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On April 20, Gate hosted the "GATE GALA 13" anniversary dinner at the Rosewood Hong Kong, bringing together over 300 institutional representatives, partners, and industry KOLs from across the globe. The event featured a lively atmosphere and facilitated dynamic, in-depth networking throughout the evening.

The event drew over 300 institutional representatives, partners, and industry professionals from across the globe.

Dr. Han, the founder and CEO of Gate, has been invited to give a keynote speech at the main campus of the University of Hong Kong on the evening of April 21, and to participate in a fireside chat and open Q&A session.

During a media group interview at the Rosewood Hotel in Hong Kong, Gate's founder and CEO Dr. Han stated that AI is gradually evolving from an efficiency tool to a core capability within trading systems.

PANews reported on April 20 that Dr. Han, founder and CEO of Gate, gave a group interview to the media at the Rosewood Hotel in Hong Kong on April 20.

Odaily Planet Daily reported that Gate Founder and CEO Dr. Han gave a group media interview at the Rosewood Hong Kong on April 20.

Celestia (TIA) serves as a Data Availability (DA) network within a modular blockchain architecture. Its primary role is to provide infrastructure for data publishing and verification for other blockchain systems. In this framework, Celestia does not execute transaction logic. Instead, it focuses on a critical function: ensuring that data is properly published and can be verified. This makes it the foundational data layer of modular blockchains.

TIA is the native token of the Celestia network. It supports the operation of the data availability layer, maintains network security, and coordinates the modular blockchain ecosystem. In Celestia’s design, TIA goes beyond the traditional role of blockchain tokens. It plays a critical part not only in incentives, but also in data publishing, chain deployment, and governance systems.

TIA (Celestia) is the native token and core incentive mechanism of the data availability (DA) network in a modular blockchain architecture. It supports data publishing, verification, and security coordination across the Celestia network. As blockchains evolve from monolithic designs to modular systems, Celestia, represented by TIA, is built as an independent data availability layer. This allows execution layers such as rollups to operate without needing their own consensus or data storage infrastructure.

EIGEN serves as both a foundational token and a key mechanism within the EigenLayer ecosystem, expanding the coordination of security and incentives in Ethereum’s restaking architecture. In this system, EIGEN is not a conventional transactional token. Instead, it acts as a coordination asset that connects validators, Actively Validated Services (AVSs), and protocol governance, enabling the shared security model to operate across a broader blockchain environment.

At the Hong Kong Web3 Carnival, Vitalik provided a comprehensive overview of Ethereum’s new phase direction: establishing Ethereum as a public bulletin board and shared computation layer, with strategic emphasis on scaling, zkVM verification, account abstraction, privacy enhancements, and quantum-resistant security. This article dissects the roadmap across technology, governance, and application layers, examining its medium- and long-term implications for developers, investors, and the broader industry narrative.

Restaking is one of the core mechanisms in the EigenLayer protocol. It allows ETH that has already been staked on Ethereum to be reused for validation tasks in other blockchain applications, creating a structure in which the same pool of security can be used multiple times. This changes the traditional limitation where staked assets can only secure a single chain, allowing Ethereum’s economic security to extend across a broader modular ecosystem.

EIGEN (EigenLayer) is a core asset and mechanism component tied to Ethereum’s restaking protocol. It is used to extend the blockchain shared security model, allowing staked assets that originally served only the Ethereum mainnet to be reassigned and used across multiple external validation networks. Through this mechanism, EigenLayer turns Ethereum’s security capacity into reusable infrastructure, supporting a broader range of decentralized applications.

NEAR, Solana, and Ethereum are among the most representative Layer 1 blockchains in the industry today. All three support smart contracts and decentralized applications, yet they follow clearly different technical architectures and scaling paths. As Web3 applications continue to expand, network performance, scalability, and developer experience have become key factors shaping ecosystem growth.

NEAR Protocol (NEAR) is a Layer 1 blockchain network built on sharding technology. It is designed to support large scale decentralized applications by improving scalability and user experience. As blockchain technology has evolved from simple asset transfers to complex application ecosystems, traditional public blockchains have gradually revealed limitations in performance, fees, and user experience. NEAR Protocol was created as infrastructure for the next generation of Web3 applications.