Gate Is Driving the TradFi Momentum. $20B Daily Volume Is Just the Start.

A No. 2 transparency ranking, a new TradFi trading API, and one of the industry's largest order size caps mark a new phase for Gate's traditional finance offering.

Key Points

• Gate's TradFi offering covers commodities, metals, and global indices alongside its core crypto products, with a single-day volume peak of over $20B reflecting broad adoption across instrument types.

• Gate holds a No. 2 ranking for CEX Transparency in the TradFi and Stock category by RootData, backed by its 100% proof-of-reserves standard introduced since its founding in 2013.

• Recent platform updates include a dedicated TradFi Trading API, a new multi-leverage mechanism, one of the industry's largest maximum order size per trade, and TradFi volume now counting toward Gate's VIP tier system — all live across both App and Web.

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Last month, CoinGecko covered how Gate had quietly built one of the most substantial TradFi operations among crypto exchanges, at a moment when gold was breaking records and crypto was treading water. Since then, the platform has hit a significant volume milestone and shipped a cluster of infrastructure upgrades that are worth a closer look.

Why TradFi Products Are Gaining Traction on Crypto Exchanges

Gold and silver prices have moved to multi-year highs in recent months, driven by a combination of geopolitical uncertainty, inflation concerns, and a broader shift in institutional allocations toward hard assets. For many traders, this has renewed interest in commodities and other traditional finance (TradFi) instruments — not just through legacy brokerages, but increasingly through centralized crypto exchanges (CEXs).

Over the past two years, a number of major CEXs have expanded their product offerings to include TradFi instruments such as commodity CFDs, stock indices, and metals trading. With macro conditions now drawing renewed attention to these asset classes, it is a useful moment to look at how those offerings have developed — and which platforms have seen meaningful adoption.

Gate is one of the exchanges that has invested significantly in this area. This article looks at what Gate's TradFi suite currently includes, the trading volumes it has recorded, and the features available to traders in this segment.

$20B Peak Daily Volume And Growing

As of early March 2026, Gate reports a single-day peak exceeding $20 billion, making it among the top exchanges globally in terms of TradFi product liquidity and trading volume. These figures span three product categories — Spot trading, Perpetuals, and CFDs — making the figure a broad-based metric rather than one concentrated in a single instrument type.

Volume at this scale generally correlates with tighter spreads and lower slippage, which is particularly relevant for traders placing larger orders or managing positions in less commonly traded instruments like commodity CFDs.

What’s New: APIs, Leverage, and Order Capacity

Gate has made several product updates to its TradFi offering that traders in this segment will want to be aware of.

TradFi Trading API: Gate has launched a dedicated API for its TradFi products, allowing algorithmic traders and institutional users to connect Gate's order book directly to their own systems. For systematic traders, API access is often a baseline requirement, enabling automated execution and real-time data streaming without relying on a manual interface.

Multi-Leveraged Mechanism: Gate has introduced a multi-leverage feature across its TradFi products, available on both the App and Web platforms. This allows traders to adjust leverage across different instruments from a single interface, which can simplify position management for those active across multiple asset classes at the same time.

Maximum Order Size: Gate supports what it describes as an industry-leading maximum order size per trade across its TradFi products. Larger order size limits reduce the need to break up positions into multiple smaller orders — a practical consideration for high-volume participants who would otherwise face execution fragmentation.

TradFi on Gate: Available Instruments and Asset Coverage

Gate's TradFi offering covers several categories, including commodities, metals, and global stock indices, alongside its core crypto trading products. For traders looking to manage exposure across both crypto and traditional asset classes, having these instruments on a single platform reduces the need to maintain accounts across multiple exchanges.

Commodities such as gold and silver are available as CFDs, as are major global indices — a range that aligns with the current macro environment where interest in these asset classes has picked up. What makes this more than a convenience play is that TradFi trading volume is now included in Gate's VIP tier upgrade system, meaning users build their VIP status while trading gold, forex, indices, and other traditional assets — the same way they would through crypto activity. For high-volume traders, that means every trade across any asset class compounds toward better fee rates and platform benefits, rather than TradFi activity sitting in a separate silo. 

The Gate Card adds a further layer of accessibility, providing a payment rail that allows users to move between their exchange balances and everyday spending without additional transfers.

Conclusion

Gate's TradFi offering reflects a broader trend of crypto exchanges expanding into traditional asset classes in response to growing trader interest. The high aggregated volume across Spot, Perpetuals, and CFDs suggests the platform has gained traction in this segment, while recent additions — the TradFi API, multi-leverage functionality, and expanded order size capacity — point to continued investment in the infrastructure needed to serve algorithmic and higher-volume traders.

For traders already using Gate for crypto, the ability to access commodity CFDs, metals, and global indices within the same platform and account structure is a practical consideration. For those new to Gate, the exchange's transparency credentials and its 2013 track record offer some basis for evaluating it alongside other platforms offering TradFi products.

Gate has indicated that TradFi remains a core area of focus going forward. Traders interested in exploring the platform's current offering, including the new API and multi-leverage features, can do so via the Gate Web platform and mobile App.