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.

Gate News, April 15, according to Gate market data, as of the time of writing, NIGHT (Midnight) is trading at $0.0365. It is up 1.95% over the past 24 hours, with a high of $0.03665 and a low of $0.03474. The 24-hour trading volume is $2.4703 million. Its current market cap is approximately $606 million. NIGHT is the exclusive token of the Midnight Network—an advanced new privacy-first L1 public chain introduced by Charles Hoskinson. The token combines network utility with governance functions. Midnight is the fourth generation of blockchain, designed to unlock real-world application adoption. By implementing privacy protection at the protocol level, Midnight enables a new kind of chain

Korean payment service provider NHN KCP has signed a memorandum of understanding with Ava Labs, planning to build a Layer 1 network for payment use cases based on Ava Cloud. This covers areas such as payment confirmation, transaction data encryption, and merchant payment infrastructure, while also exploring opportunities like tokenized deposits and cross-border payments. The launch of the L1 mainnet will be affected by South Korea’s crypto regulatory oversight.

SimpleChain announced on April 11 that it has completed a $15 million seed round, mainly involving family offices and institutional investors. The network positions itself as the “institutional operating system” for real-world assets (RWA), aiming to build an RWA Layer 1 network and provide enterprise-grade infrastructure to support the global tokenization of real-world assets.

Gate News message: On April 9, Circle’s L1 blockchain, Arc, announced that it has open-sourced the testnet code ahead of going live on the mainnet. Effective immediately, developers can independently start testnet nodes and review the source code. At the same time, Arc has launched a bug bounty program on the HackerOne platform.

Gate News message, according to data ranking top L1 chains by average daily active users in Q1 2025, BNB Chain ranks first with 4.5 million daily average users, TRON takes second place with 3.2 million users, and NEAR Protocol secures third position with 2.5 million users. Solana and Sei Network ran

Circle L1 blockchain Arc launched Arc House and the Architects plan on April 6. Arc House offers multiple features, covering education, events, and community showcases. The Architects plan, meanwhile, rewards users who contribute through a points system, providing promotions, badges, and exclusive benefits.

Circle L1 blockchain Arc releases quantum-resistant design and a roadmap, aimed at defending against threats posed by quantum computing and ensuring blockchain security. The roadmap covers quantum-resistant wallet signing, private state protection, and infrastructure upgrades, supporting user choice and compatibility with the EVM ecosystem.

Diamante Financial announced the completion of a $1.5 million strategic round of funding, with the funds earmarked for building an L1 encryption network based on post-quantum cryptography technology to address the security threats posed by quantum computing. Investors include Khofiz Shakhidi.

At the EthCC conference, Protocol Guild contributor cheeky-gorilla said that Ethereum L1 core developers are paid less than the market, and that high-performance projects lure them away with higher salaries, which could cause critical roadmaps to stall. To protect the Ethereum ecosystem, they urged project teams to give back to Protocol Guild with a "1% Pledge," emphasizing the necessity of maintaining L1 development.