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Gate Earn Soft Staking: How to Generate On-Chain Yields Without Locking Up Your Assets

Gate Earn Soft Staking: How to Generate On-Chain Yields Without Locking Up Your Assets

Learn how to put your idle assets to work automatically—without sacrificing flexibility.

Blog Team05/20/2026

Gate Earn: Understanding Soft Staking Mechanism and Flexible Subscription & Redemption Model

Gate Earn: Understanding Soft Staking Mechanism and Flexible Subscription & Redemption Model

Based on the PoS chain staking mechanism, this article highlights its core advantages: no lock-up periods, daily compounding, and support for 20 different assets. It also explains the yield calculation formula and the distribution process.

Blog Team05/13/2026

Bitcoin BIP-360 Merge Analysis: The First Technical Defense of the Quantum Era and an In-Depth Look at the P2MR Soft Fork

Bitcoin BIP-360 Merge Analysis: The First Technical Defense of the Quantum Era and an In-Depth Look at the P2MR Soft Fork

Bitcoin BIP-360 (P2MR) proposal has been officially merged, aiming to address the quantum vulnerability in Taproot key paths. This article examines the technical principles, changes in on-chain data, and industry disagreements, and explores potential upgrade paths.

Blog Team03/12/2026

Is Nonfarm Payroll Data Reliable? A Booming Job Market Puts the Fed and Crypto Markets in a Double Bind

Is Nonfarm Payroll Data Reliable? A Booming Job Market Puts the Fed and Crypto Markets in a Double Bind

Nonfarm payroll data will continue to be released, revisions will keep happening, and the macro narrative will keep swinging back and forth between a "soft landing" and a "hard landing."

Blog Team02/12/2026

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S&P 500 Index Surges Past 6,977 to Set New All-Time High, Kicking Off a Strong Start to 2026 Markets

S&P 500 Index Surges Past 6,977 to Set New All-Time High, Kicking Off a Strong Start to 2026 Markets

Against the backdrop of a criminal investigation into the Federal Reserve Chair, U.S. stocks staged an impressive rebound, opening lower but finishing higher. The S&P 500 index climbed to a record high for the third time, as investors put their money on a soft landing for the American economy.

Blog Team01/14/2026

A Comprehensive Guide to Blockchain Forks: How Hard Forks and Soft Forks Shape the Crypto World

A Comprehensive Guide to Blockchain Forks: How Hard Forks and Soft Forks Shape the Crypto World

Forks are far from over. With Bitcoin completing its fourth halving in April 2024 and the ongoing rollout of the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade, ongoing debates around performance, security, and governance are set to inspire new technological directions.

Blog Team12/30/2025

What is Soft Bitcoin (sBTC)? What makes this coin special and is it worth investing in?

What is Soft Bitcoin (sBTC)? What makes this coin special and is it worth investing in?

"What is sBTC" is a deceptively tricky question because two different assets share the same ticker.

Blog Team11/11/2025

Gate Soft Staking: A Stable Base for Long-Term Investment and a Flexible Supplement for Short-Term Trading

Gate Soft Staking: A Stable Base for Long-Term Investment and a Flexible Supplement for Short-Term Trading

Gates coin-holding interest can serve as a stable base for long-term investment while also providing a flexible supplementary tool for short-term trading.

Blog Team09/26/2025

Gate Soft Staking: The Best Crypto Investment Method to Build Passive Income

Gate Soft Staking: The Best Crypto Investment Method to Build Passive Income

Gates coin holding interest is different from traditional staking or locking mechanisms. Its core advantages lie in "flexibility + automation + compound interest.

Blog Team09/25/2025