When you trade contracts on Gate, every action you take goes beyond simple buy or sell decisions. Whether you’re holding positions, executing trades, or inviting friends, each activity simultaneously accumulates a quantifiable value credential: Contract Points.
The Gate Contract Points system isn’t just a basic rewards counter. It’s a comprehensive framework that systematically collects user activity data, models it across multiple dimensions, and ultimately converts it into consumable benefits. Your daily trading, asset management, and community contributions all translate into trackable, accumulable points. You earn points for holding positions, for trading, and for inviting friends. These points can be redeemed directly for position experience vouchers, popular asset airdrops, and other tangible rewards, ensuring every trading action delivers visible value.
Where Your Points Come From
Contract Points are calculated daily across three independent activity dimensions, each accumulating separately before being summed for your total daily score. This means you don’t need to be a high-frequency trader to earn points consistently from multiple angles.
Account Holdings
As long as you maintain assets in your contract account and TradFi account, you’ll earn balance points every day. The system takes a daily snapshot of your contract account’s USDT and BTC equivalent value, along with the USDx balance in your TradFi account. After converting everything to USD, points are awarded on a tiered scale:
- Account balances between $100 and $1,000 earn 1 point per day
- Balances between $1,000 and $10,000 earn 2 points per day
- Balances between $10,000 and $100,000 earn 3 points per day
- Balances above $100,000 earn 4 points per day
Even if you don’t make any trades on a given day, as long as your assets meet the criteria, points are automatically credited. This design captures the value of "static holdings"—an otherwise passive behavior—ensuring users who aren’t focused on high-frequency trading are still recognized by the system.
Contract Trading
Trading points are directly linked to your trading volume and represent the main way to earn points. The rule is simple: for every $400 in valid trading volume, you earn 1 point. Double your trading volume, double your points—$800 earns 2 points, $1,600 earns 3 points, $3,200 earns 4 points, and so on, with no daily cap.
Starting February 9, 2026, trading volume from TradFi products is also factored in at 20% of its value. For example, if you trade $10,000 in gold, forex, or index products, you contribute $2,000 in valid trading volume toward Contract Points. This cross-product data integration expands value capture from just contract trading to all asset trading on the platform.
Inviting Friends
For every new user you successfully invite who earns at least 2 points, you receive 1 invite point, with a daily cap of 3 points. Your efforts to grow the community are also recognized in the form of points.
Each of these three dimensions is calculated independently every day and then combined for your total daily points. This parallel structure means that focusing solely on one area—like trading volume or holdings—won’t maximize your points. Only well-rounded participation delivers the full rewards.
What Can You Do With Points?
The most direct value of points is redeeming them for airdrop rewards and trading benefits.
Position experience vouchers are among the most popular options. You can redeem 100 USDT position experience vouchers for just 20 points, provided you hold at least 40 points. These vouchers can be used as margin to open positions, and any profits generated are typically withdrawable, giving you greater flexibility in executing your strategies.
GUSD airdrops use a decreasing points threshold, starting at around 170 points and gradually lowering over time. You can claim 25 GUSD for just 15 points. The higher your points, the earlier you qualify for these airdrops. This structure essentially turns your quantified activity data into a priority system for accessing differentiated benefits.
Additionally, as of May 9, 2026, Gate has officially launched a Contract Points lottery feature. Users can spend a small number of points to enter drawings for voucher rewards. The first event offered a pool of 5,000 winning spots, each requiring 20 points for a chance to win 20 GUSD. The platform will also regularly introduce new asset airdrops, all of which you can view and redeem on the points page.
The points page provides a daily breakdown, showing exactly how many points you earned from holdings, trading, and invitations each day, along with a full 15-day history of your cumulative points and redemptions. With transparent activity tracking, the value conversion process is always clear.
Pay Attention to Points Validity
Contract Points operate on a 15-day rolling window. Each batch of points is valid for 15 days from the date it’s earned. Unused points expire automatically and cannot be restored.
When you redeem points, the system deducts the oldest points first, following a "first in, first out" principle. This means there’s no benefit to hoarding points; redeeming them promptly maximizes their value. Note that the system does not proactively notify you when points are about to expire, so it’s best to check your points page weekly and redeem before any points lapse.
From a design perspective, the 15-day rolling window ensures your current points balance always reflects your recent activity, not just historical accumulation. This is what sets Contract Points apart from traditional loyalty programs—they aren’t an endlessly hoardable "digital balance," but rather an "activity credential" that must be converted into real benefits within its validity period.
Conclusion
At Gate, Contract Points turn your trading activity into a tangible, trackable accumulation. Whether you prefer holding positions, active trading, or inviting friends to the platform, the system rewards your participation with points. And you can always convert those points into practical trading tools or asset rewards.
Quantifying activity and making value visible—that’s the core mission of Contract Points. It doesn’t change your trading style; it simply ensures every action you take leaves a clear, rewarding mark.
