZKX, based on Starknet, announced the launch of ZKX application chain, aiming to provide traders with the performance of CEX and the security of DEX. As a full-chain layer, ZKX application chain connects multiple L1 and Rollup to provide users with continuous liquidity and interoperability. BlockBeats previously reported that in mid-July 2022, ZKX completed a $4.5 million seed round of financing, with participation from StarkWare, Alameda Research, Huobi, Amber Group, Crypto.com, HashKey, Polygon co-founder Sandeep Nailwal, DragonFly Capital general partner Ashwin Ramachandran, and others.

Binance will launch zero transaction fee promotions for ARS, BRL, and ZAR spot trading pairs tomorrow.

According to an official announcement, Binance will launch a new zero maker fee promotion for ARS, BRL, and ZAR spot trading pairs at 8:00 AM on September 8th (Beijing time). This promotion will cover the following 8 spot trading pairs: BTC/ARS, USDT/ARS, BTC/BRL, ETH/BRL, USDT/BRL, BTC/ZAR, ETH/ZAR, and USDT/ZAR.

The Ethereum Foundation announced that 18 project teams won the ERC-4337 account abstract funding round.

The Ethereum Foundation announced that the ERC-4337 account abstraction grant round has successfully concluded. This grant program will support 18 teams building diverse projects around ERC-4337 (also known as account abstraction), including:

1. ZeroDev Kernel: a smart contract account designed from scratch for account abstraction wallets, efficient and modular;
2. Etherspot's Skandha Bundler: a P2P interface account abstraction bundler implementation developed by the Etherspot team;
3. MynaWallet: a contract account integrated with the identity card issued by the Japanese government;
4. Blocto: an RPC method that supports account abstraction in web3.js;
5. Silius: a modular and efficient Rust account abstraction bundler implementation;
6. QR-Seal: a Schnorr multisignature wallet that is fully compatible with ERC-4337;
7. Ambire: a self-hosted wallet that uses email/password authentication;
8. IoTeX: a zero-knowledge proof-based account abstraction wallet;
9. SixdegreeLab: a data analysis dashboard for account abstraction;
10. Jam: a DeFi transaction batch processor developed by Picnic;
11. TokenSight: a multi-factor authentication for account abstraction using WebAuthn;
12. ZK-Team: a privacy-protecting account abstraction provided by PriFi Labs;
13. Rhinestone: a secure registry for modular account abstraction;
14. AAA: a community activity that enhances account abstraction awareness;
15. Unpacking 4337: a series of technical articles on account abstraction;
16. Hexlink: linking ENS with ERC-4337 accounts using EIP-4972, providing instant account abstraction compatibility for all ENS users;
17. UniPass: combining ERC-4337 with the OpenID Connect protocol to provide one-click OAuth login and account creation for new users;
18. Clave: enhancing support for account abstraction with the secp256r1 curve.

Algorand Foundation announces investment in Pera, an ecological wallet, in collaboration with DWF Labs

Algorand Foundation announced a joint investment with Borderless, Arrington Capital, and DWF Labs in the Algorand ecosystem's open-source self-custody wallet, Pera, to accelerate the development of the ecosystem.

aelf launches $50 million venture capital fund aelf Ventures

The public chain project aelf announced the launch of aelf Ventures, setting up a $50 million aelf venture capital fund. aelf Ventures aims to expand its venture capital field, including but not limited to games, DeFi, NFTs, and public products.

Data

Scam Sniffer: A certain whale lost $24.23 million worth of stETH and rETH due to a phishing attack

According to Scam Sniffer data, approximately 8 hours ago, a whale address starting with 0x13e suffered a phishing attack and lost 4850 rETH and 9579 sETH, worth about $24.23 million.

Data: A certain WLD market maker transferred 4.5 million WLD to CEX one hour ago

According to on-chain analyst Yu Jin's monitoring, one hour ago, a certain WLD market maker transferred 4.5 million WLD (approximately 6.07 million US dollars) to three CEXs when the WLD price was 1.39 US dollars: 3 million WLD transferred to Binance, 1 million WLD transferred to Bybit, and 500,000 WLD transferred to KuCoin. The market maker received 11 million WLD market-making tokens allocation before the WLD went online, and the market maker's address currently holds 2.96 million WLD (4.02 million US dollars).

Bitcoin's total unconfirmed transaction count exceeds 260,000.

According to BTC.com data, the current number of unconfirmed transactions on the Bitcoin network exceeds 260,000. The network's total computing power is 401.78 EH/s, with a 24-hour transaction rate of 5.54 transactions per second. The current network difficulty is 54.15 T, and the next difficulty adjustment is predicted to decrease by 1.48% to 53.35 T. There are 12 days and 12 hours left until the adjustment.

Pai Dun: About 4 days ago, received about 999 ETH from Vitalik's related address, and transferred 300 ETH to Bitstamp

According to Paidu Shield's monitoring, an address (0x5567...31B1) received approximately 999 ETH (equivalent to about 1.64 million USD) from an address related to Vitalik (0xD04d...8fd7) four days ago. Yesterday evening, 300 ETH (equivalent to about 490,000 USD) was transferred to the Bitstamp trading platform.

Reflexer Foundation repurchases 150,000 FLX from Paradigm, worth approximately $2.08 million.

The stablecoin RAI team member reza.eth announced on Reflexer Discord that the Reflexer Foundation has repurchased 150,000 FLX from Paradigm, worth about $2.08 million, of which 50% has been burned and the other 50% has been reallocated to the DAO treasury. BlockBeats previously reported that Reflexer had criticized Paradigm in May and said it would draw a clear line with them.

A certain Ethereum ICO participant transferred 25 ETH to Kraken after 8 years of dormancy

According to on-chain data, a certain whale that had been dormant for 8 years transferred 25 ETH (about $40,000) to Kraken 12 minutes ago. This whale was a participant in the Ethereum ICO and received 185 ETH during the genesis period of Ethereum.

A certain whale increased its holdings by 581 BTC today, worth about $14.9 million.

According to The Data Nerd, a certain whale increased its holdings by 581 BTC, approximately $14.9 million, 2 hours ago. In addition, the whale previously earned a profit of $39.7 million by buying BTC at $17,100 and selling it at $30,300.

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