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Spark's MonetSupply says Aave's decision to unfreeze its Core WETH market lets LST/LRT whales farm \~45% weETH loops while aEthWETH sits at 100% utilization, trapping regular users. Summary Spark strategy director MonetSupply says Aave's decision to unfreeze its Ethereum Core WETH market is "il

Polymarket launches perpetual futures with leverage, expanding beyond standard prediction markets; early access registration is open for leveraged trading on its decentralized platform. This article reports that Polymarket launched a perpetual futures feature, enabling leveraged prediction market trading on its decentralized platform, with open early access registration, expanding offerings beyond traditional markets.

Key Insights Wrapped XRP on Solana surpasses 834,000 tokens, enabling new DeFi access while strengthening cross-chain liquidity and expanding XRP utility beyond its native ledger. Ethereum and Solana dominate DeFi activity, while XRP Ledger trails significantly, driving the need for

Key Insights Wrapped XRP on Solana surpasses 834,000 tokens, enabling new DeFi access while strengthening cross-chain liquidity and expanding XRP utility beyond its native ledger. Ethereum and Solana dominate DeFi activity, while XRP Ledger trails significantly, driving the need for

Summary: Ondo, Clearstream and 360X announce a phased tokenized-securities integration, with ten U.S. equities trading on 360X now and planned custody, settlement, and collateral via Clearstream. Abstract: The article reports a strategic partnership among Ondo Finance, Clearstream, and 360X to integrate tokenized securities with traditional financial infrastructure across the full asset lifecycle. The initial phase enables ten tokenized U.S. equities to trade on 360X, with issuances on Ethereum, Solana, and BNB Chain. In the next phase, Clearstream will provide custody, settlement, and collateral services, while Ondo plans to tokenize European-listed assets and expand distribution beyond the United States. The alliance aims to improve liquidity and transparency, enabling regulatory-compliant blockchain-enabled markets across Europe through Ondo's EU approvals and Clearstream's extensive asset footprint.

Gate News message, April 21 — SharpLink, an Ethereum treasury company, earned 470 ETH in staking rewards last week, bringing its cumulative staking rewards to 17,850 ETH.

Gate News message, April 21 — Ramp has launched USDT across Solana, Plasma, and Ethereum with integrated 1:1 USD onramps and offramps, according to an announcement from Privy. The expansion enables faster and cheaper cross-chain stablecoin access for thousands of businesses globally, with infrastruc

Gate News message, April 21 — Spark strategy lead monetsupply.eth criticized Aave's decision to unfreeze the WETH market on Ethereum, arguing the move is poorly considered and primarily benefits leverage traders. The decision, he contends, worsens the situation for ordinary users already trapped in

Gate News message, April 21 — Singapore-based digital asset custody firm Cobo unveiled the Cobo Agentic Wallet on April 20, a new product designed to enable artificial intelligence systems to independently execute blockchain transactions within a secure and controlled framework. The wallet allows

Abstract (English): Arkham has launched a decentralized trading feature for Solana ecosystem tokens, enabling high-frequency, low-latency trading directly on its platform. It filters tokens by volume, market cap, and liquidity, and tracks top traders, high‑PnL wallets, KOLs, and FnFs, while providing real-time activity, holdings history, and deployment records in one interface. Supported by Arkham’s analytics backbone of hundreds of thousands of traders, billions of address labels, and hundreds of millions of alerts. Summary (English): Arkham launches a decentralized Solana trading feature with real-time data, token filters, and top-trader monitoring, powered by its large analytics platform.

Gate News message, April 21 — Tempo, a blockchain project backed by Stripe and Paradigm, has launched a stablecoin consulting service to help enterprises and financial institutions adopt stablecoins. The service includes identifying suitable use cases and deploying embedded engineers to work directl

Gate News message, April 21 — DDC Enterprise, a U.S. publicly listed company, announced the launch of "DDC Treasury Intelligence Platform," an AI operating system designed for enterprise bitcoin reserve management. Developed in collaboration with Appnovation, the platform leverages large language

Gate News message, April 21 — Portal, a cross-chain gaming platform, announced the launch of Portal 2.0, driven by a new leadership team backed by Animoca Brands. Benjamin Charbit, former game director at Ubisoft, has been appointed as CEO. The platform is shifting its strategic focus toward

Startale Group, the global crypto infrastructure company behind Japan’s largest public Astar Network chain, is taking one of the world’s fastest-growing state-backed crypto ecosystems in Abu Dhabi The company was selected as one of 27 firms from more than 2,400 global applicants for the Hub71

LayerZero attributed a $290 million exploit of KelpDAO's cross-chain rsETH configuration to North Korea's Lazarus Group on April 18, describing the attacker as a "highly-sophisticated state actor." According to LayerZero, the incident was limited to KelpDAO's rsETH setup and did not spread to other

Ripple XRP Ledger is set to be quantum-resistant by 2028. This signals a highly bullish future for XRP.  Tron is also working to catch up with this progressive move. Crypto and blockchain continue to chase success and progress with no concern for the current state of markets. For

Ripple announced on Monday a multi-stage roadmap to build quantum-resistant infrastructure for the XRP Ledger (XRPL) by 2028, addressing growing concerns about the security of existing cryptographic systems against future quantum computing threats. Quantum Threat Context While quantum computing t

Gate News message, April 21 — According to DefiLlama founder 0xngmi, if Arbitrum prioritizes using seized funds for the Aave market on Arbitrum, bad debt could be significantly reduced. Under a "loss socialization" scenario, Arbitrum would face no bad debt at all; if rsETH on the L2 faces a

MetaComp debuts StableX Know Your Agent for regulated AI in payments, combining multi-vendor analytics to slash false clean rates, with AgentX Skills supporting Claude; aims for auditable cross-border finance via downloadable AI Skills. Abstract: MetaComp introduces the StableX Know Your Agent framework to govern AI agents in regulated payments and wealth management, covering identity, permissions, monitoring, auditing, and agent-to-agent interactions. It reduces false positives by parallel analytics from multiple vendors and enables auditable cross-border finance through downloadable AI Skills (AgentX), starting with Claude support and expansion across regions.

Qivalis, a 12-bank European consortium including BBVA and BNP Paribas, is advancing a euro-stablecoin with a planned H2 2026 launch, backed by Fireblocks for issuance and distribution and Dutch central bank oversight under MiCAR. Abstract: The Qivalis euro-stablecoin project, backed by 12 European banks and Fireblocks, targets a H2 2026 launch with Dutch central bank oversight under MiCAR, aiming to expand euro-denominated stablecoin use in institutional markets.