Gate, one of the leading global digital asset trading platforms, officially released its Q3 2026 Report, highlighting that Gate accelerated its business expansion across multi-asset trading, wealth management, institutional services, and infrastructure, accelerating the convergence of crypto and TradFi. Over the quarter, the platform sustained growth across key trading and asset management metrics, solidifying its integrated financial services ecosystem.
Regarding trading volume and market share, Gate maintained steady momentum in both derivatives and spot trading. According to CoinDesk data, Gate recorded $396 billion in derivatives trading volume in September, a 38.2% MoM increase, placing it among the Top 3 global centralized derivatives exchanges with a market share of 10.1%. Spot trading volume reached $48.8 billion during the same period, up 21.9% MoM, while its RWA perpetuals market share hit 9.1%, ranking third globally. Additionally, quarterly ETF trading volume approached 60 billion USDT, overall options trading volume grew 23.8% QoQ, and new trading users increased by 52.1%, demonstrating the continuous expansion of its trading product matrix.
In TradFi business, Gate expanded its global stock and ETF offerings to 12,800+ instruments, spanning four major markets: the U.S., Hong Kong, South Korea, and Japan. Tokenized equity trading grew in tandem, with gStocks August trading volume exceeding 2.5 billion USDT. During Q3, Gate continuously upgraded its CFD multi-asset trading, Pre-IPOs, and IPO Access services while launching U.S. Stock Options, Stock Copy Trading, and Stock Event Contracts, further enriching digital trading scenarios for traditional financial assets.
For wealth management, Gate Simple Earn total AUM surpassed $1.85 billion, up over 24% QoQ, while Gate Staking peak AUM exceeded $1.27 billion, representing a 57%+ growth from the end of Q2. The newly launched Idle Earn, offering automated yield generation for USDT, USDC, and USD1, has accumulated over $300 million in total holdings to date. Ecosystem incentive products also expanded steadily; Gate Launchpool hosted 17 projects in Q3, with the FOLD project achieving an APR of over 580% at close. CandyDrop rolled out 13 airdrop campaigns, distributing approximately $2 million in total rewards.
On the institutional services and infrastructure front, Gate CrossEx recorded strong growth with quarterly trading volume increasing 63% QoQ, total retained assets surging 902%, and active trading users growing approximately 315%. Concurrently, Gate advanced upgrades across Perp DEX, Gate Layer, Gate Card, and Gate.AI, extending its capability matrix into on-chain derivatives, digital payments, and AI-driven investment research.
For security and compliance, according to the latest October data, Gate’s total reserve assets stood at $8.688 billion, maintaining a robust overall reserve ratio of 118.49%. Cumulative GT burns reached around 192 million GT, accounting for a 63.98% reduction from the initial total supply. Globally, Gate further strengthened its regulatory compliance under frameworks like Europe’s MiCA and Dubai’s VARA, expanding its legal and compliant operations across 81 regulated jurisdictions worldwide.
For brand and ecosystem building, during Coinfest Asia 2026, Gate hosted a side event focused on AI, multi-asset investing, and industry trends. The Gate Voyage Bali Gala convened nearly 200 global industry leaders, ecosystem partners, and top creators to deepen international strategic partnerships. Meanwhile, Gate strengthened its content ecosystem, comprising Gate Research, Gate Learn, and Gate Blog, expanding research and educational output around macroeconomics, RWA, AI, and global stocks to enhance global industry knowledge-sharing.
Overall, Q3 marked significant progress for Gate across trading scale, TradFi, wealth management, and institutional services. As the integration between crypto and traditional finance accelerates, Gate is actively reinforcing synergies across trading, yield, payments, and AI research, paving the way for a comprehensive, multi-asset financial services ecosystem.
Read the full report here.
About Gate
Gate, founded in 2013 by Dr. Han, is one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency and integrated financial services platforms, spanning financial and everyday use cases including asset management, trading and payments. Serving over 62 million users globally, it supports trading across 5,400+ digital assets and 12,800+ stock assets and ETFs, while providing access to a comprehensive range of TradFi assets, including metals, stocks, indices, forex, and commodities to meet users’ end-to-end needs across asset holding, trading, and spending. As an industry benchmark, Gate was among the first platforms to implement 100% Proof of Reserves. Its ecosystem includes Gate Money, Gate Wallet, Gate Ventures, Gate for AI Agent, and a wide range of products and services.
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