Digital asset platform Gate recently released its transparency report for the first quarter of 2025. According to the report, the platform has achieved all-round breakthroughs in multiple business segments, with core business indicators continuing to set new highs, the security system being comprehensively upgraded, the product matrix being continuously enriched, and the globalization strategy being accelerated, demonstrating strong development momentum and a market foundation for steady growth.
Trading business grew across the board, with contract trading volume increasing by approximately 31% month-on-month
In the first quarter of 2025, Gate continued its outstanding performance as an industry leader, achieving significant breakthroughs in both user growth and transaction volume. The platforms user scale continued to expand, demonstrating Gate.ios strong appeal and continued growth momentum in the market.
The contract business has experienced explosive growth, with both the number of traders and trading volume climbing significantly, with trading volume increasing by 31% from the previous quarter. In terms of spot business, the platform has launched more than 200 new currencies, continuing to demonstrate its leading advantages in currency screening and online efficiency, providing users with richer and higher-quality investment options.
Gate has also launched a new “Refer to Earn” invitation incentive program, which combines social media and interactive gameplay to achieve a positive cycle of user growth and transaction conversion, and help the platform community ecosystem continue to expand.
GT continues to perform well, reaching a record high of $25.96
This quarter, the Gate platform currency GT has been strong and has repeatedly hit new highs, reaching a historical peak of $25.96 on January 25, 2025, an increase of nearly 70% from the beginning of the year. As the native functional token of GateChain and the gas fee payment token, GT provides support for GateChains underlying transfer system. In addition, GT holders can also enjoy exclusive benefits such as new coin airdrops, new coin mining and GT mining.
Since GateChain was launched in 2019, GT has been implementing a destruction mechanism, which has reduced the total number of tokens by about 60% from the initial 300 million, reflecting Gates commitment and persistence to GT deflation, and also providing strong support for GTs long-term value. So far, the cumulative number of GT destroyed has reached 177,089,412.23, with a destruction value of approximately US$408,270,578.
Adhering to the cornerstone of security, the total value of platform reserves exceeded US$10.328 billion
Gate has always been committed to protecting the security of user assets and information, and continuously increasing the security and transparency of the platform. As of January 17, 2025, the total value of Gate.io reserves reached 10.328 billion US dollars, ranking fourth among similar platforms in the world. The total reserve rate is as high as 128.58%, far exceeding the industrys 100% benchmark level, and the excess reserve scale is as high as 2.296 billion US dollars, which protects the safety of user assets.
Gate attaches great importance to global compliance operations. Gate Entities has made significant progress in global compliance and completed the acquisition of Japanese licensed exchange Coin Master through its subsidiary, further promoting its localized business expansion in the Japanese market.
Launchpool is fully upgraded to help more than 140 new projects quickly launch
In the first quarter of 2025, Gate Launchpool (formerly Startup New Coin Mining) was fully upgraded to become the industry-leading new coin mining platform, with more than 140 projects online, of which more than 90 were free airdrops with a total value of more than US$5.2 million; more than 70 mining projects with a total reward amount of US$9.2 million.
The platform has added search and smart screening functions, and lowered the HODLer Airdrop threshold to 1 GT, with an average annualized return of 43.94%. In addition, Gate Launchpool accurately captures market trends with its agile new listing mechanism. Hot projects such as Trump Token have exceeded 25 million US dollars in pledge volume within 24 hours of its launch, driving users to actively participate and forming a new ecosystem of win-win between the platform and the project parties.
The Innovation Zone has launched more than 1,000 currencies and captured multiple high-yield memes
Gate Innovation Zone has further consolidated its leading position in the Meme field with its first-mover advantage and continuous innovation. This quarter, the Innovation Zone successfully integrated more than 10 mainstream public chains including ETH, SOL, Base, etc. This quarter, the Innovation Zone launched nearly 400 currencies, and the cumulative total number of currencies launched exceeded 1,000. It continues to maintain its leading position in the industry and provide users with more diverse investment options. At the same time, innovative tools such as Logo Mode and Golden Dog Index were launched to greatly improve users ability to identify coins and trends, and lower the threshold for Meme transactions.
With the rapid listing mechanism, the Innovation Zone has taken the lead in helping users capture multiple high-yield projects, including Kekius (55 times), Trump (45 times), YZY (46 times), Mubarak (28 times) and other high-quality Meme coins. In addition, the platform cooperates with projects such as MemeCity and MemeCore, and deeply participates in offline industry activities to consolidate the platforms dominant position in the Meme track.
Strong performance of institutional business and continuous upgrading of infrastructure
Gates institutional business has made significant breakthroughs in both transaction volume and ecosystem construction. The transaction volume of institutional client contracts and brokerage business has increased significantly. By optimizing the transaction infrastructure and depth, the delay has been reduced by more than 2 times, and the user transaction efficiency has been greatly improved. In addition, the liquidity of contracts has been improved, and the number of spot and contract market makers has increased.
In addition, Gate provides institutions with more flexible fund management solutions through the newly launched Fireblocks Off-Exchange solution, and through joint marketing activities with 20+ partners, it further expands its professional customer base and strengthens the construction of high-end user circles, further strengthening Gates leading advantage in the global cryptocurrency field.
Quantitative investment has grown significantly, with copy trading volume soaring 780%
This quarter, Gate achieved significant growth in copy trading, robot strategies and ETF products. In the copy trading business, the launch of the Prometheus automatic risk control system has built a safer trading environment for users; the spot copy trading volume soared by 780%, and the highest profit for the platforms single users reached 890 times, creating excess profit opportunities for users.
Robot products have created more than $500 million in trading revenue for users through continuous optimization of Ultra AI strategies and intelligent algorithms. The newly launched BotsLive live column and weekly selected strategy recommendations have greatly increased user activity; the number of new strategies has surged by 404% month-on-month, and the number of new strategy users has increased by 193%.
The ETF business also performed well. The platform supports more than 200 ETF leveraged tokens, ranking first in the industry. By the end of the quarter, ETF trading volume increased by 40% month-on-month, and the number of participating users increased by 197% month-on-month.
Join hands with top partners to build global blockchain influence
In the first quarter of 2025, Gate simultaneously made efforts in global brand expansion and blockchain investment. Gate.io announced that it has become the official sponsor of the Oracle Red Bull Racing in F1, starting a multi-year strategic cooperation. This cooperation is not only a strong combination of two industry leaders, but also a sign that blockchain technology is moving from the track to the world stage, using the global event platform to popularize the concepts of Web3 and digital finance to a wider range of users.
At the same time, Gate Ventures joined the newly formed Morph Venture Capital Collective alliance to further expand its blockchain investment field. In addition, Gate Ventures invested $20 million in the BNB Incubation Alliance (BIA) jointly initiated by BNB Chain and Binance Labs, reflecting its firm commitment to promoting the development of the Web3 ecosystem and cultivating the next generation of blockchain innovation projects. Through the empowerment of capital, resources and networks, Gate is taking practical actions to help blockchain technology go mainstream.
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