Gate's Q1 Report Card is Out: Multiple Metrics Hit All-Time Highs, Continuing to Lead the Crypto Market

Leading global digital asset platform Gate recently released its Q1 2025 Transparency Report, according to which the platform achieved comprehensive breakthroughs in multiple business areas, with core business metrics reaching new highs, a comprehensive security system upgrade, continuous enrichment of the product matrix, and accelerated global strategic advancement, demonstrating strong development momentum and a solid foundation for market growth.

Comprehensive Growth in Trading Business, Contract Trading Volume Up About 31% Month-on-Month

In Q1 2025, Gate continued its outstanding performance as an industry leader, achieving significant breakthroughs in user growth and trading volume. The platform's user base continued to expand, demonstrating Gate.io's strong appeal in the market and sustained growth momentum.

The contract business saw explosive growth, with both the number of traders and trading volume surging significantly, with a 31% increase in trading volume compared to the previous quarter. In terms of spot trading, the platform launched over 200 new coins, continuing to demonstrate its leading advantage in coin selection and listing efficiency, providing users with a more diverse and high-quality investment selection.

Gate also introduced a new "Refer to Earn" referral incentive program, combining social media with interactive gameplay to achieve a positive cycle of user growth and trading conversion, helping the platform's community ecosystem continue to expand.

GT Continues to Shine, Reaching a Historic High of $25.96

This quarter, Gate's platform token GT showed strong performance, hitting new highs multiple times, reaching a historic peak of $25.96 on January 25, 2025, representing a nearly 70% increase from the beginning of the year. As the native utility token of GateChain and the gas fee payment token, GT supports the underlying transfer system of GateChain. In addition, GT holders can enjoy exclusive benefits such as new coin airdrops, new coin mining, and GT mining.

Since the launch of GateChain in 2019, GT has been subject to a burning mechanism, reducing the total supply by about 60% from the initial 300 million tokens, reflecting Gate's commitment to GT's deflation and persistence, and providing strong support for GT's long-term value. As of now, the cumulative amount of GT burned has reached 177,089,412.23 tokens, with a burn value of approximately $408,270,578.

Upholding the Security Cornerstone, Platform Reserve Value Exceeds $10.328 Billion

Gate has always been committed to safeguarding user asset and information security, continuously strengthening platform security and transparency. As of January 17, 2025, Gate.io's total reserve value reached $10.328 billion, ranking fourth among similar platforms globally. The total reserve ratio is as high as 128.58%, well above the industry benchmark level of 100%, with an excess reserve size of $2.296 billion, ensuring the safety and security of user assets.

Gate places high importance on global compliance operation. Gate Entities have made significant progress in global compliance, further driving their localized business expansion in the Japanese market through the acquisition of the Japan-licensed exchange Coin Master.

Launchpool Fully Upgraded, Empowering Over 140 New Projects to Launch Quickly

In the first quarter of 2025, Gate Launchpool (formerly Startup New Coin Mining) underwent a full upgrade to become a leading new coin mining platform in the industry. Over 140 projects were launched, with 90+ offering free airdrops totaling over $5.2 million in value; there were 70+ mining projects with total rewards amounting to $9.2 million.

The platform added a search and smart filtering feature, lowered the HODLer Airdrop threshold to 1 GT, and the average annualized return of airdrop projects reached 43.94%. Additionally, with its agile listing mechanism, Gate Launchpool accurately captures market trends. For instance, within 24 hours of the high-profile Trump Token listing, the staking volume exceeded $25 million, driving active user participation and creating a win-win ecosystem for the platform and project teams.

Innovation Zone Has Listed Over 1,000 Coins, Capturing Multiple High-Yield Memes

With its first-mover advantage and continuous innovation in the Meme field, Gate's Innovation Zone further solidified its leading position in this arena. This quarter, the Innovation Zone successfully integrated over 10 mainstream public chains including ETH, SOL, Base, etc. Nearly 400 coins were listed this quarter alone, totaling over 1,000 listed coins to date, maintaining a leading position in the industry and offering users a more diverse range of investment options. Additionally, features such as "Logo Mode" and the "Golden Dog Index" were introduced to significantly enhance users' coin recognition and trend analysis capabilities while reducing the threshold for Meme transactions.

With a rapid listing mechanism, the Innovation Zone has been at the forefront of helping users capture multiple high-yield projects such as Kekius (55x), Trump (45x), YZY (46x), Mubarak (28x), and other top-quality Meme coins. Furthermore, through partnerships with projects like MemeCity and MemeCore, the platform has deeply engaged in offline industry events, solidifying its dominant position in the Meme field.

Strong Performance in Institutional Business, Continuous Infrastructure Upgrades

Gate's institutional business has achieved significant breakthroughs in trading volume and ecosystem development. Both institutional client contract and brokerage business transaction volumes have notably increased. By optimizing trading infrastructure and depth, latency has been reduced by over 2 times, greatly enhancing user trading efficiency. Moreover, contract liquidity has improved, and the number of spot and contract market makers has grown.

In addition, Gate further strengthened its leading position in the global cryptocurrency field through the newly launched Fireblocks Off-Exchange solution, providing institutions with a more flexible fund management solution. Through joint marketing activities with 20+ partners, Gate expanded its professional client base, enhanced its high-end user community, and solidified its top-tier advantage in the global cryptocurrency arena.

Quantitative Investment Sees Significant Growth, Copy Trading Volume Surges 780%

This quarter, Gate witnessed significant growth in copy trading, robot strategies, and ETF products. In the copy trading sector, the launch of the Prometheus automated risk control system created a safer trading environment for users; spot copy trading volume surged by 780%, with the platform's highest return for copy traders reaching 890x, providing users with excess return opportunities.

The robot products, through continuous optimization of the Ultra AI strategy and intelligent algorithms, have cumulatively generated over $500 million in trading revenue for users. The newly introduced BotsLive live column and weekly featured strategy recommendations greatly increased user engagement; the number of newly created strategies skyrocketed by 404%, and the number of users creating new strategies grew by 193%.

The ETF business also demonstrated outstanding performance, with support for over 200 leveraged ETF tokens, positioning Gate at the forefront of the industry. By the end of the quarter, ETF trading volume had increased by 40% compared to the previous period, and the number of participating users had grown by 197%.

Partnering with Top-tier Partners to Build Global Blockchain Influence

In the first quarter of 2025, Gate made simultaneous efforts in global brand expansion and blockchain investment. Gate.io announced its official sponsorship of the F1 Red Bull Racing Team (Oracle Red Bull Racing in F1) and initiated a multi-year strategic partnership. This collaboration is not only a joining of forces between two industry leaders but also signifies that blockchain technology is transitioning from the racetrack to the world stage, using global events to promote the concepts of Web3 and digital finance to a wider audience.

Meanwhile, Gate Ventures joined the newly established Morph Venture Capital Collective alliance to further expand its presence in the blockchain investment sector. Additionally, Gate Ventures invested $20 million in the BNB Incubation Alliance (BIA) co-launched by BNB Chain and Binance Labs, demonstrating its firm commitment to driving Web3 ecosystem development and nurturing the next generation of blockchain innovation projects. Through the empowerment of capital, resources, and networks, Gate is actively supporting the mainstream adoption of blockchain technology.

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