Gate News update, April 9, DeFi solutions provider Enhanced Labs announced it has completed a $1 million Pre-Seed round of financing, led by Maximum Frequency Ventures, with participation from GSR, Selini, Flowdesk, and a group of angel investors. The new funding will be used to support product development and operations, while also expanding options-based yield strategies to a wider range of on-chain assets, including tokenized real-world assets.

On-chain sleuth ZachXBT accuses Gurhan Kiziloz, the suspected co-founder of the casino platform Spartans, of spearheading the Blockdag Network project, allegedly luring retail investors into fundraising with false promotion of $300 million, and withdrawing the funds to the Middle East within two years. Gurhan is also suspected of lavish spending and using public relations to maintain his image.

Social app Giggles announced on April 9 that it has completed more than $1 million in Pre-Seed funding, led by 1kx. The funds will be used to improve the product and scale its user base. The app combines a prediction-market mechanism, allowing users to “buy in” early to help turn “content discovery” into an economic activity.

Gate News message: According to Gate’s official announcement, Gate’s stock section has launched pre-IPO SPACEX perpetual contract trading, with USDT settlement. This contract supports 1–10x long and short operations, and the leverage ratio can be selected by the user at the time of placing the order. SpaceX was founded by Elon Musk in 2002 and is the world’s largest commercial aerospace company. This contract is set up based on SpaceX’s current pre-IPO stage, and is intended to provide market-based valuation and price discovery for its stock. The valuation unit is 1 billion; for example, if SpaceX’s company valuation is 800 billion USD, then 1 SPACEX is priced at 800 USD.

Short video + meme trading platform Giggles completed a $1.2 million Pre-Seed funding round in 2025, with investors including 1kx Capital, etc. The app developed by founder Justin Jin combines social features with prediction markets. It is currently in an invite-only testing phase, where users trade on trending content.

Gate News message, April 8, a certain CEX plans to enter the stock IPO market, allowing large customers to subscribe to popular but not-yet-listed stocks (such as OpenAI) via a cryptocurrency exchange. This process is similar to the over-the-counter primary platforms in the market, but users can use stablecoins within the platform to participate. It is still unclear which specific companies’ shares are being sold, their valuations, and the allocation amounts.

On April 7, in the U.S. stock market pre-market session, crypto concept stocks generally fell. Specifically, CRCL was down 0.41%, MSTR was down 1.27%, SBET was down 1.1%, and BMNR was down 1.53%. msx.com is a decentralized RWA trading platform that has already launched multiple RWA tokens.

Gate News message, April 3, according to Vestbee, RWA tokenization platform Brickken, headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, recently announced it has completed a €3 million Pre-A round of financing, with Dedagroup and GRX participating in the investment. The new funding will be used for three areas: first, to strengthen the compliance of its RWA tokenization infrastructure; second, to support the tokenization of multiple types of assets such as stocks, debt, bonds, funds, real estate, and commodities; third, to expand into the European Union and the UAE markets.

Gate News message, April 3, CZ posted on a social platform announcing that its new book, 《Freedom of Money》, is planned to be officially released next week. At present, the e-book is open for pre-order, offering the English edition and the Traditional Chinese edition. The English hardcover will be released next week as well, and other language versions will be rolled out in the coming months.

The live prediction market platform Pumpcade completed a $1 million seed pre-round funding on April 2, and the funds will be used to expand the team and advance its launch strategy. The platform allows users to quickly create multiple types of prediction markets with different themes during live streams, and it settles through an official API to reduce risk and disputes.