Gate News message, April 2, spot gold fell sharply by 4.00% during the day, now quoted at $4,564.73 per ounce. Spot silver slipped back below $70 per ounce, with a daily decline of 6.72%.

The number of independent senders of non-USD stablecoins on the Solana chain has grown nearly threefold year over year, driven mainly by the euro stablecoin EURC and the Brazilian real stablecoin BRZ. Solana’s technical advantages have attracted the integration of multiple payment providers, reflecting a rising market demand for cross-border payments on high-throughput blockchains.

Gate News message, April 2, a Korean exchange started the KOSPI index (Korea Composite Stock Price Index) circuit breaker mechanism. Earlier, KOSPI 200 futures (South Korea’s benchmark equity index futures) fell by 5%, and algorithmic trading was paused for 5 minutes.

Gate News message: On April 2, Gate market data shows that XAUUSD (gold) has fallen below the $4,600 threshold. It is currently trading at $4,599.97, and the intraday decline has widened to 3.26%.

Gate News: According to the latest Gate TradFi data, XAGUSD (Silver) has dropped by 4% in a short period. Current volatility is significantly higher than recent averages, indicating increased market activity.

Gate News message, on April 2, Clem Chambers, founder of the European stocks and market news platform ADVFN, said that the crypto industry is moving out of a cycle centered on token speculation, and that the next bull market will be driven by real-world blockchain use cases. Chambers noted: "That era may have ended, and is heading toward its conclusion; what will replace it is genuine use cases." He advised investors to "forget financial primitives (Fi) and instead focus on applications—the actual use-case scenarios where tokens and blockchain are put to work."

A Deutsche Bank research report shows that the three major AI systems believe AI’s impact on inflation is negligible. Among them, the probability that AI will raise inflation is higher than the probability of a statistically significant reduction, mainly due to demand-pull inflation pressures driven by an investment boom.

Gate News message, April 2, Uniswap founder Hayden Adams posted on the X platform, saying that centralized projects must be prevented from calling themselves DeFi. He said that if a project has an admin key that can empty all funds, then the project is CeFi rather than DeFi. Hayden Adams emphasized that if this is not distinguished, DeFi will be meaningless and its brand will be destroyed. He also noted that any version of Uniswap does not have an admin key that can empty funds.

Bitcoin is trading sideways near $66,000, influenced by remarks by Trump on the situation in Iran. The shipping and insurance costs in the Strait of Hormuz reflect elevated risk. It is expected that an expanding supply shortfall will continue to weigh on Bitcoin and other risk assets, and in the short term the market may still remain choppy.

Boundless Ark recently completed two rounds of Pre-A funding, with total funding in the hundreds of millions of yuan. Its core product, EVA OS, is an AI operating system that supports a variety of hardware terminals, with efficiency far higher than traditional solutions. It has already attracted more than 2,500 enterprises to integrate.