Project Progress

Gate News message, April 28 — Stacks released its Q1 2026 ecosystem data. sBTC (Stacks' Bitcoin-backed token) total value locked (TVL) reached $545 million, with deposit caps fully removed. The Stacks protocol's decentralized finance (DeFi) active deployment capital totaled $121 million. Zest

Gate News message, April 28 — Squads, a multisig protocol on Solana, has released three open-source tools for Squads Protocol v4 to strengthen multisig management practices on Solana and elevate ecosystem security standards in partnership with STRIDE. The three tools include multisig-cli, a Rust co

Gate News message, April 28 — Paystand, a blockchain-based B2B payments network, has announced the launch of USDb, a stablecoin backed 1:1 by U.S. dollar reserves. The stablecoin is natively deployed on Rootstock, a

Jack Dorsey’s payments company Block (NYSE: XYZ) published a proof of reserves on its official website on April 28, with data through the end of Q1 2026. According to the official announcement, Block holds a total of 28,355.05 bitcoins, with a market value of approximately $2.2 billion.

Gate News message, April 28 — Sky has proposed a comprehensive reform of its treasury income allocation mechanism, according to founder Rune Christensen. With Genesis Capital transferred to Grove, Sky has formally concluded its genesis capitalization phase, ending the previous ad-hoc,

Gate News message, April 28 — Block, the payments company founded by Jack Dorsey, unveiled a new Bitkey hardware wallet equipped with a security touchscreen, utilizing a 2-of-3 multisig architecture, no seed phrase requirement, and built-in inheritance planning features. The wallet is now available

Gate News message, April 28 — Israel's capital market, insurance and savings regulator has approved virtual asset trading platform Bits of Gold to launch BILS, a stablecoin pegged to the Israeli shekel (ILS). The stablecoin completed a two-year pilot on the Solana blockchain before receiving

Gate News message, April 28 — Bitmine added approximately $214 million in staked ETH, bringing its total staked ETH holdings to around $8.45 billion. The staking provider now represents approximately 9.5% of Ethereum's total staked supply.

Gate News message, April 28 — ZetaChain's team has officially launched Anuma, a privacy-focused AI aggregation platform that enables users to access multiple AI models—including GPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Kimi, and Qwen—through a single interface. Anuma features local privacy storage, mul

Gate News message, April 28 — Anza released a technical paper on protecting Solana from quantum computing threats, authored by Anza Chief Economist Max Resnick and Stanford applied cryptography Ph.D. Sam Kim. According to recent research by Google Quantum and Oratomic, the computational resources re

Gate News message, April 28 — MARA CEO Peter Thiel announced the formation of the non-profit MARA Foundation on Monday, representing the firm's strategic commitment to supporting the long-term health, resilience, and adoption of the

Gate News message, April 27 — Sky Protocol announced the development of Laniakea, a standardized infrastructure framework designed for institutional-scale capital deployment on its Sky Agent Network. The protocol currently manages over $11 billion in USDS circulation and generates yield through

Gate News message, April 28 — Layer 1 network ZetaChain paused cross-chain transactions on its mainnet after identifying an attack on the GatewayEVM contract, a smart contract serving as a unified entry point for cross-chain interactions between external EVM-compatible chains and ZetaChain applicati

MARA Holdings launched the MARA Foundation during the Bitcoin 2026 conference in Las Vegas, outlining a strategy to strengthen Bitcoin's long-term infrastructure through network security, sovereignty, and accessibility initiatives. The move marks an expansion of the company's role beyond mining oper

Gate News message, April 27 — Sky, the decentralized finance (DeFi) lending protocol formerly known as MakerDAO, has proposed streamlining its Treasury Management Function (TMF) following the formal conclusion of its founding capital deployment phase. Founder Rune Christensen announced in a forum po

TON reduces transaction fees sixfold to near-zero levels, shifting to fixed pricing independent of network congestion. Upgrade boosts speed and finality, enabling faster, cheaper transactions compared to Ethereum, Bitcoin, and Solana. Lower costs support microtransactions and apps,

Gate News message, April 27 — CT3 has released its second-month operating results for CT3 Secure Storage, showing accelerating adoption across private and enterprise segments. During March 2026, the network processed 5.29 PB of uploaded data, with 64,574 private uploads from 27,471 unique users and

Gate News message, April 27 — Solana's official team published a comprehensive quantum computing roadmap, reaffirming that quantum threats remain years away while the ecosystem has already completed extensive research and technical preparation. Two independent validator client development teams,

Gate News message, April 27 — Alphea, a newly unveiled Layer 1 blockchain platform designed for AI infrastructure, officially presented its decentralized execution environment at Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2026. The platform integrates execution, persistent memory, and verifiable computation as

Gate News message, April 27 — Lise (Lightning Stock Exchange), a Paris-based regulated exchange, has closed what it describes as the world's first initial public offering (IPO) executed on a fully regulated, natively tokenized market infrastructure. ST GROUP, a French industrial SME supplying