Gate January 2026 Transparency Report: TradFi Expansion Broadens Multi-Scenario Trading, with Comprehensive Platform Capabilities Advancing Steadily

Overview

In January 2026, Gate advanced in parallel across core areas including multi-asset trading capabilities, on-chain derivatives, and asset management systems, with overall platform depth and ecosystem synergy continuing to strengthen. On the trading side, Gate Perp DEX recorded monthly trading volume exceeding $5.5 billion, marking a shift for on-chain perpetuals from a niche tool toward high-frequency usage scenarios. Gate TradFi surpassed $20 billion in cumulative trading volume since its launch, covering traditional asset classes such as metals, FX, indices, commodities, and popular equities. Multi-asset price trading and cross-market hedging demand are emerging as new sources of structural growth.

At the on-chain access layer, Gate DEX completed upgrades to its branding and login experience, further lowering the barrier to on-chain trading and providing a stable incremental entry point for both spot and derivatives activity.

In terms of assets and incentive systems, product lines including Launchpool, Launchpad, HODLer Airdrop, and CandyDrop continued to operate at high frequency, balancing user engagement with trading conversion efficiency. ETF trading volume rose 32.6% month-over-month to over 6.7 billion USDT, with the product lineup expanding to 332 long and short leveraged ETF trading pairs. Simple Earn maintained its role as a large-scale liquidity pool, continuing to serve users’ liquidity management and conservative allocation needs.

At the infrastructure level, Gate Layer activity increased further, with the number of addresses surpassing 100 million and transaction volume rising more than 22% month-over-month, providing foundational support for multi-chain asset circulation and application deployment.

In security, transparency, and global expansion, Gate’s overall reserve ratio rose to 125% in January, with the BTC reserve ratio reaching 140.69%, further reinforcing asset security and verifiable transparency mechanisms. At the same time, through private institutional events, upgrades to the creator ecosystem, and expanded international media exposure, Gate strengthened engagement with professional users and enhanced its global brand presence. Overall, with multi-asset trading as its core engine—augmented by on-chain ecosystems and yield products—Gate continues to evolve toward a comprehensive digital asset trading and management ecosystem.

Platform Highlights

Gate Accelerates Multi-Asset Expansion as TradFi Trading Volume Drives Structural Platform Upgrades

Entering 2026, Gate sustained the strong growth momentum built in its spot and derivatives markets, with overall trading activity and liquidity remaining among the industry’s leaders. According to CryptoRank’s review of 2025 market performance, Gate had already ranked among the fastest-growing major derivatives exchanges globally, with both spot and perpetual futures volumes expanding in tandem and market share steadily increasing. The deep liquidity and active user base formed during this phase have provided a solid foundation for stable trading operations and further business expansion in early 2026.

Within traditional financial asset trading, Gate has emerged as one of the most prominent growth highlights of this stage. Against a backdrop of rising international gold prices, Gate TradFi has surpassed $10 billion in cumulative trading volume since the launch of its public beta, with notable increases in demand across metals, FX, global equity CFDs, indices, and commodities. These features have now been fully integrated into the Gate App, enabling users to participate in global traditional financial markets within a unified account system and flexibly switch or combine strategies across crypto and traditional assets.

Overall, Gate is accelerating its transformation from a single-focus crypto exchange into a comprehensive financial platform spanning derivatives, cross-venue trading, and multi-asset TradFi offerings. The rapid expansion of the TradFi segment is becoming a key driver of user base diversification and scenario-rich trading activity, opening up new incremental space for the platform’s next phase of scale growth.

Ecosystem Expansion and Security & Compliance

Multi-Asset Trading Capabilities Accelerate, with On-Chain Derivatives and TradFi Scaling in Parallel

In January 2026, Gate continued to deepen its presence in multi-asset trading and on-chain derivatives. On the on-chain derivatives front, Gate Perp DEX recorded nearly 440,000 trades executed, reflecting a sharp increase in on-chain perpetual trading activity as the product rapidly transitions from a utility tool to a high-frequency trading venue.

In traditional assets, Gate TradFi further expanded asset coverage by incorporating metals, FX, indices, commodities, and popular equities into a unified trading system, pushing cumulative trading volume beyond $10 billion. Cross-market trading and hedging demand are emerging as new sources of structural growth. Meanwhile, Gate DEX completed upgrades to its branding and login experience, offering a lower-friction entry point for both on-chain spot and derivatives trading.

Beyond trading, the platform’s incentive and yield product lines continued to operate at high frequency, strengthening capital retention and user engagement. Launchpool introduced multiple new projects during the month, with staking volumes remaining elevated and select projects delivering notably higher phased annualized yields. Simple Earn sustained a large-scale liquidity pool and continued to meet demand for conservative capital allocation. HODLer Airdrop and CandyDrop, through diversified project supply and incentive mechanisms, drove user participation and trading conversion, forming a closed-loop dynamic of “participation → trading → capital retention.”

Overall, through a combined strategy of on-chain derivatives + TradFi multi-asset offerings + incentive and yield products, Gate is reinforcing ecosystem synergy, enabling trading expansion and user fund management to advance in tandem across multiple layers, and accelerating its evolution toward a broader, multi-scenario trading and asset management ecosystem.

Gate Simple Earn Sees Parallel Growth in Scale and Activity as Demand for Conservative Yield Continues to Rise

Gate Simple Earn sustained steady growth momentum, with core scale and user activity metrics remaining at elevated levels. Total subscriptions for the month exceeded 2.5 billion USDT. On the user side, average daily participation surpassed 350,000 users, with more than 420,000 users holding balances on average each day. Tens of thousands of new users were added, indicating rising appeal among both new and existing users. During January, 50 new projects were launched, distributing over 220,000 USDT in additional rewards, further enhancing capital retention and participation incentives.

From an asset composition perspective, Simple Earn continued to absorb allocation demand for both major assets and platform-ecosystem tokens. BTC holdings increased by more than 716 BTC during the month, while GT holdings grew by over 1.5 million tokens, reflecting stronger demand for stable exposure to core assets and platform ecosystem assets amid volatile market conditions.

Overall, Simple Earn further solidified its dual role as both a high-liquidity capital pool and a conservative yield entry point, continuing to serve as a central hub within Gate’s trading fund management and asset allocation framework.

Gate DEX Fully Upgraded: One-Click Login Unlocks On-Chain Trading

In January, Gate completed a comprehensive brand and capability upgrade of its decentralized trading products. Gate Web3 was officially rebranded as Gate DEX, with unified product positioning and external messaging. As a core module, Gate Swap focuses on delivering a more intuitive on-chain swap entry point, offering a lower-barrier starting experience for a broader user base. It enables users to move more quickly from product entry to execution without being interrupted by complex Web3 workflows.

On the experience side, Gate Swap has undergone systematic optimization around fast access and seamless execution. It now supports one-click login via Gate accounts, Google accounts, and wallets, significantly reducing login and authorization steps. At the same time, it preserves exchange-grade product logic—aligning interface smoothness, trading paths, asset coverage, and liquidity depth with users’ familiar habits—to enhance the usability and reliability of on-chain swaps.

Gate TradFi: A Macro Multi-Asset Trading Gateway Covering Metals, FX, Indices, and Popular Equities

Gate has expanded its TradFi offerings by integrating CFD trading for traditional financial assets—including metals, FX, indices, commodities, and selected popular equities—directly into the Gate App. This extension moves the platform beyond crypto-only trading into multi-asset price trading scenarios, completing cross-market trading and hedging pathways within a single platform. Since its public beta launch, Gate TradFi has surpassed $20 billion in cumulative trading volume, with demand for traditional asset trading accelerating and achieving scale effects.

In terms of product mechanics and user experience, Gate TradFi uses USDx as the margin and account display unit, pegged 1:1 to USDT, allowing users to participate by transferring USDT. It follows traditional market trading rules, with fixed trading sessions and market closures. Fees can be as low as $0.018 per transaction. Trading services are powered by MT5, with margin-based risk controls in place—forced liquidation is triggered when the margin ratio falls to 50% or below.

Gate Perp DEX: On-Chain Perpetual Demand Continues to Grow, with Cumulative Trades Approaching 440,000

Gate continues to strengthen its decentralized derivatives capabilities. As the on-chain perpetual trading module within Gate DEX, Gate Perp DEX provides users with a more convenient on-chain derivatives entry point and a more consistent end-to-end experience, enabling market analysis, position management, and risk hedging within a unified product system. In January, Gate Perp DEX recorded nearly 440,000 cumulative trades, further confirming the rising activity and scalability of on-chain derivatives.

Through clearer trading flows, more coherent user journeys, and more stable matching and execution, Gate Perp DEX significantly reduces the learning curve and operational friction of on-chain perpetual trading, reinforcing an exchange-grade experience. As demand for cross-market, multi-asset trading and hedging continues to grow, Gate will keep iterating across product experience, liquidity, and usability—driving on-chain perpetuals from niche tools toward broader, higher-frequency real-world use cases.

Gate Layer On-Chain Activity Reaches a New Milestone, Trading Volume Up Over 22% MoM

Gate Layer’s network activity and ecosystem usage continued to rise steadily. In January, the number of on-chain addresses exceeded 100 million, with nearly 25 million transactions recorded. Alongside the stable growth in address count, on-chain trading volume increased by over 22% month over month compared with December, reflecting a sustained rise in user interactions and on-chain activity frequency.

As a core piece of infrastructure underpinning Gate’s All in Web3 strategy, Gate Layer will continue to enhance network performance and developer tooling, improving the efficiency of application deployment and execution across the ecosystem, and driving more real transactions and interactions on-chain.

Launchpool Staking Exceeds $860 Million, Peak APR Tops 1,800%

In January, Gate Launchpool introduced five new projects, with more than 11,000 participations recorded. Total staking volume exceeded $860 million. With multiple projects running in parallel, Launchpool achieved high participation density and strong capital aggregation during the month, offering users a broader range of staking options and yield sources.

On the yield side, several projects saw notable short-term APR spikes. Among them, CODEX recorded a peak annualized yield of over 1,800% during the final hour of its campaign, making it one of the highest-yielding Launchpool projects of the month. Gate Launchpool will continue to expand project supply and optimize campaign cadence to meet a wider range of users’ new-project yield opportunities.

HODLer Airdrop Continues to Unlock Staking Value, with Both Participation and Returns Rising in January

In January 2026, Gate’s HODLer Airdrop operated smoothly, with strong user engagement and a consistently high staking scale. During the month, four new airdrop projects were launched. By continuously introducing a diverse range of projects, the program provided GT holders with stable and attractive incremental yield opportunities. Among them, the peak project APR during the month reached 39.64%, demonstrating competitive performance among similar mechanisms.

In terms of participation and capital scale, HODLer Airdrop recorded around 26,000 participations in January, with user coverage continuing to expand. The total amount of GT staked reached approximately 64.39 million tokens. Overall, the data shows that HODLer Airdrop has gradually evolved into a key channel linking long-term user holdings with project incentives—enhancing the intrinsic value of the GT ecosystem while further strengthening user engagement and platform stickiness.

CandyDrop Campaigns Scale Rapidly, Driving Significant Gains in User Participation and Trading Conversion in January

In January 2026, Gate continued to roll out CandyDrop campaigns at a high frequency, leveraging diversified task designs and project combinations to steadily boost user engagement. During the month, 13 CandyDrop projects were launched, spanning multiple popular projects and trading scenarios, and effectively activating user participation. Among them, the popular project TBK stood out, attracting over 150,000 participants in a single campaign and becoming one of the most closely watched CandyDrop events of the month.

From participation scale and trading performance perspectives, CandyDrop recorded over 510,000 total participations in January, with both user coverage and campaign penetration continuing to expand. Overall, the data indicates that CandyDrop has gradually formed an operational closed loop integrating user growth, trading activity, and capital retention—boosting platform trading activity while providing high-quality projects with an efficient channel for market exposure.

GateAI Launches Smoothly, Begins Integrating into Users’ Daily Decision-Making Workflow

GateAI officially launched in January 2026, focusing on high-frequency decision-making scenarios such as asset analysis and market interpretation. Its AI capabilities have gradually been integrated into users’ market-browsing and trading workflows. Through a global floating entry point, GateAI enables instant interaction and intelligently recommends differentiated question prompts based on users’ current usage contexts, guiding deeper analysis and asset insights while lowering the barrier to information access and understanding.

In its first month of operation, GateAI achieved an overall user satisfaction rate of approximately 88%. In terms of usage scenarios, post-search summaries, real-time market analysis, and K-line Plaza briefings emerged as the most frequently used features. User feedback indicates that GateAI offers strong practical value in consolidating market information and supporting decision comprehension. At this stage, GateAI has begun to embed itself into users’ daily decision-making processes, with its growing volume of high-frequency interactions and usage data providing a clear foundation for future feature optimization and capability iteration.

Staking Reaches a New High in January, with ETH Staking at 170,000 Tokens

In January, the end-of-month TVL of Gate’s On-Chain Earn products reached $1.301 billion, having peaked at $1.512 billion during the month. From an asset allocation perspective, peak staking amounts for BTC and ETH reached 2,644.71 BTC and approximately 170,000 ETH, respectively, with ETH staking setting a new all-time high. This trend indicates that, amid heightened market volatility, capital has shown a stronger preference for core assets offering liquidity and more predictable yields. Meanwhile, the peak issuance of GUSD in January stood at approximately $146 million, with the overall capital scale remaining stable.

ETF Leveraged Token Trading Volume Surges 32.6%, Product Lineup Continues to Expand

In January, Gate’s ETF business delivered a standout performance, maintaining strong growth momentum and further strengthening the platform’s comprehensive capabilities in the ETF segment. Total ETF trading volume exceeded $6.7 billion, representing a 32.6% month-over-month increase and a significant expansion in trading scale. User activity and participation rose in tandem, highlighting the strong appeal and market recognition of ETF products on the platform.

As of January, Gate supported 332 ETF trading pairs across 3x long/short and 5x long/short products. The continuously expanding and improving product matrix now fully covers major cryptocurrencies, popular sectors, and selected traditional financial assets, offering users with different risk appetites and trading strategies a broader and more flexible range of options.

On the product and user experience front, Gate continues to deepen its ETF ecosystem through systematic upgrades focused on product structure optimization, clearer data presentation, and smoother trading execution. These enhancements significantly reduce user learning costs, improve strategy execution efficiency, and further strengthen the overall trading experience and user stickiness—laying a solid foundation for the long-term, sustainable growth of the ETF business.

Copy Trading Sees Broad-Based Growth, with New Followers Up 41% Month-over-Month

In January, Gate’s copy trading business sustained broad-based growth. The number of new copy trading users increased by 41% month-over-month, while new lead traders rose by 27% MoM. On the trading side, average daily copy trading volume rose 23% month over month, accompanied by higher user activity and increased capital participation.

At the same time, the copy trading interface underwent a comprehensive redesign and experience upgrade, further streamlining both the follower and lead trader workflows and laying a solid foundation for future scalable growth.

Trading Bot Demand Strengthens, New Users Up 23.9% MoM in January

In January, the number of new users adopting trading bots increased by 23.9% month-over-month. Among them, trading volume for relatively conservative, yield-oriented strategies such as spot–futures arbitrage surged 242.5% against the broader market trend, while strategies suited for phased dip-buying—such as futures Martingale—also saw a 46.6% increase in trading volume. This indicates a simultaneous rise in participation from users with different risk appetites. In a market environment dominated by range-bound volatility, trading bots—leveraging automated execution and a diverse set of strategies—have continued to serve as one of users’ primary trading tools.

Options Trading Volume Up 55% MoM, Daily Active Traders Hit a Record High

In January, Gate significantly enhanced options market liquidity, achieving industry-leading spreads and depth, and successfully onboarded a greater number of institutional participants. Driven by concurrent improvements in liquidity and user composition, options trading volume rose 55% month-over-month compared with December, while daily active options traders reached an all-time high, signaling that the options business has entered an accelerated growth phase.

Quant Funds Maintain Stable Overall Returns, with Strong Downside Protection

In January, despite a notable decline in macro risk appetite toward the end of the month, Gate’s quant funds maintained stable overall performance. The Hedging Ark – USDT strategy delivered a 30-day annualized return of 5%, while the Hedging Smart Invest – USDT strategy achieved a one-year return of 11.1%, ranking first among all quant funds. Across the portfolio, each fund’s historical maximum drawdown remained below 0.5%, demonstrating solid return stability and strong downside protection under a disciplined risk management framework.

Security, Transparency, and Global Expansion

Overall reserve ratio rises to 125% in January, with BTC reserve ratio reaching 140.69%

In January 2026, Gate’s overall reserve coverage ratio increased from 124% to 125%, with total reserves reaching USD 9.478 billion—well above the industry safety benchmark of 100%. These reserves support nearly 500 different types of user assets, demonstrating that the platform maintains substantial asset redundancy and risk-buffering capacity even in volatile market conditions.

For core assets, user BTC holdings totaled 17,640 BTC, while platform-held reserves reached 24,817 BTC, raising the excess reserve ratio from 33.96% to 40.69%. User ETH holdings increased from 332,801 ETH to 337,565 ETH, with platform reserves rising from 419,096 ETH to 419,320 ETH, resulting in an excess reserve ratio of 24.22%.

In stablecoins, user USDT holdings grew from 1.333 billion to 1.385 billion tokens, while platform reserves stood at 1.516 billion tokens, corresponding to an excess reserve ratio of 9.45%. In addition, reserve ratios for major assets such as GT, USDC, and XRP remained significantly above the 100% benchmark, reaching 144.82%, 188.67%, and 116.09% respectively, further strengthening the platform’s overall asset security.

As a leading global digital asset trading platform, Gate has consistently demonstrated its commitment to user safety and industry transparency through concrete actions. Over the years, the platform has continuously reinforced its asset protection framework through technological innovation—from being among the first in the industry to commit to a 100% reserve policy, to pioneering the adoption of zero-knowledge proof technology, and establishing a self-verifiable proof-of-reserves transparency mechanism. By integrating technologies such as hot and cold wallet verification, Merkle tree structures, and user balance snapshots, Gate ensures that asset reserves are authentic and verifiable.

At the same time, Gate has built a multi-layered security framework covering trading, custody, and platform operations through proprietary systems, multi-signature management, and bug bounty programs. This comprehensive approach continues to strengthen a trust framework that balances openness and transparency with robust privacy protection.

Community Building and Brand Activities

Gate Square content mining upgrade transforms creation into long-term returns

Gate Square officially upgraded its “Content Mining” mechanism and launched the public beta of the Content Mining Renewal Season. Centered on the core objective of “enabling content to truly generate returns,” this upgrade systematically optimized creator incentives and commission-sharing pathways, fostering a clearer and more sustainable positive cycle between content, trading, and returns.

During the public beta, creators can participate in trading fee commission sharing by publishing qualified content on Gate Square and successfully guiding users to complete real trades. Individual creators can earn up to 60% of trading fee rebates. When users click on trading pairs linked within the content and complete spot, futures, or Alpha trades, commission calculations are triggered, ensuring that content-driven trading conversions are accurately recorded, traceable, and settleable.

Through continuous optimization of the content mining mechanism, Gate Square further strengthens the role of content within the platform ecosystem, positioning content creation as a key bridge between content value and user trading behavior and as a core driver of coordinated ecosystem development.

Gate Live content experience upgrade and creator incentive mechanisms advance in parallel

In January, Gate conducted a comprehensive upgrade of the Gate Live App, focusing on user browsing paths and content reach efficiency by restructuring the overall UI design and live-streaming architecture. The new version adopts a more streamlined visual language and content aggregation logic, centrally presenting ongoing live streams and discussions to reduce page layers and navigation friction. All active live rooms are displayed through infinite scrolling, while the live preview module has been reorganized to ensure that core content consistently remains at the forefront of the user journey. This upgrade aims to enhance content discovery efficiency and viewing immersion, strengthening Gate Live’s role as a key entry point within the platform’s content ecosystem.

At the same time, the public beta of the upgraded Gate Live “Live Streaming Mining Commission Program” was officially launched, with systematic optimizations to both commission structures and trade-trigger mechanisms. Under the new framework, eligible streamers can earn up to 30% in trading fee rebates, including up to 20% base commission and an additional bonus of up to 10% unlocked through phased tasks. The platform also introduced a token-based commission component within live rooms, enabling streamers to directly guide users into spot, futures, Alpha, and Gate Fun trading scenarios via token tags or components, creating a direct link between content and real trading activity. During the public beta period, Gate Live rolled out limited-time task-based bonus mechanisms covering streaming frequency, interaction performance, and trading conversion, further refining a live-streaming ecosystem centered on content creators and user experience.

Gate announces 2025 year-end streamer and content creator rankings, incentivizing high-quality content creation

Gate officially released its 2025 Community Gala streamer and content creator rankings, recognizing outstanding creators who consistently delivered value to the community through live streaming and content production. The rankings include categories such as Top Streamers, Rising Stars, and Content Creators. The top three Top Streamers are 0x7s0lt1, Surrealist5N1K and CryptoChampion; the top three Rising Stars are MrThanks77, AYATTAC and Nova crypto girl; while the top three Content Creators are Ryakpanda, xxx40xxx and Nice隔壁王叔. The results reflect the Gate community's achievements in content professionalism, diversity, and engagement. Through multi-tiered incentive mechanisms and long-term creator identity support, Gate aims to continuously encourage high-quality content creation, activate community interaction, and promote the sustainable development of its content ecosystem.

Gate Institutional Circle concludes successfully, exploring the next phase of digital asset management with institutions

On January 22, Gate successfully hosted the Gate Institutional Circle closed-door institutional exchange event. Held under the theme “Exploring Next-Generation Digital Asset Management,” the event brought together institutional participants, including decision-makers from asset management firms across the Asia-Pacific region, heads of quantitative research, chief investment officers from family offices, and representatives from corporate treasury departments as well as auditing and legal professional service providers.

Discussions focused on the evolution of the Web3 market toward digitally native asset systems, shifts in quantitative and strategic methodologies, and the increasingly specialized needs of institutions in asset allocation and wealth management. Drawing on practical experience, participants exchanged views on challenges related to system construction, risk management, and compliance collaboration during multi-asset integration, as well as potential pathways for capturing alpha in digitally native environments.

Leveraging its long-standing experience serving global institutions and professional traders, Gate continues to enhance its institutional-facing products and infrastructure, building high-quality platforms for institutional dialogue and advancing deeper exploration of professionalism and standardization across the industry.

Education, Research, and Media Influence

Gate’s research and education framework continues to improve, with content and research capabilities advancing in synergy in January

In January 2026, Gate continued to advance the development of its research and education framework, focusing on enhancing user understanding and meeting market insight needs by simultaneously strengthening professional research and knowledge dissemination. Through coordinated content efforts between Gate Research and Gate Learn, the platform has formed a complementary structure across macro research, industry analysis, and user education, providing more systematic and sustainable knowledge support for users at different experience levels.

Gate Learn’s content system continues to expand, with steady progress in knowledge coverage and content output in January

In January, Gate Learn continued to build out its content system around user learning needs and market hotspots, covering multiple areas including crypto fundamentals, trading tool analysis, market trend interpretation, and platform product explanations. Content updates maintained a steady cadence throughout the month, with SEO articles, educational explainers, mechanism analyses, and thematic deep dives produced in parallel, further enriching the Academy’s knowledge structure and breadth of coverage.

From a thematic perspective, Gate Learn continued to strengthen systematic output in key areas such as ETFs, derivatives trading, DeFi, AI applications, asset management, and macro market logic. By integrating updates to the platform’s core products and features, it delivered more practical learning and reference materials. Overall, the content not only meets the foundational knowledge needs of new users, but also provides more in-depth strategic and analytical support for experienced users.

Gate Research maintains a high frequency of research output, with continued macro and structural research in January

In January 2026, Gate Research continued to produce multi-dimensional research content focused on macro trends in the crypto market, structural opportunities, and the development of key sectors, maintaining a stable output rhythm. Throughout the month, it released multiple thematic research reports, market observations, and periodic summaries covering market reviews, trend assessments, and key data analysis, offering users systematic and forward-looking research references.

In terms of research focus, Gate Research concentrated on crypto market cycle evolution, the development of major public blockchains and their ecosystems, the convergence of TradFi and crypto assets, structural changes in ETF and derivatives markets, and the potential impact of emerging technologies and new narratives. At the same time, research outputs were aligned with market volatility points and major events, with timely analytical briefings and announcement-style reports released to enhance information timeliness and practical value. Through continuous research accumulation and methodological refinement, Gate Research Institute has gradually formed a research system spanning macro analysis, industry research, and product mechanism interpretation—helping users better understand market structures and risk boundaries while providing stable research support for the long-term development of the platform’s ecosystem.

CoinDesk: Gate posts the largest increase in derivatives market share in 2025, with spot growth ranking among the top three

CoinDesk’s December evaluation report highlighted Gate’s comprehensive strength across market share, product upgrades, and brand development. Gate’s derivatives market share rose to 11%, making it the centralized exchange with the largest month-on-month increase in derivatives market share in December. From a full-year perspective, Gate’s cumulative increase in derivatives market share reached 9.32%, ranking first among centralized exchanges and more than doubling the increase of the second-ranked platform. In the spot market, Gate’s December market share growth ranked third.

On the business and brand fronts, Gate advanced several key initiatives in parallel. The Gate App underwent a refreshed upgrade, with the logged-out homepage featuring, for the first time, an international promotional video showcasing its partnership with the F1 Red Bull Racing Team. In addition, Gate’s founder and CEO, Dr. Han, was named to Entrepreneur Middle East’s “The 100” list for 2025. Overall, Gate is consolidating its industry-leading position through expanding market share alongside synchronized product and brand upgrades.

CryptoRank: Gate leads the industry in contract trading volume growth in 2025, becoming a top exchange of the year

In January, CryptoRank released its annual evaluation report, recognizing Gate as one of the most representative high-growth crypto platforms of the year due to its rapid expansion in the derivatives market. The data shows that Gate became one of the fastest-growing major centralized derivatives trading platforms globally in the second half of 2025. In the derivatives segment, Gate’s perpetual futures trading volume grew from USD 911.2 billion in Q1 2025 to USD 2.42 trillion in Q3, and remained at a high level of USD 1.93 trillion in Q4, with growth rates significantly outperforming leading competitors.

CryptoRank’s analysis noted that Gate’s rapid growth is not driven by a single trading category, but rather by a strategy centered on ecosystem-wide synergy. By building a comprehensive structured launch ecosystem through Gate Alpha, Launchpool, and Launchpad, while simultaneously expanding TradFi CFD trading, Gate Layer L2, and on-chain infrastructure such as Gate Perp DEX, Gate is accelerating its evolution from a traditional trading platform into a multi-layered crypto financial infrastructure.

Conclusion

As Gate enters 2026, it continues to maintain stable operations in its core trading business while accelerating the release of growth potential in TradFi and on-chain derivatives. At the same time, Gate is strengthening user retention and capital stickiness through incentive mechanisms and asset management products.

As multi-asset trading scenarios gradually mature, coordination between on-chain and centralized systems deepens, and security, transparency, and global expansion continue to advance, Gate is steadily upgrading from a traditional crypto trading platform into a comprehensive digital asset infrastructure spanning multi-asset markets, cross-market trading, and on-chain ecosystems. Its long-term competitiveness and structural growth potential are expected to expand further.

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