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Odaily reports: Multi-chain DEX Jumper has announced the JUMP token sale allocation plan. The sale received approximately $48.614 million in subscription commitments from 9,690 participants, exceeding the original $2 million target by 24 times, with a final accepted amount of $3 million.In the final allocation, $1.64 million, approximately 55% of the total sale, was allocated to community wallets, with weighting primarily determined by Jumper Loyalty Pass (JLP) tier and ranking, giving higher priority to long-term, deeply engaged users.The second-largest allocation category is strategic contributors, including angel investors, developers, traders, and content creators; an additional 5% was allocated to Republic participants. The waitlist category covers the top 500 participants, with rankings determined by a combination of Legion Score and referrals, with greater emphasis on Legion Score.Existing Jumper users can improve their priority through waitlist ranking, but different weightings do not stack—only the highest qualifying tier applies.
according to Onchain Lens monitoring, a whale withdrew 3,556 BTC worth $222.94 million from Trade Republic in two identical transactions. Both receiving wallets received small test transactions five days ago and may be related.
According to The EastAfrican, Visa is conducting a pilot with mobile money platform and cross-border payment company Onafriq in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, exploring settling mobile money top-ups via stablecoins to reduce friction in multi-currency cross-border transactions. Visa stated that stablecoins are expected to address cost and efficiency issues in African cross-border payments, remittances, and B2B payments.
: Visa, M-Pesa, and Onafriq have launched a pilot project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to settle cross-border mobile transactions using a stablecoin pegged to the US dollar. The pilot targets scenarios such as cross-border mobile wallet top-ups, international commercial transactions, and remittances. The World Bank estimates that the average cost of cross-border remittances in Sub-Saharan Africa is close to 8% of the transfer amount. Visa has previously partnered with African cryptocurrency exchange Yellow Card to explore stablecoin treasury management and international settlement services. (Bitcoin.com News).
According to crypto analyst Murphy, Bitget’s Phase 2 IPO Prime will be announced tonight at 18:00. On-chain data shows that preOPAI was minted on Solana by Republic on May 7, with the first batch of 29,082 tokens deposited into the project’s custodial account. The top-level instruction is `Mint_securities`, and the program invoked is `4X79YR...zMJwr3` (Republic’s access token issuance program). Only the final distribution step remains before its official launch on Bitget IPO Prime.