Blockchain

Built on Sei — a Layer 1 blockchain purpose-built for trading — the Sei NFT Marketplace leverages its native Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) and parallelized engine to match tens of thousands of orders per second. This reduces NFT trade latency to mere milliseconds, minimizes trading fees, and eliminates intermediary order sniping and slippage.

Gate is launching its 13th Anniversary Alpha Special Event, spotlighting Hot token trading opportunities in the Marketplace. This event integrates mystery box lucky draws and airdrop reward mechanisms, allowing users to unlock multi-level rewards step by step by participating in selected Hot token trades. Participants will benefit from both instant reward distribution and the experience of accumulating Returns.

In February 2026, the on-chain ecosystem exhibited more pronounced structural divergence amid price pressure. On-chain activity did not contract in tandem, but instead became further concentrated on high-frequency and high-efficiency networks. Solana maintained its dominance in high-frequency activity, while Base and Polygon continued to expand. Arbitrum saw a recovery in activity, but its capital retention and value capture weakened. Ethereum shifted from net outflows to significant net inflows, reinforcing its role as the primary settlement layer and a key hub for macro asset deployment. On the BTC side, the price pullback pushed short-term holders broadly into unrealized losses, with profit-taking cooling and sell pressure still concentrated among short-term positions, while the long-term holder structure remained intact. At the sector level, AI Agent, supply-side shocks, and institutional DeFi narratives coexisted. Short-term returns were driven by structural catalysts, while mid-term allocation continued

PIPPIN is an AI-powered meme coin project built on the Solana blockchain. Its central vision is to transform meme culture from a mere community emblem into a sustainable digital brand by harnessing artificial intelligence for content creation, character-driven storytelling, and automated distribution. Unlike conventional meme coins that depend on organic community creation and social media dissemination, PIPPIN combines AI content generation models, interactive community mechanisms, and on-chain assets. This allows meme characters to continuously generate images, stories, and interactive content, maintaining community enthusiasm and amplifying brand reach.

LayerZero is a blockchain infrastructure protocol specializing in cross-chain communication. Its primary goal is to facilitate secure, cost-effective, and trustless messaging between blockchains, empowering applications to share state, assets, and data seamlessly across multiple networks.

LayerZero is a cross-chain interoperability protocol that enables secure, low-cost information and asset transfers between different blockchains through a lightweight message verification architecture, making true Omnichain applications possible. Unlike traditional cross-chain bridges that only support asset transfers, LayerZero is engineered to let applications operate seamlessly across multiple chains, allowing users and assets to maintain a unified state across various blockchains.

According to Gate Research, the cryptocurrency market has recently weakened overall. On the macro side, cooling expectations of Federal Reserve rate cuts and rising risk-off sentiment have put simultaneous pressure on equities, gold, and crypto assets. Bitcoin broke below key support levels and briefly fell under USD 90,000, erasing its year-to-date gains and declining about 27% from the intraday all-time high set on October 6. Technically, the 50-day moving average has crossed below the 200-day moving average, forming a “death cross,” indicating further bearish momentum in the medium term.

Delve into the macroeconomic and technical drivers behind the "Crypto Summer" market in 2025. Analyze the global regulatory warming trend (GENIUS Act, MiCA, etc.), comprehensively examine stablecoin compliance, popular sectors, and investment opportunities. This analysis aims to help investors grasp the new cycle in the crypto market.

Last week, BONK surged over 52%, fueled by optimism around its ETF application. Its launchpad, Letsbonk, surpassed Pump.fun in token issuance, and the number of holders exceeded one million. FLOKI gained more than 12% following the launch of its flagship game, VALHALLA, on the opBNB mainnet. Starknet saw renewed momentum thanks to ecosystem expansion and resonance with the BTCFi narrative. Meanwhile, xStocks sparked strong demand for on-chain equities, driving on-chain financial innovation and deeper integration with traditional assets.

Kinetiq (KNTQ) is a native liquid staking protocol built on the Hyperliquid ecosystem. Users who stake the network's native token, HYPE, receive a transferable and composable liquid staking receipt, kHYPE, enabling them to continuously earn validator staking rewards while deploying their capital across DeFi lending, market making, and perpetual margin scenarios. The protocol leverages StakeHub to automatically handle validator scoring and delegation rebalancing, and channels protocol revenue, validator commissions, and trading fees back to token holders via the governance token KNTQ and the staking receipt sKNTQ.

KNTQ serves as the governance and value capture token for Kinetiq, the liquid staking protocol within the Hyperliquid ecosystem. With a maximum supply of 1 billion, the protocol channels revenue from diverse business lines—liquid staking (kHYPE), perpetual markets (Markets), and HIP-3 deployments (Launch)—back to token holders via buybacks, burns, and the sKNTQ distribution mechanism. This positions KNTQ as the core economic hub linking HYPE staking scale to protocol commercialization.

Kinetiq is a non-custodial liquid staking protocol deployed on Hyperliquid's dual execution environment (HyperCore consensus layer + HyperEVM smart contract layer). Its architecture leverages StakingManager to manage HYPE deposits and withdrawals, as well as kHYPE minting and burning; StakeHub handles validator scoring and delegation rebalancing; and native precompiled interfaces like CoreWriters synchronize staking state between the EVM and L1. This enables users to acquire composable LST (kHYPE) while the underlying HYPE continues to secure network consensus.

Highrise Creature Club (HCC) is the first wearable NFT collection from Highrise, a mobile Metaverse with 13 million players. These hand-designed, unique Creatures can be directly broken down into in-game clothing and accessories, enabling players to instantly outfit their characters and take part in social activities.

Optimism Explorer is a blockchain explorer purpose-built for the Optimism network, offering users detailed transaction lookup and address data analysis. It enables real-time tracking of transaction statuses, covering both unconfirmed and confirmed transactions, and shows the final settlement outcomes on the Ethereum mainnet (Layer 1).

AltLayer’s Restaked Rollup is a modular architecture that combines Rollup scaling with restaked security. Through AVS, or actively validated services, such as MACH, VITAL, and SQUAD, it provides Layer2 networks with fast finality, state validation, and decentralized sequencing. Built on EigenLayer’s restaking model, this mechanism allows Rollups to gain additional shared security without having to build a large independent validator network.