Gate marked a regulatory and market milestone this week as its US operation, Gate US, celebrated its one-year anniversary. Since launching on August 1, 2025, Gate US has expanded its state-level Money Transmitter Licenses from 23 to 36, and now operates compliantly across 47 US jurisdictions. Over the past year, the platform has introduced a trading app, fiat on- and off-ramps, staking, institutional KYB onboarding, and most recently Gate Card, which enables stablecoin payments across Visa’s global merchant network. The expansion gives the exchange a broader operational footprint in one of crypto’s most heavily supervised markets, while tying product rollout to licensing progress.

The anniversary came alongside strong platform-wide performance. According to DefiLlama, Gate recorded more than $124 million in seven-day net inflows, placing it among the top three globally. The exchange also reported $10.484 billion in 24-hour total open interest, ranking second only to Binance among centralized exchanges. Together, the figures underscored a week in which Gate reinforced its position in global crypto infrastructure.

Futures and Derivatives

Gate’s derivatives business saw several notable developments. The exchange launched pre-market perpetual futures for UNITREE, the robotics company behind large-scale commercial quadruped robots. The contract opened approximately 90% higher in its first 24 hours. A dedicated UNITREE trading competition is running through August 14 and offers up to 240 USDT per eligible participant from a 50,000 USDT prize pool.

Gate’s Futures Stock section also expanded its lineup to include ten new Chinese technology names as USDT-margined perpetual futures, including Foxconn Industrial Internet, Cambricon Technologies, and Sungrow Power Supply. The contracts support leverage of up to 20x, while the New Token Airdrop Phase 12 campaign is running alongside through August 13.

In options, Gate reported a 14.55% week-over-week increase in overall options trading volume, with new-user volume up 15.41%. A Simple Options Monthly Challenge is live through August 30 with a 50,000 USDT prize pool. The TradFi CFD Financial Masters campaign, which runs through September 3, features a prize pool of up to 500,000 USDT across trading volume and ROI leaderboards, plus hourly draws offering SK Hynix shares. VIP 5+ members are eligible for exclusive twice-daily draws. Gate also launched a Futures Referral Leaderboard on August 5, which runs through August 19 and distributes up to 90,000 USDT across three rankings for both new and existing referral activity.

Copy Trading and Equities

Gate’s copy trading ecosystem continued to expand. Futures copy trading posted a 191% month-over-month surge in average daily new copy traders, while CFD lead traders grew 58.7%. Lucas Sum, Gate’s Head of Market Development for Equities, said investor behavior is shifting from fragmented multi-platform operations toward integrated single-gateway access as Gate Stocks continues to broaden its coverage of more than 12,500 global equity and ETF assets across US, Hong Kong, and Korean markets.

Activity on gStocks was driven by both technology and clean energy themes. The SanDisk 2x Leveraged ETF token (SNXXG) rose 30.15%, the Marvell Technology 2x Leveraged ETF token (MVLLG) gained 27.40%, and the MSCI Korea Index 3x Leveraged ETF token (KORUG) increased 20.68% over 24 hours. In clean energy, Fluence Energy (FLNCG) rose 5.78% and Bloom Energy (BEG) advanced 3.90%.

The tech move also extended into equity derivatives. Gate’s MSFT futures 24-hour volume jumped 211.64%, while AMZN futures volume surged 163.68%. Both ranked among the top CEXs in equity-backed derivatives activity.

Precious Metals and Macro

Gate maintained a strong position in precious metals futures this week. According to CoinGlass data, Gate’s XAU open interest stood at $157 million, ranking among the top three globally, while XAUT futures open interest reached $134 million, also placing Gate in the top three. Silver extended its gains, with XAG up 3.52% to $60.93 intraday. Gate’s XAG futures open interest of $85.45 million ranked second in the industry.

Gate Ventures’ latest weekly report said market sentiment was recovering on the back of strong tech earnings, with BTC up 1.5% and ETH gaining 3.6% for the week. On the institutional side, BNY migrated approximately $8.6 trillion in transfer agency records to blockchain, while a group of European financial institutions launched the RL1 network for tokenized assets and on-chain settlement. Gate Ventures highlighted both as signs of continued infrastructure maturation in the sector, showing how tokenization and settlement rails are increasingly part of the broader market backdrop around exchange activity.

Yield Products and Staking

Gate’s yield products also showed continued momentum. GUSD now offers a 3.8% base APR with flexible terms and zero redemption fees. When combined with Launchpool pools including SPCX and ANTFUN, total yields can reach up to 8.93%.

Total staking volume in the SPCX dual pool, which includes GUSD and USDT, exceeded $146 million, and the GUSD combined APY reached 7.30%. Platform holdings of USD1 have reached nearly $250 million. Users holding at least 1 USD1 can earn up to 8% estimated APR through the ongoing soft staking campaign, with an additional staking option at 7.37% APR.

Prediction Markets and Esports

Gate’s Esports Trading Season, which runs through August 10 with a 200,000 USDT prize pool, continued to draw engagement across League of Legends matchups in the LCK and LJL leagues. T1 Academy vs. KT Rolster Challengers attracted particular attention, with T1 Academy holding a 69% predicted win probability on Gate Polymarket. Other matchups, including FENNEL vs. New Meta and Dplus KIA vs. Nongshim Esports Academy, also generated significant prediction volume as match times approached.

Gate Alpha and Platform Campaigns

Gate Alpha’s BSC-focused Hot Token Trading Competition Phase 57 is live through August 7 with a $40,000 prize pool. The campaign includes 100% win-rate mystery boxes and real-time reward distribution. A Returning User Exclusive Comeback campaign runs through August 16, with task coupons available to the first 2,000 registrants.

Gate Alpha has also opened its community event mode, allowing any user to independently launch trading competitions or volume-tier campaigns for Alpha Featured tokens. The minimum event budget is 1,000 USDT, and the review process takes 24 hours.

Other active campaigns include Convert Lucky Draw Phase 19, which runs through August 9 with cash rewards up to 200 USDT, and Convert and Auto-Invest Benefits Phase 6, which runs through August 17 and offers up to 500 USDT in Dual Investment Trial Funds and 100% cashback on Auto-Invest spot trading fees. VIP users can also participate in Exclusive Airdrop Carnival Phase 17, where premium Rimowa travel accessories are available to top-tier traders based on cumulative trading volume.