Project Progress

Gate News Bot Message, February 13 — According to CoinMarketCap data, at the time of press, ZKC (Boundless) is trading at $0.11, up 20.43% in the past 24 hours, with a high of $0.12 and a low of $0.08. The current market cap is approximately $25.7 million, an increase of $4.36 million from yesterday. Boundless is a verifiable computing protocol that provides accessible verified computation for any blockchain and rewards nodes for contributing useful work. The protocol can be upgraded to a zero-knowledge (ZK) Rollup within hours through a flexible Rollup framework, enabling faster finality and stronger security. Boundless has received support from industry-leading organizations such as the Ethereum Foundation, EigenLayer, and Polygon. The mainnet is currently

Tether Gold introduces a new unit of measurement, Scudo, with 1 Scudo equal to 1/1000 XAUT, aiming to enhance the convenience of on-chain gold trading and provide users with a more practical way to make small transactions. This move will increase the daily usability of gold digital assets.

The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates has approved Abu Dhabi First Bank's UAE Dirham stablecoin DDSC, which is now live on the Layer 2 blockchain ADI Chain. DDSC will be used for payments and collections, settlement, fund operations, trade supply chain flows for institutional and government entities, as well as providing programmable financial services for regulated entities.

Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson wore a McDonald's uniform at the summit, humorously responding to the bearish sentiment in the crypto space. He announced a partnership with LayerZero to introduce the USDCx stablecoin and previewed that the privacy sidechain Midnight will go live by the end of March, focusing on the mainstream market rather than competing with privacy coins, and dedicated to providing more flexible privacy options.

The Ethereum Foundation account and the Chain Abstraction Team have launched the Ethereum Interoperability Layer (EIL), a multi-chain interoperability framework based on the ERC-4337 account abstraction standard. It addresses the three major pain points of cross-chain interactions: repeated authorization, Gas fee shortages, and long wait times. Using Merkle tree technology, it enables single-signature multi-chain execution. XLP cross-chain liquidity providers can stake 1 ETH and be subject to permissionless confiscation.

Perp DEX Extended announces the launch of the first six stock perpetual contract trading pairs, including Google, Nvidia, AMD, Tesla, Strategy, and Amazon. The project aims to address the liquidity issues of stock perpetual contracts and plans to expand further.

The decentralized perpetual contract trading protocol Hibachi plans to launch a stablecoin settlement forex trading platform on Arc. The platform will enable instant settlement, offer tight bid-ask spreads, and provide deep liquidity. Hibachi has received support from Arc Builders Fund, a subsidiary of Circle Ventures.

Hyperliquid announces that its HIP-3 permissionless perpetual contract market's cross-margin feature has been enabled on the testnet but is not yet live on the mainnet. Users need to enable cross-margin for specific assets, allowing all contracts to share collateral assets, with protective measures in place to prevent liquidations caused by significant price fluctuations.

Elon Musk revealed that X Money will launch an external beta version within the next 1 to 2 months, becoming the core platform for all financial transactions and integrating into X's all-in-one app strategy. The launch of X Money marks his return to digital payments. Although it does not yet explicitly support cryptocurrencies, the initial focus will be on fiat currency payments.

On February 13, news reports that EigenCloud has officially joined the Open Gas Initiative (OGI), initiated by ETHGas. The goal is to remove Gas cost friction for end users through Gas abstraction and real-time execution, promoting Ethereum towards a "real-time, Gasless" interaction paradigm. This collaboration is seen as a significant milestone in upgrading the user experience at the application layer of Ethereum and also provides scalable samples for Gasless user pathways. EigenCloud is the world's first verifiable cloud platform, offering developers verifiable and trustworthy applications, AI products, and AI agent capabilities. Based on EigenLayer's staked security model, it extends Ethereum's cryptoeconomic security to off-chain and real-world scenarios, enabling encryption verification of any input, event, and computation. After joining OGI, EigenCloud can subsidize Gas fees for critical operations without code changes, turning the original costs and barriers into growth drivers.

Aave Labs has issued a proposal requesting Aave DAO to approve Aave V4 as the core of future development and to inject brand product revenue into the DAO treasury. The proposal also includes abandoning future business income in exchange for stablecoins and AAVE to support operations and project development.

Decibel announces a partnership with Stripe's Bridge to launch the native USD stablecoin USDCBL, as the default collateral asset, simplifying the trading process and enhancing Aptos ecosystem DeFi infrastructure. The pre-deposit feature is now available, attracting over $42 million in funds in a short period.

ChainCatcher message, according to related page information, Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 360 (BIP-360) has been added to the official code repository. This proposal introduces the Pay-to-Merkle-Root (P2MR) output type, aimed at enhancing Bitcoin's defense against quantum computing threats through a soft fork.

Gate News Bot Message, February 13th, according to CoinMarketCap data, AZTEC (Aztec) is currently trading at $0.02, up 19.26% in the past 24 hours, with a high of $0.02 and a low of $0.02. The current market capitalization is approximately $59.5 million, an increase of $9.62 million compared to yesterday. AZTEC is the first decentralized privacy-preserving layer 2 network (L2) on Ethereum, dedicated to solving blockchain privacy issues. The network features programmable privacy, client proofs, composable privacy, and first-day decentralization, enabling developers to flexibly program privacy protections across multiple layers such as users, data, metadata, transactions, and code. The Aztec Ignition Chain went live in November 2025, becoming the first truly decentralized L

The Pi coin mainnet blockchain protocol underwent a key upgrade, with February 15th as the deadline for all mainnet nodes to complete the update. The Pi core team stated that 16 million users have migrated to the mainnet, which is based on the Stellar consensus protocol. However, due to the overall decline in the crypto market, Pi coin has fallen 12% over the past week, hitting a historic low of $0.132.

Aave Labs proposed the "Aave Will Win" framework, planning to transfer all product revenues to the DAO, but requiring $25 million in stablecoins and 75,000 AAVE. Aave Chan Initiative founder Marc Zeller criticized this proposal as a "cash-out attempt." He pointed out the imbalance of power between the DAO and the core team, and governance issues that could impact the future of the entire DeFi ecosystem.

Gate News Bot Message, February 13th, according to CoinMarketCap data, as of press time, RIVER (River) is currently trading at $21.77, up 28.31% in the past 24 hours, with a high of $23.97 and a low of $11.74. The 24-hour trading volume reached $44.9 million. The current market capitalization is approximately $427 million, an increase of $94.1 million from yesterday. ## Important recent news about RIVER: 1️⃣ **TRON DAO Ventures Strategic Funding Supports Infrastructure Expansion** RIVER received an $8 million investment from TRON DAO Ventures to expand cross-chain abstract infrastructure on the TRON blockchain. This funding reflects the ecosystem partners' confidence in RIVER's technological solutions.

Polygon posted on X platform that scaling up intelligent agent business requires eliminating friction. It proposes recovering fuel fees through PIP-82 and Polygon x402 to accelerate AI agent transactions and reduce costs. Polygon has already played a significant role in agent-based trading, completing several key AI agent transactions.

London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) announced on Thursday that it will establish an on-chain settlement system for institutional investors, named LSEG Digital Securities Depository, connecting traditional securities markets with blockchain networks. The system will operate across multiple blockchains, remain compatible with existing settlement platforms of banks and asset management firms, with the first deliverable planned for 2026.