Project Progress

Gate News message, April 29 — A leading centralized exchange wallet officially integrated Pharos mainnet on April 29, 2026, enabling users to manage Pharos assets and interact with DApps directly within the wallet. A Pharos-related airdrop campaign is currently underway for eligible wallet users.

According to CoinDesk’s April 28 report, sports blockchain platform Chiliz said it will expand its 70-plus fan tokens to the Solana and Base blockchains, the latter being an Ethereum layer-2 network developed by Coinbase (COIN); in a post on X on Tuesday, Chiliz said the expansion is intended to significantly increase the trading volume of fan tokens ahead of the FIFA World Cup this summer.

Gate News message, April 29 — Venus Protocol announced it will close the vSXP market on May 11 due to lack of oracle support and declining liquidity. After that date, the market will be unable to complete pricing. Users are required to close all positions in the market before May 11. Venus Protocol

Lightspark has partnered with Visa to introduce stablecoin and Bitcoin-backed debit cards across more than 100 countries, according to an announcement made on April 30, 2026. The initiative enables users to make purchases with digital assets at over 175 million Visa merchant locations globally. Thro

Grid Global Account integrates fiat currency, stablecoins, and Bitcoin into a single wallet, and uses AI agents to help manage and make payments, enabling a new model for cross-border transactions. Through a global payment network covered by Visa, it supports multi-currency exchange and instant transfers; businesses can use stablecoins/fiat as the underlying cash flow to maintain decentralization and neutrality.

Bitcoin lending agreement Tropykus published an official announcement on the X platform on April 29, announcing the start of a phased shutdown process for the current version of the agreement. According to the announcement, front-end support will be terminated on July 27, 2026, and users must complete loan repayment and withdraw funds via tropykus.com before this date; the announcement also confirmed that the smart contract withdrawal feature has been enabled, while deposit and new loan functions have been permanently paused.

Gate News message, April 29 — Strategy has proposed changing its STRC dividend payment frequency from monthly to bi-monthly. Shareholders are now able to vote on the amendment.

Onchain perpetuals exchange Ostium unveiled a major backend infrastructure overhaul on Tuesday, according to the team's announcement. The upgrade introduces a new real-time decentralized execution layer featuring onchain liquidity pools with offchain hedging, and brings institutional participants in

According to an article published on April 28 on the official Pi Network website, Pi Network announced that its decentralized workforce infrastructure has been completed by more than 1 million KYC identity-verified users with over 526 million verification tasks. The tasks are part of Pi’s native KYC system, and contributors are compensated with Pi tokens.

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