Gate announced a batch launch of USDT-settled perpetual contracts tied to traditional markets, spanning metals, equity indices, FX pairs, and crude oil. The rollout is split across new “sections,” each with dedicated symbols and leverage ranges.
Gate’s official listings include a Metals Section with XALUSDT, XCUUSDT, XNIUSDT, and XPBUSDT, an Indices Section with US30USDT, HK50USDT, and JPN225USDT, a Forex Section with EURUSDUSDT and GBPUSDUSDT, and a Commodities Section with XTIUSDT and XBRUSDT.
The Metals Section adds aluminum, copper, nickel, and lead proxies via XAL, XCU, XNI, and XPB, with leverage described as 1x to 10x in Gate’s listing notice.
These products extend Gate’s earlier metals push, following prior launches in the “metals” category such as platinum and palladium perps described in Gate’s XPT and XPD announcement.
The Indices Section adds US30 (Dow), HK50 (Hang Seng), and JPN225 (Nikkei 225) perps, also listed with 1x to 10xleverage in Gate’s Indices notice.
The Forex Section adds EURUSD and GBPUSD perps, with leverage described as 1x to 100x in Gate’s Forex notice.
The Commodities Section adds XTI (WTI) and XBR (Brent) perps, listed with 1x to 10x leverage in Gate’s Commodities notice.
This batch matters less as a “new ticker” story and more as a market-structure story: a crypto derivatives venue is packaging macro exposures in the same interface and margin unit (USDT) that traders already use for crypto perps.
That can change behavior in three practical ways.
When metals, indices, FX and oil can be traded alongside crypto perps, position management can become portfolio-like. Traders may hedge crypto volatility with macro exposures, or they may take macro risk using the same risk habits as crypto. Either way, the user base starts to look less purely crypto-native.
Gate’s listings repeatedly warn that these contracts reference external markets that operate on specific schedules. During non-trading hours, Gate says the index price enters a quote-hold state and continues using the last valid quote until the reference market resumes.
This is not a small footnote. It can widen spreads, make stop-loss behavior feel different, and increase liquidation sensitivity if the underlying reference market reopens with a gap.
For traders who want the mechanism basics, Gate’s explanation of how it derives an index price and uses a mark price for liquidation is laid out in its price index and mark price overview.
New perps often see a mix of thin early books, fast leverage experimentation, and rapid parameter tuning. Gate explicitly notes it may adjust funding, tick size, maximum leverage, risk limits, and maintenance margin requirements based on market conditions in the same listing posts.
Gate’s batch listing of USDT-settled perps for metals, indices, FX, and oil is a meaningful step toward “crypto venue becomes macro venue.” The key story is not the symbol list, but how pricing sources, market hours, spreads, and liquidation mechanics behave once macro exposure is traded in a 24/7 crypto derivatives wrapper.
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