World has launched an upgraded World ID protocol for secure digital verification in various sectors. It enhances privacy and supports AI applications while managing user identities across 160 countries, verifying nearly 18 million individuals.

Gate News update, April 20. According to Gate market data, as of the time of writing, PIEVERSE (pieverse) is trading at $1.13. It is up 79.64% over the past 24 hours, with a highest price of $1.48 and a lowest price of $0.571. The 24-hour trading volume reached $14.2417 million. Its current market cap is approximately $197 million. Pieverse is an agent-native, compliance-first payment protocol stack. Its core mission is to build foundational payment infrastructure for Web3. By using on-chain verifiable invoices, receipts, and checks to timestamp value, it enables seamless, auditable transactions and perfectly connects blockchain data with real-world compliance needs (such as tax filings and audits). Pieverse is also rolling out x402b (an extension protocol supporting HTTP web payments) and the cross-project, general Timestamping Alliance. This information does not constitute investment advice. Investors should be mindful of risks related to market volatility.

From 17:00 to 17:15 (UTC) on 2026-04-17, BTC saw a brief drop. The return rate recorded was -0.45%, with the price ranging from 77354.3 to 77916.9 USDT and a swing of 0.72%. During the event, market attention warmed up, volatility intensified, and spot market liquidity changed significantly. The main driver of this price anomaly was that whale wallets concentrated transfers to exchanges. In a single 15-minute period, the exchange inflow surged to 11,000 BTC, reaching a new high since December 2025. The average amount deposited per transaction was as high as 2.25 BTC, indicating that large holders chose key price levels to concentrate and release their positions, clearly lifting sell pressure. At the same time, BTC futures open interest fell to a 14-month low of $841 million, as leverage funds exited sharply. The spot market’s pull on price fluctuations became the main factor, further magnifying the impact of whale trading. In addition, although ETF funds had a net inflow with a hedging effect—bringing the April cumulative inflow to $5.651 billion—within this anomaly window they were not able to fully absorb large sell orders. The spot market mainly relied on institutional buying to digest the selling pressure, and overall risk appetite contracted. On-chain data shows that 41% of the BTC supply is in a loss-making range, and some holders who bought at lower prices face take-profit and stop-loss pressure. With multiple factors converging, short-term tension formed among exchange inflows, leverage withdrawal, profit realization, and institutions’ ability to absorb, increasing the magnitude of spot volatility. Short-term risks are worth watching closely. Users should closely monitor core indicators such as the subsequent exchange inflow volume, the pace of ETF net inflows, and futures open interest. If whale sell orders still have not eased and ETF inflows cannot accelerate in step, the BTC price may remain under sustained pressure. Users should focus on on-chain transfers and changes in major holders’ positions, watch the spot market’s key support ranges and trading structure, obtain more market information in a timely manner, and stay alert to risks brought by sharp volatility.

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.

Gate News message, April 17. According to Gate market data, as of the time of publication, ARB (Arbitrum) is trading at $0.127. It is up 9.50% over the past 24 hours, with a high of $0.133 and a low that has fallen back to $0.116. The 24-hour trading volume is $1.6685 million. The current market cap is approximately $768 million. Arbitrum is a technology stack designed to scale Ethereum. You can do everything you do on Ethereum using the Arbitrum chain—use Web3 applications, deploy smart contracts, and more—but your transactions will be cheaper and faster. Its flagship product, Arbitrum Rollup, is an optimistic sharding protocol that inherits Ethereum-level security. This message does not constitute investment advice; investments involve risks, including market volatility.

Gate News message. On April 15, according to Gate market data, as of the time of writing, COAI (ChainOpera) is trading at $0.42. In the past 24 hours, it is up 35.67%, with a highest of $0.58 and a low of $0.31. The 24-hour trading volume is $15.01 million. Its current market cap is approximately $82.91 million. ChainOpera AI is a blockchain-based full-stack AI platform committed to enabling collaborative intelligence through a network of AI agents and models that are jointly created and owned by the community. It integrates three core functions: AI applications for end users, a developer platform for creating agents, and a decentralized infrastructure layer for models and GPU resources—everything built on a unified protocol. The platform is

DeepSeek is recruiting for 17 positions, with R&D focus shifting toward Agent productization. Positions include algorithm research, data evaluation, and infrastructure engineers, focusing on reinforcement learning and evaluation system design. The company also values experience with AI coding tools. Compared to the deep learning researcher positions from the beginning of the year, this recruitment clearly tilts toward Agent productization.

Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue commented on the application of Chinese open-source models in AI products, noting that open source fosters competition. He highlighted that China is becoming a key player in global AI technology and emphasized that the focus of competition lies in the speed and capability of adaptation and fine-tuning.

Google AI Studio's new full-stack coding feature enables users to transform prompts into production-ready apps, utilizing the Antigravity coding agent for a streamlined development process, marking a significant advancement in AI-driven solutions.

0G Labs has partnered with HackQuest to launch the 0G APAC Hackathon with a prize pool of $150,000 across four tracks, supporting AI agents, on-chain trading, autonomous economic systems, and privacy-preserving applications. The initiative provides full-stack technical support and will host networking events throughout the Asia-Pacific region.