What Enables Gate.io to Take a Different Path and Emerge as a Super Unicorn?

In the rapidly changing business world, unicorn companies are not just a symbol of valuation, but also a comprehensive embodiment of technology, models, and vision. Over the past 12 years, the cryptocurrency exchange Gate.io has quietly completed a strategic upgrade from a ‘tool platform’ to ‘infrastructure,’ growing from a small matching platform to a global leading cryptocurrency financial ecosystem.

When a unicorn further breaks through the ceiling, possesses global influence, a larger user base, and business layout, it enters the ranks of super unicorns. Super unicorn companies not only have valuations reaching the level of hundreds of billions of dollars but also have the ability to change industry landscape, lead the evolution of next-generation technology or infrastructure.

Gate.io founder Dr. Han said at the 12th-anniversary event: ‘We are moving towards the ‘next-generation super unicorn exchange’ - this is not only a leap in valuation, but also a comprehensive evolution of capabilities and mission.’

Beyond trading, building the “foundation” of the Web3 world

In the view of Gate.io, the future exchange is not just an intermediary for asset circulation, but also a super hub connecting global digital assets and users. It needs to have five core capabilities:

• Serving billions of users: Whether you are a novice user or a professional institution, you can find a customized experience;
• Support for millions of assets: covering mainstream currencies, innovative projects, DeFi, NFT, and even RWA (Real World Asset tokenization);
• Handle billions of transactions: high-frequency trading engine, ensuring ultimate stability and millisecond-level matching;
• Custody trillions of funds: Security is not a slogan, but a collective presentation of code, risk control, and culture;
• Comprehensively compliant with global regulations: Actively connecting with policies to empower the healthy development of the industry in compliance.

Betting on the forefront of the track: RWA, DeFi, and chain game layout

For future technology trends, Dr. Han also mentioned in an interview with Cointelegraoh Chinese that decentralized finance (DeFi), blockchain games (GameFi), and tokenization of real-world assets (RWA) will be important growth points for the crypto industry.

Gate.io has been ahead of the game in these areas: In the DeFi sector, the platform is not only continuously building its own ecosystem, but also supporting asset cross-chain, decentralized trading, and contract security through infrastructure such as GateChain. It actively incubates high-quality DeFi projects through channels like Innovation Zone, LaunchPool, Gate Ventures, etc. In the blockchain gaming sector, Gate.io participates in investment incubation, selects projects, and provides support through Launchpad, LaunchPool, and NFT markets to help excellent gaming projects quickly reach global players. In the RWA field, the company is accelerating product and service innovation, focusing on the application exploration of compliant stablecoins, tokenized bonds, tokenized commodities, etc. In the future, it will support the circulation and popularization of real assets through more flexible listing and trading mechanisms.

Deeply cultivating ‘edge markets’ and widely expanding global compliance touchpoints

The current market structure tends to be stable, with giants such as Binance and OKX dominating the main trading volume, and the strong getting stronger seems to be the norm. However, in this seemingly solidified pattern, Gate.io has taken a different path - entering from the edge market, deeply cultivating globally with compliance, and innovatively constructing an ecosystem.

Dr. Han said in an interview with Cointelegraph Chinese, “In a rapidly evolving industry, the top players are not always set in stone. I believe that only by truly understanding user needs, maintaining technological innovation, and adhering to compliance and transparency can we navigate through cycles and continuously gain a broader space in the global market. This is also the reason why we always adhere to long-termism.

Super unicorns, not necessarily born in the spotlight. But it will eventually take the center stage at the right time.