Project Progress

According to a report by Bitcoin Magazine, Lightspark CEO and former PayPal president David Marcus launched a new type of Bitcoin wallet on April 28 that allows AI agents to buy Bitcoin and carry out fund sending and receiving operations. Marcus confirmed that Lightspark’s Grid Global Accounts have officially gone live.

Gate News message, April 29 — Bitcoin lending protocol Tropykus announced a phased shutdown of its current version, with deposit and borrowing functions to be permanently discontinued. Users can withdraw funds and repay loans until July 27, 2026, after which interactions will only be supported

Gate News message, April 29 — Chiliz, a sports blockchain platform, is expanding over 70 fan tokens to Solana and Base networks using a unified supply standard that ensures consistent token supply across all supported chains and eliminates wrapped token fragmentation and liquidity fragmentation

Gate News message, April 29 — The Over Foundation announced it has halted all infrastructure and services for Over Protocol, including OverWallet, OverNode, OverFlex, RPC endpoints, block explorer, and API, due to insufficient funding. There are no plans to resume operations. While Over Protocol

Gate News message, April 29 — Trading Protocol's YieldCore-3rd-deal vault was exploited in an attack that resulted in the loss of approximately $398,000, according to on-chain analyst PeckShield. The attack exploited a missing caller permission check vulnerability in the vault's smart contract,

Gate News message, April 29 — David Marcus, former PayPal president and CEO of Lightspark, announced the launch of a new Bitcoin wallet that enables AI agents to purchase BTC and execute fund transfers. The wallet integrates artificial intelligence capabilities, allowing autonomous agents to

Gate News message, April 28 — Amboss Technologies has launched RailsX, a peer-to-peer trading platform enabling self-custodial bitcoin and stablecoin transactions natively on the Lightning Network. The platform supports two stablecoin-bitcoin pairs: USDT-L and USDC-L, both issued by Speed Wallet,

Onchain perpetuals exchange Ostium unveiled a major backend infrastructure overhaul on Tuesday, according to the team's announcement. The platform introduced a new real-time decentralized execution layer representing a novel application of onchain liquidity pools with offchain hedging, and added

Gate News message, April 28 — Russia's A7A5 ruble-pegged stablecoin processed 7.5 to 8 trillion rubles ($100–106 billion) in cross-border transfers within a year, driven by integration with decentralized finance (DeFi), according to Oleg Ogienko, the project's Director for International

Gate News message, April 28 — Ostium Labs rolled out its first decentralized execution layer on Tuesday, an architectural upgrade that routes net directional flow from traders to a network of institutional hedging partners, including Jump and prime brokers active in traditional markets. Under the n

Gate News message, April 28 — Amboss Technologies launched RailsX, a peer-to-peer Bitcoin and stablecoin trading platform built natively on the Lightning Network. The platform enables users to trade Bitcoin against stablecoins while retaining full self-custody, with no centralized order book and no

Gate News message, April 28 — The Over Foundation announced it has ceased operations of all Over Protocol infrastructure and services, including OverWallet, OverNode, OverFlex, RPC nodes, block explorer, and related APIs, due to financial limitations. The foundation stated there are no plans to

Gate News message, April 28 — TON Tech, the development team behind Telegram's preferred blockchain TON, has launched AI-powered agents capable of autonomously executing key on-chain transactions. Users can fund a dedicated wallet for an agent, which can then perform transfers, swaps, DeFi

Gate News message, April 28 — BlockCoop SACCO has launched Kenya's first blockchain-powered SACCO (savings and credit cooperative), introducing a technology-driven model designed to modernize traditional cooperative finance. The initiative leverages blockchain infrastructure to improve liquidity, in

Gate News message, April 28 — The crypto industry is experiencing a wave of project shutdowns this year, affecting trading platforms, analysis tools, and other services. Decentralized email service Dmail cited high infrastructure costs, failed fundraising, and weakened token utility as reasons for c

Gate News message, April 28 — Rune Christensen, founder of Sky Protocol, published a proposal on the Sky governance forum on April 24 to permanently exit the protocol's bootstrap funding phase following the transfer of Genesis Capital to Grove, an institutional credit allocator in the Sky Agent

According to a CoinDesk report on April 28, Israel’s Capital Market, Insurance and Savings Authority has officially approved the issuance of stablecoin BILS by local exchange Bits of Gold—this is the first regulated fiat-backed stablecoin in Israel’s history, pegged 1:1 to the Israeli shekel (NIS). BILS is issued on the Solana blockchain, has passed a regulatory sandbox pilot program lasting up to two years, and has officially entered a limited-scale live launch stage. BILS: The first time the shekel goes on-chain, with Solana as the underlying layer Key specifications of BILS: Issuer: Bits of Gold (a longstanding local crypto exchange in Israel) Peg: 1:1 fully backed by the Israeli shekel (NIS)

Gate News message, April 28 — Cardano Foundation CEO Frederik Gregaard highlighted ADA's unique role in supporting traditional financial infrastructure during a panel at Paris Blockchain Week. Gregaard stated that Cardano is the only blockchain capable of supporting the Legal Entity Identifier

Gate News message, April 28 — Solana has published a comprehensive roadmap addressing the potential impact of quantum computing on blockchain technology. While quantum threats remain years away, the ecosystem is actively preparing technical defenses to mitigate these risks. Anza and Firedancer,