Gate's first-quarter report card was released: multiple indicators hit new highs, and contract trading volume increased by about 31% month-on-month

Gate, the world's leading digital asset platform, recently released its first quarter 2025 transparency report. According to the report, the platform has achieved all-round breakthroughs in multiple business segments, with core business indicators continuously reaching new highs, comprehensive upgrade of security systems, continuous enrichment of product matrix, and accelerated globalization strategy, showing strong development momentum and a market foundation for steady growth.

**Trading business has grown in an all-round way, with contract trading

volume increasing by about 31% month-on-month**

In the first quarter of 2025, Gate continued its excellence as an industry leader, achieving significant breakthroughs in both user growth and transaction size. The scale of platform users continues to expand, demonstrating Gate.io's strong appeal and continuous growth momentum in the market.

The contract business ushered in explosive growth, with both trading users and trading volume rising sharply, with trading volume increasing by 31% compared with the previous quarter. In terms of spot business, the platform has launched more than 200 new coins, continuously showing its leading advantages in currency screening and online efficiency, providing users with richer and higher-quality investment options.

Gate also launched a new "Refer to Earn" invitation incentive plan, combining social media and interactive gameplay to achieve a positive cycle of user growth and transaction conversion, helping the platform community ecology continue to expand.

GT continues to be eye-catching, hitting a record high of $25.96

In this quarter, Gate platform currency GT showed strong trends and set new highs, reaching a historical peak of US$25.96 on January 25, 2025, an increase of nearly 70% from the beginning of the year. As GateChain's native functional token and Gas fee payment token, GT provides support for GateChain's underlying money transfer system. In addition, GT holders can also enjoy exclusive benefits such as SGD airdrop, SGD mining and GT mining.

Since GateChain was launched in 2019, GT has been implementing a destruction mechanism, reducing the total token volume from the initial 300 million coins by about 60%, reflecting Gate's commitment and persistence to GT's deflation, and providing strong support for GT's long-term value. As of now, the cumulative number of GT destroyed has reached 177,089,412.23, with a destruction value of approximately US$408,270,578.

**Stick to the cornerstone of security, the total value of platform

reserves exceeded US$10.328 billion**

Gate is always committed to protecting user assets and information security, and continues to increase the construction of platform security and transparency. As of January 17, 2025, the total value of Gate.io's reserves reached US$10.328 billion, ranking fourth among similar platforms in the world. The total reserve ratio is as high as 128.58%, far exceeding the industry's 100% benchmark level. The excess reserve scale is as high as US$2.296 billion, protecting the safety of user assets.

Gate attaches great importance to global compliance operations. Gate Entities has made significant progress in global compliance. Through its subsidiary, it has completed the acquisition of Japanese licensed exchange Coin Master, which further promoted its localized business expansion in the Japanese market.

**Launchpool is fully upgraded to promote the rapid launch of more than

140 new projects**

In the first quarter of 2025, Gate Launchpool (formerly Startup New Coin Mining) was fully upgraded and became the industry's leading New Coin Mining Platform. More than 140 projects were launched, of which more than 90 were free airdrops, with a total value of more than 5.2 million US dollars; more than 70 mining projects were used, with a total reward of US$9.2 million.

The platform has added search and intelligent filtering functions, and lowered the HODLer Airdrop threshold to 1 GT, with the average annualized return of airdrop projects reaching 43.94%. In addition, Gate Launchpool uses agile new launch mechanism to accurately capture market dynamics. Hot projects such as Trump tokens will exceed US$25 million within 24 hours of launch, driving users to actively participate and forming a new ecosystem for win-win results between the platform and the project.

**The innovation zone has launched more than 1,000 currencies, capturing

multiple high-yield memes**

Gate Innovation Zone further consolidates its leading position in the track with its first-mover advantage and continuous innovation in the Meme field. 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, with a total of more than 1,000 currencies in total, continuing to maintain a leading position in the industry, providing users with more diverse investment options. At the same time, we have innovatively launched tools such as "Logo Model" and "Golden Dog Index" to greatly improve users' ability to recognize coins and trends, and lower the threshold for Meme trading.

With the rapid currency listing mechanism, the Innovation Zone is the first to help 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 to deeply participate in offline industry activities and consolidate the platform's dominance in the Meme track.

**Institutional business performance is strong, infrastructure continues

to upgrade**

Gate's institutional business has made significant breakthroughs in transaction volume and ecological construction. The transaction volume of institutional client contracts and broker business has been significantly increased. By optimizing trading infrastructure and depth, the delay has been reduced by more than 2 times, and the user transaction efficiency has been greatly improved. In addition, contract liquidity has 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 further expands the professional customer base and strengthens the construction of high-end user circles through joint marketing activities with more than 20 partners, further strengthens Gate's leading advantages in the global cryptocurrency field.

Quantitative investment has increased significantly, with order-following transaction volume soaring 780%

During the quarter, Gate achieved significant growth in the areas of order-sorting business, robotics strategy and ETF products. In terms of order-following business, the launch of Prometheus automatic risk control system has built a safer trading environment for users; spot order-following transaction volume soared 780%, and the platform's maximum return on orders reached 890 times, creating excess returns for users.

Robot products have generated over US$500 million in transaction revenue for users by continuously optimizing Ultra AI strategies and intelligent algorithms. The newly launched BotsLive live column and weekly selected strategy recommendations have greatly improved user activity; the number of new strategies has surged by 404% month-on-month, and the number of new strategies has increased by 193%.

The ETF business also performed well, and the platform supports more than 200 ETF leveraged tokens, ranking first in the industry. As of the end of the quarter, ETF transaction volume increased by 40% month-on-month, and the number of participating users increased by 197% month-on-month.

Work with top partners to build global blockchain influence

In the first quarter of 2025, Gate made efforts in the field of global brand expansion and blockchain investment. Gate.io announced that it will become the official sponsor of the F1 Red Bull Racing in F1, starting years of strategic cooperation. This cooperation is not only a strong alliance between the two major industry leaders, but also marks that blockchain technology is moving from the track to the world stage, and using the global event platform to popularize the concept of Web3 and digital finance to a wider range of users.

Meanwhile, Gate Ventures joins the newly formed Morph Venture Capital Collective Alliance to further expand its blockchain investment space. In addition, Gate Ventures' investment of $20 million in the BNB Incubation Alliance (BIA), co-sponsored by BNB Chain and Binance Labs, reflects 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 helping blockchain technology to the mainstream with practical actions.

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