Gate, one of the world’s leading crypto asset exchanges, 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 achieved solid growth in spot and derivatives trading volumes, product ecosystem expansion, and on-chain integrations, further strengthening its position as the world’s leading cryptocurrency platform.
In the fourth quarter of 2025, Gate maintained the strong growth momentum seen throughout the year, with both its spot and derivatives businesses operating at high levels. Trading depth, liquidity and user activity remain at the top of the industry.
According to CoinDesk’s latest data, Gate ranked among the top three exchanges globally in spot market share growth, and its derivatives market share rose to 11%, the highest growth among major platforms during the same period, demonstrating strong system stability and operational resilience amid complex market conditions.
By the end of the quarter, Gate’s registered user base had grown to nearly 50 million people and supported over 4,300 crypto assets. In December, Gate also completed the rollout of app version 8.0, introducing upgrades to internationalized design, interaction efficiency, and system performance to further enhance the trading and asset management experience across multiple scenarios.
On the product and ecosystem front, Gate continued to operate and expand its core incentives and launch mechanisms, including Launchpool, Launchpad, HODLer Airdrop, and CandyDrop.
During the quarter, Launchpool listed 28 projects with total airdrops exceeding $4.8 million. Launchpad recorded an oversubscription rate of over 2,500%, with cumulative oversubscription reaching $149 million. HODLer Airdrop launched 23 free airdrop projects with total rewards of over $590,000. CandyDrop has over $51 billion in cumulative futures trading volume.
In terms of on-chain trading, Gate Perp DEX has officially entered the large-scale trading stage, with cumulative trading volume exceeding $10 billion throughout the first quarter and supporting hundreds of perpetual contract pairs.
In wealth management, Gate’s Simple Earn subscription volume exceeded $11 billion in the quarter and daily active users exceeded 430,000. Onchain Earn’s assets under management continued to steadily increase, and in December, GUSD mint amount once again exceeded $200 million.
The ETF business recorded trading volume of over USDT 13.9 billion in the quarter and supported over 310 ETF trading pairs. Meanwhile, Gate’s quantitative fund products saw simultaneous growth in user base and trading volume, with new users increasing 98% quarter over quarter.
In terms of security and transparency, as of October 28, 2025, Gate’s total reserves amounted to $11.676 billion, with a total reserve ratio of 124%, covering nearly 500 user assets. GateToken (GT) continued its on-chain write mechanism, and the cumulative write rate increased to 61.61%.
On the compliance front, Gate Group’s Malta-based company Gate Technology Ltd has received a MiCA license issued by the Malta Financial Services Authority (MFSA) and has begun the EU passport application process. Gate Australia has officially opened for business, marking another milestone in the expansion of Gate Group’s global compliance activities.
To date, multiple gate entities have obtained or completed regulatory registrations, license applications, permits and approvals across jurisdictions including Malta, the Bahamas, Japan, Australia and Dubai.
Alongside continued investment in trading infrastructure and Web3 development, Gate has further strengthened its community ecosystem and brand-building efforts. Gate Square has over 1,000 certified creators and continues to foster a user-participatory Web3 community.
On the branding front, Gate was the title sponsor of the Token of Love Music Festival in Singapore and hosted a series of high-profile brand events and VVIP dinners at key global moments such as TOKEN2049 and the F1 Singapore Grand Prix, bringing together global partners, institutional investors and industry leaders, further increasing Gate’s international brand recognition and ecosystem influence.
Overall, in Q4 2025, Gate demonstrated strong operational resilience across deal size, product innovation, on-chain ecosystem development, and global expansion. Gate is steadily implementing a strategic upgrade from a traditional exchange to a unified Web3 infrastructure platform by strengthening its core spot and derivatives trading foundations, accelerating the integration of on-chain applications with the Web3 ecosystem, and advancing security, compliance, and brand development in parallel.
Going forward, as the product ecosystem continues to mature and further ecosystem synergies are unlocked, Gate is well-positioned to strengthen its comprehensive competitiveness in the global digital asset market and inject sustainable growth momentum into the long-term development of the industry.
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Gate was founded by Dr. Han in 2013 and is one of the earliest crypto exchanges in the world. The platform serves over 48 million users with over 4,300 digital assets and pioneers the industry’s first 100% proof-of-reserve. Beyond core trading services, Gate’s ecosystem also includes Gate Wallet, Gate Ventures, and other innovative solutions.
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