XRPL tokenizes U.S. Treasuries, reaching about $333M in four institutional products led by Ondo Finance, with BlackRock support; overall tokenization remains under 0.01% of a $31T Treasury market. Abstract: The XRPL is expanding institutional tokenization of U.S. Treasuries, totaling about $333 million across four products, led by Ondo Finance and backed by BlackRock. Despite rapid settlement and built-in compliance tools, tokenized Treasuries still represent a tiny slice of the roughly $31 trillion market, while the ecosystem advances into post-quantum security and broader real-world asset deployment.

Open-sourced ml-intern, Hugging Face's autonomous ML research agent that reads papers, curates data, trains, evaluates, and iterates across science, medicine, and math. Abstract: Hugging Face's ml-intern is an open-source autonomous ML research agent that reads papers, curates datasets, trains on local or cloud GPUs, evaluates results, and iterates improvements. Built on smolagents with CLI and web interfaces, it navigates arXiv/HF Papers, HF Hub, and HF Jobs. Demonstrations span science, medicine, and mathematics, showing end-to-end automation and performance gains.

Solana wallet fent.sol, linked to an OG PEPE whale, bought 5.66M SPIKE tokens; its PEPE stake peaked near $100M, sold 3.94T PEPE for $5.74M, now holding 1.97T PEPE worth $7.5M for about a 52,600x return. Abstract: The piece reports Lookonchain's claim that the Solana wallet fent.sol, tied to a major PEPE holder, acquired 5.66 million SPIKE tokens and built a large PEPE position. The PEPE investment reportedly peaked at around $100 million, with most PEPE sold for $5.74 million; the remaining 1.97 trillion PEPE is valued at about $7.5 million, yielding an estimated 52,600x return on the initial investment. The article illustrates the extreme volatility of meme-token trading and the influence of wallet-linked whales.

Gate News message, April 21 — OpenClaw, an open-source AI Agent platform, released v2026.4.20 on April 20, introducing significant updates to default model switching, plugin contract handling, and gateway storage optimization. The release switches the default model for Moonshot's built-in

Kalshi plans to launch crypto perpetual futures on April 27, expanding from event contracts into derivatives with built-in leverage. The platform also secures a margin-trading license, partners with ProCap Financial to provide real-time data, and unveils a commodities hub while facing growing competition and regulatory scrutiny from the CFTC. Kalshi launches crypto perpetual futures on April 27, expanding from event contracts into derivatives with leverage, adds a commodities hub and data partnership, and faces rising competition amid CFTC regulatory talks.

Ripple has developed a four-phase roadmap to secure the XRP Ledger against quantum computing threats by 2028, addressing concerns over blockchain cryptography vulnerabilities. Key phases include researching quantum risks and implementing advanced security methods. XRP Ledger is currently better equipped than Bitcoin, with built-in key rotation enhancing safety.

Gate News update: On April 17, according to Gate market data, as of the time of writing, MOVR (Moonriver) is trading at $2.96. It is up 132.99% over the past 24 hours, reaching a high of $2.97 and falling to a low of $1.25. The total 24-hour trading volume is $494.5k. The current market cap is approximately $33.7163 million. Moonriver is an EVM-compatible blockchain running on the Kusama network, providing developers with features such as deploying Solidity smart contracts, Web3-compatible APIs, oracle data, and Ethereum network bridge relays. MOVR is the platform’s utility and governance token. It can be used to pay transaction fees, for network governance, to earn rewards by participating in network consensus through staking, and to provide liquidity for decentralized exchanges built on the Moonriver blockchain. As the Kusama ecosystem version of Moonbeam, Moonriver won eligibility for a parachain slot auction through a crowd sale, giving developers a sandbox environment to test new code under real economic conditions, with full Ethereum compatibility and efficient smart contract execution capabilities.

Gate News message. On April 16, according to Gate market data, as of the time of publication, KT (KingdomX) is trading at $0.00056. Within the past 24 hours, it is up 73.93%, with a high of $0.00063 and a low retracing to $0.00029. Its current market cap is approximately $206k. KingdomX is a medieval metaverse chain game, with the game’s core built around an NFT protocol. In the game, users can collect heroes, complete quests, challenge events, participate in wars, and build their own game kingdom through social interaction and territory development. All of the game’s ecosystem is designed around the GameFi protocol; while improving the game’s playability, it preserves the value of in-game assets, so that any user can earn returns through the game and make Token or receive rewards. Kingdom

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

Solana co-founder toly noted that the industry needs a stablecoin that can only be frozen under a court order, opposing other freeze factors. He suggested that the protocol issue a stablecoin with custom freeze strategies on the base layer and strengthen security measures. This view stems from a recent response by Circle to the Drift protocol hack incident, sparking discussions about centralized stablecoins.