Sui, a Layer 1 blockchain project, aims to expand in South Korea by collaborating with financial institutions and technology companies. Key initiatives include developing a stablecoin pegged to the won and enhancing its developer ecosystem with the Move programming language.

Stripe and Paradigm launched Zones on Tempo, a Layer 1 blockchain, enabling private execution of sensitive enterprise transactions like payroll while ensuring asset interoperability. Governed by trusted entities, Zones enhance privacy and compliance, addressing challenges in blockchain adoption for enterprises.

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.

Ethereum achieved a record high of 200.4 million transactions in Q1 2026, driven by Layer 2 activity and stablecoin growth, despite ETH prices being over 50% lower than their August 2025 peak.

Santiment reports that Starknet leads Layer-2 networks in developer activity with 117 points, followed by Aztec and Arbitrum. A ranking of the top ten networks reveals significant developer engagement, highlighting growth and innovation in the ecosystem.

Cobo has introduced the Adoption Clearing Layer (ACL), an incentive settlement platform for blockchains and payment institutions. It offers multi-chain payment routing, enabling users to earn rebates and boosting transaction volumes in the ecosystem.

Gate News message: On April 16, according to Gate market data, as of the time of writing, BIO (BIO Protocol) is trading at $0.03789. It is up 91.66% over the past 24 hours, with a high of $0.0395 and a low of $0.01964. The 24-hour trading volume reached $2.1M. Its current market cap is approximately $80.4297 million. BIO is a decentralized science (DeSci) governance and liquidity protocol. It aims to accelerate the development of biotechnology by providing the ability to collectively fund global patients, scientists, and biotechnology professionals, and to establish, own, and manage tokenized biotechnology projects and intellectual property (IP). As a new financial layer in the DeSci space, Bio Protocol is committed to commercializing the best faster

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

The Solana Foundation is collaborating with Triton One to enhance its on-chain data access layer, improving scalability and data retrieval. The redesign features two core modules: Accounts for adaptive indexing and Ledger for efficient historical data management. SOL is currently trading around $84.

Kevin Warsh, nominee for Federal Reserve Chair, has disclosed early-stage investments in various crypto infrastructure projects, including DeFi and layer-2 networks. His portfolio, small and illiquid, suggests indirect venture capital exposure rather than direct trading assets.