ChainCatcher news, the core developer of the decentralized AI reasoning project Gaia, Harish Kotra, recently attended the ETHDenver 2025 event and spoke at the Eigen Games Hacker House about topics related to running open-source LLMs.GaiaNet is a decentralized network that provides secure, censorship-resistant, and monetizable AI agents, integrating everyone's proprietary knowledge and skills while protecting privacy. GaiaNet does not establish centralized servers but instead builds a distributed network of edge computing nodes controlled by individuals and businesses to host fine-tuned AI models based on the proprietary domain knowledge and expertise of node operators.

ChainCatcher news: At the EthDenver 2025 hackathon, the DeFi protocol Likwid V2, developed based on Uniswap V4 Hook, won the highest award in the "DeFi Innovation Track" from Uniswap Labs. The project integrates decentralized exchanges and lending protocols through an innovative protocol architecture, achieving on-chain lending without the need for oracles for the first time.Likwid V2 utilizes the Hook mechanism of Uniswap V4, allowing users to use pool assets as collateral, dynamically calculating interest rates and liquidation conditions, thereby eliminating the reliance of traditional lending protocols on oracles. Its no-audit mechanism supports users in freely creating short positions and continues the leveraged trading functionality of its predecessor, effectively filling the industry gap in the short-selling mechanism in the crypto market.It is reported that Likwid V2 plans to launch on the mainnet in the second quarter of 2025, at which time it will open the permissionless lending pool creation feature.