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Last week, BTC consolidated at high levels, with its next move yet to be confirmed, while ETH remained range-bound, gearing up for a potential breakout. The altcoin sector showed strong performance—PENGU surged over 62% in a week, fueled by ETF application news and whale orders. ARB surged over 35%, fueled by momentum from trending ecosystem projects. Solana is seeing renewed capital inflows, while the Sei network is gaining serious momentum, fueled by ETF hype, stablecoin utility, and growing institutional presence.

Gate Research Daily Report: On July 1, BTC and ETH both fell by over 1%, a reasonable correction following the recent token price surge. Online brokerage Robinhood announced that it will allow EU clients to trade U.S. stocks and ETFs on the blockchain, with plans to transfer these tokenized stocks to its own Layer 2 blockchain, Robinhood Chain. Stablecoin issuer Circle has applied for a U.S. national banking license, enabling it to act as a custodian for USDC reserves and hold crypto assets for institutional clients. Polygon Labs, in collaboration with crypto market maker GSR, launched Katana, a DeFi-focused Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain, aimed at addressing on-chain asset fragmentation and unsustainable yields driven by high inflation.

This report aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of the core strengths and challenges in the development of the Sonic ecosystem, benchmarking them against the peak of the Fantom ecosystem. By examining key indicators across multiple dimensions—including competitive landscape, technological advancement, user growth, and ecosystem development—it explores whether Sonic has the potential to replicate Fantom's past success and evaluates its strategic roadmap and risk mitigation approach in the current complex market environment.

The article discusses Circle's position in the stablecoin market, including its revenue-sharing agreement with Coinbase, as well as the market growth and share of USDC.

The article provides a detailed introduction to the financing history and investor lineup of two platforms, analyzing their different strategies and outcomes in terms of centralization versus decentralization, compliance versus regulatory boundaries, and market influence.

The article introduces several practical analytical tools, such as Kaito, Dexu AI, 0xPPL, Nansen, DeBank, DeFiLlama, and Coincarp, and demonstrates through concrete examples how to leverage these tools to uncover valuable projects.

The NYC 2.2 event hosted by the Monad Foundation has concluded, with 44 teams participating, focusing on user needs, product-market fit, delivery speed, and breakout strategies, injecting practical and driven construction capabilities into the Layer 1 ecosystem.

This article, through three events—Trump’s airstrike, Mamdani’s election victory, and Cluely’s fundraising—reveals how attention, narrative, and speculation have become the three pillars of the new economic order. We are entering an era dominated by the "attention-speculation-resource allocation" paradigm.

Gate Research Daily Report: On June 30, BTC surged quickly from around 107,200 USDT, reaching a peak of approximately 108,600 USDT and is now consolidating at relatively high levels. ETH broke through the key 2,500 USDT level in one move, briefly touching a high of 2,511.39 USDT. In terms of trending tokens, Arbitrum (ARB) rose by 16.39%, driven by DeFi activity within its ecosystem and recent new incentive measures; Aave (AAVE) gained 7.3%, supported by strong user stickiness, market contributions, and record loan volume and revenue; the emerging meme coin SPX increased by 6.62% amid improving economic data and recovering market sentiment. Additionally, Babylon Genesis Chain will adopt a dual virtual machine architecture combining EVM and CosmWasm to enhance BTCFi compatibility; the CBDC project led by the Bank of Korea has been paused, shifting focus toward KRW stablecoins; Metaplanet issued 30 billion JPY in zero-coupon corporate bonds to purchase additional Bitcoin.

The article provides a detailed introduction to Shelby as the world's first "cloud-level infrastructure" in the Web3 space, featuring sub-second reading, a native incentive mechanism, and chain-agnostic compatibility.

The article provides a detailed introduction to the regulatory processes of various countries, regulatory documents, regulatory bodies, and the core content of the regulatory framework, including the definition of stablecoin, the entry thresholds for issuers, the mechanisms for maintaining coin value stability and reserve assets, compliance requirements during circulation, and special regulatory rules for important stablecoins.

The article analyzes the technical details of this collaboration, including Swapper Finance as the user front-end entry, Shift4 Payments providing card payment processing, ZeroHash responsible for the conversion between fiat currency and encryption, and Chainlink's decentralized oracle network ensuring the security of transactions and the reliability of data.

This article details Solana's technological advantages, including its high TPS (transactions per second), low fees, and the upcoming Firedancer validator node. These features make it ideal for high-frequency trading, instant payments, and mobile-first Web3 applications.

The article analyzes the mining mechanisms, economic models, and environmental impacts of Bitcoin and gold, revealing the unique advantages of Bitcoin mining in terms of technological advancement, income structure, and environmental sustainability.

The article provides a detailed analysis of the specific content of the proposal, including the abandonment of the current Proof of Stake (PoS) mechanism in favor of adopting a "Proof of Governance" (PoG) model, as well as the potential impact of this transition on the Celestia network structure and token economics.