Gate’s prediction markets, core trading business, and capital flows all posted standout numbers this week, reinforcing the exchange’s expanding footprint across crypto and traditional finance alike.
As the World Cup group stage rolls on, cumulative trading volume on Gate Polymarket has surpassed $251 million, making it the No. 1 platform globally by notional prediction market volume — a result of Gate’s positioning as the first centralized exchange to integrate Polymarket, letting users trade match outcomes directly with USDT from their exchange accounts. Gate’s core exchange business is outperforming the broader market too: per CoinDesk’s latest Exchange Review, total spot and derivatives volume across centralized exchanges fell 3.45% month-over-month in May, yet Gate’s spot trading volume rose 11.5% to $43.8 billion, the fastest growth rate among major global exchanges, lifting its market share to 4.55% and placing it among the world’s top five spot venues. That momentum carried into capital flows as well: DefiLlama data shows Gate logged $327.41 million in net inflows over the past 24 hours, ranking No. 1 globally across the 24-hour, 7-day, and 30-day windows alike.
Beyond the headline numbers, the rest of the week’s updates span new stock futures listings, commodity market activity, institutional infrastructure, and a fresh round of World Cup-themed promotions.
On the pitch, June 16 brought a run of stalemates — Spain and Cape Verde finished 0-0, Belgium and Egypt shared a 1-1 draw, and Saudi Arabia and Uruguay also tied 1-1 — before Iran and New Zealand played out an entertaining 2-2 the same day. June 17 turned more decisive: Messi’s hat-trick powered Argentina to a 3-0 win over Algeria, France beat Senegal 3-1, and Norway downed Iraq 4-1, with attention now turning to Austria vs. Jordan. Each featured match feeds Gate’s “Daily Featured Match” campaign, where placing at least 50 USDT on the day’s spotlighted game earns a flat 10 USDT trial fund regardless of outcome, part of a tournament-long push that includes a 50,000 USDT pool across 35 matches, 10,000 USDT for newly registered users, and a 5,000 USDT pool for traders reaching 500 USDT in cumulative volume.
Gate is layering on more ways to engage beyond trading itself. Gate Live’s World Cup giveaway lets users earn Heat Points by watching streams, chatting, and checking in daily — every 80 points unlocks a lucky draw for prizes like official Inter jerseys and a Gate 2026 World Cup gift box, with 7-day streaks unlocking bonus merchandise. A separate Dragon Boat Festival gift-box campaign is rewarding KOLs, VIP users, and community partners who follow, repost, and share their favorite teams on social media. Tying it together, Gate Polymarket’s new World Cup Hub centralizes schedules, group standings, and markets, while the “Pitch Predictor” Carnival running through July 21 covers all 104 tournament matches with a prize pool exceeding 500,000 USDT.
Gate’s stock-trading lineup grew on both ends of the order book. The platform added 16 new stock perpetual futures across two days — TWLO, ROK, CGNX, IVV, SOXX, SMH, SPYM, and VOO on June 16, followed by SOXS, GLD, XLK, SQQQ, XLF, EEM, GEV, and LQD on June 17 — all USDT-margined with up to 20x leverage. Among existing listings, Apple (AAPLX) and Amazon (AMZNX) futures held the top global spot for both open interest and 24-hour volume as tech-sector momentum stayed strong, while SpaceX (SPCX) cooled after its post-listing rally: having briefly ranked first globally in 24-hour spot volume and net inflows, SPCX pulled back roughly 4%, alongside a similar dip in SanDisk (SNDK), though both remain among the most actively traded stock futures on the platform. Gate also completed its dividend distribution for Alphabet shares (GOOGL/GOOG), automatically crediting eligible holders $0.22 per share in USDT. Rounding out the equity push, Gate highlighted continued momentum in Hong Kong equities — led by gainers including Triumph New En, Clover Bio-B, and China NT Bldg — as it works toward fuller integration of its 1,000+ HK listings and 10,000+ US stocks and ETFs under one unified account, alongside a new Gate Live course walking users through their first stock trade.
Tether Gold (XAUT) traded near $4,297, with Gate ranking third globally in open interest at roughly $125.4 million, while PAXG saw Gate post the second-highest net inflows in its 1-hour fund flow heatmap. Physical gold and silver also held elevated levels — gold near $4,340 and silver near $70.40 — with Gate’s XAU and XAG futures open interest both ranking among the top two industry-wide. Crude, by contrast, slid sharply on expectations of an imminent US-Iran peace accord: WTI fell over 4% to around $74.92 and Brent dropped roughly 3.4% to $78.39, both hitting three-month lows, even as Gate’s oil futures volume and open interest stayed among the highest in the industry.
CoinDesk highlighted Gate’s growing role as the line between crypto and traditional finance continues to blur, with the tokenized Treasury market now around $14.6 billion. Gate CMO Kyle Chiu was quoted framing the shift as one where “the categories themselves are dissolving,” with platforms increasingly judged on the depth of their asset coverage and global service efficiency — a fit for Gate’s Unified Account System, which already lets users trade stocks, metals, forex, indices, and commodities from a single USDT balance. The Block separately profiled Gate CrossEx, the exchange’s 2025-launched answer to institutional capital fragmentation: a unified margin pool and internal credit settlement layer that lets institutions mobilize collateral and offset PnL across multiple exchanges in real time, now covering more than 5,000 assets as margin or trading instruments.
Broader trading data showed Gate holding meaningful share across major pairs: BTC’s $4.5 billion in 24-hour global spot volume included $872 million on Gate, while ETH’s $51.3 billion in futures volume included $6.28 billion on the platform. Gate Ventures’ latest weekly recap pointed to AI and prediction-market infrastructure as the week’s standout investment themes — Bittensor (TAO) surged 31.5% — alongside nine disclosed funding rounds totaling $584.6 million, including Digital Asset’s $355 million raise and Morpho’s $175 million round, even as equity markets stayed volatile under a hawkish Fed and rising CPI. On the product side, Gate’s copy trading ecosystem kept growing, with CFD copy trading volume up 24.4% week-over-week and new futures copy traders rising 50% daily on average. And with the Warsh-era FOMC decision approaching, Gate Options rolled out a new Option Data feature showing volume and Put/Call Ratio metrics, as the platform’s options trading volume has grown roughly 11% week-over-week on average over the past 15 weeks, with plans to extend into US stock options soon.
Rounding out the week, Gate launched a 240,000 USDT giveaway for new futures traders, offering cash rewards for first trades, referrals, and three-day trading streaks through June 24. USD1 holdings on the platform approached $650 million as its Soft Staking campaign continues to offer up to 20% estimated APR with no lock-up for users simply holding the asset in their Spot Account. And on the listings front, Gate added o1.exchange (O) spot and Convert trading, backed by a $100,000 O Candydrop and Alpha campaign.
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