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Gate Research Daily: April 7 — BTC and ETH experienced slight corrections, with the overall market continuing to fluctuate and recover during the turnover phase. Amid heightened fear sentiment, funds shifted toward leading assets and thematic rotations, with mid-cap tokens like SUPER, SIREN, and SQD standing out. On the macro front, U.S. stocks ended higher and gold prices stayed at elevated levels. Within the industry, brokerage spot access is expanding and cirBTC narratives are gaining traction, while the Drift incident has driven the marketplace to re-evaluate overall DeFi risks and ecosystem risk appetite.

Arweave, a tool for permanently storing data, operates by distributing information across a network of computers called nodes or miners. These nodes earn money by providing long-term storage of existing data and storing new data as requested by customers. Its pay-once, store-forever model addresses traditional storage systems' issues of data loss and high costs, offering users a reliable and long-term data storage solution.

As a leader in the decentralized finance (DeFi) lending sector, Aave has significantly surpassed its competitors in terms of asset utilization, market share, and trading volume. However, its leading position is not unassailable, as protocols like Radiant and Compound are demonstrating strong growth potential and introducing promising new versions. To consolidate its market position, Aave is strengthening its core lending business, advancing the development of GHO, integrating it deeply with Aave, establishing the Aave Network with the design of V4, and expanding its non-lending business ecosystem.

StakeStone, through its full-chain liquidity distribution network, provides users and developers with a new platform for liquidity release and utilization. By packaging ETH staking and potential blue-chip re-staking rewards represented by Eigenlayer into STONE, StakeStone plays a role in standardizing and improving the efficiency of users, blockchain, and the entire ecosystem. With the emergence of more Layer 2 and application chains, StakeStone's full-chain liquidity distribution network will become increasingly important, expected to serve as a bridge connecting different chains and ecosystems, providing users with a richer and more efficient asset utilization method.

This article provides an in-depth analysis of projects at the intersection of cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence, exploring which projects truly leverage AI and blockchain technology and which are just gimmicks. The article points out that most crypto projects do not require AI, and vice versa, and highlights the potential of decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePINs), data networks, and GPU networks in the development of AI. At the same time, the article proposes how to identify truly valuable "encryption x AI" projects and looks forward to the future development of decentralized AI.

SynFutures is dedicated to creating a fully decentralized and highly efficient perpetual contract exchange where anyone can list and trade futures and perpetual equities of any asset. Currently, SynFutures has launched numerous long-tail asset trading pairs, surpassing a trading volume of $50 billion. Its daily trading volume consistently accounts for around 15% of decentralized derivative commodity platforms, ranking among the top three in daily trading volume on decentralized derivative commodity exchanges according to DeFillma data.

friend.tech offers an interesting concept in the SocialFi platform space, allowing users to invest in their friends by purchasing social tokens or keys that grant access to exclusive content, private chat rooms and clubs, mainly targeted at users and their Corresponding influencers to follow. The pricing mechanism for these keys is complex, with the purchase price increasing exponentially as supply and quantity increase, while comparing information on its competitors and analyzing data such as token economics.

GoPlus has achieved considerable data growth thanks to its powerful security capabilities and high-quality services, indicating widespread market recognition. This article provides a detailed analysis of the product and its architecture, which can be divided into three main layers from the bottom up: Fundamental Layers, SecWare Ecosystem, and Network Service Entrance. This structure enables GoPlus to ensure its system's security from the ground up, build a rich developer ecosystem, achieve excellent scalability, and offer an exceptional user experience. Additionally, it features effective governance and incentive mechanisms to promote the positive development of the ecosystem.

This article delves into Nekoswap, the first native rune and token cross-chain exchange on Bitlayer. It analyzes the features of the Runes protocol, the current market status, and the importance of fragmentation solutions. The article also covers Nekoswap's business model, token framework, competitor analysis, valuation forecasts, and plans, concluding with an evaluation of Nekoswap's potential and impact within the Bitcoin ecosystem.

This article, written by Vitalik Buterin, explores the similarities and challenges of Ethereum Layer 2 (L2) and execution sharding in blockchain scaling. The article explains that the L2 ecosystem is actually sharding on a technical level, and discusses the diversity of execution environments, security trade-offs, transaction speed, and the organizational and cultural benefits of L2. At the same time, Vitalik highlighted the coordination challenges faced by the L2 ecosystem and raised the importance of cross-L2 infrastructure.

Ethereum faces an innovation dilemma and requires fundamental changes. It has overly focused on modular innovations to the database. Currently, it seems to have reached its peak in terms of market capitalization and usage. Future development depends on deep structural and functional reforms.

Ethereum seems to have entered a bottleneck period, and although data availability and user costs have improved, it is still unable to keep up with the growing demand for data. Thinking deeply, what is the bottleneck of Ethereum?

In the gradually intensifying AI race, what new gameplay can old projects offer to carve out a niche in a market where liquidity and attention are both scarce?

The rise of Web3 offers a range of solutions to replace traditional Web2 platforms, addressing market monopolies and enhancing user control and privacy.

Interest-paying stablecoins are one of the most sought-after yet under-developed segments in the crypto market. This article delves into various new yield-bearing stablecoins, providing a comparative analysis of their mechanisms, features, and adoption.