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Gate outpaced every exchange on earth last month - and let’s take a moment to figure out why

I don’t often feel the urge to write a report on monthly volumes but the latest CoinDesk numbers from the latest Exchange Review deserve a real analysis, not just a glance at the headline.

First, the context – Global CEX spot volumes had been trending down for 5 consecutive months prior to this past month. Last month June marked the first gain in 6 months, with overall volume up 15.3%. One would typically assume that this increase was across the board and that every exchange captured their proportional share of this broader recovery. Well that didn’t happen in this case. Gate posted 50.8% increase in spot volumes in that same period, bringing it to $66.1b, 3x+ what the overall market experienced and the largest monthly increase seen for any CEX globally this month.

The market share growth followed – up 1.55 pp to 5.95%, the largest slice that Gate has commanded since Oct ‘25, moving it into the top 3 spot exchanges globally. On the Derivatives front, $369B in monthly volumes and 9.52% market share made Gate #4 global derivatives exchange with an open interest share of 9.20% - good for top 3 on that metric as well. If you add spot and derivatives, Gate makes the cut for top 4 CEXs on planet Earth.

So here is always the question I ask when I see a number like this – are we seeing actual liquidity migration or just a sugar rush from a promo campaign cycle? We have all seen exchange volumes boom for a single month based on their latest incentives before crashing right back down in the following month once those incentives subside. In the context of the broader market's first real upswing in half a year, it certainly appears to be genuine capture of returning liquidity as opposed to just campaign hype, but one month of data doesn’t form a trend.

The real test is to see if Gate can maintain a market share remotely close to that 5.95% throughout Q3 without the need for a constant cycle of stacking promotions. Should this number stay relatively similar in next month’s data set and see continued organic growth – we are seeing a true structural shift. If it retreats to a market share closer to 4.4% – this was simply a promotional bump.

I will definitely be keeping an eye on next month’s figures before I can call this a trend rather than a moment.

What’s your view, has anyone else personally experienced better liquidity or tighter spreads trading on Gate recently or is this just more incentivized volume to you?

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