From dark horse to top players: Gate.io contract advanced Top-Tier's winning rules

In the past few years, the crypto exchange industry has experienced explosive growth, and the market structure has been dominated by a few leading platforms for a long time, forming a highly concentrated competitive trend. With the evolution of the regulatory environment, the upgrading of user demand and the accelerated evolution of technology, the market is undergoing a round of deep reshuffle. More and more emerging forces are breaking through differentiated products and technology paths to reshape the competitive coordinates of the industry. In this wave of change, Gate.io is gradually coming to the spotlight and becoming one of the key variables in pattern changes.

**Highlights under the authoritative certification of the industry:

Entering the ranks of Top-Tier and reshaping the racing pattern**

In April 2025, CoinDesk released the latest version of the "Crypto Exchange Benchmark Assessment: April 2025" list. Gate.io won the contract list AA rating with a high score of 82.6, officially ranked among the top three in the world, and entered the world's most influential Top-Tier camp with Binance and Kraken. This list systematically evaluates from multiple core dimensions such as security, market quality, liquidity, and compliance, and is a recognized "barometer of exchange capabilities" in the industry. Gate.io's leap not only means a comprehensive leap in the platform's comprehensive strength, but also demonstrates that its deep cultivation in the contract derivatives track is gaining mainstream recognition.

It is worth mentioning that according to the latest data from CoinGecko, Gate.io's derivatives market share in the first quarter of 2025 has risen to fourth in the world, accounting for 16%. At the same time, the platform's open contract volume has also achieved rapid growth, becoming one of the strongest performers of similar trading platforms. These key data show that Gate.io is completing the leap from a strong competitor to a member of the industry's core camp with systematic product strategies and operational strength, becoming a global force that cannot be ignored.

Gate.io, once regarded as a "middle-high dark horse", is moving from being the original "follower" to a "challenger" in the true sense through a clear strategic path. How did Gate.io break the top barriers in the derivatives market?

**Market structure reconstruction: "Breakthrough Logic" of derivatives

track**

The crypto derivatives market has long been showing a highly concentrated pattern. In the past few years, Binance once occupied more than 60% of the market share, forming a "one-on-one" situation. But this pattern is undergoing fundamental changes. At the beginning of 2025, Binance's market share had fallen back to 32.4%, and the crypto market is gradually moving towards a new stage of decentralized competition.

What contributed to this change is not only the continuous pressure on compliance worldwide, but also the refinement and differentiation of user trading habits. In this wave of diversified evolution, the mid-waist platform began to find its own breakthrough path. Gate.io did not try to collide with giants head-on in the mainstream currency market, but chose to focus on the "long-tail market" in perpetual contracts to accurately cover the hedging and speculative needs of small and medium-sized currency traders. This strategy allows it to break out of homogeneous competition and create a unique market perception.

The data also confirms this: in October 2024, Gate.io's open position accounted for 11%; and by 2025, this figure increased to 16%. This not only reflects the enhanced platform's fund retention capabilities, but also shows that users are deploying more strategic funds to Gate.io, showing a high level of transaction trust.

Product strength forging: The "three moat" of the Gate.io contract

The reason why Gate.io 's contract business can stand out in the competition is inseparable from its long-term forging of "product power" - this is not only a pile of trading tools, but also a construction of a systematic trading experience.

First of all, liquidity advantages. Gate.io has built a technical system covering high-frequency market makers access, deep order book optimization, cross-currency asset pool, etc., making it have industry-leading stability in dimensions such as large transactions, slippage control, and matching efficiency. This technical foundation not only gives professional traders peace of mind, but also allows retail investors to get a better trading experience in extreme market conditions.

The second is the currency coverage breadth . Gate.io has currently launched nearly 600 contract trading currencies, almost all of which are first-time market launches. This long-tail advantage is not accidental, but is based on the platform's deep understanding of the characteristics of early asset trading: strong volatility, concentrated demand, and high online timeline requirements. Gate.io has established a rapid review and launch mechanism to allow emerging assets to have derivative support as soon as possible, seizing the strategic high ground of "the first stop for the new currency contract".

Finally, there is a comprehensive innovation in functional experience. Gate.io provides the richest combination of the current market in terms of the take-profit and stop-loss function, including supporting full and partial positions settings, tracking and stop-profit function (dynamic adjustment of the stop-profit line to capture the maximum return), and MMR stop-loss mechanism (setting automatic stop-loss points based on maintaining margin ratios to reduce the risk of liquidation), which greatly enhances trading flexibility and risk control capabilities.

At the same time, in terms of order types, the platform provides diversified functions such as time-sharing entrustment, segmented entrustment, and smart market orders to meet the different needs of retail investors to strategic users. Various types of large order splitting can ensure user transaction efficiency while reducing transaction slippage, hiding user transaction intentions, and avoiding impact on the market. Demonstrate the platform's full adaptability to professional trading scenarios.

Brand upgrade: a strategic leap from trading tools to user ecosystem

Gate.io 's success is not achieved by product polishing alone. It has also completed a deep reconstruction in terms of platform vision, system response and brand awareness.

In April 2025, Gate.io completed a comprehensive renewal of the App interface and interaction design. Visually more concise and clear, the interactive line is more in line with user operation intuition, and the system response speed, order execution efficiency, and overall stability are significantly improved. This not only improves users' daily trading experience, but also enhances the system carrying capacity in extreme market conditions.

This upgrade is not only an innovation in user experience, but also an extension of the brand strategy. Gate.io is gradually moving from "a useful contract trading platform" to "a user-centered diversified trading ecosystem". The current product matrix has covered multiple modules such as on-chain derivatives, strategy tools, Web3 asset access, AI trading assistant, etc., and is committed to providing users with a service experience covering the entire life cycle. What the platform encourages is no longer isolated short-term operations, but deeper participation and co-construction - a new community trading ecosystem that connects users, developers and crypto assets.

Conclusion: Gate.io 's "Top-Tier Revelation"

In the second half of the competition in cryptocurrency trading, the trend of decentralization is accelerating, and the head pattern is no longer unbreakable. What can truly cross the cycle is a platform that is oriented towards user needs and technology and product innovation as the core driving force. It is precisely with this underlying logic that Gate.io stands out from the fierce competition and becomes an important force in the reconstruction of the global exchange pattern.

In the future, Gate.io will continue to deepen its derivatives track with an ecological perspective, promote the multi-dimensional evolution of product capabilities, liquidity mechanisms and user experience, and further consolidate its competitive advantages in the global market. For users who are looking for more professional trading tools, richer asset options and better trading experience, now is the critical moment to join the Gate.io contract ecosystem. Visit the Gate.io contract trading portal now to learn more, or go to the platform brand upgrade area to explore the comprehensive improvements brought by the new version.

Disclaimer

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