The Daily: Kraken gets bitcoin from Mt. Gox Trustee, Worldcoin spikes, Mira raises $9 million and more

• In an email to clients confirmed by The Block, Kraken said that it would work to distribute funds as soon as possible despite having up to 90 days to do so. It anticipated that they would hit creditors' accounts in 7 to 14 days.
• "The amount you will receive has been determined by the Trustee, and we will distribute according to their instructions,” Kraken stated in the email.
• Earlier Tuesday, a Mt. Gox wallet transferred around 48,641 BTC ($3.1 billion) to an unlabeled address, "3JQie," according to blockchain analytics platform Arkham.
• Following Kraken's notice, Arkham said the "3JQie" address was most likely associated with the crypto exchange, and the funds currently remain unspent.
• In a separate notice on Tuesday, Mt. Gox Rehabilitation Trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi said over 13,000 creditors have now been paid in bitcoin and bitcoin cash, adding, “We ask [remaining] eligible rehabilitation creditors to wait for a while.”
• Two Japanese exchanges, Bitbank and SBI VC Trade, previously received and seemingly distributed their allocated funds, while BitGo and Bitstamp have yet to receive their Mt. Gox payments.

Worldcoin token jumps over 20% as unlock schedule for early contributors is extended

• However, the unlock schedule for 80% of tokens held by lead developer Tools for Humanity's team has been extended from three to five years.
• The WLD token jumped more than 22% to $2.44 immediately following the announcement, subsequently rising to $2.69, gaining around 30% in the past 24 hours, according to The Block's price page.
• More than 211 million WLD tokens have been claimed by verified World ID holders, accounting for over 77% of the 275 million WLD in circulation, according to the eyeball-scanning crypto project.

Crypto-AI startup Mira raises $9 million in seed funding

• Mira is building a "decentralized AI infrastructure platform" to help developers quickly build AI-native apps.
• Over a dozen projects are using Mira's infrastructure, according to co-founder Karan Sirdesai, with others set to launch soon, including Mira's first ecosystem product, Klok, a crypto chatbot.
• Mira also plans to launch a blockchain to record its platform transactions. However, it's undecided whether it will be a Layer 1 or Layer 2, Sirdesai said, declining to comment on whether Mira would issue a token.

Polygon Labs says its ZK proving system Plonky3 is production-ready

• Plonky3 will be used in Polygon's upcoming AggLayer, an interoperability layer designed to facilitate unified liquidity and security across the Polygon 2.0 network of Layer 2 chains.
• Plonky3 is an advancement of Plonky2, reducing proof generation time and computational costs, and has already been adopted by projects like Valida and Succinct Labs’ SP1.
• With Plonky3, Polygon aims to enable developers to build their own zero-knowledge virtual machines (zkVMs) or zero-knowledge Ethereum virtual machines (zkEVMs).

Jack Dorsey’s hardware wallet Bitkey to integrate MoonPay for bitcoin purchases

• MoonPay's integration simplifies Bitkey's bitcoin purchase experience, which is managed entirely within the Bitkey app. The firm is also planning to enable crypto-to-fiat off-ramps soon.
• Launched in March, Bitkey is a self-custody wallet with a 2-of-3 multi-signature setup that enhances security and reduces reliance on single points of failure, such as passwords or seed phrases.

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