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Gate Research Daily Report: On March 13, BTC reclaimed the $71,000 level, ETH climbed above $2,120, and GT continued to consolidate above $7.00. UAI and TURBO led the gainers. Meanwhile, Trump is set to hold another Mar-a-Lago lunch for token holders, while Royaltiz launched its first fully on-chain talent asset, highlighting growing attention on event-driven narratives and emerging tokenization models.

The pricing of Chinese meme coins is not grounded in expectations of future cash flows or technological progress, but is jointly shaped by structural changes in narrative transmission efficiency, the intensity of emotional consensus, and the density of attention. From the perspective of narrative economics, meme coins are not an exception marked by the collapse of value, but rather an extreme manifestation of “consensus preceding value”: price no longer serves as a shadow of intrinsic value, but as a metric of whether a narrative continues to be believed. Chinese meme coins are therefore not merely financial assets, but also vehicles for social sentiment and identity formation, with trading behavior simultaneously encompassing risk-based speculation, emotional compensation, and group belonging. In recent years, as attention has become an increasingly scarce resource, price has effectively become a quantitative expression of attention density.

Gate Research Daily Report: On March 13, BTC reclaimed the $71,000 level, ETH climbed above $2,120, and GT continued to consolidate above $7.00. UAI and TURBO led the gainers. Meanwhile, Trump is set to hold another Mar-a-Lago lunch for token holders, while Royaltiz launched its first fully on-chain talent asset, highlighting growing attention on event-driven narratives and emerging tokenization models.

Gate Futures Stock Section Launches EWJ and EWY Perpetual Futures Trading

The CFTC has issued its inaugural guidance on prediction market manipulation risk, establishing regulatory principles for Prediction Market contract design, insider trading, and market manipulation. This article offers a comprehensive analysis of the regulatory background, key provisions, and implications for industry platforms including Kalshi and Polymarket.

Story Protocol provides a blockchain infrastructure designed specifically for intellectual property (IP). By registering IP assets on-chain and introducing programmable licensing mechanisms, the protocol enables licensing, derivative creation, and revenue distribution to be executed automatically. Through components such as IP Assets, IP Accounts, and a modular protocol architecture, creators, developers, and AI applications can register, extend, and compose intellectual property assets within the same network.

A user on CoW Swap exchanged roughly $50.43 million in aEthUSDT for AAVE. Because slippage exceeded 99%, the user ended up with only about $36,000 in assets, sparking widespread market concern. This article examines Aave's collateral swap mechanism, transaction routing challenges, and associated DeFi risks.

IP Token powers the Story Protocol blockchain as its native digital asset, supporting core network functions such as gas payments, governance participation, staking, and settlement for IP licensing and royalty distribution. Within the Story Protocol creator economy, the token also acts as a value medium that enables intellectual property assets to be registered, licensed, traded, and monetized on-chain, allowing creators to manage ownership and revenue distribution through programmable infrastructure.

On-chain analytics providers have observed an unusual trend in the Ethereum market: while network usage is steadily rising, the price of ETH is simultaneously declining. The surge in smart contract and DeFi activity has pushed on-chain interactions to record levels. Nevertheless, capital outflows and persistent selling pressure may subject ETH to additional short-term downside risk.

ERC-8004 is now live on the Ethereum mainnet, delivering identity, reputation, and verification frameworks for AI agents. These mechanisms allow agents to interact securely in a trustless environment. By leveraging NFT-based identities and on-chain reputation systems, ERC-8004 lays the groundwork for the emerging machine-to-machine economy and could fundamentally transform blockchain’s role in digital commerce.

The article opens by analyzing the structural conflict between the risk-free rate and the integration of US Treasury bonds on-chain. It traces the development of stablecoins such as USDT/USDC, DAI, UST, and USDe, highlighting the reasons behind the breakdown of DeFi token economics and DAO governance, and exploring how these mechanisms are being restructured within RWA and Vault frameworks.

The article compares the product architectures of Ondo, Backed/xStocks, Securitize, and the current "duopoly" landscape, pointing out that the true moat has shifted from technology to cross-border licensing and regulatory design.

The article combines real-world developments such as the ETF explosion, institutional allocation rising from 1% to 5%, and declining long-term volatility, arguing that this is not a fantasy but a natural extension of trends. For investors who question the "Bitcoin to one million dollars" narrative as too crazy, it provides a mathematical framework based on conservative assumptions.

The article invokes Keynes's prophecy that "the development of capital becomes a by-product of the casino" to analyze how current financialisation is shifting the economy from productive activities to a zero-sum speculative game.

The article references existing infrastructure such as OpenClaw, USDC, LayerZero, and Aave to reveal how autonomous agents can unlock the bottleneck of "knowledge at scale."