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Polymarket Vice President of Engineering reveals that platform growth has exceeded the capacity of the current infrastructure and announces several improvement plans: rebuilding the CLOB to enhance performance and stability, chain migration to increase capacity and reduce Gas fees, fixing transaction cancellations, unifying the TypeScript SDK and API, developing a new version of the smart contracts, and building a perpetual contract backend using Rust. Additionally, new leaders have been appointed for QA automation, development tools, internal tools, and data engineering, and ongoing collaboration with four security teams will continue to ensure fund safety.

Deep Tide TechFlow News: On April 25, according to an announcement on the CFTC official website, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) submitted an amicus brief on April 24 to the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, reaffirming its exclusive jurisdiction over the U.S. commodity derivatives market (including prediction markets). This case involves Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. KalshiEx LLC (Case No. SJC-13906). CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig said that Congress has authorized the CFTC to exercise sole regulatory authority over the commodity derivatives market, and warned that any state that attempts to override federal law “will see it in court.”
The brief lays out the legislative history and framework of the Commodity Exchange Act, clarifying that the federal regulatory system takes priority over relevant state laws.

Deep Tide News reports that the DeFi Education Fund, in collaboration with the Digital Chamber of Commerce and several other crypto advocacy organizations, has sent a joint letter to the SEC, urging the initiation of formal DeFi regulation based on recent statements. The letter requests that certain crypto trading interfaces be explicitly classified as broker-dealers and excludes infrastructure such as validators, API/RPC, oracles, and cloud services to provide long-term legal certainty. Under the leadership of current Chair Paul Atkins, the SEC has adopted a more open attitude toward digital asset innovation, and the industry is also participating in rulemaking.

Deep Tide TechFlow News, April 24 — Robin Markets announced via tweet that they completed a $475k angel round funding, led by Fabric VC, with Animoca Brands, ATKA Incubator, John Lilic, and Stefan D. George co-leading, and participation from multiple institutions and angel investors including Hilbert Capital, Layer Zero, and Gnosis. Robin Markets also simultaneously opened its V1 staking product to the public.
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