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Gate has officially launched the Gate Booster promotion and incentive platform, delivering a unified task collaboration system for KOLs, content creators, and community managers across the crypto sector. By engaging in various activities—such as promotional posts and referral invitations—participants can strengthen their influence within the Gate ecosystem and earn rewards accordingly. This initiative helps Gate build a more scalable and sustainable user growth model.

Discover Gate DEX, a high-performance decentralized trading hub that brings the world of Web3 together in one platform. Trade on-chain spot and derivatives, perform cross-chain swaps, and explore token launches on Gate Fun or meme trading on Meme Go—all in a seamless, beginner-friendly experience. Available on both App and Web, this step-by-step tutorial will guide you through getting started with Gate DEX.

LayerZero has introduced the institutional-grade L1 platform “Zero,” quickly attracting backing from major Wall Street players including Citadel, DTCC, and ICE. This article examines the underlying logic of LayerZero’s pivot from cross-chain bridges to a “Wall Street public chain,” providing an in-depth analysis of Zero’s market positioning, shifts in ZRO valuation, and critical risk factors. We also assess whether this transformation marks genuine entry into the realm of financial infrastructure or if it remains an unproven pilot initiative.

USDC and moltbook are hosting the OpenClaw hackathon, exclusively for AI Agent participants for the first time. This article highlights the most prominent projects, focusing on Agent payment solutions, compute resource procurement, risk management, prediction markets, and privacy protocols. It explores how these projects are already exposing the practical needs of Agentic Commerce and shaping the competitive landscape for the next stage of infrastructure development.

The article starts from the $5.7 trillion financing gap faced by small and medium-sized enterprises in emerging markets, revealing how on-chain lending is reshaping DeFi through treasuries, risk management, and institutional endorsement.

To celebrate Valentine's Day, Gate Perp DEX is launching a special Valentine's event.

Greetings to all Gate community members! As the Bingwu Year of the Horse approaches, Gate Research extends our sincere wishes to all users: may your steps remain steady, your judgment sharp, and your returns promising in the year ahead.

The article traces a comprehensive vision of infrastructure-layer redecentralization — from ZK-EVM combined with block-level access lists bringing full nodes back to laptop-runnable levels, to Helios light clients enabling verifiable RPCs, ORAM/PIR for private queries, social recovery replacing fragile mnemonics, IPFS-hosted dapp UIs, and FOCIL’s forced inclusion of transactions to resist censorship.

The article combines price trends with inventory data to argue that the current silver market is not merely driven by sentiment, but reflects a structural crisis of "highly leveraged paper silver versus extreme physical shortages."

Gate DEX is launching the "Chinese New Year Continuous Trading Challenge", inviting global users to deeply experience one-stop on-chain trading on the Gate DEX Web and App.

In January 2026, the public chain landscape showed structural reallocation rather than an overall cooldown, with on-chain activity concentrating in high-frequency and high-efficiency networks. Solana maintained strong activity levels, Ethereum reinforced its role as a settlement layer, and Base expanded on the back of narrative-driven momentum, while some traditional L2s and sidechains weakened. Market capital allocation logic is increasingly shifting toward real usage efficiency. On Bitcoin, price action continues to oscillate around the short-term holder cost basis, with profit-taking cooling and selling pressure easing. Stress remains concentrated among short-term holders, while long-term holder structure stays intact, suggesting a mid-cycle consolidation rather than a trend reversal. At the project level, the rebound in Solana meme activity has reignited launchpad ecosystems. Pump.fun remains dominant, while Bags App has scaled rapidly through its novel “donation-driven” mechanism, leaving the sector in a

Gate Research Weekly Report: Following the sharp market sell-off, prices have entered a phase of corrective consolidation. BTC and ETH remain capped by mid-term moving averages, with rebounds lacking sufficient volume support. Within altcoins, capital has shown a tentative rotation into high-beta sectors such as AI Meme and AI Framework. Net inflows from new Bitcoin investors have turned negative, suggesting that selling pressure has yet to be fully absorbed by fresh demand. Meanwhile, Ethereum’s staking ratio has surpassed 30%, reaching a record high. While this reinforces ETH’s positioning as a yield-bearing asset, it also implies a contraction of trading liquidity, the structural implications of which warrant continued monitoring. The convergence between stablecoin infrastructure and macro interest rates is accelerating, as Zerohash advances the adoption of stablecoin payments on Layer 1 networks.

Gate Research Weekly Report: After a sharp sell-off, the market has entered a consolidation phase, with BTC and ETH still capped by key moving averages. Capital is rotating back into high-beta sectors such as AI, signaling a modest recovery in risk appetite. Ethereum’s staking ratio has surpassed 30%, reaching a new all-time high and pointing to ongoing supply contraction and a rebalancing of liquidity structures. Zerohash’s integration with Monad and USDC is advancing the deployment of stablecoin payment infrastructure at the L1 level. Tether’s U.S. Treasury holdings continue to expand, accelerating the integration of stablecoins into the short-term interest rate system. Overall crypto market capitalization continues to decline, indicating that the market remains in a near-term de-risking phase. Meanwhile, Anchorage has completed a strategic financing round of approximately $100 million, with participation from Tether.

The core motivation behind Pi Network was to address a growing problem in blockchain ecosystems, the rising barriers to participation that made it difficult for ordinary users to take part directly.

Gate has officially introduced the sub-account position mode for perpetual contracts, allowing users to hold multiple directional and multi-mode positions simultaneously within a single market. This feature supports the combined use of cross margin and isolated margin strategies. With independent leverage settings and robust risk isolation mechanisms, the sub-account mode provides advanced traders with enhanced flexibility for strategic operations, offering a significant upgrade to the perpetual contract trading experience.