Gate started life in 2013 as Bter, rebranded to Gate.io in 2017, and dropped the suffix in 2025 to become simply Gate on the gate.com domain. It is run by Gate Technology Inc., a Cayman Islands company, and its user agreement is now governed by Panamanian law. It claims more than 46 million users, lists 3,500-plus assets, and is the exchange traders open when a token is too new or too small for anywhere else. Around the core spot market it runs futures, margin, trading bots, a launchpad and a wallet.
The global platform's restricted-locations page includes the United States alongside Canada, the United Kingdom, Singapore, Hong Kong and mainland China. A U.S. ID fails verification and U.S. IP addresses are blocked. What is different about Gate, compared with Bitget or MEXC, is that it built a U.S. affiliate: Gate US launched on August 1, 2025 with crypto-to-crypto spot pairs, state money transmitter coverage in roughly 30 states by early 2026, and a promise of fiat on-ramps, custody and local payment methods to follow.
Anytime Capital is built for the customer the global platform turns away and Gate US cannot yet fund, and for customers anywhere else. It is a U.S. company with a storefront on Piedmont Road in Atlanta, an office in One Biscayne Tower in Miami, a phone number that reaches a person, and nine ways to pay, including cash and same-day wire. It sells crypto for money, with one all-in price, and it says so.