2026-04-01 16:30 to 16:45 (UTC), the ETH spot price oscillated and rose. The 15-minute interval return recorded +0.66%, with the price moving narrowly between 2133.04 and 2152.23 USDT, and an amplitude of 0.90%. Market activity remained consistently high; the number of active on-chain addresses reached about 420,690 within 10 minutes. Heightened volatility triggered short-term attention. The main driver behind this unusual move came from changes in the derivatives market structure. From the end of March 2026 to the beginning of April, the ETH options market experienced the largest expiration event in history, with more than 5 million options contracts expiring simultaneously, significantly impacting market dynamics.

At the EthCC conference, Protocol Guild contributor cheeky-gorilla said that Ethereum L1 core developers are paid less than the market, and that high-performance projects lure them away with higher salaries, which could cause critical roadmaps to stall. To protect the Ethereum ecosystem, they urged project teams to give back to Protocol Guild with a "1% Pledge," emphasizing the necessity of maintaining L1 development.

Eigen Labs released the first Beta version of AgentKit on March 27, which is a developer toolkit focused on building autonomous AI agents capable of holding assets, making payments, and managing identities. The initial applications are centered around media agents for automatically generating content, with plans to add integrations with social platforms and improvements to the user interface in the future.

Gate News Announcement: On March 10, the Eigen Foundation posted an EIGEN transparency update on the X platform, revealing that EIGEN token transfers will occur between wallets controlled by the foundation in the coming days. The Eigen Foundation stated that this operation is part of routine custody and fund management processes, solely an internal transfer, and does not involve token unlocking, governance arrangement changes, or any planned sale activities.

ChainCatcher message: According to Web3 asset data platform RootData's token unlock data, EigenCloud (EIGEN) will unlock approximately 38.35 million tokens, worth about $7.5 million, at 5:00 AM Beijing time on March 1.

Gate News Bot Message, February 13 — According to CoinMarketCap data, at the time of press, ZKC (Boundless) is trading at $0.11, up 20.43% in the past 24 hours, with a high of $0.12 and a low of $0.08. The current market cap is approximately $25.7 million, an increase of $4.36 million from yesterday. Boundless is a verifiable computing protocol that provides accessible verified computation for any blockchain and rewards nodes for contributing useful work. The protocol can be upgraded to a zero-knowledge (ZK) Rollup within hours through a flexible Rollup framework, enabling faster finality and stronger security. Boundless has received support from industry-leading organizations such as the Ethereum Foundation, EigenLayer, and Polygon. The mainnet is currently

Espresso Foundation launches the ESP token, with 10% allocated for the initial airdrop and another 24.81% for future airdrops and rewards. The airdrop will evaluate holders' behavior after the previous airdrop and distribute tokens to 1 million addresses participating in various activities.

ChainCatcher message, according to Arkham data, at 08:30, 12,552,300 EIGEN (worth approximately $2,545,700) was transferred from BitGo to an anonymous address (starting with 0x0Ea7C...).

The cryptocurrency market has been sluggish over the past two weeks, with Bitcoin's price rapidly dropping from $90,000 to $60,000, and industry insiders are feeling the significant impact of the bear market. Several executives, including Kyle Samani of Multicoin and executives from ZKsync and Eigen Labs, have announced career changes, reflecting the combined effects of industry cyclical pressures and personal choices.

Eigen Labs Developer Relations Director Nader Dabit announced he will join Cognition, with the goal of building an end-to-end software agent that delivers production-grade code, and will work with the team to focus on education, growth, and developer experience.