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This article delves into the evolution of Farcaster—the leading decentralised social protocol—and how the venture capital narrative around it has shifted. Despite Farcaster’s impressive fundraising and user growth, its pivots in product logic and market positioning reveal structural challenges in the Web3 social space.

This report offers a data-driven breakdown of how Jito Tips are used, who is using them, and why. We analyze wallet-level behavior, protocol attribution, volatility response, and user segmentation.

I believe DeAI will define the next trend in Web3 AI. We’ll see more teams that change how we interact with each other & with protocols, shift how value is created, and generate new segments that reach more users & mindshare (more mainstream).

Unlike previous halving cycles that saw explosive price surges, this cycle has experienced a more subdued increase of just 31%, compared to a 436% rise in the same timeframe during the previous cycle. Long-term holder metrics (like the MVRV ratio) show a sharp decline in unrealized profits, suggesting a maturing market with compressed upside potential.

Trading psychology reveals the hidden psychological dynamics behind successful cryptocurrency trading. As a trader, your mindset can become your most powerful tool—yet also your greatest weakness. Your personal biases, such as confirmation bias and overconfidence, can quietly undermine your financial decisions without you even realizing it. The most successful traders are not necessarily the smartest, but those who understand their psychological patterns, control their emotions, and can make rational decisions under pressure. By recognizing the brain's natural responses, you can cultivate discipline, manage risk more effectively, and transform trading from an emotional rollercoaster into a strategic, precise operation.

Gate Research Daily Report: Bitcoin is priced at $93,176 and Ethereum at $1,752.39. The U.S. Federal Reserve has withdrawn its crypto regulatory guidance for banks. Sui has launched a virtual Mastercard, and Securitize has partnered with Mantle to introduce a crypto index fund. Solana's stablecoin market cap hits a new all-time high, SUI's market cap surpasses LINK, and Uniswap's total trading volume is approaching the $3 trillion milestone.

CLS Global has been accused of creating fake trading volume through wash trading to mislead investors into buying, ultimately causing losses to both investors and project teams. The SEC has taken strict legal action against this, demanding that CLS Global pay a large fine and implement compliance policies.

Gate Research: This weekly report summarizes key blockchain industry developments from April 18-24, 2025. Solana's DEX trading volume reached $16.2B, surpassing Ethereum for the first time. Circle launched a stablecoin cross-border payment network, ushering in a new era of global real-time settlement. The Ethereum Foundation restructured its strategy to accelerate core protocol upgrades and address performance bottlenecks. Base chain experienced a surge in token issuance, while Eliza Labs launched the AI agent platform Auto-Fun to optimize token incentive mechanisms. Hyperliquid initiated a permissionless node validation mechanism, and Floki partnered with Rice Robotics to develop AI data markets. These multi-chain ecosystem innovations are driving the blockchain industry into a new phase.

Bittensor is reshaping the future of decentralized AI: through its $TAO incentive mechanism, subnet model competition, and real-time reward strategies, it offers a new paradigm for developers and investors. This article explains its ecosystem logic and representative projects to help you discover Web3 AI investment opportunities.

Gate Research: This week, four projects — Recall, GPUnet, Superform Labs, and Soul Labs — are offering users opportunities to engage with the Web3 ecosystem. Recall, a decentralized intelligence network, is incentivizing users with points to help build its AI knowledge-sharing platform in its early stages. GPUnet is developing a decentralized GPU compute network, and its "Road to TGE" campaign rewards users for contributing computing power and participating in community building. Superform Labs aims to create a cross-chain yield marketplace, allowing users to earn points through deposits and referrals. Soul Labs, as a cross-chain liquidity layer, is running an incentivized testnet to encourage users to explore its cross-chain lending features and earn future tokens. These projects represent some of the most promising directions in Web3 and, being in their early phases, present potential airdrop opportunities for early participants.

This article analyzes the correlation between Bitcoin prices and factors such as global liquidity, the U.S. stock market, and fiscal deficits. It also argues that the correlation between Bitcoin and the U.S. stock market may be spurious. The article further explores the impact of the Trump administration's trade policies on global capital flows, and the potential implications for Bitcoin prices.

By abstracting away the differences between underlying blockchains, Chain Abstraction enables users to perform cross-chain operations without needing to understand technical details, delivering a simpler and more intuitive Web3 interaction experience. This article offers an in-depth analysis of the origin, core logic, and three-layer architecture of chain abstraction, helping you understand how it reshapes user interfaces and development models, and drives blockchain toward broader mainstream adoption.

As the world’s first FHE blockchain project designed specifically for AI agents, Mind Network leverages the immense security advantages of FHE in AI to build a secure foundation for the development of the Agentic World.

Gate Research Report: From April 10 to April 24, both Bitcoin and Ethereum broke through key resistance levels, triggering sharp shifts in volatility and market sentiment. BTC surged past $90,000, while ETH stabilized above $1,600 amid frequent long-short battles. This report provides an in-depth analysis of their market performance using multi-dimensional metrics such as open interest, long-short ratios, and funding rates. It also highlights how the True Strength Index (TSI) effectively captures trend reversals and momentum shifts. Through comprehensive backtesting, the study identifies optimal parameter combinations that enhance trading consistency and improve win rates.

Explore how Privacy Pools introduces a new paradigm for blockchain privacy through its innovative ASP (Association Set Providers) mechanism and zero-knowledge proofs. This article examines the theoretical foundation by Vitalik Buterin’s team, the technical implementation by 0xbow, and how its three-layer architecture balances user privacy with regulatory needs. It also analyzes the protocol’s impact on DeFi, compares it with other privacy solutions, and explores future opportunities and challenges.