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Gate.io has released its latest Proof of Reserves (PoR) report, showing that it holds more XRP than its customers collectively have on the exchange.
The Proof of Reserve, released on Oct. 20, 2026, puts XRP’s reserve ratio at approximately 115%, meaning Gate holds 15% more tokens than customers have deposited.
Based on the audit snapshot from Oct. 18, 2026, the report also shows that the exchange holds more than its customers’ balances across every other major asset class. Gate has published verified reserve reports since 2020.
Gate Strengthens Its Overall Reserve Coverage Gate’s October report reveals that customers held a combined $7.332 billion in assets on the platform at the time of the snapshot, including more than 52 million XRP.
The exchange held $8.688 billion in total reserves, bringing its overall reserve ratio to 118.49%. This marks an increase from the 117.26% recorded in the previous reporting period.
Gate’s reserves exceeded customer balances by $1.356 billion, giving the exchange an additional buffer to meet withdrawals if many customers seek to withdraw their assets at once.
Gate has maintained excess reserves throughout 2026, building on its first PoR audit in 2020. Its reserve ratio stood at 125% in January, when total reserves reached $9.478 billion, before falling to 122% in March.
The October ratio is lower than both earlier figures, partly due to the effect of a larger and faster-growing customer base. However, Gate still holds more than $1.3 billion above its customers’ combined balances, which keeps its total reserves well above its reported liabilities.
Gate Proof of Reserves Shows Small XRP Holdings Gate’s October PoR puts its XRP reserve ratio at approximately 115%. Specifically, customers held 52,529,328 XRP on the exchange, worth about $69.8 million at the time of the snapshot.
Gate.io Proof of Reserves shows XRP overcollateralized at 115% Meanwhile, Gate held 60,396,694 XRP, valued at approximately $78.9 million. By press time, XRP had risen to $1.33, pushing the value of the exchange’s XRP holdings above $80.3 million.
Interestingly, on-chain data provided by XRPScan shows that Gate now holds 58.65 million XRP across four XRP Ledger (XRPL) accounts. This represents approximately 0.88% of the 68.4 billion XRP tokens in circulation.
Onchain data shows Gate.io holds 58M XRP across 4 accounts Gate’s XRP holdings remain relatively small compared with those of the largest centralized exchanges. South Korea’s Upbit leads with approximately 4.4 billion XRP across 13 XRPL accounts, accounting for 6.43% of the circulating supply.
Coinbase follows with 3.99 billion XRP across 343 accounts, representing 5.84%, while Binance ranks third with 1.874 billion XRP across 145 accounts, giving it a 2.74% share.
Robinhood, Bithumb, Uphold, and Kraken also rank among the top 10 XRP exchange holders, holding between 958 million and 1.6 billion XRP. Phemex, meanwhile, reported an XRP reserve ratio of 153.55% in its September 2026 PoR.
Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Stablecoins Equally Well-Covered Gate also holds more Bitcoin and Ethereum than its customers collectively own. Customers held 21,156 BTC on the exchange, while Gate maintained 25,727 BTC in reserves, worth $2.115 billion. This brought its Bitcoin reserve ratio to 121.6%. Essentially, the exchange held more than 4,500 BTC above customer balances.
With Ethereum, Gate’s customers held 362,785 ETH, while the exchange maintained 449,042 ETH worth $1.082 billion. These holdings resulted in an Ethereum reserve ratio of 123.78%.
Gate’s stablecoin reserves also exceeded customer balances. The exchange held $929.8 million in USDT, giving it a reserve ratio of 111.68%. Its USD1 reserves reached $395.594 million, producing a ratio of 100.98%. As for GUSD, Gate held $317.3 million, giving it a reserve ratio of 181.11%.
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CashCat [CASHCAT] gained 11% over the past day as the broader market recovered.
The gains coincided with bullish sentiment and increased activity in the perpetual market. Open Interest rose alongside the price, while the Funding Rate remained positive.
Buyers had the edge, but could that positioning support another leg higher?
What supported CASHCAT’s 11% rally? CashCat recorded roughly $11.12 million in perpetual Inflows over the past 24 hours.
Inflows exceeded Outflows, leaving positive Netflows of $122,240 at the time of analysis. This pointed to net capital entering the tracked perpetual market, although flows alone did not establish traders’ direction.
Source: CoinGlass Alongside those positive flows, Open Interest climbed over 11% to $51.43 million, while the Funding Rate stayed positive.
Rising Open Interest indicated more outstanding contracts. The positive Funding Rate meant longs paid shorts, suggesting stronger demand for long exposure.
Together, these readings supported a bullish positioning bias, although they could not confirm further price gains.
Source: CoinGlass That left another question: were traders actively buying into the move?
Were CASHCAT buyers still setting the pace? An analysis of CashCat’s perpetual Trading Volume showed more aggressive buying than selling. The Taker Buy/Sell Ratio tracks this balance. A reading above 1 indicates higher taker buy volume, while below 1 indicates higher taker sell volume.
CoinGlass recorded a ratio of 1.14, meaning taker buy volume exceeded taker sell volume by 14%.
Source: CoinGlass In other words, buyers were more willing to cross the spread and execute immediately.
Hyperliquid, Gate, and Bybit also recorded Taker Buy/Sell Ratios above 1, reinforcing a buying bias across the three venues.
Together, these exchanges accounted for $45.5 million in Open Interest, roughly 88% of CashCat’s reported total. Much of the outstanding exposure therefore sat on those venues. Still, taker buying can reflect new longs or shorts closing positions.
Can bullish sentiment sustain CASHCAT’s gains? CoinMarketCap’s Sentiment indicator also favored bulls. The tool ranged from -10 to 10, with the extremes representing bearish and bullish readings, respectively.
At the time of analysis, Sentiment remained positive, suggesting a bullish outlook among participating users. That optimism aligned with the perpetual market’s buying bias. If buying pressure persists, CASHCAT could extend its recovery.
However, sentiment alone offers limited evidence of fresh demand. Continued taker buying would give the bullish outlook firmer backing.
Final Summary CASHCAT rose 11% as Open Interest increased and the Funding Rate remained positive. The Taker Buy/Sell Ratio favored buyers, but sustained buying pressure remains key to further gains.
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Gate Money puts fiat accounts, crypto, payments, yield and investing on one balance inside the Gate app, with a Visa card for spending and $8.68 billion in reported reserves.
Money has always lived in separate places. Cash sits in a bank, stocks in a brokerage, crypto on an exchange, and moving value between them means transfers, settlement delays and fees at every step.
Stablecoins are the first asset to blur those lines. As the best version of cash in crypto, they give dollars the speed and portability of onchain assets, and they have grown accordingly: supply stands at just under $300 billion as of October 2026, roughly 50% above where it started 2025, the year the GENIUS Act was passed.
Gate Money is Gate’s attempt to bring the rest of the picture together. Announced at TOKEN2049 on October 7, the Gate Money section, inside the main Gate app, now puts fiat accounts, crypto, payments, yield and investing on one balance. A day later, Gate announced a partnership with Visa for a crypto-linked card.
This primer covers what Gate Money does, along with Gate’s Visa partnership, and what we'd watch as it rolls out.
Why Now: Stablecoins Are Becoming Everyday Money Supply growth has stalled for most of 2026, but usage has not. Onchain stablecoin transfer volume reached $92.7 trillion over the 12 months to September 2026, up ~82% from the prior 12 months. Year-to-date (YTD), 2026 has seen ~$74 trillion in onchain stablecoin transfer volume, already above the $60.6 trillion recorded for all of 2025.
It is worth noting that raw transfer volume can overinflate true “usage” as the metric includes bot activity, contract-to-contract hops and internal transfers. Adjusting for those, a16z’s 2025 report strips those out and has adjusted stablecoin volume at ~$9 trillion over its trailing year.
Policy and payment rails are following the usage, with the GENIUS Act giving US issuers a clear regulatory perimeter, Stripe’s acquisition of stablecoin infrastructure startup Bridge, and over 160 stablecoin-linked Visa card programs now live globally, per Visa.
For many users, holding crypto or stablecoins is only half the job. Spending or cashing out those assets still typically runs through a bank, which means leaving the exchange’s ecosystem.
Trading activity tends to fluctuate with market volatility, while products tied to payments, balances and financial services can create more recurring user activity. As crypto increasingly moves beyond trading, the value of having one account for holding, spending, investing and earning becomes more important. This is the gap Gate Money is built to close.
Gate Money Functionally, Gate Money organizes six jobs around one balance.
Hold - Users can hold multiple fiat currencies and crypto in one consolidated account system, as it supports fiat deposits and withdrawals alongside onchain deposits and transfers. Receive - Eligible users can set up a bank account inside the same app and use the account details to receive and withdraw funds. Pay - Online and in-store purchases can use fiat or crypto, with Apple Pay and Google Pay support, alongside ATM withdrawals and local QR payments in some countries. Convert - In-app swaps between assets. Earn - Eligible USDT balances can earn up to 3.6% with no lock-up, subject to Gate's product terms. Invest - Access to crypto and traditional assets including stocks. Many of these features, including Gate Card, Gate Pay and stock trading, existed before Gate Money.
What the new Gate Money adds is integration, where a user's balance can be received, held, earned on, invested and spent in one account, turning Gate from somewhere users come to trade into an everyday financial platform.
The Visa Partnership In early October, Gate and Visa announced a partnership for a crypto-linked Visa card that can be applied for and managed inside the Gate app. With this, eligible users will be able to pay at any Visa-accepting merchant, and the crypto in their Gate account is converted to fiat automatically at checkout to cover the purchase.
Visa’s main contribution is its global network, as the payments feature is the job that decides whether an account gets used every day or only when someone trades.
Moreover, Visa is itself one of the stablecoin rails described above, so the card sits on infrastructure with the same vision in mind.
Gate’s CEO described the partnership as a step toward crypto becoming part of everyday financial life, while Visa's Asia Pacific head of digital currency pointed to consumer demand for flexible, convenient and widely accepted payment options.
Why The Build Matters Some platforms launching consumer money products opt for a separate app with its own brand. In contrast, Gate Money lives inside the main Gate app.
While the former may present a cleaner approach from a consumer identity perspective, it has to build its user base from scratch. On the other hand, an embedded product starts with the full user base that can switch Gate Money on without having to download anything, while balances also stay within Gate.
There is also a clear connection to the topic discussed in Primer 1, where Gate CrossEx gives professional desks one pool of margin that works across multiple venues so capital stops sitting idle in silos. Gate Money applies the same idea at the other end of the user spectrum.
Between the two, Gate is building account infrastructure for institutions and for everyday users, which is the groundwork for the forthcoming Gate iWeb3 report.
Reserves and Asset Security An account that holds users’ cash, crypto and investments, and pays out from them every day, only works if users trust the assets are there. Gate says it was the first exchange to launch 100% proof of reserves. Their latest report, published on 21st October, puts total reserves at $8.68 billion with an overall reserve ratio of 118%.
Licensing as the Moat For crypto exchanges, trading features can be easily shipped by a product team. But bank accounts and cards cannot as they require licenses and banking partners on a jurisdictional level, which is why Gate Money’s availability is region-dependent and its licensing stack would take a considerable amount of time to replicate.
The pairing that stands out is the MiCA and PSD2 licenses, both held in Malta, as they cover both the crypto side and the payment-account side of what Gate Money does in Europe.
The licenses determine where each feature can go live, while the partnerships, such as the one with Visa, determine how fast.
Conclusion Gate Money changes what a Gate account is for. Before, it was a place users came to trade. Now, it is built to be where they hold, receive, spend, invest and earn, across both crypto and fiat.
As digital assets and payment rails mature, the contest moves up a layer, to the account where people hold and spend their money. Gate Money is Gate's answer, built on an exchange account with 61M+ users, wired into Visa for spending and backed by licenses across several key jurisdictions.
The question for the foreseeable future is how quickly Gate Money’s bank account and card footprint expands, and whether Gate's users start treating it as their de facto money platform.
Crypto exchange Gate wants a Bitcoin holder’s next stock purchase to happen without their money leaving its platform. The ambition is to keep more of an investor’s financial life inside one exchange.
Speaking with BeInCrypto at TOKEN2049, Jason Fung, Gate’s head of global partnerships, described how that could change the way people invest.
The business case is becoming clearer. CoinGecko’s latest quarterly report found that spot trading volume at the top ten centralized exchanges fell 14.2% in Q3 2026, despite a recovery in crypto prices. Broader markets give exchanges more opportunities to keep customers trading.
For investors, the question is whether those extra choices make managing money easier.
Why Move Your Money to Buy a Stock? Fung’s argument starts with where customers already hold their money. Someone with digital assets on an exchange can use that platform to reach overseas stock markets.
“It’s becoming a one-stop shop for anyone who wants to invest,” he said.
Gate introduced Japanese stock trading in August, initially offering around 300 Tokyo-listed stocks. Users can fund trades with USDT, the dollar-linked stablecoin, according to the company.
Gate says it now offers access to more than 12,800 stocks across the US, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan markets combined.
That offers a practical reason to stay: an existing crypto balance can fund a stock investment without first being withdrawn to a bank and sent to a separate broker. Availability still depends on the user’s jurisdiction.
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— Gate (@Gate) August 21, 2026 A More Diverse Portfolio or Just More Trades? “It’s no longer a decision between holding crypto or holding cash,” Fung said.
His example is an investor who follows semiconductors and wants to buy a particular company while keeping Bitcoin for the long term. Access to equities gives that investor somewhere else to put money when their strongest conviction lies outside crypto.
“Diversifying is one part, rotating in and out of narratives you have conviction in is another.”
Those behaviours have different implications. Building a broader portfolio can spread exposure. Chasing each new market theme can increase trading without necessarily reducing risk.
Fung said future data should reveal whether customers diversify more or simply make more trades. He presented both as possibilities, leaving open how far easier access changes the way people manage their money.
How Much Is a Faster Trade Worth? The same push to shorten the distance between an idea and a trade extends to new blockchains.
Gate announced its Robinhood Chain integration in July and Arc support in September. Fung said integrations across its exchange and Web3 services reduce the steps needed to access those ecosystems.
“You already have funds there, you’re already KYC’d,” he said, referring to identity checks.
For a trader following a new token, fewer setup steps can matter. Fung argues that reacting quickly to information offers an edge.
Speed also brings responsibility back to the trader. Easier access gives them less administrative work; it provides no assurance that the asset deserves their money.
Who Stays When the Rewards Stop? Fung applies a different test when assessing whether an ecosystem will last.
“The ultimate test is: once all the incentives are gone, who actually stays?”
He looks for users who keep returning and projects that continue attracting builders. He expects networks connecting traditional finance with crypto to have lasting demand.
Recent activity complicates that picture. CoinGecko reported that Robinhood Chain generated more than $88.9 billion in trading volume after its July launch through Q3, with memecoin trading overtaking its original tokenized-asset ambitions.
That does not establish how long the activity will last. It shows how quickly users can take a network in a different direction from its intended purpose.
“It comes down to real usage and how sustainable an ecosystem is in the long run,” Fung said.
Your Next Trade Could Be an Election Prediction markets widen the exchange’s reach further, giving people something to trade when they have little conviction about crypto prices.
“You might not have an opinion on what happens to the Bitcoin price in the next 30 days, but you might have a very strong opinion on who wins a certain election, or who wins Formula One,” Fung said.
The appetite is substantial. Barron’s, citing Aldrin Research, reported at least $5.83 billion in prediction-market trading over the opening Saturday and Sunday of this year’s NFL season.
Fung calls prediction markets “a tool for pricing uncertainty.” He also acknowledges that conviction can come from emotion, such as supporting a team.
That makes their informational value worth testing. A traded probability reflects the people willing to bet, whose enthusiasm may exceed their knowledge.
“The bigger question is how accurate prediction markets are over thousands, tens of thousands, one day millions of events.”
The Partnership That Gets Your Money Home Asked which partnership would most help ordinary traders, Fung returned to banking access.
“The ability to more seamlessly on-ramp and off-ramp in different currencies across the world – that’s more important than an additional trading feature.”
He wants stronger connections with banking partners and compliant stablecoin providers, particularly in emerging markets where local arrangements vary.
The audience matters. Binance Research reported in June that close to 93% of its stock-trading users came from emerging markets. That company-specific finding suggests demand for new routes into overseas equities.
“Parts of this structure already exist, but it’s far from perfect.”
Gate’s own attempt to close that gap is Gate Money, a single account that combines fiat currencies, crypto and stocks with on-ramp/off-ramp transfers, card spending and yield on idle balances, according to the company.
That leaves exchanges with a practical test as they pursue more of their customers’ portfolios. Every additional market offers another reason to keep money on the platform. Users also need confidence about what happens when they want it back.
An exchange’s usefulness extends to the moment a customer needs to spend their investment proceeds in their own currency.
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StepFun, Meta, Moonshot, and Mistral now gate commercial deployment at the same number on four different clocks. Below it the weights are free. Above it you are negotiating terms nobody publishes.
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Four license files, three jurisdictions, one number. In eleven weeks, StepFun, Meta, Moonshot AI, and Mistral each began gating commercial deployment of open-weight models at $20 million in revenue. For agent builders that figure is not a price. It is a ceiling. Our 24-hour open-weight taxonomy sorted what “open” came to mean this month; these gates decide how far what you build on it may scale.
What the four gates actually say
Three of the four licenses were read in full for this piece. Moonshot’s Kimi K3 license demands a separate agreement before any commercial use of the model or its derivatives if you run a Model-as-a-Service business and the aggregate revenue of you and your affiliates exceeds $20M over any consecutive 12 months. StepFun’s Model License 1.0, published October 15, sets the same trigger on combined revenue from all sources, then adds a second gate with no threshold at all: device makers embedding the model in phones, vehicles, smart glasses, wearables, or robots need a commercial license at any size, before any revenue question arises.
Mistral’s Modified MIT terms, documented since August, run differently: companies with monthly revenue exceeding $20M must obtain a commercial license or route through Mistral Studio, and the test applies to any use of those models. One strong month can move a company across the line. Meta’s Muse Model License, governing Muse Spark Open, requires the same pre-offer agreement from service operators above $20M in aggregate gross group revenue over any consecutive 12 months. Two disclosures: the license file sits behind a gated repository, so its wording is search-confirmed from the primary text, not read from the file; and one secondary account called the threshold $20M per month, which the primary text does not say. The agreement’s terms, like the others, are unpublished.
One correction to earlier shorthand belongs in the open. Kimi K3’s gate is not an annual MaaS revenue test. It counts rolling 12-month aggregate group revenue from all sources, so a large company’s small model-powered product is over the line on day one.
Eleven weeks, one number
The gates surfaced in sequence: Moonshot with the K3 weights on July 27, Mistral’s documentation in August, StepFun and Meta in the same week of October. The spread is evidence. Coordinated drafting across US, Chinese, and European labs, two of them under active export-control tension, would more likely produce matched clocks and matched triggers. Instead the number matches and the machinery does not: monthly snapshot against rolling year, company revenue against group gross, service businesses against any commercial use. The pattern that fits is imitation around a market-clearing figure, $20M marking where a developer-scale user becomes a commercial inference business. Our earlier licensing analysis argued convergence; the timeline now shows it is behavioral, not coordinated.
What would change that read: a shared non-public contract template across labs, identical clocks in the next licenses, or documented contact. What would confirm ordinary market motion: the next gate at a different number. Alibaba’s Qwen3.8-Max license already sits at $50M with the same architecture of capture, pointing toward conventions spreading, not a cartel forming.
Why $20M is a ceiling
The mechanism matters more than the number. These gates are stops, not tolls: the agreement must exist before the offering continues, and its terms stay private until you are in the room. The revenue test counts the licensee and affiliates at group scale, so no one shrinks out of scope by keeping model revenue small. The gate follows derivatives; fine-tunes, distills, merges, and quantizations stay inside the license. And the service definitions capture what agent platforms do: give third parties inference access with meaningful control over inputs and parameters.
The exclusion list is concrete. Mid-market builders running inference services or agent platforms sit inside these clauses. Teams at companies already past $20M in group revenue are gated on day one. Volatile-revenue businesses hit Mistral’s monthly clock fastest. The workarounds are real but partial: embed the model in your own features rather than exposing it as a service; relay instead of hosting; keep use internal; use certified partners or Mistral Studio; or move to unrestricted weights, DeepSeek V4 under MIT, GLM-5.3 Flash under Apache 2.0, NVIDIA’s Nemotron Bolt under OpenMDW-1.1, which carries no revenue gate. None of them lets a growing service business cross the line without a negotiation whose terms are not public.
The ground under the contracts is also splitting. The same $20M figure sits in US, Chinese, and EU paperwork in the weeks the DHS exclusion order (FR Doc 2026-21447, October 20) reached third-party products built on DeepSeek implementations and China’s Ministry of Commerce proposed export controls on 23 AI-stack technologies. As our three-regimes analysis mapped this week, the contract layer is converging while the trade layer diverges. The builder standing at the line plans for both.
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PANews, October 20 – According to Gate Ventures' latest weekly market report, in the week ending October 16, volatility in global financial markets intensified, high-valuation tech stocks remained under pressure, and capital rotated toward defensive and value assets. The crypto market showed structural divergence over the same period, with BTC up 2.4% for the week, ETH down 5.1%, total crypto market cap down 2.2%, and the Fear & Greed Index retreating from 69 to 59. Meanwhile, both spot BTC and ETH ETFs recorded net outflows, indicating cooling market sentiment.
At the industry level, digital asset regulation and financial infrastructure development continued to advance. Australia released draft legislation for a crypto asset tax information reporting framework, while Sweden initiated legal preparations related to the digital krona, reflecting sustained attention on digital asset tax transparency and currency digitization. On the funding front, a total of 5 deals were completed last week, of which 4 were in the infrastructure sector, with related funding reaching $18 million. Despite an overall marked cooling in funding activity, infrastructure still accounted for the main share, indicating that capital allocation continues to concentrate on underlying capabilities such as tokenized asset liquidity, settlement, and on-chain financial infrastructure.
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StepFun Model License 1.0 is Apache-style in structure but carries OEM and MaaS gates no other frontier open-weight lab imposes. The weights are downloadable. The deployment is not.
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The Terms Are Public. Now They Matter.
The StepFun Model License 1.0 arrived on the HuggingFace repo October 15, 2026 – the same day the weights landed after their brief absence. The gap is closed. The slip is resolved. What is left is the document itself, and it is not what “open weights” usually means. Apache-style in structure, yes. OSI-approved? No. Three additional conditions sit between the download and the deploy, and each one gates a different kind of power.
Three Conditions, Three Gates
The license layers its restrictions by who you are and how big you are getting.
Attribution at scale (Section 2b). If any commercial product or service using the model exceeds 100 million active users or generates more than $20 million in monthly revenue, the operator must prominently display “Powered by StepFun AI” on the user interface and in documentation. For most deployers, this is cosmetic – a branding tax on success that costs nothing until you are already winning.
The hardware OEM gate (Section 2c-i). This is the structural one. Device manufacturers – phones, vehicles, smart glasses, wearables, robots, smart-home devices – must enter a separate commercial license with StepFun before making Step-5 capabilities available as a device feature. The clause covers on-device deployment, remote deployment, infrastructure-supplied delivery, and whether the feature arrives at shipment or later by activation, download, or update. There is no self-serve path. If you build hardware and want Step-5 inside it, you negotiate first.
The MaaS gate (Section 2c-ii). Model-as-a-Service operators with combined revenue exceeding $20 million over any consecutive 12-month period must also enter a separate commercial license. The license defines MaaS as “giving a third party inference or fine-tuning access to the Model or a Derivative Work, including through an API, where the third party has meaningful control over inputs, parameters, or training data.” Critically, “merely relaying requests” to another provider does not constitute MaaS. That carve-out protects pure intermediaries but not providers offering parameter control or fine-tuning – and the $20 million threshold is low enough that any significant inference business is in scope.
There is a safe harbor. Section 2(c) does not apply to internal use that does not make the model available to any third party. If Step-5 stays inside your infrastructure and your data, the OEM and MaaS gates do not bind.
The Restrictions Follow the Model
The Derivative Work definition in Section 1 extends the reach. Fine-tuned, distilled, merged, quantized, pruned, and continually pre-trained versions all count as Derivative Works and inherit the same license terms. A model trained to a material extent on Step-5 outputs is deemed to reproduce it. But a separate application that merely calls the model through an API is not a Derivative Work – the license draws the line at modification, not consumption.
This is where “open weights” stops being a shorthand for “deployable.” The weights are downloadable. The deployment categories that matter most – hardware integration and inference-as-a-service at scale – are gated behind commercial negotiation.
No Other Lab Does This
The comparison is stark. Kimi K3 ships under a modified MIT license. Meta’s Muse Glimmer 30B uses Apache 2.0. GLM-5.3 Flash uses MIT. None of these carry OEM or MaaS gates. None restrict device embedding. None require a separate commercial license for inference providers above a revenue threshold. StepFun has built something different: an open-weight release that preserves the download while controlling the deployment.
What Deployers Must Do
Infrastructure planners need to audit their deployment architecture against these three gates before committing to Step-5. If you are building a hardware product, the OEM gate is binary: negotiate or look elsewhere. If you are running an inference service above $20 million in combined annual revenue, the MaaS gate applies. If both, both.
The internal use carve-out remains the cleanest path. Organizations that can keep Step-5 within their own infrastructure – no third-party access, no device embedding, no external inference service – avoid the commercial gates entirely. For everyone else, the license turns model selection into a legal and financial decision.
Where This Leaves the Calendar
The calendar taxonomy now has its terms exhibit. The vendor-promise class produced both outcomes within a single day: the weights missed their date, then landed. But the license that arrived with them is the part that changes planning. The gate is no longer at the download button. It is at the point of deployment, and it has three conditions. Whether “open weights” means “deployable” now depends on who is asking and how they intend to use it.
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AI Agent project NeoSoul’s token DNA will launch trading on exchanges including Binance, OKX, Bitget, Gate, MEXC and KuCoin on October 16. DNA airdrop queries are now open. According to Binance Wallet, Binance Alpha will be the first platform to list DNA, and eligible users can claim the DNA airdrop using Binance Alpha points.
PANews, October 14 – According to official sources, Gate founder and CEO Dr. Han recently sat down for an exclusive interview with Fortune, sharing Gate's strategic thinking on evolving from a crypto asset trading platform into an integrated financial services application. During TOKEN2049 Singapore, Gate officially launched Gate Money, built around the core concept of "One Gate, Everything Money," bringing fiat currency, digital assets, stocks, ETFs, gold, bank accounts and payments together on a single platform. Users in eligible regions can open a global bank account in their own name online, with support for receiving more than 60 local currencies to be added in the future. Gate Card bridges assets and spending scenarios, allowing multiple asset types – including fiat currency, digital assets, tokenized gold and stocks – to be used more flexibly for everyday payments. Gate Money also supports QR code payments via local payment codes in certain countries and regions.
Dr. Han said that, building on Gate's long-accumulated capabilities in trading, liquidity and asset services, Gate Money expands fund management and real-world payment scenarios. In his vision: "In users' perception, assets are inherently a whole; even if they exist in five different forms, they should be managed in a unified way within a single app." Therefore, Gate Money aims to let users complete holding, trading, exchanging, yield management and spending within the same account, while offering more options for the flow between different asset forms – rather than making judgments on users' behalf.
At present, Gate has served more than 61 million users worldwide, covering over 130 countries and regions. Looking ahead to the next five years, Dr. Han expects the tokenization of traditional assets to continue advancing, and AI Agents to further change how users manage and use their funds. From serving traders to connecting broader capital needs, Gate is extending its digital asset capabilities into more complete financial life scenarios.
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PANews, October 12 — According to an official Gate announcement, 145 US stocks and ETF targets, including TSMC (TSM), Merck (MRK), Salesforce (CRM), Altria (MO), Nasdaq-100 ETF (QQQ), and NXP (NXPI), have completed cash dividend distributions. Gate has settled the corresponding dividends in USDT based on users' holdings, with the entire process handled automatically and no additional action required from users.
This distribution covers US stock targets with corporate dividend dates from October 5, 2026 to October 9, 2026, spanning multiple industry sectors including technology and semiconductors, financial services, energy, consumer goods, healthcare, industrial manufacturing, real estate REITs, utilities, materials manufacturing, media and entertainment, telecommunications, and strategy ETFs.
Winter '27 decides which agents may call which commerce APIs, and attaches the market's first vendor-reported conversion numbers to agent shopping traffic. The gate merchants defended with robots.txt now ships as a setting, and the liability it leaves untouched is the one everyone is still arguing about.
For months, the merchant-side gate in agentic commerce was a line in a robots.txt file. Shopify blocked AI crawlers from its checkout and cart paths, Amazon blocked Meta’s Muse agent outright, and the control merchants had over agent traffic was reactive and blunt: the picture mapped in The Fragmenting Gate. Salesforce’s Winter ’27 announcement, dated August 31 and generally available October 12, moves that gate inside the CRM. The blocklist ships as a setting.
What is being productized is authorization, not agent identity. The question the API Catalog answers is not who an agent is but which agents may call which commerce APIs, and which Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers and tools they may reach. The catalog consolidates APIs and MCP servers from MuleSoft, Heroku, and Apex into one managed surface; administrators activate Salesforce-hosted MCP servers for outside clients and register external ones. An allowlist is boring infrastructure. Packaged inside a CRM subscription, it is a control point with a price attached.
The surface keeps widening. The same release ships agent skills and plug-ins that bundle MCP connectors into installable packages, over 100 prebuilt at launch, and third-party orchestration that lets Agentforce drive agents from AWS, Azure, and Google over A2A. Every new surface the platform connects is another set of calls someone has to authorize.
The availability picture is narrower than the release energy suggests. Winter ’27 is the release peg and the product positioning: the allowlist becomes a SKU, order management connects over MCP, and Agentic Commerce Search ships. It is not the ship date for the catalog’s confirmed pair. Per Salesforce’s Winter ’27 release-notes change log, exactly two API Catalog MCP features are explicitly tagged generally available: “Discover Manually Registered MCP Servers in API Catalog” and “Bring MuleSoft MCP Servers into API Catalog,” both recorded as generally available on a rolling basis under the change log’s week of May 11, 2026, five months ahead of the release. The rest of the catalog’s MCP surface (manual registration of external servers, security risk scores, and the mappings from agents, prompt templates, and Connect REST API actions to server tools) carries release-note entries dated May through July with no explicit GA or beta tag. The individual help pages were not retrievable at filing. Confirmed is confirmed; the rest ships with untagged edges.
What closes the loop is one line in the Commerce material: order management connects via MCP. Order management, reachable through the same protocol surface, is the platform answering the postures the Fragmenting Gate mapped. Instead of merchants fencing agents out, the platform decides which agents come in and what they can touch. It does not settle the architectural question the Oracle Fusion Claw piece raised: whether agent transactions run on live write-back or on data copied into the platform. The release material does not say.
Then there is the number everyone will quote. Agentic Commerce Search trains a dedicated small language model on each merchant’s catalog and shopper behavior, and Salesforce’s announcement reports: “Early results show a 13% conversion lift and a 17% increase in add-to-cart rates, and the capability is now standard for all Shopper Agent customers.” Those are vendor-reported early results; no independent test data has been published. It is still the first quantified conversion bet anyone in this market has placed on agent-driven shopping traffic: the first attempt to price the traffic, not just route it.
What the SKU does not move is the part merchants actually argue about. As laid out in the liability gap piece, the merchant still absorbs the cost when an agent buys wrong: no reason code for agent error exists, no framework reallocates the loss, and 93% of merchants believe AI providers should bear it. Merchants are rationing exposure accordingly; only 28% are willing to offer agents their full product range. The API Catalog is platform governance, not an allocation of risk. Salesforce has built the gate and priced the key. Whether the party collecting the toll also carries the liability for what walks through is the question Winter ’27 leaves exactly where it found it.
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Amazon blocked Muse on Sept. 20, alleging the agent hides its identity and captures customer credentials. Meta denies it. 22 days on, a Terms of Use clause is doing the adjudicating – and no one outside the two companies can check either claim.
On September 20, Amazon blocked Meta’s Muse AI assistant from completing purchases on its platform. Retailers walling off rival shopping agents is not new; the merchant-side control frame has its own treatment at The Fragmenting Gate. What is new is the stated reason. Amazon gave three: Meta did not tell Amazon that Muse would access its store; the agent does not identify itself when it browses; and it appears to capture and store customer login credentials, putting what Amazon called an undisclosed third party inside its customers’ accounts.
What users see is not a hacking allegation. GeekWire’s Sept. 20 report carries Amazon’s popup in full: “Continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon’s Conditions of Use, to which our customers have agreed.” Amazon’s statement: “Agentic third-party applications such as Muse have the same obligations, and we’ve requested that Meta remove Amazon from the experience.” Third-party purchasing apps, Amazon said, “should operate openly and respect service provider decisions about whether or not to participate” – the way food-delivery apps, delivery services, and online travel agencies do.
Meta disputes the characterization flat, and its denial is worth reading precisely. Muse “has no visibility into people’s passwords or payment methods.” Shared credentials “go into secure storage, so Muse can use them without seeing them, including passwords a person types into the browser themselves.” Muse runs “on a secure virtual machine, with its own browser.” Meta declines to voluntarily exclude Amazon. That denial answers the credential claim; it does not concede the identity claim, and no one outside the two companies is in a position to check either one.
That is where the credential accusation stops: two companies, mutually exclusive claims, no independent adjudication, no credential telemetry, no third-party audit. There is separate, verified research showing Muse can be made to leak and scrape, and the two tracks should not be confused. Wardle’s macOS zero-day disclosure on September 21 showed that any local app or terminal command can redirect Muse’s transcription endpoint to an attacker-controlled server, capturing the token that authenticates the user to their Muse account. “We can manipulate the agent and leverage its privileges to do whatever we want,” Wardle said. Meta shipped a hotfix about twelve hours after disclosure. Karan Joshi, as WIRED reported, extracted Muse’s system prompts by asking it, through the regular chat interface, to copy and share its own software files. A separate Hunterbrook Media investigation, reported October 5, found Muse can be prompted to compile dossiers on Facebook and Instagram accounts, including non-users. Muse’s containment failures are covered at The Sandbox Is Leaking. All of it real. None of it adjudicates Amazon’s specific claim: a client-side token capture is not the credential store. Blurring the two tracks would make this piece the thing it is criticizing.
The block follows a year of Amazon trying to keep outside agents off its site – suing Perplexity over its Comet browser and moving to block shopping agents from Google and OpenAI. The concealment claim is the same one, in a second mechanism. Amazon’s November 2025 complaint alleged Comet disguised itself as an ordinary Chrome browser session to evade detection. A preliminary injunction issued March 9 under the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and California’s Comprehensive Computer Data Access and Fraud Act, from Senior Judge Maxine M. Chesney. Then, on August 4, the Ninth Circuit vacated it, and rehearing was denied September 10. As GeekWire’s account of the ruling puts it, the user – not the AI company – is the party accessing Amazon’s computers under federal anti-hacking law. The legal route failed once. What remains standing is the contract route: a platform asserting who an agent is and gating on that assertion.
Identity-first is the direction the agent stack is heading – the protocol line at Every New Agent Protocol, the convergence case made in The October Identity Convergence. Here is that architecture turning adversarial. Identity is the gate; the judgment about whether an agent is hiding its identity is made by assertion; and there is no standard for what “identifies itself as an automated agent” means operationally, no inspectable evidence behind the judgment, no neutral party who can check the accused’s denial. A trust architecture whose identity calls cannot be inspected is only as good as the party making them.
Twenty-two days on, the dispute is unresolved at the retrievable record. Amazon made an accusation, Meta denied it, and nothing verifiable has surfaced since September 20 to settle the question either way. Until a credential audit, a technical standard for agent self-identification, or a court reaches the merits, the gate stands where the assertion stands. That is a narrower finding than either company’s statement – and it is the only one the evidence supports.
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Fudan University's Qiu Xipeng team raises over RMB 1 billion in funding, plans to build an AI assistant similar to the one in the movie *Her*
Beating AI News (Dongcha) — Mosi Intelligence, founded by Fudan University professor Qiu Xipeng, announced the completion of over RMB 1 billion in Pre-A round financing, led by Huake Fund, with participation from Guokai Science and Technology Innovation and Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Fund, among others. Founded at the end of 2024, the company is led by Li Shimin, a student of Qiu Xipeng, as its CEO. The proceeds from this round will be used for research and development of full-modal real-time interactive technology and global commercialization. Mosi aims to build AI that not only understands human speech but also grasps users' emotions and surrounding context. For example, if a user says "It's a bit cold" in a car, the AI will adjust the air conditioning based on in-vehicle temperature, the speaker's identity, and past preferences. It also needs to know when to respond and when to remain silent. Technically, the team has open-sourced models including MOSS-Audio and MOSS-VL-Realtime. The former can analyze emotions in speech, identify different speakers, and recognize ambient sounds. The latter can continuously process video, answer questions in real time while viewing, and revise responses based on changes in the visual feed. Currently, Mosi is integrating voice, vision, memory, and tool calling capabilities into the MOSS Live real-time interaction system, targeting use cases such as smart cockpits and AI hardware. The company said it has already delivered products to some enterprise clients, with a long-term goal of building an AI assistant like the one in the movie *Her*, capable of continuously understanding the user's context.
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Hong Kong, China will list its second spot Solana ETF on October 13.
According to official announcements from Solana, Hong Kong will launch its second spot Solana ETF. The Pando Solana ETF (2831.HK) is scheduled to list on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on October 13. Solana noted that the total net asset value of global spot SOL ETFs currently stands at $1.9 billion, with cumulative net inflows reaching $1.61 billion.
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Blockchain firm Wuwen Xinqiong secures 2.3 billion yuan in Series C funding, with no plans to build data centers.
Beating AI Express News: Tsinghua-backed AI infrastructure firm Wuwei Xinqiong has secured 2.3 billion yuan in Series C financing, bringing its total funding to 4.3 billion yuan. Founded in 2023, Wuwei Xinqiong does not develop chips or build its own data centers. Instead, it integrates computing power from chips including Huawei Ascend, NVIDIA, and AMD via software, offering large language model (LLM) training and inference services to clients. Developers can also directly call models through APIs without self-deployment. Bloomberg reported on October 1, citing people familiar with the matter, that Wuwei Xinqiong has secretly submitted an IPO application to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, with an expected listing as early as the first half of 2027. Its pre-IPO valuation is said to be around 14.3 billion yuan.
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Bank of Korea Governor apologizes for insufficient risk warnings on single-stock leveraged ETFs
Bank of Korea Governor Rhee Chang-yong said on the 12th at the National Assembly’s Finance and Economy Committee state audit meeting: “We failed to issue sufficient warnings about single-stock leveraged ETFs, and we apologize to the public for this. At the end of May, I did not fully grasp the volatility in South Korea’s domestic stock market and the memory chip sector.” Additionally, regarding the Bank of Korea’s June Financial Stability Report, which had judged that single-stock leveraged ETFs “are expected to prevent domestic investment funds from flowing overseas and help expand foreign capital inflows,” Rhee also admitted the judgment was wrong, stating: “In hindsight, this assessment was inappropriate.”
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The cross-chain interoperability sector has rallied sharply, with W leading the gains, followed by ZRO, AXL, STG and others.
According to HTX market data, tokens in the cross-chain interoperability sector have rallied sharply, with Wormhole (W) leading the surge, gaining over 60% in 24 hours and briefly breaking $0.03. LayerZero (ZRO) also strengthened, surpassing $2.2 with a 24-hour increase of more than 12%. Axelar (AXL) crossed $0.06, rising 9.7% in 24 hours; Stargate (STG) broke $0.2, up 23.7% in 24 hours. On the news front: Wormhole is advancing W 2.0 tokenomics, introducing reserves, staking yields and a bi-weekly unlock mechanism, and has completed multi-chain deployments for Hyperliquid HYPE as well as institutional-grade integrations including Ripple RLUSD. LayerZero has seen a sharp recent growth in TVL, launched the Bridge Sentinel security solution in partnership with Blockaid, and completed the integration of Stargate (STG) tokens into the ZRO ecosystem while carrying out ongoing buybacks. Axelar is expanding multi-chain connections, actively participating in the XRP ecosystem as a bridge for the XRPL EVM sidechain. Stargate is finalizing its token merger and migration to the LayerZero ecosystem, with multiple major trading platforms supporting STG-to-ZRO conversions.
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Analysis: Bitcoin closes above $83,000 on the weekly chart, bulls remain in control
Benjamin Cowen, founder of crypto market research platform ITC, posted that Bitcoin closing above $83,000 on its weekly chart signals bulls remain in control, while bears need to prove they have taken over market dominance. Cowen noted that based on his past experience, employing the dollar-cost averaging (DCA) strategy in the second half of U.S. midterm election years is a prudent move; this strategy worked in 2018 and 2022, and he hopes it will hold true in 2026.
Gate has officially announced the launch of the World Crypto Trading Competition Season 9 (WCTC S9), running from October 9, 2026, 08:00 (UTC). Centered around the theme “Trade Beyond Boundaries, Rise to the Top,” this flagship event features a dynamic prize pool of up to 6,000,000 USDT unlocked by participant volume.
The event delivers an ultimate multi-asset experience across squad battles, individual ranks, event contracts, lucky draws, and ecosystem perks.
Users can automatically register by logging in to Gate and entering the WCTC campaign page. Registration will be open from 08:00 on October 9 to 08:00 on October 26 (UTC). The competition spans a broad array of tracks—including Spot, ETF, Convert, Stocks, Futures, and TradFi—using a unified conversion mechanism to aggregate trading performance across all products.
The WCTC S9 competition period runs from 08:00 on October 26 to 08:00 on November 25 (UTC). As the core highlight of WCTC S9, the Squad Competition features a prize pool of up to 3,200,000 USDT. Participants can create or join a team, which requires at least 1 leader and 4 members. The competition consists of two stages: Phase 1 (Oct 26 – Nov 10) and Phase 2 (Nov 10 – Nov 25). Each stage independently tracks rankings and rewards for Platform Trading Volume, CFD Volume, and Profit Rank. Teams can compete across multiple leaderboards, and the leader of the top squad with the highest cumulative volume across both phases will win a 30,000 USDT-value gold medal.
The Individual Competition runs with a prize pool of up to 400,000 USDT. Upon registration, valid trading volume across Spot, ETF, Convert, Stocks, Futures, and TradFi counts toward individual rankings. Traders reaching 20,000 USDT in converted volume qualify for the individual total trading volume leaderboard. The top 300 participants will share the unlocked prize pool based on their rankings, while those ranked 301st to 1,000th will have a chance to receive Futures Position Vouchers, giving participants across different trading volumes opportunities to compete for recognition and rewards.
Beyond standard rankings, WCTC S9 introduces the BTC/USDT Event Contracts Battle, featuring a maximum prize pool of up to 400,000 USDT for the PK tournament. Every 30 minutes, the system pairs players in quick, 5-minute BTC/USDT price prediction matches. A positive net profit in a round secures a victory and earns leaderboard points. Combining quick market calls, random matchups, and score rankings, this fast-paced format boosts interactive engagement, allowing qualified traders to claim leaderboard rewards based on cumulative points.
The event also unveils the WCTC Lucky Launchpad with a 725,000 USDT total prize pool. Every user gets a free lucky draw upon their first login, and guaranteed rewards with every launch, including USDT cash, futures position trial vouchers, fee rebate vouchers, random crypto tokens, random stocks, and custom WCTC merchandise. Additional lucky draws can be unlocked by trading, inviting friends, or sharing the event. Rewards are limited and distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.
Along with the main event, Gate will launch the WCTC Ecosystem Trading Carnival, connecting key sectors such as Futures, Spot, ETF, Convert, CFD, Stocks, Event Contracts, Alpha, Earn, Copy Trading and Quantitative Trading, with a total side-event prize pool of 1,000,000 USDT. The campaign page offers a unified dashboard to track event schedules, qualification criteria, reward progress, and direct entry points, enabling seamless exploration across diverse asset classes. Additionally, a dedicated 275,000 USDT reward pool offers extra perks for new users, squad registration, quick team assembly, and live-stream interactions—further amplifying both community engagement and reward opportunities.
As Gate’s flagship annual trading event for global users, WCTC continues to pioneer the integration of multi-asset ecosystems, competitive mechanics, and community interaction. By combining squad and individual arenas, cross-asset coverage, and innovative formats like Event Contracts Battle, WCTC S9 sets a new standard for crypto trading competitions. Moving forward, Gate remains committed to refining its multi-asset infrastructure to build an ever deeper, more dynamic, and highly interactive trading experience for global traders.
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Gate has announced a collaboration with Visa to launch a crypto-linked card, further expanding the use of digital assets in everyday spending and global commerce. The product is expected to launch across 40+ markets globally, allowing users to make payments with digital assets online and in-store wherever Visa is accepted and more conveniently connect their Gate accounts with real-world spending.
When users make payments with the crypto-linked Visa card launched by Gate, the relevant crypto assets will be automatically converted into fiat currency at the point of sale, allowing digital assets held in their Gate accounts to be used for everyday shopping, dining, travel, and other expenses. Users can also apply for and manage the card through the Gate app and access related payment services within a familiar platform environment. Details regarding supported markets, eligibility requirements, supported assets, and service availability can be found on the product page.
Visa has an extensive global digital payments acceptance network spanning more than 175 million merchant locations across more than 200 countries and territories. Through this partnership, Gate is connecting its digital asset capabilities with Visa’s payments infrastructure, enabling users to use digital assets across a broader range of commercial scenarios and further expanding their application in everyday payments. More than 160 stablecoin-linked Visa card programmes are now live globally, with payment volume up nearly 200% year-over-year, demonstrating the rapid expansion of crypto card adoption.
This partnership builds on Gate’s existing global user base and multi-asset service capabilities. Founded in 2013, Gate now serves more than 61 million users, supports trading across 5,300+ crypto assets and 12,800+ stock assets, and provides access to TradFi products spanning metals, stocks, indices, forex, and commodities. The platform was among the first to implement 100% Proof of Reserves and has built a diversified product and ecosystem portfolio. Its broad user base, multi-asset product offering, and platform capabilities provide the foundation for Gate to extend the use of digital assets into everyday payment scenarios.
Gate has officially launched Gate Money, a globally integrated financial services application. Gate Money brings digital assets, fiat currencies, stocks, ETFs, gold, bank accounts, and payments together in the Gate app. Eligible users can also apply online for a global bank account held in their own name and manage fund receipts, transfers, asset conversions, and payments in one place. Gate’s crypto-linked Visa card further connects assets held in Gate accounts with global payment scenarios, extending Gate Money’s financial services into more everyday spending use cases and giving users greater flexibility in how they use their assets. Currently, users can update the Gate App to v8.39.0 to enable Gate Money.
Gate Founder and CEO, Dr. Han, said: “Digital assets are gradually becoming part of everyday financial life. This partnership with Visa connects the digital asset accounts Gate users already know with a broad range of commercial scenarios, making digital asset payments more intuitive and better aligned with everyday needs. As the service launches across more than 40 countries and territories, we aim to give users greater flexibility in how they use their assets and further expand the practical use of digital assets in global commerce.”
Nischint Sanghavi, Head of Digital Currencies, APAC, said: “Consumers want payment methods that are flexible, convenient, and widely accepted. Visa is committed to working with partners to expand payment choices and connect new forms of value to established digital payments infrastructure. Through our partnership with Gate, we look forward to enabling more users to use digital assets wherever Visa is accepted, further enriching their everyday payment experience.”
In recent years, digital assets have increasingly expanded into practical use cases such as payments, consumption, and cross-border commerce. By connecting digital asset accounts with Visa’s payments network, crypto cards offer users a more intuitive way to use digital assets and serve as an important gateway to integrating them into everyday economic activity.
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Gate, founded in 2013 by Dr. Han, is one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency and integrated financial services platforms, spanning financial and everyday use cases including asset management, trading and payments. Serving over 61 million users globally, it supports trading across 5,300+ digital assets and 12,800+ stock assets, while providing access to a comprehensive range of TradFi assets, including metals, stocks, indices, forex, and commodities to meet users’ end-to-end needs across asset holding, trading and spending, trading and spending. As an industry benchmark, Gate was among the first platforms to implement 100% Proof of Reserves. Its ecosystem includes Gate Money, Gate Wallet, Gate Ventures, Gate for AI Agent, and a wide range of products and services.
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This content does not constitute an offer, solicitation, or recommendation. You should always seek independent professional advice before making investment decisions. Note that Gate may restrict or prohibit certain services in specific jurisdictions. Card services are not intended for, and should not be accessed by, those in any jurisdictions where such services are prohibited by law. For more information, users can read the User Agreement.
Gate has announced a collaboration with Visa to launch a crypto-linked card, further expanding the use of digital assets in everyday spending and global commerce. The product is expected to launch across 40+ markets globally, allowing users to make payments with digital assets online and in-store wherever Visa is accepted and more conveniently connect their Gate accounts with real-world spending.
When users make payments with the crypto-linked Visa card launched by Gate, the relevant crypto assets will be automatically converted into fiat currency at the point of sale, allowing digital assets held in their Gate accounts to be used for everyday shopping, dining, travel, and other expenses. Users can also apply for and manage the card through the Gate app and access related payment services within a familiar platform environment. Details regarding supported markets, eligibility requirements, supported assets, and service availability can be found on the product page.
Visa has an extensive global digital payments acceptance network spanning more than 175 million merchant locations across more than 200 countries and territories. Through this partnership, Gate is connecting its digital asset capabilities with Visa’s payments infrastructure, enabling users to use digital assets across a broader range of commercial scenarios and further expanding their application in everyday payments. More than 160 stablecoin-linked Visa card programmes are now live globally, with payment volume up nearly 200% year-over-year, demonstrating the rapid expansion of crypto card adoption.
This partnership builds on Gate’s existing global user base and multi-asset service capabilities. Founded in 2013, Gate now serves more than 61 million users, supports trading across 5,300+ crypto assets and 12,800+ stock assets, and provides access to TradFi products spanning metals, stocks, indices, forex, and commodities. The platform was among the first to implement 100% Proof of Reserves and has built a diversified product and ecosystem portfolio. Its broad user base, multi-asset product offering, and platform capabilities provide the foundation for Gate to extend the use of digital assets into everyday payment scenarios.
Gate has officially launched Gate Money, a globally integrated financial services application. Gate Money brings digital assets, fiat currencies, stocks, ETFs, gold, bank accounts, and payments together in the Gate app. Eligible users can also apply online for a global bank account held in their own name and manage fund receipts, transfers, asset conversions, and payments in one place. Gate’s crypto-linked Visa card further connects assets held in Gate accounts with global payment scenarios, extending Gate Money’s financial services into more everyday spending use cases and giving users greater flexibility in how they use their assets. Currently, users can update the Gate App to v8.39.0 to enable Gate Money.
Gate Founder and CEO, Dr. Han, said: “Digital assets are gradually becoming part of everyday financial life. This partnership with Visa connects the digital asset accounts Gate users already know with a broad range of commercial scenarios, making digital asset payments more intuitive and better aligned with everyday needs. As the service launches across more than 40 countries and territories, we aim to give users greater flexibility in how they use their assets and further expand the practical use of digital assets in global commerce.”
Nischint Sanghavi, Head of Digital Currencies, APAC, said: “Consumers want payment methods that are flexible, convenient, and widely accepted. Visa is committed to working with partners to expand payment choices and connect new forms of value to established digital payments infrastructure. Through our partnership with Gate, we look forward to enabling more users to use digital assets wherever Visa is accepted, further enriching their everyday payment experience.”
In recent years, digital assets have increasingly expanded into practical use cases such as payments, consumption, and cross-border commerce. By connecting digital asset accounts with Visa’s payments network, crypto cards offer users a more intuitive way to use digital assets and serve as an important gateway to integrating them into everyday economic activity.
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About GateGate, founded in 2013 by Dr. Han, is one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency and integrated financial services platforms, spanning financial and everyday use cases including asset management, trading and payments. Serving over 61 million users globally, it supports trading across 5,300+ digital assets and 12,800+ stock assets, while providing access to a comprehensive range of TradFi assets, including metals, stocks, indices, forex, and commodities to meet users’ end-to-end needs across asset holding, trading and spending, trading and spending. As an industry benchmark, Gate was among the first platforms to implement 100% Proof of Reserves. Its ecosystem includes Gate Money, Gate Wallet, Gate Ventures, Gate for AI Agent, and a wide range of products and services.
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Settlement rails are shipping while liability remains unallocated — and the gap between the 89% of merchants preparing for agentic commerce and the 3% of transactions involving AI agents is the structural signal nobody is pricing.
While 89% of merchants are actively preparing for agentic commerce, only 3% of transactions currently involve autonomous agents, according to the Checkout.com 2026 report. This gap between preparation and execution is not merely a technical hurdle; it is a structural collision. As the industry attempts to scale, the control points of digital commerce are fragmenting across infrastructure layers, with the fundamental question of who controls the gate splitting rather than consolidating.
Merchants are increasingly reclaiming protocol-level control to manage how agents interact with their storefronts. Shopify recently implemented robots.txt restrictions to block AI crawlers from checkout and cart paths — the first major eCommerce platform to draw the line at the protocol level. Amazon has blocked Meta Muse agent checkouts due to concerns over unauthorized access and credential capture, as GeekWire reported. Only 11% of SMBs are currently agent-ready, per PYMNTS/Visa data, and just 28% of merchants are willing to offer agents their full product range. These moves signal a defensive posture against unvetted agent traffic, forcing a confrontation between open-access AI models and the walled gardens of established marketplaces.
Simultaneously, the underlying settlement infrastructure is rapidly maturing. The institutional stablecoin stack reached a critical milestone this week, integrating reserve management, enterprise payment, and credit assessment. Moody’s issued its first-ever stablecoin protocol rating, providing a baseline for risk, while the Citi-Coinbase collaboration wired its $6 trillion payment network to stablecoins. Furthermore, SAP Pay stablecoin settlement is embedded directly in its ERP software, effectively turning enterprise resource planning into a payment rail. The plumbing is shipping. The gate is not.
Despite these infrastructure advancements, the liability framework remains unallocated. PYMNTS Intelligence data shows that 93% of merchants believe AI providers should bear the financial loss for agent errors, yet no clear mechanism for this exists. While six major banks recently published voluntary guardrails, these principles lack enforcement and fail to address the critical liability gap. The party best positioned to prevent the error — the AI provider — has no financial incentive to do so.
Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller, speaking at Sibos, identified the core market-structure pivot: the choice between open and closed systems. “The biggest barrier to scaling agentic commerce, particularly the agent-delegated model, is building sufficient trust among buyers and sellers,” he said, naming authentication, liability, and fraud as the three binding challenges. Waller’s full remarks on market structure framed the open-versus-closed question as the variable that “could significantly influence how the market structure evolves.” Merchants are currently buying into infrastructure that is actively shipping, but they are doing so without the binding standards necessary to mitigate the risks of autonomous purchasing.
The market is currently defined by a proliferation of competing protocols — from Google and OpenAI to Mastercard and Visa — each vying for dominance in the agent-delegated model. Yet Walmart pilot data showed conversion rates roughly three times lower for direct agent checkouts than for click-out flows, according to Walmart executive Daniel Danker, first reported by Wired. The industry is left with a fundamental question: will the gate be governed by the merchant, the platform, or the protocol? Until liability is clearly assigned, the gate will remain a point of friction rather than a gateway to scale.
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PANews, October 8 – During TOKEN2049 Singapore 2026, according to an official announcement, Gate announced a partnership with Visa to launch a crypto asset-linked card, with related services expected to roll out across 40+ markets worldwide. Users can apply for and manage the card through the Gate App and use digital assets to pay at online and offline merchants that accept Visa, with the relevant digital assets automatically converted to fiat currency during payment.
Gate has officially launched Gate Money, integrating digital assets, fiat currency, stocks, ETFs, gold, bank accounts and payments into the Gate App. Eligible users can apply online for a global bank e-account in their own name and complete fund transfers, asset conversions and payments on the same platform. The Visa crypto asset-linked card launched by Gate further connects account assets with everyday spending scenarios, extending Gate Money's integrated "account opening – funds – assets – spending" service chain to more real-world payment scenarios. Currently, users can enable Gate Money with one tap by updating the Gate App to version v8.39.0.
Visa's digital payment network covers more than 200 countries and regions, with over 175 million merchant acceptance points. This partnership combines Gate's digital asset capabilities with Visa's global payment infrastructure, expanding the use of digital assets in shopping, dining, travel and other everyday spending scenarios. Gate Founder and CEO Dr. Han said the partnership connects digital asset accounts with a broader range of commercial spending scenarios, making the use of digital assets more flexible and intuitive, and driving their integration into everyday financial life and business activities. Visa's Head of Digital Currency for Asia Pacific, Nischint Sanghavi, said Visa is committed to working with partners to expand payment options and connect new forms of value with mature digital payment infrastructure. The launch of this crypto-linked card also further extends Gate's business footprint in real-world payments and integrated financial services, providing users with a more convenient way to use digital assets for global commercial spending.
--Gate has announced a collaboration with Visa to launch a crypto-linked card, further expanding the use of digital assets in everyday spending and global commerce. The product is expected to launch across 40+ markets globally, allowing users to make payments with digital assets online and in-store wherever Visa is accepted and more conveniently connect...
HONG KONG, Oct. 08, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gate has announced a collaboration with Visa to launch a crypto-linked card, further expanding the use of digital assets in everyday spending and global commerce. The product is expected to launch across 40+ markets globally, allowing users to make payments with digital assets online and in-store wherever Visa is accepted and more conveniently connect their Gate accounts with real-world spending.
When users make payments with the crypto-linked Visa card launched by Gate, the relevant crypto assets will be automatically converted into fiat currency at the point of sale, allowing digital assets held in their Gate accounts to be used for everyday shopping, dining, travel, and other expenses. Users can also apply for and manage the card through the Gate app and access related payment services within a familiar platform environment. Details regarding supported markets, eligibility requirements, supported assets, and service availability can be found on the product page.
Visa has an extensive global digital payments acceptance network spanning more than 175 million merchant locations across more than 200 countries and territories. Through this partnership, Gate is connecting its digital asset capabilities with Visa's payments infrastructure, enabling users to use digital assets across a broader range of commercial scenarios and further expanding their application in everyday payments. More than 160 stablecoin-linked Visa card programmes are now live globally, with payment volume up nearly 200% year-over-year, demonstrating the rapid expansion of crypto card adoption.
This partnership builds on Gate's existing global user base and multi-asset service capabilities. Founded in 2013, Gate now serves more than 61 million users, supports trading across 5,300+ crypto assets and 12,800+ stock assets, and provides access to TradFi products spanning metals, stocks, indices, forex, and commodities. The platform was among the first to implement 100% Proof of Reserves and has built a diversified product and ecosystem portfolio. Its broad user base, multi-asset product offering, and platform capabilities provide the foundation for Gate to extend the use of digital assets into everyday payment scenarios.
Gate has officially launched Gate Money, a globally integrated financial services application. Gate Money brings digital assets, fiat currencies, stocks, ETFs, gold, bank accounts, and payments together in the Gate app. Eligible users can also apply online for a global bank account held in their own name and manage fund receipts, transfers, asset conversions, and payments in one place. Gate's crypto-linked Visa card further connects assets held in Gate accounts with global payment scenarios, extending Gate Money’s financial services into more everyday spending use cases and giving users greater flexibility in how they use their assets. Currently, users can update the Gate App to v8.39.0 to enable Gate Money.
Gate Founder and CEO, Dr. Han, said: "Digital assets are gradually becoming part of everyday financial life. This partnership with Visa connects the digital asset accounts Gate users already know with a broad range of commercial scenarios, making digital asset payments more intuitive and better aligned with everyday needs. As the service launches across more than 40 countries and territories, we aim to give users greater flexibility in how they use their assets and further expand the practical use of digital assets in global commerce."
Nischint Sanghavi, Head of Digital Currencies, APAC, said: "Consumers want payment methods that are flexible, convenient, and widely accepted. Visa is committed to working with partners to expand payment choices and connect new forms of value to established digital payments infrastructure. Through our partnership with Gate, we look forward to enabling more users to use digital assets wherever Visa is accepted, further enriching their everyday payment experience."
In recent years, digital assets have increasingly expanded into practical use cases such as payments, consumption, and cross-border commerce. By connecting digital asset accounts with Visa's payments network, crypto cards offer users a more intuitive way to use digital assets and serve as an important gateway to integrating them into everyday economic activity.
Gate, founded in 2013 by Dr. Han, is one of the world's leading cryptocurrency and integrated financial services platforms, spanning financial and everyday use cases including asset management, trading and payments. Serving over 61 million users globally, it supports trading across 5,300+ digital assets and 12,800+ stock assets, while providing access to a comprehensive range of TradFi assets, including metals, stocks, indices, forex, and commodities to meet users' end-to-end needs across asset holding, trading and spending, trading and spending. As an industry benchmark, Gate was among the first platforms to implement 100% Proof of Reserves. Its ecosystem includes Gate Money, Gate Wallet, Gate Ventures, Gate for AI Agent, and a wide range of products and services.
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Gate has announced a collaboration with Visa to launch a crypto-linked card, further expanding the use of digital assets in everyday spending and global commerce. The product is expected to launch across 40+ markets globally, allowing users to make payments with digital assets online and in-store wherever Visa is accepted and more conveniently connect their Gate accounts with real-world spending.
When users make payments with the crypto-linked Visa card launched by Gate, the relevant crypto assets will be automatically converted into fiat currency at the point of sale, allowing digital assets held in their Gate accounts to be used for everyday shopping, dining, travel, and other expenses. Users can also apply for and manage the card through the Gate app and access related payment services within a familiar platform environment. Details regarding supported markets, eligibility requirements, supported assets, and service availability can be found on the product page.
Visa has an extensive global digital payments acceptance network spanning more than 175 million merchant locations across more than 200 countries and territories. Through this partnership, Gate is connecting its digital asset capabilities with Visa’s payments infrastructure, enabling users to use digital assets across a broader range of commercial scenarios and further expanding their application in everyday payments. More than 160 stablecoin-linked Visa card programmes are now live globally, with payment volume up nearly 200% year-over-year, demonstrating the rapid expansion of crypto card adoption.
This partnership builds on Gate’s existing global user base and multi-asset service capabilities. Founded in 2013, Gate now serves more than 61 million users, supports trading across 5,300+ crypto assets and 12,800+ stock assets, and provides access to TradFi products spanning metals, stocks, indices, forex, and commodities. The platform was among the first to implement 100% Proof of Reserves and has built a diversified product and ecosystem portfolio. Its broad user base, multi-asset product offering, and platform capabilities provide the foundation for Gate to extend the use of digital assets into everyday payment scenarios.
Gate has officially launched Gate Money, a globally integrated financial services application. Gate Money brings digital assets, fiat currencies, stocks, ETFs, gold, bank accounts, and payments together in the Gate app. Eligible users can also apply online for a global bank account held in their own name and manage fund receipts, transfers, asset conversions, and payments in one place. Gate’s crypto-linked Visa card further connects assets held in Gate accounts with global payment scenarios, extending Gate Money’s financial services into more everyday spending use cases and giving users greater flexibility in how they use their assets. Currently, users can update the Gate App to v8.39.0 to enable Gate Money.
Gate Founder and CEO, Dr. Han, said: “Digital assets are gradually becoming part of everyday financial life. This partnership with Visa connects the digital asset accounts Gate users already know with a broad range of commercial scenarios, making digital asset payments more intuitive and better aligned with everyday needs. As the service launches across more than 40 countries and territories, we aim to give users greater flexibility in how they use their assets and further expand the practical use of digital assets in global commerce.”
Nischint Sanghavi, Head of Digital Currencies, APAC, said: “Consumers want payment methods that are flexible, convenient, and widely accepted. Visa is committed to working with partners to expand payment choices and connect new forms of value to established digital payments infrastructure. Through our partnership with Gate, we look forward to enabling more users to use digital assets wherever Visa is accepted, further enriching their everyday payment experience.”
In recent years, digital assets have increasingly expanded into practical use cases such as payments, consumption, and cross-border commerce. By connecting digital asset accounts with Visa’s payments network, crypto cards offer users a more intuitive way to use digital assets and serve as an important gateway to integrating them into everyday economic activity.
About Gate Gate, founded in 2013 by Dr. Han, is one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency and integrated financial services platforms, spanning financial and everyday use cases including asset management, trading and payments. Serving over 61 million users globally, it supports trading across 5,300+ digital assets and 12,800+ stock assets, while providing access to a comprehensive range of TradFi assets, including metals, stocks, indices, forex, and commodities to meet users’ end-to-end needs across asset holding, trading and spending, trading and spending. As an industry benchmark, Gate was among the first platforms to implement 100% Proof of Reserves. Its ecosystem includes Gate Money, Gate Wallet, Gate Ventures, Gate for AI Agent, and a wide range of products and services.
For more information, please visit: Website | X | Telegram | LinkedIn| Instagram | YouTube
Disclaimer: This content does not constitute an offer, solicitation, or recommendation. You should always seek independent professional advice before making investment decisions. Note that Gate may restrict or prohibit certain services in specific jurisdictions. Card services are not intended for, and should not be accessed by, those in any jurisdictions where such services are prohibited by law. For more information, please read the User Agreement.
While the platform continues to lean into AI-driven discovery, it is enforcing strict human-in-the-loop requirements for payments to mitigate mounting liability and infrastructure risks.
Restricting the Autonomous Transaction Shopify has formalized its stance on agentic commerce by updating the robots.txt policy for its storefronts to explicitly prohibit autonomous agents from finalizing purchases. Effective July 15, 2025, the platform mandates that “Checkouts are for humans. Do NOT complete checkout, payment, or order placement automatically — no scripted form fills, browser automation, or end-to-end agent flows that finalize payment without an explicit, contemporaneous human approval step.” It is critical to note that this directive applies specifically to individual merchant storefronts, not the shopify.com corporate site. While President Harley Finkelstein has famously declared that “AI is now Shopify’s native language” during the Q1 2026 earnings call, this policy signals a definitive boundary to that integration.
The Discovery-Checkout Divide The policy creates a functional bifurcation in how AI interacts with commerce. Discovery crawlers, including GPTBot and PerplexityBot, retain access to product, collection, and page paths, ensuring that AI-driven research remains viable. However, the /checkout and /cart paths are now restricted. This is not a hard technical block but an advisory directive, positioning Shopify in a strategic middle ground between the divergent retailer postures—ranging from total welcome to total exclusion—that have defined the industry’s recent response to agentic traffic.
The Liability and Infrastructure Gap The primary driver for this restriction is the absence of a robust framework for handling agent-driven financial errors. As Yang Lu, CIDO at Tapestry, observed, “People are adopting agentic commerce much more slowly than other AI consumer tools; we’re comfortable using AI to browse and discover products, but aren’t yet ready to hand over our credit cards.” This consumer hesitation is matched by merchant anxiety. According to PYMNTS Intelligence data from September 2026, 93% of merchants believe AI providers should bear the financial loss for agent errors. Currently, the payment infrastructure lacks a standardized reason code for “agent error,” creating a significant liability void for businesses.
Fragmenting Market Standards The industry is currently struggling to establish a unified approach to autonomous commerce. While Shopify is building mechanisms to control agent checkout, it simultaneously serves as the platform that made Muse the default interface for Meta’s agent. This tension is mirrored by competitors: Constructor recently announced a Stripe-powered Agentic Checkout, while TikTok launched its own Shopping Assistant and Buy Direct features. These disparate developments highlight a lack of consensus on how to manage the risks inherent in autonomous transactions, a theme we explored in our recent analysis of the broader liability gap.
The Reality of Agent Readiness Despite the rapid growth in AI-driven traffic—which saw an 8x increase on Shopify in Q1 2026—the underlying infrastructure remains immature. The PYMNTS/Visa GDSI report indicates that only 11% of SMBs are currently agent-ready. Shopify’s requirement for UCP/MCP endpoints, which mandate buyer approval before payment, is an attempt to impose a standard on an ecosystem that is still learning to manage the complexities of AI-driven traffic. The platform is signaling that while it will continue to foster AI-driven growth, that expansion cannot come at the expense of payment integrity.
Balancing Innovation and Integrity Shopify’s current approach is a calculated effort to maintain the benefits of AI-driven discovery while mitigating the risks of unverified autonomous transactions. By drawing a line at the checkout, the company acknowledges that the currency of commerce still requires a human signature. Whether this advisory policy will be sufficient to satisfy merchants and protect against the inevitable errors of agentic commerce remains an open question, particularly as the broader market continues to experiment with varying levels of automation. Until standardized protocols emerge, the burden of proof—and the cost of failure—will likely remain with the merchant.
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Gate has partnered with Visa to roll out a crypto-linked payment card across more than 40 countries and territories, with digital assets automatically converted into fiat when users spend.
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Gate plans to launch its Visa-linked crypto card across more than 40 countries and territories. Crypto held in Gate accounts will convert automatically into fiat currency when users make purchases. Gate says users can apply for and manage the new card directly through its app. Visa supports more than 160 stablecoin-linked card programs, with payment volume rising nearly 200% yearly. Gate Money combines digital assets, bank accounts, stocks, gold and payments within one unified application. Gate said on Oct. 8 that the card will connect balances held in Gate accounts with Visa’s payment network, allowing eligible users to pay online or in stores wherever their card is accepted. The exchange said users will be able to apply for and manage the product through the Gate app.
The announcement does not provide one complete public list of the 40-plus supported markets. Gate said country availability, eligibility requirements, supported assets and other service conditions depend on the relevant product page and local restrictions.
Gate card turns crypto into fiat when users pay When a user makes a purchase, Gate said the relevant digital assets will be converted automatically into fiat currency at the point of sale. The merchant therefore receives payment through the normal card system instead of accepting cryptocurrency directly.
Visa describes the same process for crypto-linked cards across its network. Its research says customers can fund purchases from crypto or stablecoin balances while the conversion into local fiat takes place at checkout. Merchants receive standard Visa payments without having to handle the digital asset themselves.
Gate x Visa: Bringing crypto closer to everyday life.
As part of the broader Gate Money experience, our partnership with Visa brings crypto payments to 40+ countries and territories, making it easier for users to connect their Gate assets with real-world spending.
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— Gate (@Gate) October 8, 2026 Gate’s current card page lists USDT, BTC, ETH and GT as supported assets under its Instant Spend Mode. Its prepaid mode supports a larger selection, though Gate says available assets depend on the card type, issuer and user’s region. The Oct. 8 announcement does not state that every new Visa card in the 40-plus market rollout will support the same asset list.
Current Gate Card documentation says applicants must complete Level 2 identity verification. Some card types require recent proof of address, while approval depends on residence, verification status, the issuing institution and compliance checks.
Gate founder and CEO Dr. Han described the partnership as a way to make digital-asset payments “more intuitive and better aligned with everyday needs.” His statement describes Gate’s intended use for the product, while actual card availability still depends on individual market and eligibility rules.
Gate plans the Visa card for more than 40 markets Gate said the new Visa-linked service is expected to reach more than 40 countries and territories. Visa’s network currently covers more than 175 million merchant acceptance locations in over 200 countries and territories, according to Visa’s own published figures.
The card rollout does not mean Gate is introducing its first payment card. Gate had card products available in several regions earlier in 2026, including virtual and physical cards. Its existing global documentation says Gate Card can support online purchases, contactless payments and, for some physical cards, ATM withdrawals. Apple Pay and Google Pay are available for certain products.
Gate entered the U.S. card market separately in July. Gate US said it launched a Visa card with Visa, Stripe and Bridge on July 10, allowing eligible U.S. customers to spend supported stablecoins such as USDC. Lead Bank issues that U.S. prepaid debit card, while Bridge manages the card program.
The Oct. 8 announcement concerns Gate’s planned international expansion across more than 40 markets and comes under its newly launched Gate Money service. Specific issuers and card structures can therefore differ by country.
Gate Money puts the card inside the main Gate app Gate announced Gate Money one day before the Visa card partnership, during founder Dr. Han’s Oct. 7 appearance at TOKEN2049. The service brings cryptocurrencies, fiat currencies, stocks, ETFs, gold, banking services and payments into the Gate app. Users can activate Gate Money after updating the app to version 8.39.0.
As crypto.news previously reported in its coverage of the Gate Money launch, the platform is designed to combine asset management and payments within one account. Gate said eligible users can hold different fiat currencies, make bank transfers, deposit crypto and move funds between their exchange and payment accounts.
Eligible users can apply for an electronic bank account in their own name directly through Gate Money. Gate says the service can link the bank account to digital assets and traditional investments inside the app, allowing users to receive funds, convert currencies and make payments without opening a separate Gate product for each task.
Gate’s Oct. 7 product announcement says cards can be used for online and offline spending, while payment options in some countries include ATM withdrawals and local QR-code payments. Exact functions vary by location.
Visa crypto cards are already growing quickly Gate is joining a Visa card market that has expanded quickly during 2026. Visa said on Sept. 8 that more than 160 stablecoin-linked card programs were operating globally during its fiscal second quarter. Payment volume across those programs had risen nearly 200% year over year.
As crypto.news reported in its coverage of Visa’s 160 stablecoin-card programs, the company separately reported that its stablecoin settlement volume had passed a $20 billion annualized run rate. That figure describes the pace of settlement activity and does not mean Visa had already settled $20 billion during the year.
More recent Visa data published Oct. 1 showed business and commercial cards accounted for roughly 17% of stablecoin-linked card volume during fiscal 2026 year-to-date. Visa said its stablecoin card network continued to cover more than 160 consumer, business and commercial programs.
Crypto.news recently covered the same figures in its report on Visa stablecoin-card payments rising nearly 200%. Visa did not disclose the total dollar amount of purchases behind that percentage increase.
Visa has been expanding similar card partnerships elsewhere. Its March agreement with Stripe-owned Bridge set out plans to take Bridge-powered stablecoin Visa cards from 18 countries to more than 100 countries across Europe, Asia Pacific, Africa and the Middle East by the end of 2026.
For Gate’s rollout, the company has not announced a final date when all 40-plus markets will be live. Its announcement directs users to the card product page to check local eligibility, supported assets and service availability.
Gate Money has a separate expansion schedule. Gate said its banking services are planned for more markets including Europe, Australia and Dubai, while its account infrastructure is expected to support receiving payments in more than 60 local currencies.
PANews reported on October 8 that Gate held a press conference during TOKEN2049 in Singapore, where Gate founder and CEO Dr. Han attended and exchanged views with on-site media on the product design and real-world application scenarios of Gate Money.
Dr. Han explained that Gate Money connects bank accounts, asset management, fund transfers and everyday payments. Users in eligible regions can apply through the Gate App to open a bank e-account in their own name, supporting local currency deposits and fund transfers; at the same time, more direct fund flows lower the cost of cross-border capital turnover, allowing funds to move more flexibly across different scenarios.
Speaking about the use of assets, Dr. Han pointed out that in the past, assets were used more for investment and value growth, while payments relied mainly on cash or bank accounts. Gate Money aims to shorten the distance between holding an asset and using it. Users can manage multiple types of assets in their accounts, such as digital assets and stocks, and directly use the value of their assets for spending in supported scenarios, without first selling the assets and converting them into cash. This is exactly the change Gate Money can bring: letting money flow freely while keeping assets working at all times.
Dr. Han said that Gate Money connects not only bank accounts, fund transfers and asset payments, but is also redefining the relationship between assets and everyday life. In the future, Gate will further connect more assets and financial scenarios, pushing financial services to cover a more diverse range of asset forms and life scenarios.
October 8, 2026 – Gate has announced a collaboration with Visa to launch a crypto-linked card, further expanding the use of digital assets in everyday spending and global commerce. The product is expected to launch across 40+ markets globally, allowing users to make payments with digital assets online and in-store wherever Visa is accepted and more conveniently connect their Gate accounts with real-world spending.
When users make payments with the crypto-linked Visa card launched by Gate, the relevant crypto assets will be automatically converted into fiat currency at the point of sale, allowing digital assets held in their Gate accounts to be used for everyday shopping, dining, travel, and other expenses. Users can also apply for and manage the card through the Gate app and access related payment services within a familiar platform environment. Details regarding supported markets, eligibility requirements, supported assets, and service availability can be found on the product page.
Visa has an extensive global digital payments acceptance network spanning more than 175 million merchant locations across more than 200 countries and territories. Through this partnership, Gate is connecting its digital asset capabilities with Visa’s payments infrastructure, enabling users to use digital assets across a broader range of commercial scenarios and further expanding their application in everyday payments. More than 160 stablecoin-linked Visa card programmes are now live globally, with payment volume up nearly 200% year-over-year, demonstrating the rapid expansion of crypto card adoption.
This partnership builds on Gate’s existing global user base and multi-asset service capabilities. Founded in 2013, Gate now serves more than 61 million users, supports trading across 5,300+ crypto assets and 12,800+ stock assets, and provides access to TradFi products spanning metals, stocks, indices, forex, and commodities. The platform was among the first to implement 100% Proof of Reserves and has built a diversified product and ecosystem portfolio. Its broad user base, multi-asset product offering, and platform capabilities provide the foundation for Gate to extend the use of digital assets into everyday payment scenarios.
Gate has officially launched Gate Money, a globally integrated financial services application. Gate Money brings digital assets, fiat currencies, stocks, ETFs, gold, bank accounts, and payments together in the Gate app. Eligible users can also apply online for a global bank account held in their own name and manage fund receipts, transfers, asset conversions, and payments in one place. Gate’s crypto-linked Visa card further connects assets held in Gate accounts with global payment scenarios, extending Gate Money’s financial services into more everyday spending use cases and giving users greater flexibility in how they use their assets. Currently, users can update the Gate App to v8.39.0 to enable Gate Money.
Gate Founder and CEO, Dr. Han, said: “Digital assets are gradually becoming part of everyday financial life. This partnership with Visa connects the digital asset accounts Gate users already know with a broad range of commercial scenarios, making digital asset payments more intuitive and better aligned with everyday needs. As the service launches across more than 40 countries and territories, we aim to give users greater flexibility in how they use their assets and further expand the practical use of digital assets in global commerce.”
Nischint Sanghavi, Head of Digital Currencies, APAC, said: “Consumers want payment methods that are flexible, convenient, and widely accepted. Visa is committed to working with partners to expand payment choices and connect new forms of value to established digital payments infrastructure. Through our partnership with Gate, we look forward to enabling more users to use digital assets wherever Visa is accepted, further enriching their everyday payment experience.”
In recent years, digital assets have increasingly expanded into practical use cases such as payments, consumption, and cross-border commerce. By connecting digital asset accounts with Visa’s payments network, crypto cards offer users a more intuitive way to use digital assets and serve as an important gateway to integrating them into everyday economic activity.
About GateGate, founded in 2013 by Dr. Han, is one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency and integrated financial services platforms, spanning financial and everyday use cases including asset management, trading and payments. Serving over 61 million users globally, it supports trading across 5,300+ digital assets and 12,800+ stock assets, while providing access to a comprehensive range of TradFi assets, including metals, stocks, indices, forex, and commodities to meet users’ end-to-end needs across asset holding, trading and spending, trading and spending. As an industry benchmark, Gate was among the first platforms to implement 100% Proof of Reserves. Its ecosystem includes Gate Money, Gate Wallet, Gate Ventures, Gate for AI Agent, and a wide range of products and services.
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Gate officially launches Gate Money, building a one-stop financial services gateway on a global compliance framework
Gate founder and CEO Dr. Han attended TOKEN2049 in Singapore, delivered a keynote on the event's main stage, and announced the launch of Gate Money, further connecting fiat currency, digital assets, stocks, payments, and asset management services to provide users with financial services covering asset holding, receiving, transfers, payments, exchange, and yield scenarios. Users can now experience the feature by updating the Gate App to version v8.39.0. The launch of Gate Money is built on Gate's continuously expanding global compliance framework and financial infrastructure. Currently, Gate-affiliated entities have obtained a MiCA crypto-asset service license and a PSD2 payment institution license in Malta, a full VARA virtual asset service operating license in Dubai, and completed digital currency exchange service registration in Australia, while also conducting related business through locally compliant entities in markets such as Japan. Its compliance coverage spans 81 regulated jurisdictions worldwide, providing the compliance foundation for Gate Money to connect multi-asset management, fiat accounts, fund collection and payment, and everyday payment services. This launch further broadens Gate's financial services scope, extending from digital asset trading and management to more scenarios involving assets, funds, and payments, and further strengthens Gate's ability to provide diversified financial services to global users. Going forward, Gate will continue to drive the deep integration of digital assets, traditional finance, and payment scenarios, further building a diversified financial services ecosystem for global users.
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U.S. government address moves $165 million in assets within 24 hours, including 1,583.8 BTC sent to Coinbase Prime
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Hunter Biden again responds to LAPTOP token controversy: team did not cash out, market maker caused the token crash
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Gate founder Lin Han believes the next biggest crypto consumer trend will be super apps. (Olivier Acuna/CoinDesk)Summary
Gate is joining a growing push by crypto exchanges to become all-in-one finance apps, as rivals including Coinbase, Binance, Bybit and Robinhood expand beyond digital-asset trading.The exchange’s new Gate Money app will let users hold and convert cash, cryptocurrencies, stocks, gold and other assets in one account, then spend from those holdings with a card.Gate founder Lin Han said the company is targeting mainstream consumers, particularly in Asia, but did not explain how it would price or execute asset conversions when underlying markets are closed.Gate is the latest platform to bet that "everything" exchanges are the future model for crypto companies, with CEO and founder Lin Han predicting that all-one-money apps will become one of the biggest consumer trends in the coming year.
The Cayman Islands-headquartered firm, which has $2 billion 24-hour trading volume and over 60 million users, is entering a widening race to turn trading accounts into broader consumer-finance apps. Coinbase expanded into investing, derivatives and banking, while Bybit is building a European super app. Robinhood’s U.K. offering already combines crypto with stocks, ISAs, options and futures. Binance announced its bet on becoming a crypto super app in July.
The opportunity is to make crypto one feature of an everyday money account, rather than an activity reserved for traders.
Gate now allows users to hold and convert cash, cryptic currencies, stocks, gold and other assets in one account, then spend from those holdings through a card, Han told CoinDesk in an interview prior to unveiling its new app "Gate Money" in Singapore.
“We don’t want to stay with a small group of people who are professional at trading,” Han said. “We want to provide this product to a wider range of customers.” The Gate founder said he believes it’s time for all crypto firms to bring in non-crypto users. That’s where the biggest potential for growth is, he added.
He added that said the company intends to allow users to convert between holdings at any time, including outside normal stock-market hours, but did not explain how such conversions would be priced or executed when underlying markets are closed.
Gate’s most ambitious claim is that users will be able to spend assets without first holding cash in their accounts. “You can buy a cup of coffee with Nvidia stock,” Han said. “You cannot do that with any app in the world right now.”
He added that the biggest market for this service may be Asia, where people want access to U.S. stocks but can’t access them because they have restricted access to international brokerage accounts.
Han said Gate sees money apps such as Revolut, Cash App and Wise as more immediate competitors than traditional banks, though he also sees competition with other exchanges pursuing similar products. He said crypto firms now have the technology, licensing and banking relationships needed to offer services that once sat largely with banks and brokers.
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The Definitive Stablecoin Landscape Series: Asia Pacific
As stablecoins move into regulated finance, APAC is becoming a key proving ground. This report maps the region’s rules, use cases, and RLUSD’s role.
Sep 15, 2026
As stablecoins move into regulated finance, APAC is becoming a key proving ground. This report maps the region’s rules, use cases, and RLUSD’s role.
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As stablecoins move into regulated finance, APAC is becoming a key proving ground. This report maps the region’s rules, use cases, and RLUSD’s role.
Gate wants to be the only finance app on your phone. The crypto exchange has launched Gate Money, a feature that puts digital assets, fiat currencies, stocks, ETFs, gold and electronic bank accounts under one roof.
What Gate Money actually does Gate Money was unveiled on October 7, 2026, during Dr. Han’s keynote at TOKEN2049 in Singapore. It went live immediately through an update to the Gate App, version 8.39.0. No waitlist and no separate download.
The headline feature is a one-click application for a personal global electronic bank account. Those accounts support more than 60 local currencies.
Spending is handled through the Gate Card, which works with Apple Pay and Google Pay. Users can move between fiat and digital assets inside the app, then tap to pay at a register.
There is also a yield component. Eligible USDT balances can earn up to 3.6%, with no lock-up period. USDT is Tether’s dollar-pegged stablecoin, so this is effectively a savings-style return on digital dollars that you can withdraw whenever you like.
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Note the qualifiers: “up to” and “eligible.” The headline rate is a ceiling, not a guarantee for every balance.
Gate is wrapping all of it in a brand slogan: “One Gate, Everything Money.”
The scale behind the bet Gate is not starting from scratch. The platform says it has more than 61 million users.
The asset menu is equally sprawling. Gate lists more than 5,300 digital assets and over 12,800 stock assets.
Founded in 2013, Gate began as a digital asset exchange. In 2025 it rolled out the Gate Pay App, an earlier step into payments.
Gate also points to its record on reserves. The exchange says it was among the first platforms to report 100% proof of reserves. Proof of reserves is a public accounting exercise meant to show that an exchange holds enough assets to cover what customers have deposited.
The licensing question Gate holds a MiCA CASP license and a PSD2 license in Malta, plus a VASP license in Dubai.
Decoded: MiCA is the European Union’s framework for crypto markets, and a CASP is a licensed crypto-asset service provider under it. PSD2 is the EU’s payment services directive, which governs how payment firms operate. A VASP is a virtual asset service provider, the label Dubai uses for regulated crypto businesses.
Together, those approvals cover two very different lines of business. One set addresses crypto services. The other addresses traditional payments. An app that mixes both needs both, and Gate appears to have assembled the paperwork before shipping the product.
What this means for Gate and its rivals The 3.6% USDT yield deserves scrutiny. Stablecoin returns depend on how the underlying funds are deployed, and rates can change. Users chasing yield should read the eligibility terms before assuming the top figure applies to them.
What to watch next: whether Gate’s 61 million users actually adopt the banking and spending features, or simply keep trading as before. Uptake of the electronic bank accounts and Gate Card transaction activity will be the clearest tells.
Disclosure: This article was edited by Kaye Quema. For more information on how we create and review content, see our Editorial Policy.
