Gate News message, April 21 — Security researcher Doyeon Park disclosed a critical 0-day vulnerability (CVSS 7.1) in CometBFT, the consensus layer of Cosmos, according to a post on X. The flaw could cause network nodes to stall during block synchronization, disrupting system operations, but cannot d

Gate News message, April 21 — A leading cryptocurrency exchange and Block Scholes released a research report examining the convergence between crypto and traditional financial markets, as traders increasingly move across asset classes in response to global macro events. The platform's TradFi

Optiver Holding BV has invested in Eden Block to gain exposure to early-stage cryptocurrency and AI companies, which are anticipated to transform trading and capital markets.

Optiver Holding BV has invested in Eden Block, a venture capital firm focusing on cryptocurrency and AI. This move aims to enhance Optiver's exposure to innovative companies in these sectors, as both technologies could transform trading and capital markets.

A report by Block Scholes reveals rising correlations between crypto assets and traditional markets, noting increased demand for unified trading platforms as traders manage diverse assets. Trading volumes have surged, reflecting a shift towards multi-asset strategies.

Gate News message. On April 17, according to Gate market data, as of the time of writing, TIA (Celestia) is trading at $0.4069. It is up 14.64% over the past 24 hours, with a high of $0.421 and a low of $0.3462. The 24-hour trading volume is $2.7548 million. The current market cap is about $369 million. Celestia is an L1 blockchain designed for a specialized on-chain marketplace. It enables ultra-fast transactions through fiber-grade performance and millisecond-level latency. The platform provides a modular data availability layer solution, using innovative mechanisms such as Data Availability Sampling (DAS) and the Namespaced Merkle Tree (NMT), allowing lightweight nodes to verify data availability without downloading an entire block. Celestia’s DA layer claims it can reduce end users’ transaction fees by more than 100 times, with native support for well-known rollup ecosystems such as Polygon CDK, Arbitrum Orbit, OP Stack, and Starkware. With bit-level block space, Celestia offers low latency, highly specialized, and high-capacity features for the market, enabling all kinds of applications to be tailored and optimized according to their assets, participants, and latency requirements. This news is not investment advice. Please be aware of risks related to market volatility when investing.

NAT has launched on SpiderPool, enabling dual-mining with Bitcoin without extra setup. It generates 386 million NAT per block every 10 minutes, valued at $38, with a total market cap of $38 million. The code is open-source.

ETHGas and ether.fi have entered a $3 billion agreement to enhance Ethereum blockspace markets. ether.fi will allocate 40% of its ETH holdings to ETHGas’ High Performance Staking Service, enabling future block inclusion rights trading and new yield opportunities.

Flare announced a governance proposal on April 10. The plan is to capture the maximum extractable value (MEV) to the protocol layer through a newly established entity called FIRE, and to repurchase and burn FLR tokens. The proposal includes a three-stage block-building reshaping, along with the FLR annual inflation rate and an annual hard cap reduction, with the goal of optimizing the network’s economic model and improving protocol transparency and security.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced that the TON public chain has completed a major upgrade. Overall processing speed has increased by about 10x, block generation speed has improved by 6x, and transaction confirmations reach sub-second level. This is the first step of the “Make TON Great Again” plan; in the future, transaction fees will be further reduced by about 6x.