Project Progress

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

Gate News message, April 27 — Maple Finance announced Monday that its cross-chain bridge has processed over $7 billion in total volume, marking a significant milestone for the protocol. The achievement reflects growing adoption of Maple's dollar yield assets across multiple blockchain ecosystems, d

A new Bitcoin hard fork proposal by developer Paul Sztorc has triggered intense debate across the crypto community. The planned fork, named eCash, is expected to launch in August 2026 and would distribute tokens to Bitcoin holders at a 1:1 ratio. However, the proposal has drawn criticism due to

Gate News message, April 27 — Tether announced the launch of Mining Development Kit (MDK), an open-source, full-stack development framework designed to provide unified control over the entire infrastructure stack for Bitcoin miners and developers. MDK features an open modular architecture with

Gate News message, April 27 — Curve founder Michael Egorov has proposed a market-based mechanism to recover bad debt in DeFi lending protocols, positioning it as an alternative to traditional bailout models. The proposal centers on converting distressed positions into tradable investment products, s

Gate News message, April 27 — B.AI announced multiple product and ecosystem advancements this week. The BAIclaw landing page received a complete visual and interaction overhaul, with website multilingual support expanded to 10 languages, strengthening its global usability. On the infrastructure

Gate News message, April 27 — JUST has released its Q1 2026 financial results, showing strong growth across key metrics. The project burned 1.356 billion JST tokens (13.70% of total supply) through cumulative buybacks worth $60.03 million, driving significant deflationary pressure. JustLend DAO's t

Gate News message, April 27 — Jesse Pollak, an executive at a major CEX, has argued that autonomous AI agents are creating a new "demand center" for crypto payments, requiring software-native payment infrastructure. On April 20, it was announced that the x402 ecosystem had processed more than 165

Gate News message, April 27 — Developer Paul Sztorc has proposed a Bitcoin hard fork scheduled for August 2026 at block height 964,000 to create a new blockchain called eCash, according to CoinDesk. The fork will distribute eCash to users holding BTC at a 1:1 ratio and introduce Drivechains

According to remarks made by Western Union President and CEO Devin McGranahan during the company’s first-quarter earnings call on April 24, Western Union confirmed that its USDPT stablecoin is currently in the final preparation stage and is expected to go live in May.

TRON founder Justin Sun announced on X on April 26 that TRON plans to enable anti-quantum attack functionality on the testnet in the second quarter, with a mainnet launch planned for the third quarter. In the post, Justin Sun referred to this upgrade plan as “the world’s first anti-quantum attack network.” Although quantum threats are still largely theoretical for now, Ethereum, Solana, and others have already published post-quantum cryptography (PQC) upgrade plans or timelines.

According to the official DeFi United page, the multi-protocol relief fund DeFi United, initiated and led by Aave service providers, has raised more than 102k ETH as of April 27. The goal is to cover the bad-debt shortfall created in the Aave V3 market after the April 18 Kelp DAO cross-chain bridge attack incident. AAVE briefly broke above $100 before falling back.

Gate News message, April 27 — Vcitychain, a commercial-grade blockchain, officially launched its DPoS mainnet today, transitioning to a self-developed Delegated Proof of Stake (DPoS) consensus system. The upgrade aims to enhance network performance, increase decentralization, and improve on-chain g

Gate News message, April 27 — ApeCoin announced that Blackbeard's Bounty quest season has officially ended, though the ability for users to create and complete bounty tasks will remain active. As the season concludes, game control is being transferred to the community, with future development