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.

NAT has launched on SpiderPool, enabling dual-mining with Bitcoin without extra setup. It generates 386 million NAT per block every 10 minutes, valued at $38, with a total market cap of $38 million. The code is open-source.

ETHGas and ether.fi have entered a $3 billion agreement to enhance Ethereum blockspace markets. ether.fi will allocate 40% of its ETH holdings to ETHGas’ High Performance Staking Service, enabling future block inclusion rights trading and new yield opportunities.

Flare announced a governance proposal on April 10. The plan is to capture the maximum extractable value (MEV) to the protocol layer through a newly established entity called FIRE, and to repurchase and burn FLR tokens. The proposal includes a three-stage block-building reshaping, along with the FLR annual inflation rate and an annual hard cap reduction, with the goal of optimizing the network’s economic model and improving protocol transparency and security.

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.

An independent Bitcoin miner succeeded in mining the 944,306th block at an extremely low probability, earning a reward of 3.128 BTC, highlighting the difficulty and randomness of solo mining.

The U.S. CFTC and the Department of Justice are asking a federal court to stop Arizona from enforcing its state gambling laws against prediction market operator Kalshi, arguing that its contracts should be regulated by federal oversight rather than state statutes. Related criminal charges have been filed, and the hearing is scheduled for April 13.

The Federal Appeals Court in Washington, D.C. rejected Anthropic’s request to temporarily block the U.S. Department of Defense from imposing sanctions on it after being placed on a blacklist. The court said that during military conflicts, the government needs to regulate access to AI technologies, and that the economic losses would have a smaller impact on the company.

An Ethereum researcher proposed the EIP-8142 “Block-in-Blobs” proposal, aiming to encode transaction data into blobs to reduce bandwidth requirements. Through data availability sampling and cryptographic commitments, it ensures correctness and data availability, thereby unifying to a “data gas” billing model and improving the reliability of zkEVM use cases.

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.