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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.

Gate Research: This report covers key blockchain industry developments from April 11-17, 2025. Ethereum gas fees hit a record low, with the average transaction cost in March plummeting 80% compared to the end of last year; Gate.com released its Q1 2025 report, showing growth in both trading volume and reserves; OM experienced a flash crash with a peak drop of over 90%; TRON reported record-high quarterly revenue of $760 million; Solana raised its block compute limit, further enhancing network performance; Sony-backed Soneium partnered with EigenLayer to reduce blockchain finality time by 98%, setting a new benchmark for L2 performance; and the depegging of sUSD worsened, triggering market panic.

In the context of escalating global trade wars and frequent tariffs, cryptocurrencies, with their decentralized, censorship-resistant, and borderless characteristics, are once again demonstrating their potential as a "safe haven in chaos." History and current events show that tariffs often lead to economic recessions and market turbulence, while cryptocurrencies are quietly building a new economic system that is not bound by traditional rules, offering individuals greater sovereignty and choice.

Gate Research: This weekly report covers key blockchain industry developments from April 3-10, 2025. Highlights include: Shardeum's upcoming mainnet launch on April 15; Solana reaching its highest Total Value Locked (TVL) since 2023 with strong DEX market performance; the official launch of Lens Protocol's mainnet Lens Chain; Mantra's new $108 million fund to accelerate real-world asset tokenization and DeFi project development; Bitcoin's hashrate exceeding 1 Zetahash for the first time, marking a 1000x infrastructure advancement; and Babylon's launch of their Layer 1 blockchain, Babylon Genesis, on April 10.

Gate Research: This report summarizes key developments in the blockchain industry from March 28 to April 2, 2025. Sonic Labs announced the upcoming launch of SonicCS 2.0, aiming to double consensus speed and significantly reduce resource usage. Active users on the Solana network continued to hit new highs, with over 11.12 million addresses now holding more than 0.1 SOL. Uniswap v4 surpassed $2.7 billion in cumulative trading volume. Vitalik Buterin released a Layer 2 security roadmap for Ethereum, focusing on scalability, proof mechanisms, and system unification. The second phase of the Babylon Genesis Mainnet is set to launch. Bio Protocol released its V1 upgrade, introducing a permissionless launch platform and AI agents.

Gate Research: This report summarizes the key developments in the blockchain industry from March 24-28, 2025. Gate.com Wallet has officially integrated support for Berachain, enhancing both security and liquidity; PancakeSwap topped the weekly trading volume among DEXs, with a remarkable increase of over 40% in weekly volume; Berachain launched its PoL system, enabling liquidity-driven decentralized governance; Nillion Alpha went live on its mainnet, advancing the development of privacy-preserving infrastructure for Web3; PumpSwap recorded a daily trading volume exceeding $580 million, capturing 19.2% of the Solana ecosystem's market share; Hyperliquid experienced a manipulation attack, intensifying concerns over trust and security.

Gate Research: This report summarizes blockchain industry developments from March 17-21, 2025. Key highlights include: Gate.com Web3 Wallet's major upgrade featuring AI-powered multi-chain hub aggregated trading; Base ecosystem's contract deployments surging to a record 11.4 million in a single week; Solana capturing 57% of blockchain revenue in February; Hyperliquid's trading volume exceeding $1.122 trillion, driving the scaled development of decentralized exchanges; and XRP's fully diluted value (FDV) breaking through $250 billion, surpassing ETH's FDV.

Gate Research: This report summarizes blockchain industry developments from March 10-14, 2025. Key highlights include: Sui's on-chain stablecoin market cap has exceeded $600M, reaching an all-time high; Anzen Finance protocol's TVL has broken through $112M, also hitting a record high; Movement has submitted a MOVE ETF application while its mainnet beta launch drives ecosystem growth; Ordinals EVM extension protocol Veda's TVL has surpassed $2B; Securitize partners with RedStone to enhance RWA data support, advancing on-chain financial development; and Ripple obtains Dubai license, expanding crypto payment services into the Middle East market.

Gate Research: This report summarizes blockchain industry developments from March 3-7, 2025. Key highlights include: Cardano's decentralized lending protocol Liqwid has reached $112M in TVL; Soneium chain's TVL has broken its all-time high at over $50M; Solana network fees have dropped to $1.16M; USDC has become Japan's first approved USD-pegged stablecoin; Berachain leads on-chain capital inflow; and Pendle has launched a community listing mechanism to build a permissionless yield market.

Gate Research: This report summarizes blockchain industry developments from February 24-28, 2025. Pump.fun is testing its own AMM, causing RAY price to plummet; Berachain's TVL has surpassed $3.3 billion, overtaking Arbitrum and Base to become the 6th largest blockchain by TVL; Polygon's yield generation plan has raised security concerns, with Aave suspending lending potentially causing TVL outflows exceeding $300 million; Ethereum's Pectra upgrade encountered obstacles on the Holesky testnet, with finality failures potentially impacting mainnet deployment; Sonic's TVL has exceeded $600 million; and MetaMask has partnered with Transak to expand fiat on/off ramp services and add support for 10 major blockchains.

Gate Research: This report summarizes blockchain industry developments from February 17-21, 2025. Pump.fun's protocol fee revenue plunged over 85% from its peak on February 17, 2025; Dolomite achieved a record TVL of $735 million; Ondo Finance's TVL surpassed $777 million; Hyperliquid's mainnet HyperEVM has officially launched; Gate.com partnered with the Consensus-HK conference to create a new paradigm in Web3 music and social networking; Berachain's TVL exceeded $3 billion, reaching a historic high.

Gate Research: This report summarizes key blockchain industry developments from February 10–14, 2025. Gate.com has established a multi-year partnership with the Red Bull Racing Team to advance blockchain's global influence. Etherscan has launched an on-chain address credit scoring feature, while Bitcoin service provider Fold has expanded its Visa partnership to offer a Bitcoin rewards card. In the DeFi space, Kamino has emerged as Solana's fastest-growing lending protocol, surpassing $1 billion in lending volume. Meanwhile, Unichain's mainnet launch has driven a 611% surge in activity, and SatLayer has achieved a record-high TVL of $316 million.

Gate Research: This report summarizes blockchain industry developments from February 3 to February 7. Stargate Finance TVL surpasses $868 million; Dinero TVL exceeds $205 million; Hyperliquid's cumulative revenue surpasses $70 million; Berachain announces mainnet launch on February 6; Storm Trade TVL increases by 26.77% in 7 days, reaching $33.96 million; Galxe ecosystem expansion accelerates with 287% user growth.

Gate Research: This report summarizes blockchain industry developments from January 20 to January 24. Driven by the TRUMP token, Solana's price and TVL reached historic highs; Tether partnered with LayerZero to launch the cross-chain stablecoin USDT0; Raydium fees hit an all-time high of $32.42 million; B²'s TVL surpassed $380 million, setting a new record; Following Trump's return to office, World Liberty increased its holdings by over $51 million in various cryptocurrencies; EigenLayer launched the Rewards v2 protocol.

Gate Research: This report summarizes blockchain industry developments from January 13 to January 17. Usual announces the launch of 1:1 early unstaking feature on January 14; Lido's transaction fees exceed $2.14B with revenue over $213M; USDC mints additional 50M tokens as stablecoin demand continues to rise; Saga announces partnership with Virtuals, Eliza Labs to launch cross-chain AI agent protocol Metropolis; Pyth Network launches ultra-low latency oracle Pyth Lazer; Solayer TVL reaches new high of $434M.