Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced that the TON public chain has completed a major upgrade. Overall processing speed has increased by about 10x, block generation speed has improved by 6x, and transaction confirmations reach sub-second level. This is the first step of the “Make TON Great Again” plan; in the future, transaction fees will be further reduced by about 6x.

Gate News message: On April 9, according to Gate market data, as of the time of publication, BLUR (Blur) is trading at $0.02243. It is up 18.86% over the past 24 hours, reaching a high of $0.023 and a low of $0.0183. Its current market cap is about $6.2189 million. Blur is a decentralized marketplace and aggregator that supports NFTs and will be managed by $BLUR holders. Blur’s architecture is designed to handle high traffic loads, enabling unmatched speed and advanced features, including real-time data feeds, charts, bulk listings and purchasing tools, as well as portfolio management. This message does not constitute investment advice; investing involves risks, including market volatility.

Claude introduced its Managed Agents feature on April 9. It’s currently in public beta, aiming to help developers quickly build and deploy AI agents. This feature speeds up the transition from prototype to production by 10x, provides managed infrastructure, and simplifies handling complex tasks.

On April 8, Polymarket announced the acquisition of DeFi infrastructure company Brahma, and the team will continue to handle key roles. This integration is intended to improve trade reliability and execution speed, reduce barriers for users, and enhance cross-blockchain interoperability.

Gate News update. On April 8, CZ (Changpeng Zhao) recalled in his new book that in July 2013, he first heard about Bitcoin during a poker game attended by investors and entrepreneurs. At the time, Cao Darong, general manager of G. Speed China, mentioned, "There’s a new thing called Bitcoin you can take a look at." After that, Li Qiyuan, CEO of Bitcoin China, further suggested that he allocate 10% of his assets to Bitcoin, when the Bitcoin price was $70. CZ revealed that while working in the sales of trading systems, he gradually became fond of playing Texas Hold’em, golf, and going to KTV.

Gate News message, April 7: in Argentina, multiple domestic banks have already begun testing JPM Coin, a deposit token from JPMorgan Chase. JPM Coin is a deposit token product designed by JPMorgan Chase specifically for institutional users. At present, Banco CMF has confirmed that it is one of the financial institutions participating in the tests. The institution plans to apply JPM Coin to its backend settlement workflows to improve settlement speed and efficiency.

StarkWare announced on April 7 that Starknet is entering its fourth phase, aiming to improve network speed, decentralization, and privacy. New features include support for the STRK20 framework for ERC20 privacy, the strkBTC asset for redeemable Bitcoin, decentralized block validation, and progress toward full decentralization of the network. In addition, Starknet is also researching Bitcoin bridging solutions and promoting DeFi development, working toward achieving comprehensive quantum security.

Polygon announces that the Giugliano hard fork will be activated on April 8, aiming to improve transaction confirmation speed and fee transparency, and support high-throughput payments and tokenized assets. The upgrade will embed fee parameters into the block header and roll out new RPC endpoints to optimize the developer experience. In addition, this upgrade is a major improvement for Polygon after experiencing multiple issues; despite market expectations, the POL token is still down by nearly 5%.

Project Eleven and the Solana Foundation deployed quantum-safe signatures on a testnet. Initial results show their size is 20–40 times larger than existing signatures, causing transaction speeds to drop by 90%. Solana’s public-key design exposes it to higher quantum-attack risk, surpassing Bitcoin and Ethereum. Although the latter are looking for secure solutions, Solana is already leading in quantum-safe experiments.

Gate News message, April 2, according to Gate market data, as of the time of writing, GWEI (ETHGAS) is currently trading at $0.05486. Over the past 24 hours, it is up 26.36%, hitting a high of $0.05673 and dipping to a low of $0.04187. The 24-hour trading volume reached $2.4061 million. The current market cap is approximately $96.005 million. ETHGAS is a pioneering real-time Ethereum infrastructure protocol. Through a commoditization mechanism for block space, it turns Ethereum block space into a tradable asset. The protocol increases Ethereum transaction speed by more than 100 times, giving users a truly instant, no-gas experience, while significantly boosting validator earnings. ETHGAS enables participants to buy and sell future block space via trading platforms, where participants can directly source from ver