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📢 Today, many people are talking about the cover story of @EntMagazineME featuring @Gate founder @Han_Gate.
There are quite a few visionaries in the crypto industry, but few who can match the doers, and even fewer can be counted on one hand. Dr. Han is one of them.
What does true long-termism mean? It’s like him—having a clear direction and sticking to it for 13 years. How many cycles has the industry gone through during this time? How many names have disappeared? Gate is still here, still expanding. Time itself is the proof.
Being a doer, in simple terms, means daily execution—initially focu

Thank you @gate_kol26 for the New Year gift box. It's heavy, just like my current mood. $BTC has dropped to 64,000. I hope from this moment on, the crypto market will turn around immediately, bringing prosperity and good fortune for everyone during the New Year. Lastly, I wish @Gate and @Gate_zh all the best! #GateNewYearOpeningGift

Actually, I recently revisited @0xMiden because they have been addressing not whether "privacy is needed," but how privacy and the real world can coexist.
On-chain identity has been quite a tangled issue in the past. If you pursue privacy, you can only stick to the most fringe options—DeFi, anonymous protocols, testnets; but as soon as you encounter more formal applications, KYC, AML, and compliance thresholds immediately come into play.
The problem is that so-called compliance is almost always built on a very crude premise: handing over your identity data for the platform to store. Passports,

Just spotted a small update from @StandX_Official. Starting from 8:00 AM UTC on January 15th, they adjusted the minimum price movement for BTC-USD from 0.1 $DUSD to 1 DUSD.
At first glance, it seems like a minor detail, even a bit insignificant, but these kinds of changes often reveal the exchange's underlying approach. A larger tick size essentially reduces meaningless price competition. Fewer back-and-forth 0.1 price pushes mean less noise on the order book, and orders are more likely to reflect genuine trading intent at that price level rather than just reflexive presence.
Many people thin

Many people are now using AI, which actually assumes one thing: once the results are out, they are considered correct.
But if you put it into a formal system, this becomes quite risky. You can't confirm whether it follows the intended process, let alone trace it afterward.
The interesting part of @Inference Labs is exactly this. They are not building smarter AI, but solving a more fundamental problem: can you prove that this reasoning has actually been executed? They turn reasoning itself into a verifiable process. After running, it can be checked, reproduced, and proven, yet the model and inp

#MemeMax Unlike many projects that create hype through airdrops right from the start, it focuses on whether you are truly participating.
The MaxPack mechanism essentially depends on what you do to determine what you can receive. Whether it's trading, creating content, or helping to spread strategies, all will influence the final returns. It's not a play to lure a wave of people and then leave; it's more about screening those willing to stay in the community long-term. This is quite different from common farming projects.
Another smart aspect, in my opinion, is how it uses memes. Instead of rid

Recently, I’ve been increasingly convinced that @0xMiden is taking a path that’s quite counterintuitive.
Most on-chain systems prefer to keep everything tightly integrated, sharing state and linking steps together. When something goes wrong, the whole network shakes. Miden, on the other hand, chooses to separate things, running each independently—computing locally, generating proofs themselves. They only recognize the results, not the identities.
This design may seem cold, but it’s especially friendly to large funds. When issues occur, they don’t spread; upgrades don’t affect others. It provid

Recently, more and more people are talking about privacy, and some even say that 2026 will be the year when privacy truly takes center stage. I don't oppose this judgment, but what I care more about is whether there are projects that are genuinely doing things right from a structural perspective.
@0xMiden is not because it claims to prioritize privacy, but because its understanding of who controls transactions is completely different from the current mainstream Rollup. To put it simply, many so-called decentralized systems still depend on the face of a core node. Whether you can complete a tra