# Gate > Gateway to crypto Gate is a centralized cryptocurrency exchange offering trading and related digital asset services. It serves global users seeking spot, futures, and margin trading along with wealth management and token launch access. Gate is a centralized cryptocurrency exchange that provides trading and digital asset services to users worldwide. The platform supports spot trading, futures contracts, and margin trading, alongside wealth management products, staking, and early-stage token offerings. It is aimed at retail and professional traders seeking access to a broad range of digital assets and trading formats through a single platform. The exchange addresses the need for verifiable custody of client assets by publishing proof of reserves and maintaining licensing and regulatory registrations across multiple jurisdictions. It operates through a unified account structure that lets users manage collateral and positions across different trading products. This approach is intended to give users transparency into how their holdings are backed while supporting diverse trading strategies from one balance. Beyond core trading, Gate offers additional products such as a crypto wallet, decentralized exchange access, copy trading, and automated trading bots, alongside tokenized stocks and derivatives linked to traditional assets. The platform has undergone rebranding over its history while continuing to operate as a trading venue. It is used by individual traders, institutional participants, and blockchain projects seeking token distribution and liquidity access. - Type: Company - Sector: Finance - Status: Active - Founded: 2013-04-13 - Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/gate ## Products - [Gate Web3 Wallet](https://thegrid.id/profiles/gate): Gate Web3 Wallet is a non-custodial wallet that lets users store private keys and manage digital assets across multiple blockchains. It supports asset management, decentralized application interaction, and cross-chain transactions, with built-in security and backup features. The wallet is used by individuals seeking self-custody access to a wide range of blockchain ecosystems. (Wallet, Live) - [Gate Exchange](https://thegrid.id/profiles/gate): Gate Exchange is a centralized exchange for cryptocurrency trading. It matches user orders through a centralized order book, supporting spot markets, futures contracts, margin trading with leverage, and options trading. The platform holds custody of user assets and processes deposits and withdrawals across multiple blockchains. (Centralised Exchange, Live, Main Product) - [Gate Pay](https://thegrid.id/profiles/gate): Gate Pay is a merchant payment gateway that lets businesses accept cryptocurrency payments. It processes deposits, withdrawals, and fiat conversion, providing real-time settlement in stablecoins or fiat and API integration for checkout acceptance across a wide range of cryptocurrencies and fiat currencies. Merchants use the gateway to receive crypto payments while automated settlement handles currency conversion. (Merchant Payment Gateway, Live) - [Gate Card](https://thegrid.id/profiles/gate): Gate Card is a payment card that enables cryptocurrency spending at traditional merchants through automatic conversion at the point of sale. It integrates with a major card payment network, allowing physical and virtual cards to be used at a wide range of merchants and ATMs worldwide, with real-time settlement so users are debited in crypto while merchants receive fiat. The card supports several major digital assets and applies foreign exchange and conversion fees at the time of transaction. (Card, Early access) - [Gate Layer](https://thegrid.id/profiles/gate): Gate Layer is a Layer 2 network built on a rollup architecture that inherits security from Ethereum. It uses an optimistic rollup design and settles to GateChain, achieving high transaction throughput and fast block times while using a native asset as its gas token. The network hosts decentralized applications including token launch, swap, and bridging services, and connects to other networks through cross-chain messaging. (L2, Live) - [GateChain](https://thegrid.id/profiles/gate): GateChain is a Layer 1 blockchain that provides independent proof-of-stake consensus and settlement for digital asset transfers. It offers vault account functionality and transaction revocability features, processing transactions using its native asset for fees and staking. The network serves as the settlement layer for other Gate products, including a connected Layer 2 network. (L1, Live) - [Gate Scan](https://thegrid.id/profiles/gate): Gate Scan is a block explorer for GateChain and Gate Layer. It displays blocks, transactions, addresses, consensus data, and network metrics, allowing users to search and verify on-chain activity across both networks. (Block Explorer, Live) - [Gate Alpha](https://thegrid.id/profiles/gate): Gate Alpha is a decentralized exchange interface that enables one-click on-chain trading of early-stage tokens through stablecoin purchases. It uses listing filters to curate new tokens and supports multi-chain trading across several blockchains, allowing users to trade directly from their own wallets without an intermediary custodian. (Decentralised Exchange, Live) - [Gate OTC](https://thegrid.id/profiles/gate): Gate OTC is an over-the-counter trading desk for high-value cryptocurrency transactions with fiat conversion through bank transfers. It negotiates prices privately and settles large trades directly between counterparties outside the public order book, with dedicated account management for institutional clients and no upper transaction limit. (OTC, Live) - [Gate Ventures](https://thegrid.id/profiles/gate): Gate Ventures is a venture fund that invests in blockchain and fintech projects through strategic funding and partnership development. It deploys capital into early-stage to growth-stage companies within the digital asset ecosystem, holding positions until exit events such as token launches or acquisitions. (Venture Fund, Live) - [Gate Fun](https://thegrid.id/profiles/gate): Gate Fun provides zero-code token issuance through a one-click interface on Gate Layer, enabling users to create and deploy tokens in under a minute with minimal gas fees paid in GT. The platform employs a bonding curve mechanism where tokens reaching graduation thresholds automatically migrate liquidity to Gate Swap for trading. Creators receive fee-sharing rights and bonus rewards while the system maintains integration with Web3 wallets and Gate's account infrastructure. (Launch Pad, Live) - [Gate Connect](https://thegrid.id/profiles/gate): Gate Connect is an on/off-ramp service enabling conversion between fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies within the Gate Exchange platform. It supports multiple fiat currencies and cryptocurrencies through debit and credit cards, bank transfers, and mobile payment methods, and includes recurring purchase functionality integrated directly into the buy-crypto flow. (On/Off Ramp, Live) ## Assets - [GateToken (GT)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/gate): GT is the native token of GateChain and the utility token of the Gate exchange ecosystem. It is used to pay transaction fees and gas on GateChain and its EVM module, earn proof-of-stake mining rewards, reduce trading fees, upgrade VIP tiers, and access ecosystem products on Gate. A quarterly buyback-and-burn mechanism funded by a share of platform trading profits reduces circulating supply over time. (Native) ## Links - [Main](https://gate.com) - [Blog](https://www.gate.com/blog) - [Media Kit/branding](https://www.gate.com/media-kit) - [Documentation](https://gatechain.io/docs/intro) - [Privacy policy](https://www.gate.com/zh/legal/privacy-policy) - [Terms of Service](https://www.gate.com/legal/user-agreement) - [Twitter / X](https://x.com/gate_io) - [Instagram](https://instagram.com/gateioglobal) - [Facebook](https://facebook.com/gateioglobal) - [Reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/GateioExchange) - [Discord](https://discord.gg/93WU6kt29u) - [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@gate_com) - [Twitter / X](https://x.com/Gate) - [GitHub](https://github.com/gatechain) - [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/gateio) ## Relationships - [Gate TR](https://thegrid.id/profiles/gate_tr): Subsidiary ## Legal This data is provided under two licensing models. 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