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Ripple has raised $500 million from Wall Street, raising its valuation to $40 billion. While this move appears to signal mainstream capital's renewed interest, it actually represents a financial strategy centered on asset management, valuation, and liquidity. This article offers a deep dive into Ripple’s strategic shift, the mechanisms behind Ripple's XRP reserves, and Wall Street’s investment intentions. It analyzes the practical realities of crypto finance.

This week’s recap focuses on macroeconomic uncertainty and shifting market sentiment: Bitcoin and Ethereum traded sideways as investors awaited key U.S. economic data, while altcoins showed divergent trends. Privacy and AI-related tokens gained attention amid growing narrative momentum. The report also provides a comprehensive overview of major venture funding deals, ecosystem developments, and protocol updates shaping the Web3 landscape.

The prediction market is evolving from pure speculation into a richer field of financial and social experimentation. This article analyzes five emerging product types—influence markets, opinion markets, virtual sports, opportunity markets, and governance markets—to reveal the vast potential of prediction mechanisms in financial trading, social interaction, and organizational decision-making.

This article provides an in-depth analysis of the structural challenges in the profit models of crypto internet banks, pointing out that they are repeating the old path of traditional neobanks—over-reliance on interchange fees, lack of lending, and high customer acquisition costs. It also proposes a restructuring approach using embedded DeFi to enhance profitability.

Gate Research Daily Report: On November 10, BTC stabilized around $103,000 before accelerating upward, reaching a short-term high of $106,683; ETH found support near $3,480 and initiated a new upward leg, hitting a short-term high of $3,658. ORE’s single-day revenue surpassed $1 million, with the V2 protocol igniting a Solana mining frenzy; x402 protocol’s ecosystem transaction volume plummeted 90% within half a month; Filecoin partnered with Avalanche to build a native cross-chain data bridge, accelerating the deployment of modular infrastructure.

Gate Research Daily Report: On November 10, BTC stabilized around $103,000 before accelerating upward, reaching a short-term high of $106,683; ETH found support near $3,480 and initiated a new upward leg, hitting a short-term high of $3,658; GT is currently consolidating around $12.29. Additionally, COTI (+55.38%), RESOLV (+36.09%), and 1INCH (+11.8%) led the market gains, highlighting that DeFi and privacy sectors are once again attracting capital. ORE’s single-day revenue surpassed $1 million, with the V2 protocol igniting a Solana mining frenzy; x402 protocol’s ecosystem transaction volume plummeted 90% within half a month; Filecoin partnered with Avalanche to build a native cross-chain data bridge, accelerating the deployment of modular infrastructure.

This article examines several key factors driving Zcash (ZEC)'s recent price surge. Privacy demand has returned to the mainstream, protocols have been upgraded, and anonymous pools have expanded. Cross-chain solutions like NEAR Intents are also enhancing liquidity and broadening use cases. The analysis indicates that this rally goes beyond speculation; it marks a fundamental reassessment of privacy coins' value in the cryptocurrency landscape.

This article vividly illustrates George Soros' "theory of reflexivity" through the example of Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong's "prediction market experiment": markets do not passively reflect reality but actively shape it. From the 1960s corporate merger wave to the 2008 financial crisis and the current AI investment bubble, the article reveals how the cyclical feedback between price and belief drives—and at times distorts—markets.

This article provides an in-depth analysis of the root causes behind the xUSD collapse: from its disguise as a "nominally delta-neutral stablecoin" and off-chain black box strategies to extreme leverage exposure and recursive lending amplifying risks, leading to its systemic liquidation in October 2025. The article also introduces a "Vault Technical Risk Score" framework designed to help users assess the security of DeFi products.

This report analyzes Bitcoin market behavior, using historical data and case studies to demonstrate how Bitcoin evolved from a speculative asset to mainstream adoption.

Through comprehensive data and case analysis, this report illustrates how liquidity outflows from the Treasury General Account (TGA) escalate tensions in the overnight lending market. This, in turn, fuels a surge in commercial real estate and auto loan defaults and compounds instability across the financial system.

This article provides an in-depth analysis of how technology leaders, Wall Street, and the media jointly shaped the current AI boom. It examines how AI has become a new catalyst for global economic growth. The article also explores the resulting shifts in capital, talent, and resource allocation throughout this process.

In-depth analysis of polygon labs' miden virtual machine architecture: explore how it applies STARK zero-knowledge proof technology to deliver a high-performance, scalable, and privacy-centric ZK-Rollup solution, helping advance Web3 infrastructure to the next stage.

This report highlights that as of October 2025, the global oracle sector’s Total Value Secured (TVS) has surpassed $102.1 billion, with a total market capitalization of $14.1 billion. The market remains dominated by Chainlink, while competition is shifting from technical scalability toward economic model sustainability and cross-chain capability. The report notes that oracle growth has entered a “multiplier effect” phase, with momentum shifting from DeFi-native demand to Real World Assets (RWA), which are emerging as the core driver of institutional adoption. Meanwhile, cross-chain communication (CCIP), prediction markets, and AI-integrated oracles are expected to shape the next growth curve. On the economic front, the sector is transitioning from a “pay-per-call” model to a “service staking” paradigm, signaling a return to fundamentals-based valuation logic. The report estimates LINK’s long-term fair value range at $26–35, with potential upside to $40–45 upon the implementation of the Smart Value Recovery (S

Gate Research Daily Report: On November 7, BTC remained in a short-term weak consolidation pattern, trading narrowly around $101,500; ETH continued its downward trend, currently consolidating near $3,310. Meanwhile, yield-bearing stablecoins recorded their largest weekly outflow since the Luna collapse, totaling $1 billion. Gate launched a decentralized Web3 Launchpad, introducing a new fully on-chain token issuance model; and Google Finance announced plans to integrate prediction market data from Kalshi and Polymarket, bridging traditional finance with Web3 data ecosystems.