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This article examines two major challenges posed by high interest rates: a looming "$9 trillion Treasury maturity wall" and over $500 billion in commercial real estate loans coming due. Both are putting pressure on the Trump administration to push for rate cuts in order to ease refinancing burdens. The article also discusses how the growing adoption of stablecoins could act as a key catalyst for the next crypto bull run, with coverage of U.S. stablecoin legislation progress, accelerating institutional involvement, and the rapid evolution of multiple stablecoin initiatives.

Stablecoins represent our first real chance to transform money in the same way email revolutionized communication: making it open, instant, and borderless. This is a pivotal moment for global value exchange, where blockchain and stablecoins create a network that benefits everyone.

This article provides an in-depth analysis of the $PROMPT caching profit model. It evaluates the profit differences and strategic choices between caching $PRIME and directly purchasing $PROMPT at the current stage. This helps investors make wiser allocation decisions between terminal valuation and market volatility.

This article provides an in-depth analysis of how BitBonds incorporate Bitcoin into the U.S. Treasury system through a "budget-neutral" approach. It explores the potential implications for fiscal stability, the crypto market, and the global financial order, revealing practical pathways and risk boundaries in the fusion of cryptocurrency with sovereign credit.

Since Ethereum transitioned from PoW to PoS, it introduced a burn mechanism through EIP-1559 to achieve deflationary goals. However, by 2025, its supply is still increasing, with an annual growth rate of 0.805%. Despite a significant amount of ETH being burned, the issuance still exceeds the amount burned. Influencing factors include network activity, transaction fees, technical upgrades, and market competition. The challenges Ethereum faces include the conflict between technical ideals and business realities, the decreasing appeal of the staking mechanism, and pressure from the regulatory environment. Future development will need to balance efficiency, fairness, and regulation.

US President Donald Trump scored his first crypto win this Thursday when he signed a resolution into law that eliminates the IRS's controversial DeFi broker rule.

The VIX has soared above 60, signalling extreme market fear. This article analyzes the historical correlation between the VIX and risk assets, explores how U.S. equities and Bitcoin typically behave during high-VIX environments, and offers strategic insights across different VIX ranges to help investors capture rebound opportunities.

Gate is celebrating its 13th anniversary with a commemorative gift box, offering a variety of custom merchandise themed "Your Gateway to iWeb3." These exclusive items will be distributed in limited quantities to users and partners.

This article introduces eight of the latest testnet projects that offer potential or confirmed airdrop opportunities and can be interacted with at zero cost. Projects include Huddle01, Recall, Irys, RISE, Somnia, Seismic, Seal and MultipliFi. Each project has a detailed interactive guide covering steps such as connecting a wallet, claiming test tokens, completing specific tasks, and more. These projects cover decentralized platforms, blockchain expansion solutions, key management services, multi-chain revenue agreements and other fields, attracting the attention of many well-known investment institutions.

Gate Research (April 11 – 17, 2025) : This report provides a comprehensive analysis of key developments in the cryptocurrency market and macroeconomic landscape. On April 11, U.S. March PPI came in at 2.7% year-over-year, falling short of both the expected 3.3% and the previous reading of 3.2%. On April 14, the SEC held its second crypto roundtable and announced plans to launch a "crypto regulatory sandbox." On April 15, Canada is set to debut its first spot Solana ETFs, which will allow staking for yield generation. On April 16, it was revealed that only 11% of registered Bitcoin companies in El Salvador are currently operational. On April 17, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell delivered hawkish remarks, indicating that economic policy remains unclear and that crypto regulations may ease. On the same day, Panama approved the use of cryptocurrency for payments in government institutions, becoming the first public authority globally to do so.

The 2008 financial crisis gave birth to the earliest believers in Bitcoin. The "suicide" of the legal currency system in 2025 will also promote the growth of stablecoins on the chain, especially non-USD, non-full reserve interest-bearing stablecoins (YBS, Yield-Bearing Stablecoins). However, non-full-reserve stablecoins are still theoretically envisioned, and the aftermath of the Luna-UST collapse in 2022 is still lingering. However, driven by capital efficiency, partial-reserve stablecoins will definitely become the mainstream of the market. Non-US dollar stablecoins are still in the experimental stage, and the global currency status of the US dollar is still widely recognized. In order to maintain industrial production capacity and employment, the RMB will not actively internationalize on a large scale, and replacing the US dollar will be a very long process.

Gate Research (April 11–17, 2025): April 14, Solana raises block computation limit and upgrades network performance. April 15, EigenLayer launches mainnet slashing. April 16, Polygon’s AggLayer builds a “value internet.” April 17, Sony Soneium and EigenLayer slash blockchain finality time by 98%, setting a new L2 benchmark.

Gate Research Weekly Report: This week, cryptocurrency prices entered a recovery phase after a rebound, maintaining a consolidation range. Soneium collaborated with EigenLayer to launch a 10-second Fast Finality Layer, marking a significant improvement in L2 performance. KiloEx fell victim to a flash loan attack losing $7 million, highlighting ongoing DeFi security concerns. Bitcoin miners sold more than 40% of their March BTC production, while sUSD faced an escalating depegging risk that sparked market panic. In a positive development, Panama's capital city became the first to accept cryptocurrency for payments.

Within the Farcaster ecosystem, a series of projects based on zero-knowledge proof technology is quietly transforming our digital social experience. This article will deeply analyze the unique charms and technical highlights of various ZK projects within the Farcaster network, understanding how this wave of technological innovation disrupts traditional social models and opens up a more privacy-friendly and decentralized new digital world.

Openmesh Network positions itself as a decentralized, open cloud and oracle platform that aims to challenge centralized cloud providers like AWS through its Web3 infrastructure. Using a global network of Xnode participants for computing and storage, along with the DSMP protocol and OPEN token incentives, Openmesh seeks to enable anyone to become a cloud service provider.