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To review users’ trading performance on Gate Perp DEX throughout the year and kick off a brand-new chapter in 2026 together, Gate Perp DEX proudly launches the themed event “Trading Yearbook: Your 2025 & 2026.”

Space has announced the public sale of its native token, $SPACE. As a prediction market on Solana that supports up to 10x leverage, Space employs a unified settlement price and a variable allocation fair price discovery mechanism. The platform allocates 50% of its revenue to buy back and burn tokens. This article delivers a detailed breakdown of the public sale parameters, participation procedures, tiered benefits, and the tokenomics model, giving readers a thorough understanding of the offering.

Vaults are not merely yield tools—they are the price of risk. By comparing real return data across a century of financial markets, this article builds a “yield ladder” framework to reveal the economic essence of DeFi vaults: they are portfolios with APIs, whose yields correspond to clearly defined credit, liquidity, leverage, and structural risks. The article helps readers rethink vaults, RWAs, and on-chain asset management through a risk-based lens, avoiding being misled by single-APY narratives.

The Bank of Japan has raised its policy rate by 25 basis points to 0.75%. The central bank made it clear that it will further adjust its monetary easing stance if the economy and inflation develop as anticipated. This article provides a comprehensive review of the Bank of Japan's policy statement, examining its views on the wage-price mechanism, real interest rates, and the projected trajectory of future rate hikes. It also explores how this policy shift could affect macro-level liquidity and financial markets.

Break down the risks associated with exchange delisting and market segmentation strategies. Predict the emergence of two primary camps: privacy-centric professional communities and enterprise-grade auditable pools. Identify commercially viable pathways for survival as regulatory constraints become more stringent.

Stargate leads the way in integration, offering seamless plug-and-play compatibility with more than 2,600 protocol wallets. This accelerates institutional-grade RWA integration into DeFi, enabling hundreds of assets to move fluidly across multiple blockchains while driving democratized access to the U.S. market.

The article forecasts explosive growth potential even if RWAs capture just 2% of a USD 1.6 trillion market, emphasizing how portability can break traditional platform lock-in and intermediary friction, and revealing a new path for the standardized distribution of private credit.

Gate Web3 BountyDrop is a one-stop hub that gathers the most popular airdrop projects, offering users a fast-track entry into interactive tasks. Users can easily browse the latest airdrop projects, view project overviews, the interaction process, participation timeframes, and directly access project pages through task links to participate.

As AI agents, on-chain payments, and the Machine Economy converge, robotics is evolving from isolated hardware tools into a multi-layered system encompassing intelligence, coordination, and programmable economic behavior. This article examines how Web3 contributes at the data, coordination, and economic layers of the robotics ecosystem, while analyzing the key uncertainties around economic viability, engineering reliability, and regulatory alignment. Together, these dynamics outline the early foundations of a machine economy and a potential future machine internet.

Gate Research Daily Report: On December 22, BTC stabilized and rebounded quickly after a sharp pullback, currently consolidating in the 88,800–89,000 range; ETH also recovered swiftly after plunging to around $2,775 in the previous drop; GT shows a rebound-from-lows structure with a mildly bullish bias; and RAVE became the standout performer with gains of up to +84.45%. Meanwhile, an address poisoning scam resurfaced, resulting in a crypto user losing $50 million in USDT; Hilbert Group acquired Enigma Nordic for $25 million to further expand its institutional crypto trading strategy; and a Tether executive–linked entity’s acquisition of Northern Data’s Bitcoin mining business has drawn market attention.

Gate Research Daily Report: On December 22, BTC stabilized and rebounded quickly after a sharp pullback, currently consolidating in the 88,800–89,000 range; ETH also recovered swiftly after plunging to around $2,775 in the previous drop; GT shows a rebound-from-lows structure with a mildly bullish bias; and RAVE became the standout performer with gains of up to +84.45%. Meanwhile, an address poisoning scam resurfaced, resulting in a crypto user losing $50 million in USDT; Hilbert Group acquired Enigma Nordic for $25 million to further expand its institutional crypto trading strategy; and a Tether executive–linked entity’s acquisition of Northern Data’s Bitcoin mining business has drawn market attention.

In the context of the continuous evolution of the crypto industry and increasingly diverse scene demands, the role of trading platforms is undergoing profound changes — from a single trading entry point to a comprehensive hub for asset management, on-chain life, and ecosystem connectivity. Based on this trend, the global leading digital asset platform Gate has announced a major upgrade to its mobile app, now updated to version v8.0 and above. The new version has undergone a comprehensive improvement in the international visual system and brand experience, marking Gate's further progress in the global User Experience field.

Gate Swap, in collaboration with the GM community, has launched a massive liquidity incentive campaign—the 3,000,000 GM Prize Pool is now officially live! GM is a highly trending community token with infinite potential.

Gate Web3 BountyDrop is a one-stop hub that gathers the most popular airdrop projects, offering users a fast-track entry into interactive tasks. Users can easily browse the latest airdrop projects, view project overviews, the interaction process, participation timeframes, and directly access project pages through task links to participate.

This article examines the Revolut and Nubank models, providing an analysis of three profit pathways for crypto banks: stablecoin reserve interest, payment transaction revenue sharing, and infrastructure issuance rights.