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Kima Network is a cross-ecosystem money transfer protocol that enables secure and seamless TradFi/DeFi interoperability without smart contracts.

This article offers an in-depth analysis of Japan’s cryptocurrency policy in 2024, examining its historical background, recent advancements, and emerging trends. By drawing comparisons with South Korea's approach and highlighting key case studies, it delves into Japan's influence on the global cryptocurrency landscape and the implications of its regulatory framework, providing a distinctive perspective on the nuances and importance of Japan's cryptocurrency regulations.

With the development of blockchain technology, DeFi and DeFAI are becoming hot topics in the financial sector. DeFAI, which combines artificial intelligence and decentralized finance, is reshaping traditional financial models. This article explores their concepts, differences, and future potential.

A funding rate arbitrage quantitative fund is a specialized investment tool designed for the cryptocurrency market, aiming to generate stable, market-neutral returns through perpetual contracts’ funding rate mechanism. The fund’s core strategy involves simultaneously holding both spot and hedged perpetual contract positions, which utilizes market fluctuations' hedging effect to focus returns on funding rate payments. This approach is ideal for investors seeking consistent returns with lower risk tolerance. In comparison to traditional financial products, funding rate arbitrage funds offer greater return potential. The use of quantitative models enhances decision-making, ensuring efficient and precise capital allocation.

USDT0 is an innovative stablecoin. In this article, we explain how it works, its key features, technical benefits, and compare it with the traditional USDT, as well as discuss the challenges it faces.

Pi Network is a decentralized cryptocurrency project based on mobile mining, aiming to popularize blockchain technology through an easy-entry mining model, such as smartphone mining. Users can participate in mining simply by using a mobile app, without the need for professional hardware or high energy consumption.

In this series, we'll explain what Preconfirmation means for Ethereum users, validators, and applications (Based Rollups included), and explore what needs to happen to maximize its UX benefits.

APX Finance, a decentralized exchange specializing in perpetual futures trading with features like high leverage, zero slippage, and liquidity pools.

edgeX is a decentralized derivatives trading protocol that combines off-chain order matching with on-chain settlement to achieve performance close to centralized exchanges while maintaining the security of self-custodied assets. As DeFi evolves from simple token swaps to more complex financial instruments, hybrid architectures like edgeX have become widely adopted for supporting high-frequency trading scenarios such as perpetual contracts. Its design reflects a balanced approach within decentralized trading infrastructure, navigating trade-offs between performance, transparency, and verifiability.

edgeX adopts a hybrid model of “off-chain matching + on-chain settlement” for decentralized perpetual contract trading. This design maintains asset self-custody and verifiable outcomes while improving execution efficiency. From order submission to final settlement, each trade goes through matching, risk calculation, and on-chain confirmation. This hybrid architecture has become a typical approach for improving performance in Perp DEX systems.

Gate Research Daily Report: On February 19, the price of Bitcoin fell by 1.29% to $96,349.1, while Ethereum decreased by 0.78% to $2,677.21. The market capitalization of Meme coins dropped to $6.667 billion. Ondo Finance's TVL surpassed $777 million. Tron and Solana networks have issued $10.75 billion in stablecoins this year. Hyperliquid launched its HyperEVM mainnet. Fold became the first Bitcoin financial services company to list on Nasdaq. Grayscale launched the Grayscale Pyth Trust, a new investment product.

This report provides an in-depth analysis of market trends from February 3 to February 17, covering Bitcoin and Ethereum market volatility, funding rates, long/short trading volume ratios, open interest, contract liquidations, and the correlation between BTC and traditional financial markets (S&P 500 ETF). Additionally, the quantitative backtesting section focuses on the market performance of newly listed contract trading pairs, offering investors more comprehensive market insights.

The core differences between edgeX, Hyperliquid, and Aster lie in their matching mechanisms and architectural paths. edgeX adopts an off-chain matching with an on-chain settlement model, Hyperliquid operates a fully on-chain order book, while Aster uses a modular design to aggregate liquidity and trading mechanisms. These distinctions directly shape each platform’s latency, level of decentralization, liquidity structure, and risk management approach.

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