Sony Group has acquired Amber Japan, a Japanese crypto trading platform under Amber Group

According to Wu, Sony Group, one of the largest companies in Japan, has acquired Amber Japan for billions of yen. Singapore market maker Amber Group acquired DeCurret, a regulated cryptocurrency trading platform in Japan, in early 2022 and changed its name to Amber Japan. Later, due to the collapse of FTX, Amber Group fell into trouble and was suspected of a complete debt-to-equity transaction with Distributed. Amber Group investors include Temasek, Sequoia China, Pantera, Tiger, Coinbase, etc. Yijin Li has resigned as the representative of Amber Japan, and Jun Watanabe, as the chairman of Sony Network Communications Inc., serves as the representative of the company after the acquisition.

Vitalik published an article titled "In-depth slot-and-epoch architecture to provide Ethereum users with a method for faster transaction confirmation time"

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin published an article titled "A Deep Look into the Slot-and-Epoch Architecture to Provide Ethereum Users with Faster Transaction Confirmation Times". The article states that although compared with five years ago, thanks to EIP-1559 and the merged stable block time, the transaction confirmation time on Ethereum L1 has been shortened to 5-20 seconds, which is comparable to the credit card payment experience, further reducing latency is still of great value, especially for applications that require latency of several hundred milliseconds or even less.

Buterin emphasized that the slot-and-epoch architecture is obviously correct, but not all slot-and-epoch architectures are equal. He advocated a more comprehensive exploration of the design space, especially those options with stronger separation of concerns between the two mechanisms, in order to reduce transaction confirmation time and improve user experience. Buterin said that L2 can currently adopt three strategies: first, both technically and spiritually based on Ethereum, optimize itself to convey the technical characteristics and values ​​of Ethereum; second, as a "server with blockchain Scaffold", by adding mechanisms such as validity proof and user rights protection, fully utilize the server efficiency while obtaining the benefits of the chain; third, adopt a compromise strategy to build a fast chain of one hundred nodes, with Ethereum providing interoperability and security. In the slot-and-epoch architecture, "epochs" represents Ethereum's SSF, while the meaning of "slots" varies in different situations. The key question is to what extent we can optimize the slot-and-epoch architecture based on Ethereum's native, and whether this will affect the application space of other types of pre-confirmation mechanisms. At present, there is still uncertainty about the complexity of block proposers and the design space of the slot-and-epoch architecture. Having more options will help better serve L1 and L2 users and simplify the work of L2 developers.

ether.fi: New proposal passed by vote, 25 million ETHFI will be airdropped to stakers in the third quarter

ether.fi tweeted that the new proposal of ether.fi Foundation was successfully passed, and 25 million ETHFI tokens will be airdropped to eligible ether.fi stakers in Season 3. According to the proposal information, the start date of ether.fi Season 3 is July 1, 2024, and the end date is early September 2024. The airdrop distribution will be carried out shortly after the end of Season 3, during which Perks Passport will be launched, a new participation incentive framework that tracks users' progress and achievements based on their participation in various DeFi activities and events, and rewards users for increasing their ether.fi loyalty points.

Christian denies buying 400,000 USDT of CRV from Curve founder through OTC transactions and dumping the market

In response to community users’ concerns that the founder of Curve may have sold 400,000 USDT of CRV off-market, NextGen Venture co-founder Christian (@Christianeth) said on the X platform, “The 400,000 USDT was not used to buy CRV, but to buy locked CVX; the CRV received was purchased before; there was no market crash, and there was no way to sell that much. The decline was due to other whales transferring tens of millions into the exchange, and the transfer into the exchange was to repay the collateral.” Earlier, according to crypto community user @maid_crypto on the X platform, some on-chain analysts pointed out that the address suspected to be @Christianeth purchased 400,000 USDT worth of CRV from Curve founder Michael Egorov at an off-market price of 0.107 USDT on June 21, and sold all of it at a unit price of 0.333 USDT the next day, causing the CRV market to fall by 5%. On June 28, he received the same amount of CRV from the founder of Curve again.

Data: Tokens worth more than $120 million will be unlocked next week, of which SUI unlocks about $50.7 million

Token Unlocks data shows that next week, SUI, IO, MAV, DYDX and other tokens will usher in a one-time large-scale unlocking, with a total release value of over 120 million US dollars. Among them:

Manta Network (MANTA) will unlock approximately 1.87 million tokens at 7:59 am Beijing time on July 1, accounting for 0.57% of the current circulation, with a value of approximately US$1.85 million;

Sui (SUI) will unlock approximately 64.19 million tokens at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time on July 1, accounting for 2.65% of the current circulation, with a value of approximately US$50.7 million;

ZetaChain (ZETA) will unlock approximately 5.29 million tokens at 8:00 am Beijing time on July 1, accounting for 1.92% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$4.2 million;

DYDX (DYDX) will unlock approximately 8.33 million tokens at 8:00 am Beijing time on July 1, accounting for 3.12% of the current circulation, with a value of approximately US$11.3 million;

Maverick Protocol (MAV) will unlock approximately 36.4 million tokens at 8:00 am Beijing time on July 1, accounting for 14.56% of the current circulation, with a value of approximately US$9.6 million;

Acala (ACA) will unlock approximately 27.43 million tokens at 3:00 p.m. Beijing time on July 1, accounting for 2.69% of the current circulation, with a value of approximately $1.85 million.

io.net (IO) will unlock approximately 7.5 million tokens at 9:00 pm Beijing time on July 1, accounting for 7.89% of the current circulation, with a value of approximately US$24 million;

Euler (EUL) will unlock about 54,000 tokens at 3:07 am Beijing time on July 5, accounting for 0.29% of the current circulation and worth about $240,000;

Galxe (GAL) will unlock about 3 million tokens at 8:00 am Beijing time on July 5, accounting for 2.60% of the current circulation, with a value of about US$6.6 million;

Liquity (LQTY) will unlock approximately 657,000 tokens at 8:00 am Beijing time on July 5, accounting for 0.68% of the current circulation, with a value of approximately US$560,000;

Hashflow (HFT) will unlock approximately 13.62 million tokens at 8:00 a.m. Beijing time on July 7, accounting for 3.28% of the current circulation, with a value of approximately US$2.8 million;

Ethena (ENA) will unlock approximately 14.89 million tokens at 3:00 p.m. Beijing time on July 7, accounting for 0.92% of the current circulation and worth approximately US$7.6 million.

Beosin: The total losses in the Web3 field due to hacker attacks in the first half of 2024 reached US$1.54 billion

According to Beosin Alert monitoring and early warning, the total loss caused by hacker attacks, phishing scams and project party Rug Pull in the Web3 field in the first half of 2024 reached 1.54 billion US dollars. Among them, there were 78 major attacks with a total loss of about 1.193 billion US dollars; 64 project party Rug Pull incidents with a total loss of about 119 million US dollars; the total loss of phishing scams was about 232 million US dollars. In the first half of 2024, there were 3 security incidents with a loss of more than 100 million US dollars. The total loss in May reached 450 million US dollars, which was the month with the highest loss in the first half of 2024. In terms of the types of attacked projects, the type of project with the highest loss was CEX. The 4 attacks on CEX caused a total loss of about 392 million US dollars, accounting for 32.8% of all attack losses. In terms of the loss amount of each chain, Ethereum is still the chain with the highest loss amount and the most attack incidents. 32 attacks on Ethereum caused a loss of $470 million, accounting for 39.4% of the total losses. In terms of attack methods, there were 22 private key leaks in the first half of the year, causing losses of $894 million, accounting for about 75% of the total attack losses, which is the highest proportion of attack types. In terms of capital flow, about $470 million (39.3%) of stolen funds were frozen or recovered. This ratio has increased significantly compared to 2023. Of the 78 attacks in the first half of the year, 43 still came from contract vulnerability exploits. It is recommended that project parties seek audits from professional security companies before going online.

Total NFT sales in the second quarter of this year fell 45% month-on-month

According to Crypto Potato, Cryptoslam data shows that compared with the first quarter of 2024, the monthly transaction volume of the NFT market decreased significantly in the second quarter, with sales falling by 45% month-on-month. In the first quarter of 2024, the total sales volume of the NFT market exceeded US$4.1 billion, a significant increase from US$2.9 billion in the first quarter of 2023. However, in the second quarter of 2024, there was a significant decline in NFT trading volume, with quarterly trading volume of approximately $2.28 billion, the lowest level since the third quarter of 2023. According to analysis, the continued turmoil in the Bitcoin market is the main reason for the decline in NFT trading volume.

In addition, the average selling price of NFTs also dropped significantly in June, from $193 in March to $78, a drop of 60%. As of June 28, sales volume was approximately $419 million, and June is expected to be the lowest sales month since October 2023. Sales in May were slightly over $616 million, down more than 50% from $1.2 billion in April. Not only are sales volumes declining, but other indicators such as the number of sellers and buyers are also declining. There were approximately 2,238,925 sellers and 3,316,014 buyers in the first quarter. In the second quarter, the number of sellers and buyers was 1,785,367 and 3,300,566, respectively, a slight decrease from the first quarter.

It is worth noting that despite the challenges faced by the NFT market, it still achieved significant milestones in 2024, such as total Solana-based NFT sales surpassed $5 billion on February 23, in addition, earlier this month, and The Bitcoin-based NFT climbed to third place in all-time sales, surpassing the Ronin network.

Abraxas Capital has withdrawn 60,000 ETH from Bitfinex in the past 15 hours and deposited it into Spark as collateral for borrowing.

According to on-chain analyst Ember, the whale address marked by Arkham as Abraxas Capital has withdrawn a total of 60,000 ETH (about $203.06 million) from Bitfinex in the past 15 hours. These ETH were then deposited into Spark as collateral to mint and borrow 101 million DAI, which was then converted into 101 million USDC on the chain and transferred to Binance.

Yu Jin estimates that this transaction behavior is suspected to be the whale's desire to leverage ETH, or to lend these stablecoins for investment in other currencies.

Ethereum briefly broke through $3,500, and the current intraday increase is 2.86%

The OKX market data shows that Ethereum briefly broke through $3,500 and is now trading at $3,497.35, with a daily increase of 2.86%.

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