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To address this limitation, we propose MogaDepth, a lightweight yet expressive architecture. It introduces a novel Continuous Multi-Order Gated Aggregation (CMOGA) module that explicitly enhances mid-level feature representations through multi-order receptive fields. In addition, we present MambaSync, a global\u2013local interaction unit that enables efficient feature communication across different contexts. Extensive experiments demonstrate that MogaDepth achieves highly competitive or superior performance on KITTI, improving key error metrics while maintaining comparable model size. On the Make3D benchmark, it consistently outperforms existing methods, showing strong robustness to domain shifts and challenging scenarios such as low-texture regions. Moreover, MogaDepth achieves an improved trade-off between accuracy and efficiency, running up to 13% faster on edge devices without compromising performance. 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