Gate News message, April 25 — Yiming Zhang, a senior quantitative researcher at Jump Trading, has secured seed funding from hedge fund giant Millennium Management to launch his own external management operation, according to BusinessInsider. Zhang will operate as an external manager and is subject t

Gate News message, April 24 — Jane Street has filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit brought by Terraform Labs' bankruptcy estate, which accuses the quant trading firm of precipitating the collapse of the UST/LUNA algorithmic stablecoin. The motion was filed at the Southern New York District

Gate News message, April 24 — Jane Street and several individual defendants have filed a motion with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York seeking to dismiss the insider trading lawsuit brought by Terraform Labs' bankruptcy estate. The quant firm argues that Terraform is atte

Gate News message, April 23 — Yiming Zhang, a senior quantitative researcher who spent 17 years at Jump Trading, has secured seed funding from Millennium Management, a major hedge fund, to launch operations as an external manager (an independent fund manager operating within the firm's

Gate News message, according to an official Gate announcement Gate has announced the delisting of trading services for 14 tokens. The tokens to be delisted include 5IRE, UNO, BLY, CLEAR, KIMA, TMAI, LOVE, TARA, DIONE, STARL, MASA, OPUL, MCRT, and ROCK, all of which correspond to USDT trading pairs. Gate has paused the deposit service for these tokens and will, before 2026-04-30 11:00(UTC+8), close new leveraged lending and collateralized lending, and also pause the related spot trading pairs, Quant Grid, Yubibao, and leveraged trading. After 2026-04-30, users who still hold the above tokens on Gate may submit an application to participate in the buyback. The buyback price varies by token. Users need to submit the buyback application form between 2026-05-14 and 2026-05-21. For a single account, the maximum compensation amount is 100 USDT. In addition, users can withdraw the tokens to their Gate Web3 wallet for permanent storage, or take out the tokens before delisting from the trading market.

Gate News message: On April 9, the quant yield protocol Axis announced the launch of a synthetic U.S. dollar USDx and completed its first minting, with a size of 10 million US dollars. It is currently in a private testing phase. After minting is completed, USDx will be deployed to Axis’s market-neutral arbitrage engine, covering more than 40 trading venues, to provide liquidity and capture opportunities from market price spreads.

Gate News message, according to Gate’s official announcement Gate has decided to remove trading services for 32 tokens. These tokens include PLENA, CATGPT, TOKO, TGT, KBD, PORTX, PFVS, TEN, AGLA, PAI, GAN, BEFE, OOE, RUNI, RIZZMAS, ASTRA, BMB, DF, HDRO, SNET, ASMATCH, BDP, TPT, PHIL, PAW, UTK, STB, DCB, QUACK, CHESS, LAI, and TOMI. Gate will carry out the removal in phases. Before 16:00 on April 2, 2026 (UTC+8), Gate will close new leveraged borrowing and collateral borrowing for the related tokens; at 11:00 on April 8, 2026 (UTC+8), Gate will officially suspend spot trading, quant grid trading, Yubibao, and leveraged trading for the related tokens. After the delisting, users holding positions may apply for a repurchase during the period from April 22 to April 29, 2026. Gate will repurchase the related tokens at the specified price; the maximum compensation amount per user is 100 USDT. After the delisting, users can still continue using Gate as a wallet to store these assets.

On March 22, among the top 100 cryptocurrencies by market cap, DeXe had the largest gain at 14.89%, while Aptos experienced the biggest decline at 7.94%. Other tokens with notable gains include River and JUST, with Filecoin and Quant leading the declines.

As institutional investors and quantitative funds enter prediction markets, the industry structure is undergoing transformation. In 2026, prediction market trading volume surpassed $13.7 billion, with quantitative strategies gradually becoming mainstream, employing sophisticated financial models to achieve stable returns. Core methodologies include LMSR, Kelly Criterion, and Bayesian updating, with technical implementation focusing on data quality and execution efficiency. Retail investors struggle to replicate institutional advantages without model capabilities.

Bitcoin and digital asset quant funds founder Charles Edwards pointed out that due to the threat of quantum computing, Bitcoin's current fair value may be discounted by about 20%. If there is no progress, this discount could double each year, and the valuation could be halved within a year. He urges developers to take countermeasures before 2026.