Gate News bot message, according to the official Gate announcement on December 16, 2025 Gate will suspend the new lending feature for tokens including AIPUMP, ARCA, BAC, BNSX, BTS, CATDOG, DVI, EGS, EVERY, FAR, FEARNOT, FEI, GODL, GRIN, GST, and others in unified account spot leverage, margin lending, and isolated margin starting from 16:00 (UTC+8) on December 16, 2025. Users with outstanding loans must complete repayment before 16:00 (UTC+8) on December 17, 2025. Overdue loans will be automatically settled by the system. This adjustment does not affect the normal use of spot trading functions.

South African fintech startup 6DOT50 recently announced a partnership with BTS and Serti Solutions to support the purchase of cars with cryptocurrency. Customers can buy new and used cars at over 1,400 car dealerships using eight cryptocurrencies, including Bitcoin (BTC). It is said that its platform will use its voucher system to eliminate the risks associated with Cryptocurrency by bridging the settlement gap between Cryptocurrency and fiat currency. 6DOT50 claims to have processed Cryptocurrency transactions worth about 1 million US dollars in over 90,000 stores.

PANews reported on April 12 that decentralized finance (DeFi) platform Al_a Protocol announced that the Ethereum Foundation has merged its proposed ERC-7621 token standard into the standard draft state. The innovation of the ERC-7621 standard is the introduction of the Basket Token Standard (BTS), which allows for the creation of composite tokens containing multiple underlying ERC-20 tokens. In addition, ERC-7621 introduces fungible BTS LP tokens that can be used in various DeFi applications, which represent the shares in the basket and can be minted and burned in real-time according to the fund's asset movements, maintaining consistency with the fund's dynamics. The standard also enables the automatic allocation of management fees and facilitates portfolio adjustments, thereby simplifying the fund management process.

Odaily Tokenized Fund Management Protocol Al_a Protocol announced that the Ethereum Foundation has officially endorsed the ERC-7621 proposal and merged it into a draft standard. The ERC-7621 standard allows the creation of tokenized funds backed by multiple assets on the blockchain. Anyone can deploy BTS (basket tokens) with multiple ERC-20 tokens, which brings unprecedented flexibility to fund management. Key features of BTS include: 1. Transferable BTS tokens and management rights; 2. Fungible Liquidity Provider Token (BTS LP), which represents the holder's share in the fund; 3. Flexible portfolio adjustment function, allowing managers to modify the type and weight of tokens, and supporting automatic or manual rebalancing. ERC-7621 improves many of the problems that exist in traditional fund management by increasing transparency, decentralization, simplifying the management process, and improving access to investment opportunities.

Odaily Planet Daily News Mantle announced a partnership with Fingerlabs, a blockchain company owned by South Korean digital marketing giant FSN, to launch Begins≠Youth, a K-drama NFT collection influenced by K-pop music on Xclusive. The pre-sale will run from April 2 to April 30. The series, which will be distributed exclusively through Mantle Network's Xclusive, comes in three packages, Package 1: Episodes 1-4, Package 2: Episodes 5-8, and Package 3: Episodes 9-12, and their first release is reportedly the BTS-inspired spin-off BEGINS≠YOUTH. Xclusive leverages NFT technology to provide digital exclusivity, allowing users to gain exclusive access.

According to Mantle Network announced on its blog, Fingerlabs, a blockchain company owned by South Korea's listed FSN, has entered into a strategic alliance with Mantle Network to launch the "Xclusive" platform to redefine fan-based content distribution, as well as the launch of the "BTS Hwa Yang Yeon Hwa" spin-off "Begins≠Youth"