Blockchain

KernelDAO enhances blockchain security and staking efficiency through restaking, liquid staking, and automated yield strategies.

AminoChain is a blockchain-based platform designed to improve biobanking by connecting medical institutions and researchers in a decentralized network. It facilitates secure and transparent sharing of biospecimens while enabling patients to retain control over their samples. The platform enhances the efficiency of medical research through streamlined collaboration and access to data.

IMPT is a blockchain-based platform focused on carbon offsetting and sustainable shopping through tokenized carbon credits.

Telcoin (TEL) is a blockchain-based platform aiming to make affordable remittances accessible via mobile networks and decentralized finance solutions.

Explore Definitive (EDGE), a non-custodial platform for advanced on-chain trading, liquidity aggregation, and token-based incentives.

XUSD is a fully-backed, USD-pegged stablecoin issued by StraitsX, a payment infrastructure company for digital assets based in Southeast Asia and regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)

Vitalik's new work, a systematic discourse on the value of digital privacy, explores how privacy underpins freedom, order, and technological progress. It is an important piece of thought literature in the era of AI and blockchain.

Plastic Labs has announced the completion of a $5.35 million Pre-Seed funding round and launched its personalized AI identity platform, Honcho. Honcho aims to provide personalized solutions for large language model (LLM) applications, helping developers easily implement personalization through a plug-and-play approach. It addresses the common challenge developers face of building user modeling from scratch by offering rich and persistent user profiles.

This article examines two major challenges posed by high interest rates: a looming "$9 trillion Treasury maturity wall" and over $500 billion in commercial real estate loans coming due. Both are putting pressure on the Trump administration to push for rate cuts in order to ease refinancing burdens. The article also discusses how the growing adoption of stablecoins could act as a key catalyst for the next crypto bull run, with coverage of U.S. stablecoin legislation progress, accelerating institutional involvement, and the rapid evolution of multiple stablecoin initiatives.

This article provides an in-depth analysis of how BitBonds incorporate Bitcoin into the U.S. Treasury system through a "budget-neutral" approach. It explores the potential implications for fiscal stability, the crypto market, and the global financial order, revealing practical pathways and risk boundaries in the fusion of cryptocurrency with sovereign credit.

The VIX has soared above 60, signalling extreme market fear. This article analyzes the historical correlation between the VIX and risk assets, explores how U.S. equities and Bitcoin typically behave during high-VIX environments, and offers strategic insights across different VIX ranges to help investors capture rebound opportunities.

The 2008 financial crisis gave birth to the earliest believers in Bitcoin. The "suicide" of the legal currency system in 2025 will also promote the growth of stablecoins on the chain, especially non-USD, non-full reserve interest-bearing stablecoins (YBS, Yield-Bearing Stablecoins). However, non-full-reserve stablecoins are still theoretically envisioned, and the aftermath of the Luna-UST collapse in 2022 is still lingering. However, driven by capital efficiency, partial-reserve stablecoins will definitely become the mainstream of the market. Non-US dollar stablecoins are still in the experimental stage, and the global currency status of the US dollar is still widely recognized. In order to maintain industrial production capacity and employment, the RMB will not actively internationalize on a large scale, and replacing the US dollar will be a very long process.

Gate Research (April 11–17, 2025): April 14, Solana raises block computation limit and upgrades network performance. April 15, EigenLayer launches mainnet slashing. April 16, Polygon’s AggLayer builds a “value internet.” April 17, Sony Soneium and EigenLayer slash blockchain finality time by 98%, setting a new L2 benchmark.

Compared to the bell curve distribution that technology adoption usually follows, there is a disproportionately high percentage share of those pioneering crypto AI adoption. This can be attributed to self-selection bias from participants already interested in crypto AI, but may also indicate that crypto AI adoption is still dominated by tech enthusiasts and has yet to gain mainstream traction, even within the crypto industry.

Explore a DeFi-native TGE model that balances capital efficiency with long-term incentives, addressing the structural challenges of high FDV and low circulation, and guiding the evolution of a healthier token market structure.