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Gate Founder and CEO Dr. Han reflects on key Web3 shifts in 2025 and Gate’s 12-year milestone, highlighting trading strength, security transparency, global compliance, and brand expansion, while outlining a long-term vision for Web3 adoption in real life.

Gate Web3 Swap has completed a major update. This upgrade re-engineers the underlying trading logic, merging single-chain and cross-chain functionalities into one, and adding support for native assets such as BTC/ZEC, aiming to provide a smoother and more unrestricted asset flow experience.

Gate has officially launched Smart Leverage, a new structured derivatives product designed to deliver a more controlled and resilient trading experience in highly volatile markets. By exempting positions from forced liquidation during the subscription period, Smart Leverage helps protect users from unexpected losses caused by short-term extreme price movements or “wick” events, while supporting high leverage with maximum potential losses capped at the initial subscription amount and no risk of additional liabilities. The first batch of supported assets includes BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, and ADA, and a limited-time incentive campaign has been introduced to lower the entry barrier for first-time participants, underscoring Gate’s continued expansion of a more flexible and diversified structured products ecosystem.

In 2025, Gate, a leading global digital asset trading platform, released its 2025 annual report. The report shows that the platform's global user base has reached nearly 50 million. Both spot and derivatives trading activity increased, with overall market share maintaining a top-tier global position. Gate's development focus is gradually shifting from rapid expansion to mature growth, centered on user scale, liquidity depth, and systematic capabilities.

According to the official announcement, the on-chain burn of GateToken (GT) for Q4 2025 has been officially completed. A total of 2,163,900.48229 GT has been transferred to the burn address, with a total burn value exceeding $26.92 million. To date, a cumulative total of 184,819,426 GT has been burned, with an estimated total value of over $1.9 billion (at current prices)

This article focuses on Gate’s latest proof-of-reserves report, offering a structured overview of the platform’s most recent progress in asset security and transparency. According to the data, as of January 6, 2026, Gate’s overall reserve coverage ratio has increased to 125%, with total reserves reaching USD 9.478 billion—well above the industry’s standard safety benchmark—demonstrating the platform’s strong asset resilience amid market volatility.

Gate’s derivatives market share rose to 11% in December, leading annual growth with a 9.32% increase. Spot momentum, app upgrades, and brand wins further strengthen its global presence.

Gate Live App has undergone a comprehensive revamp, focusing on content presentation and user browsing habits, and restructuring the overall visual design and live module architecture. The upgrade aims to enhance the reach efficiency and immersion of live content, strengthening the platform's capacity to support its content ecosystem. As a crypto asset trading platform with years of industry experience, Gate continuously optimizes user experience and content ecosystem development. With coordinated progress across trading, research, education, and community dimensions, Gate is building a more multi-dimensional, open, and user-centric crypto service system, laying a solid foundation for long-term future growth.

As the crypto derivatives market continues to expand, how trading platforms design user incentive mechanisms that balance fairness and long-term value has become a key industry focus. This article examines Gate’s industry-first Futures Points Airdrop system, exploring how it transforms futures trading activity into sustainably accumulated point-based rewards. By combining transparent performance data with deep ecosystem integration, Gate is building a long-term incentive framework that connects trading participation, airdrop distribution, and platform ecosystem benefits—offering a practical reference for derivatives platforms seeking sustainable growth models.

Global leading crypto asset exchange Gate has released its Q4 2025 report, highlighting continued progress across its core trading business, Web3 ecosystem development, and global compliance strategy. During the quarter, Gate delivered solid gains in spot and derivatives trading volume, product ecosystem expansion, and on-chain integration, further reinforcing its position as a leading global crypto platform.

Gate has announced the completion of a comprehensive brand and product upgrade for its decentralized trading offering, officially rebranding Gate Web3 as Gate DEX. Under its All in Web3 strategy, the upgrade represents a systematic restructuring of product positioning, functional architecture, and user experience. By integrating core modules such as on-chain spot trading, on-chain derivatives, swaps, token launches, and intelligent analytics, Gate DEX is evolving into a comprehensive on-chain financial platform that serves diverse trading scenarios.

Gate Wallet has recently launched the Gas Station feature, offering an automatic network fee payment solution to address common gas insufficiency issues encountered during multi-chain interactions. By linking a dedicated Gas account on a 1:1 basis with the user’s EVM wallet, the feature ensures transactions can be completed smoothly even when native gas is insufficient, preventing interruptions. The Gas Station currently supports 10 major EVM networks, including Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Arbitrum, Optimism, and Polygon, and allows multiple mainstream crypto assets to be used as gas top-up sources.

To continuously reward high-quality creators, encourage the production of premium content, and further enhance its livestreaming ecosystem, Gate Live has officially announced a comprehensive upgrade to its Live Mining Commission Program. This upgrade, available in Gate App V8.6.0 and later versions, focuses on optimizing core mechanisms such as commission structure, trading scenarios and task-based incentives, to further enhance streamers' monetization capabilities and long-term earning potential while fostering a more efficient positive feedback loop between content creation and user trading activity.

Gate, a leading global crypto trading platform, has officially launched web access for its TradFi trading zone, concluding its public beta phase. Gate TradFi enables users to trade global traditional financial assets—including forex, metals, indices, commodities, and stocks—via CFD products within a unified account system. By combining USDT-based collateral, MT5 infrastructure, and traditional CFD trading mechanisms, Gate bridges crypto and traditional markets, offering a more seamless multi-asset trading experience.

Gate TradFi introduces new tokens. The Commodity × Stock Zone New Token Trading Competition is underway, offering a generous 100,000 USDT prize pool ready to be claimed.