Gate.io review

Gate.io charges the same rate on both sides of the book: takers pay 0.1% and makers pay 0.1% on a standard order. Because the maker rate is not lower than the taker rate, there is no discount for adding liquidity. Trading cost is the main number to weigh here.

Gate.io is regulated on several fronts. Malta Financial Services Authority (MiCA, crypto asset service provider), Malta Financial Services Authority (payment institution under PSD2) and Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), Dubai names the authorities involved, and the Malta Financial Services Authority licence number is MiCA CASP 984500D6A0F945BB5A15. The list also includes the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority in Dubai and a Japan-based licensed exchange, whose regulator is not named.

Gate.io lists 1,510 coins, well above the 71.5 median across the exchanges compared. That puts it 6 of 176 brands on coins listed, and it is the reason traders who want many smaller pairs pick it.

Funding runs through the routes listed under card, sepa and apple pay, and the methods open to you depend on your account and country. A plain bank transfer is not among them, so check what is available to your account before you plan to trade.

Gate.io is a custodial exchange, so balances sit with the platform rather than in a wallet the customer controls. The account model is listed as custodial, and the exchange type is cex. That convenience is the trade-off: fewer key-management worries, but no direct control over the coins.

It does both. Gate.io publishes proof of reserves, and derivatives are offered alongside spot trading. Proof of reserves is a statement about the assets the exchange says it holds for customers, not a guarantee of what a balance is worth, so treat it as one input among several.

Support runs on email and community only, so email and the community are the routes in. There is no live chat or phone line listed, which matters if a problem involves a stuck withdrawal. Email suits routine balance and fee questions better than urgent ones.

On the site's ratings, cost scores 6.1 while the offer scores 9.7, within an overall 7.6. The gap between the two parts is the trade-off to weigh: a longer list of pairs and derivatives, against the charge applied to each trade.