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Aave and Compound are both decentralized liquidity protocols built on blockchain technology, enabling users to borrow assets with over-collateralization or earn interest by supplying liquidity. The key distinction lies in Aave’s broader range of features and risk-layered design, whereas Compound stands out for its straightforward interest rate model and modular governance framework.

Gate has officially launched Gate for AI, establishing the industry's first unified AI portal that brings together five core functions: CEX, DEX, wallet, real-time information, and on-chain data. Leveraging a dual-layer architecture with MCP and Skills, Gate grants AI Agents comprehensive access to its core exchange capabilities, empowering them to conduct research, make decisions, execute actions, and monitor processes—all within a single integrated framework.

Gate has launched a groundbreaking AI Quantitative Workbench, seamlessly integrating strategy development, historical backtesting, and live trading within a unified platform powered by natural language interaction. Traders simply articulate their trading concepts, and the system automatically generates quantitative strategies, performs backtesting, and enables one-click deployment to real markets. This innovative approach dramatically reduces the technical requirements for programming and data environments in quantitative trading, empowering more traders to rapidly transform market insights into actionable strategies and advancing the widespread adoption of AI and quantitative trading.

Gate has officially released Gate for AI, seamlessly connecting CEX, DEX, wallets, information services, and on-chain data into a unified interface framework designed for AI Agents, marking a foundational upgrade to exchange infrastructure.

With the Gate No-Code AI Quantitative Trading Workbench, traders can create, backtest, and deploy quantitative trading strategies effortlessly—no programming experience required. Natural language strategy generation simplifies the trading process, boosts execution efficiency, and enables every trader to fulfill their quantitative trading needs with ease.

Base and Virtuals Protocol have introduced Base Batches 003: Robotics, focusing on the convergence of AI agents and robotics to advance embodied intelligence. The initiative analyzes the emerging opportunities and challenges in the Web3, AI, and robotics economic landscape.

Bitcoin surged past $74,000, setting a new interim high. Crypto-related stocks and equity markets in Japan and South Korea advanced simultaneously. Renewed risk asset sentiment is driven by a repricing of policy expectations, geopolitical dynamics, and global liquidity.

Western Union, a global leader in remittance services, has partnered with blockchain infrastructure firm Crossmint to introduce the USDPT stablecoin and Digital Asset Network built on Solana. By integrating wallet and payment APIs, the solution is designed to empower fintech platforms to conduct cross-border transfers using stablecoins. Users can also redeem these funds for local currency via Western Union’s worldwide cash withdrawal network.

Leading U.S. financial regulators are introducing new measures to integrate crypto assets and the fast-emerging prediction markets into a more transparent regulatory system. With policy directions evolving under the new administration, these regulations could establish a clearer framework for digital assets and event contract markets, exerting a lasting influence on the future of financial markets.

Gate ETF has launched the second phase of the Hot Picks Trading Sprint, spotlighting top ETFs including gold, silver, and crude oil. Trade to unlock substantial rewards. By completing tasks, you can earn trading fee rebates and cash rewards, with a maximum reward of 500 USDT.

Gate DEX has officially launched the "Gas-Free Spring Promotion." All users—both new and existing—are eligible to participate, benefit from zero-Gas trading and deposit fee waivers, and enjoy seamless on-chain transactions.

LayerZero is an omnichain interoperability protocol focused on secure, efficient cross-blockchain communication. Its innovative lightweight architecture and modular design enable native transfers of information, data, and assets between chains—eliminating the need for intermediary tokens or centralized custodians.

Amid rising global economic uncertainty, Gate TradFi provides an optimal trading platform for gold and forex contract for difference (CFD) trading. Discover how to seize market volatility and implement effective risk hedging strategies with Gate TradFi.

With the ongoing expansion of digital assets, depending exclusively on centralized accounts to store funds is no longer sufficient to address users’ simultaneous requirements for security and control. Gate’s Gate Vault introduces distributed key management and delayed protection mechanisms, aiming to achieve equilibrium between self-custody and risk mitigation. This provides a fresh security paradigm for asset management in the Web3 era.

As market volatility increases and information overload becomes the norm, manual data screening and comparison alone can no longer keep up with market dynamics. Gate has launched Gate AI, a real-time conversational tool that combines market data with advanced information processing. This tool enables users to efficiently grasp the underlying logic of price movements in complex environments, moving beyond a purely numerical perspective.