Gate.io Review

Our verdict: in our view, Gate.io is a strong pick for experienced traders seeking a very long coin list, low spot fees, and futures with high leverage in one account. Gate.io has been trading as Gate, using the domain gate.com, since May 19, 2025. If you reside in the US, you sign up with Gate US instead, a separate company that we cover below.

On gate.com, spot trades at the entry tier are charged 0.10% for both maker and taker orders, while USDT perpetual futures incur a 0.02% maker fee and a 0.05% taker fee. By our count, gate.com offers 1,464 crypto assets with an active spot market.

Gate.io suits you if:

• you trade altcoins and want 1,464 crypto assets on one exchange.
• you want spot, margin, futures, copy trading, and bots in one account.
• you seek low entry-tier fees on spot and futures and live in a country served by Gate's global platform.

Gate.io may not be the right fit if:

• you are purchasing crypto for the first time.
• you reside in the UK or Canada, both listed as restricted locations in Gate's user agreement.

Beginner friendliness is the criterion we rate lowest for Gate.io. For a first purchase, Coinbase and OKX are the alternatives we rate higher for beginners.

Gate.io at a glance

• Brand: Gate, at gate.com since May 19, 2025
• Founded: 2013. Status: active
• Operator of gate.com: see Licenses and regulatory record. The user agreement is governed by the laws of Panama
• US residents: Gate US, a separate company (next section)
• Spot fees, entry tier: 0.10% maker and 0.10% taker on gate.com and on Gate's EU site. 0.25% maker and 0.40% taker on Gate US
• USDT perpetual futures, entry tier: 0.02% maker and 0.05% taker, leverage up to 200x on BTC. Margin up to 10x
• Crypto assets: 1,464 with an active spot market on gate.com, on 2,202 spot pairs. Gate US: 351 on 381 markets
• BTC withdrawal fee: varies, set by Gate and adjusted every hour. Its fee page showed 0.00003 BTC. BTC deposits: free
• Proof of reserves: total reserves at 117% of customer net balances in Gate's latest report

Gate.io in the US

Gate's user agreement for gate.com lists the United States as a restricted location and prohibits US persons from accessing its services. US residents instead use Gate US, a distinct company with its own agreement and fees. Gate US, Inc., with NMLS ID 2272810, is its operator. Gate US does not currently operate in Alaska, Louisiana, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Washington, and the US Virgin Islands.

Gate US lists 37 money transmitter or similar licenses on its website. Its offerings differ from gate.com:

• Spot trading, Convert, and OTC: Gate US has announced no margin or derivatives for US customers.
• 351 crypto assets on 381 spot markets, including pairs against US dollars.
• Entry-tier fees of 0.25% maker and 0.40% taker. From $10,000 of 30-day volume or $3,000 in assets, 0.23% maker and 0.36% taker.
• Identity verification with your Social Security number, government ID, and facial scan. Gate US reports most checks take 30 minutes to 12 hours.
• Dollar funding by wire through a bank designated by Gate US, not available to all users. Card purchases run through a third-party processor.
• Gate US notes on its license page that crypto accounts lack protection from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the Securities Investor Protection Corporation.

Gate Futures LLC, a Gate US subsidiary, is registered with the CFTC as an introducing broker and is an NFA member, yet Gate US has announced no futures trading for US customers. Both platforms use the Gate app. If you reside in an excluded state or need margin and futures access, see our list of exchanges for US customers.

What Gate.io costs: a worked example

Consider buying $1,000 of bitcoin with a market order and transferring it to your wallet:

• Outside the US, on gate.com, the 0.10% taker fee is $1.00.
• In the US, on Gate US, the 0.40% taker fee is $4.00, or $2.50 at the 0.25% maker fee if you place a limit order that waits on the order book.
• The withdrawal costs match Gate's fee page listing for Bitcoin, 0.00003 BTC, adjusted hourly based on network conditions.

A $1,000 market buy costs $3.50 at OKX US, $8.00 at Kraken Pro's entry tier, and $9.00 on Coinbase Advanced for US customers. On Gate US, fees decrease as your 30-day trading volume increases.

What gate.com offers

Gate's global platform supports spot and margin trading, with margin up to 10x on BTC, USDT and BTC perpetual futures with up to 200x leverage on BTC, delivery futures, and options. Beyond trading, Gate provides copy trading, quant bots, Earn products like staking and auto-invest, Launchpool, a P2P market, NFT services, and a Web3 wallet.

Gate says it supports 5,300+ digital assets and 12,800+ stocks and ETFs from the US, Hong Kong, Korean and Japanese markets, settled in USDT. Our count is lower because it includes only crypto assets with an active spot market and leaves out tokenized stocks and leveraged tokens: 1,464 on gate.com.

In 2025, Gate introduced BTC staking, a private wealth service for high-net-worth clients, and Gate Perp DEX, a decentralized perpetual futures exchange on Gate Layer, Gate's proprietary network.

Where Gate.io is available

Gate's user agreement for gate.com lists restricted locations that include Canada, the UK, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Austria, Japan, Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and India. In several of these markets, separate Gate companies hold their own licenses or registrations:

• In the EEA, Gate Technology Ltd in Malta holds a MiCA authorization from the MFSA, passported to 29 EEA states, including Germany.
• In Dubai, Gate Technology FZE possesses a VARA license for exchange services.
• In Japan, Gate Japan is registered with the Financial Services Agency, although the agency's list shows no crypto assets it manages.

Licenses and regulatory record

Gate says the companies using its brand function independently. Its license page also lists group companies registered or licensed with AUSTRAC, the Securities Commission of The Bahamas, CySEC in Cyprus, and the Gibraltar regulator. We confirmed the EEA, Dubai, and Japan entries in the regulators' records.

For the global gate.com platform itself, Gate's license page names no license, and Gate does not name the company that runs it. Its user agreement is governed by the laws of Panama, with arbitration seated in Panama. Gate also states that it is not registered in the Cayman Islands and does not maintain any address there.

In December 2023, India's Financial Intelligence Unit issued show cause notices to Gate.io and eight other offshore providers, requesting the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology to block their sites. The unit said these entities operated without complying with India's anti-money laundering laws. India now appears on Gate's restricted location list.

Security and proof of reserves

Gate says it separates hot and cold wallets, keeps most assets in cold wallets and requires authorization from several administrators. Accounts support two-factor authentication, including Gate's own Gate Authenticator app. Gate also keeps the Gate SAFU fund, financed from trading fee revenue and held in stablecoins and other digital assets.

Gate's proof-of-reserves page employs a Merkle tree with zk-SNARKs. The recent report showed total reserves of $8,215,076,154 against net customer balances of $7,005,691,664, a reserve rate of 117%. The rate was 120.31% for BTC, 123.59% for ETH, and 114.25% for USDT. These figures are Gate's own.

Gate US releases its own report. The latest available on its page, dated October 28, 2025, reported total reserves of $80,237,007 against net customer balances of $80,117,616.

Alternatives to Gate.io

For a first purchase, we rate Coinbase higher than Gate.io for beginners, and it serves residents of every US state. Coinbase Advanced charges 0.50% maker and 0.90% taker at its US entry tier. See our Coinbase review.

For lower fees and, in our view, a simpler start in the US, OKX US charges 0.20% maker and 0.35% taker at its entry tier and serves every state except New York. We rate OKX higher than Gate.io for beginners too. See our OKX review.

Kraken presents another US option: it serves every state except New York and Maine, charging 0.40% maker and 0.80% taker at Kraken Pro's entry tier. See our Kraken review or our Kraken vs Gate.io comparison.

Outside the US, our exchanges for day trading list covers other platforms for active traders.

FAQ

Is Gate.io available in the US?

Not through gate.com: Gate's user agreement for its global platform excludes US persons. US residents can use Gate US, which is a separate company not currently operating in Alaska, Louisiana, New York, North Carolina, Texas, Washington, and the US Virgin Islands.

Is Gate.io the same as Gate.com?

Yes. Gate adopted the domain gate.com and a new logo on May 19, 2025, with the former Gate.io address now redirecting to gate.com.

What are Gate.io's withdrawal fees?

Gate sets its own withdrawal fee per coin and network and adjusts it every hour based on network conditions. For a Bitcoin withdrawal, its fee page showed 0.00003 BTC, so a Bitcoin withdrawal is not free. Bitcoin deposits cost nothing.

Is Gate.io safe?

No exchange is without risk. In Gate's favor: a proof-of-reserves report with a 117% total reserve rate, cold storage for most assets, the SAFU fund, and a MiCA authorization for its EU company. Against it: Gate names no operating company or license for its global platform, and India's Financial Intelligence Unit took action against Gate.io and eight other offshore providers in 2023.

How we checked this review

For this review we read Gate's fee pages for its global, EU and US sites, its user agreements, license, proof-of-reserves and help pages, its public market data, the EU, VARA and Japanese registers, the 2023 press release of India's Financial Intelligence Unit and the alternatives' own pages. The Updated date shows when we last brought these facts up to date.