According to Marsh, the world's largest insurance broker, political violence insurance premiums in the Gulf have surged at least 20-fold since the Iran war began on February 28. Before the conflict, a $1 million policy cost $1,000 to $2,200 annually; it now costs $20,000 to $120,000. Marsh data

According to Samsung Electronics, the company's chip division operating profit surged 49-fold in the first quarter of 2026 to a record 53.7 trillion won ($36.15 billion), up from 1.1 trillion won a year earlier, on April 30. The memory chip boom was driven by accelerating AI data center

According to Nvidia's latest blog analysis, Blackwell GPUs cost nearly double per hour compared to Hopper generation, yet deliver 35-fold lower per-token inference costs. Using DeepSeek-R1 as a test model, Blackwell (GB300 NVL72) rents at $2.65 per GPU per hour versus Hopper's $1.41, but single GPU

Gate News message, April 29 — The XRP Ledger (XRPL) has emerged as a major distribution layer for real-world assets, with tokenized U.S. Treasuries surging to over $418 million from approximately $50 million a year earlier, according to data from Evernorth. The eight-fold increase reflects growing i

Gate News message, April 28 — Kalshi's weekly trading volume reached $3.4 billion in the week ending April 26, marking an all-time high for the prediction market platform, according to Artemis data. Sports trading alone accounted for $3 billion, or 88% of total volume, exceeding Polymarket's

Gate News message, April 28 — CleanSpark CEO Matt Schultz warned at the Bitcoin 2026 conference that converting bitcoin mining operations into AI data centers dramatically increases infrastructure costs. The per-megawatt construction cost surges from approximately $500,000 to $10–12 million, a

Gate News message, April 24 — Giancarlo Lelli, an Italian researcher, has been awarded one Bitcoin after demonstrating the largest-scale quantum attack on elliptic curve cryptography to date. The breakthrough escalates concerns about quantum threats to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other assets secured

Gate News message, April 24 — DeepSeek V4-Pro and DeepSeek V4-Flash were officially released and open-sourced on April 24, with context processing length significantly expanded from 128K to 1M, representing nearly a 10-fold capacity increase. Huawei Computing announced that its Ascend supernode

Gate News message, April 24 — Intel reported first-quarter 2026 earnings on April 24, posting revenue of $13.6 billion, up 7% year-over-year and 11% above Wall Street consensus. Non-GAAP earnings per share came in at $0.29, versus analyst expectations of $0.01, representing a 29-fold beat—an

Gate News message, April 24 — According to DeFiLlama data, the active real-world assets (RWA) market capitalization surged from $4.1 billion to $25.2 billion over the past year, marking a five-fold increase. The growth was primarily driven by tokenized funds, commodities, and private credit