Explore Gate Contract Points: How to Turn Daily Trading into Long-Term Value and Rewards

Gate officially launched the Futures Points Program in October 2025. This innovative incentive system marks a strategic shift from traditional trading rebates to ecosystem co-construction.

This system provides an innovative way for active trading participants to sustainably earn additional rewards by quantifying users' trading behaviors, asset holdings, and social promotions into points.

01 Trading Incentive Innovation

In the context of increasingly fierce competition in the cryptocurrency derivatives market, the incentive systems of major exchanges are undergoing a qualitative change, gradually shifting from short-term promotional activities to systematic and institutionalized incentive models.

The Gate contract points system has emerged, which no longer rewards only a single dimension of trading volume but reconstructs the underlying logic of user incentives through a “behavioral point system.”

This system quantifies each user's valid trading behavior, account asset balance, and successful invitations into specific points, evolving the incentive logic from a simple “reward trading volume” to a comprehensive “reward ecological participation.”

What's more noteworthy is that these points are assigned real value at the time they are generated. According to industry data, during the early airdrop activities of the Gate contract point system, the potential value of a single point was approximately 2 USDT, providing users with a clear value anchor.

02 Three Major Sources of Contract Points

To understand how to effectively accumulate points, it is essential to grasp the three core components of the Gate contract points system.

Trading Points: This is the most direct way to earn points. The system uses a tiered calculation rule, where users earn 1 point for every 400 USDT of effective contract trading volume (including opening and closing positions). The higher the trading volume, the more points are earned, with no daily limit.

Balance Points: Even without trading, users holding assets on the Gate platform can continuously earn points. The system will take daily snapshots of the USDT and BTC balances in the contract account (or unified account) and distribute points based on the tier of the asset value.

Invitation Points: By inviting new users to join Gate and participate in contract trading, users can receive additional point rewards. Successfully inviting 1, 2, or 3 or more new users (the invited must accumulate at least 2 points) can earn 1, 2, or 3 points respectively.

03 Points Acquisition Practical Rules

Understanding the specific calculation and timing rules of points is crucial for efficiently utilizing the contract points system.

The calculation and distribution of points have a clear schedule. The system will take a snapshot of user assets daily at 07:59:59 UTC+8 and update the points data before 10:00 on the same day.

For example, the transaction completed on September 23 at 02:00 (UTC+80 will be included in the points calculation cycle for September 22.

The user's total points balance is dynamically calculated based on data from the past 15 days, with the formula: Total Points = Sum of daily points (balance points + transaction volume points + invitation points) over the past 15 days - consumed points.

Each point is only valid for 15 days from the date of issuance, and will automatically expire after that. The system adopts a “first in, first out” deduction principle, which means that when points are used, the earliest obtained and soon-to-expire points will be deducted first.

04 Realization of Points Value and Application Scenarios

Gate contract points are not just simple numerical records, but a “behavioral currency” that can be directly exchanged for actual rewards and rights.

Contract points can currently realize their value mainly through the following methods:

Direct Exchange Platform Practical Resources

Users can exchange points for cash tokens (such as USDT), position experience vouchers, or contract experience coupons on the points page of the Gate platform. These resources can be directly used for actual trading, reducing users' trading costs.

Participate in exclusive airdrops and ecological activities

This is currently one of the most attractive application scenarios for contract points. Gate will regularly hold exclusive token airdrop events for contract point users.

For example, during the public testing phase, each participant only needs to consume 1 point to receive a basic reward of 0.12 GT, and the platform randomly selected 100 users to share an additional bonus worth $1,000.

As a certificate of future ecological rights.

According to official information, contract points will become a key qualification standard for users to participate in platform token issuance subscriptions (TGE) and other advanced ecological activities in the future, and the scope of their rights is expected to continue to expand.

05 Strategy Advancement and Risk Avoidance

For users looking to maximize the use of the contract points system, it is necessary to master some advanced strategies and understand the related limitations.

Balancing trading strategies and points acquisition: While trading volume is the main source of points, blindly pursuing trading volume may be counterproductive. An effective strategy is to incorporate points acquisition into daily trading plans, rather than engaging in unnecessary trades solely for points.

Asset allocation optimization: Considering that balance points are issued daily, maintaining a certain scale of USDT or BTC assets in the account (it is recommended to have at least 1,000 USDT to enter a higher reward tier) can steadily accumulate points, even on non-trading days.

Special attention to system rules:

The contract points system has specific exclusions. The volume from copy trading and bot trading is usually not counted as valid trading volume.

In addition, behaviors such as self-dealing and wash trading that are deemed abnormal transactions by the platform will not generate points. Market makers, corporate accounts, and institutional users do not participate in this activity.

Users should regularly check the validity period of their points to avoid the expiration of points accumulated with effort.

06 Future Outlook

The Gate contract points system represents an important evolution in the incentive model for cryptocurrency exchange users.

It is not just a simple rebate alternative, but it could also become a universal incentive framework that connects user behavior with the ecological value of the platform.

With the expansion of the Gate product line, particularly the development of decentralized products like Gate Perp DEX, the contract point system is expected to achieve cross-platform integration. This means that points earned on one platform may generate value in a broader ecosystem in the future.

From a more macro industry perspective, this attempt at “behavioral financialization”—treating user behavior data as a quantifiable asset and providing systematic rewards—may become an infrastructure of the crypto economy.

Future Outlook

A contract trader redeemed 15 points for a PENGU token airdrop in the third phase of the contract point activity, receiving a reward worth approximately 21 dollars based on the coin price of about 0.023 dollars at that time.

His points come from a total trading volume of about 6,000 USDT in the past two weeks, a balance of about 5,000 USDT maintained in the account, and successfully inviting a friend.

These originally ordinary operations have been given a clear value scale through the Gate contract points system.