Blockchain

As the global digital asset regulatory landscape continues to evolve, compliance capability has become a core competitive advantage for long-term platform growth. This article examines Gate's global licensing strategy, covering key compliance milestones including Europe's MiCA and PI, the U.S. MTL, Japan's FSA, and Dubai's VARA.

The key distinction between SQD and The Graph lies in their data processing architecture: The Graph primarily relies on Subgraph to create application-specific data indexes, whereas SQD employs a distributed Data Lake and Worker network architecture, enabling more flexible historical data queries and multi-chain data analysis. From a developer standpoint, The Graph is better suited for building standardized query interfaces around specific protocols, while SQD focuses on large-scale on-chain data access, complex analytical tasks, and real-time data processing. Both solutions are essential components of Web3 data infrastructure, but their design objectives and technical approaches differ significantly.

Subsquid (SQD) is a decentralized blockchain data layer built for Web3 applications, leveraging a distributed data lake, a network of Worker nodes, and a Portal query layer to deliver high-performance, low-cost, and scalable on-chain data access for developers. Unlike traditional RPC nodes that read blockchain data directly, SQD preemptively handles data collection, indexing, and storage, allowing applications to rapidly retrieve both complex historical and real-time data.

Unlike traditional RPC nodes that scan the blockchain in real time, SQD dramatically boosts the efficiency of complex queries by pre-processing and indexing data. As new blocks and transactions are generated on the blockchain, the SQD Network continuously ingests raw data and stores it in a distributed data lake. Worker nodes handle indexing and data processing, while the Portal layer manages developer requests and orchestrates network resources, ultimately delivering structured results back to the application.

SQD Worker nodes are the core infrastructure responsible for data processing and query execution within the SQD Network. They retrieve raw blockchain data, then index, verify, and optimize storage, while responding to query requests from the Portal layer. Through distributed collaboration, multiple Worker nodes collectively form a decentralized data service network.

Both Synapse and LayerZero enable blockchain interoperability, but they take fundamentally different technical approaches. LayerZero focuses on cross-chain message-passing infrastructure, using lightweight verification to facilitate communication between chains. Synapse, meanwhile, provides a broader suite — cross-chain bridges, liquidity networks, and message passing — covering asset transfers and cross-chain application coordination across multiple use cases. Architecturally, LayerZero is more of a cross-chain communication layer, whereas Synapse functions as a comprehensive cross-chain protocol that spans both the liquidity and communication layers.

Synapse Protocol is a cross-chain infrastructure protocol that enables blockchain interoperability, facilitating the transfer and interaction of assets, data, and smart contract messages across different blockchains. Through cross-chain bridges, liquidity networks, and a universal messaging system, Synapse Protocol addresses the challenges of liquidity fragmentation and inter-chain collaboration within the multi-chain ecosystem.

Synapse Cross-Chain Messaging enables smart contracts to send messages, execute logic, and synchronize state across different blockchains. When a user initiates an operation on the source chain, Synapse packages, verifies, and forwards the message to the target chain, where the target chain's smart contract executes the corresponding instructions. This process encompasses multiple stages—message generation, cross-chain verification, message relay, and target chain execution—allowing developers to build unified application logic that operates across multiple blockchains.

Hypercall is an on-chain options trading protocol built by the Synapse team, leveraging Hyperliquid as its settlement backbone and centered around fractional options. It enables users to enter the options market with a lower capital barrier while enhancing trading efficiency through transparent on-chain settlement and unified liquidity. By reducing contract unit sizes, optimizing liquidity architecture, and capitalizing on Hyperliquid's high-performance trading environment, Hypercall is exploring new trading paradigms in the on-chain derivatives space and steering options products toward greater openness and accessibility.

Orochi Network (ON) is a Verifiable Data Infrastructure (VDI) for Web3. Its core mission is to establish a zero-knowledge data network within the blockchain ecosystem capable of proving data authenticity, integrity, and computational reliability. Leveraging technologies like Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP), verifiable random functions, on-chain oracles, and zero-knowledge databases, Orochi Network addresses key Web3 challenges—difficult data provenance verification, insufficient cross-chain data trust, and high privacy computation costs. In doing so, it provides a trustworthy data layer for on-chain finance, Stablecoins, RWAs, and AI applications.

ON is the native token of Orochi Network and serves as the medium of value exchange across the entire Verifiable Data Infrastructure (VDI) network. As a Web3 infrastructure project built around Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP) and verifiable data services, Orochi Network uses ON to integrate data storage, proof generation, computation verification, node incentives, and community governance, allowing network participants to establish a complete economic cycle centered on trusted data.

Orochi Network is a Web3 data network specializing in Verifiable Data Infrastructure (VDI), with the core objective of building a trusted data interaction framework between blockchain and off-chain environments. By leveraging Zero-Knowledge Proofs (ZKP), zkDatabase, Verifiable Data Pipeline, Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE), and Trusted Execution Environment (TEE), Orochi aims to make every stage of data—from creation, storage, and computation to final output—verifiable. This enables users to independently validate data authenticity and computational accuracy without relying on the credibility of centralized entities.

GMX enables on-chain spot and Perpetual Futures trading without an order book by combining oracle pricing with a liquidity pool mechanism. Unlike traditional decentralized exchanges that rely on automated market makers (AMMs) or order books, GMX references external market prices for trading and uses a unified liquidity pool as the counterparty, thereby reducing slippage and price manipulation risks.

TRADOOR is the native token of the Tradoor protocol ecosystem, designed to support protocol operations, ecosystem coordination, and user participation mechanisms. Rather than functioning as a trading asset, TRADOOR's core purpose is to serve as the foundational tool linking protocol operations, ecosystem incentives, and long-term coordination mechanisms.

Mitosis is a modular liquidity protocol designed for multi-chain blockchain ecosystems. It leverages Programmable Liquidity and a Global Execution Layer to connect assets and applications distributed across disparate networks. The protocol aims to address the persistent issue of liquidity fragmentation in DeFi, empowering developers and users to execute cross-chain interactions and manage assets on a unified liquidity layer.