What is the role of Gate contract points? A new guide to unlocking ecological rewards and trading incentives.

If you are a Crypto Assets trader, you may have noticed the recent shift in the incentive mechanisms of trading platforms. The previously simple and straightforward trading rebates and fee discounts are gradually evolving into a more systematic and ecologically valuable incentive system.

At the Gate trading platform, the core embodiment of this transformation is the “Gate Contract Points” system. This mechanism, officially launched in October 2025, converts users' trading behaviors into quantifiable and transferable value certificates.

01 What is Contract Points

Gate Contract Points are essentially a quantitative assessment by the Gate platform of your overall performance over the past 15 days. It is not a simple record of trading volume but a dynamic scoring metric generated based on your contract trading behavior, asset holdings, and overall platform participation.

Since the public beta version of this system was launched in October 2025, it has quickly become a core component of the platform's ecosystem development.

Its innovation lies in the digitization of traditionally difficult-to-measure “user loyalty” and “ecological contribution.” Points are not just proof of activity; they are positioned as the core identity credential for participating in various activities on the platform in the future.

Gate's official design philosophy clearly states that the contract points system aims to transform users from mere traders into co-creators of the ecosystem. It comprehensively evaluates your contributions through algorithms, striving to avoid large holders monopolizing rewards, while also allowing small and medium traders to receive reasonable returns.

02 The Core Role of Contract Points: From Value Exchange to Ecological Participation

The core value of the contract points system lies in its ability to build a bridge that connects your daily trading activities with the entire ecological benefits of the platform. Its role is specifically reflected in the following key aspects.

Exchange airdrop rewards

This is the most direct and popular application scenario for contract points. Holding points is your ticket to participate in various airdrop activities. For example, during the public testing phase of the system, users holding at least 1 contract point can receive a basic reward of 0.12 GT.

More importantly, this mechanism has become normalized. The platform regularly launches airdrop activities with points as the threshold, and the rewards are often highly sought-after tokens in the market, such as DOGE and PENGU.

A real case from the chain shows that in the first phase of the PENGU airdrop event, each eligible participant received 900 PENGU. Based on the coin price at the time of the event, the single number yield was approximately 21 USD. According to the latest data as of November 28, 2025, the system has been running for the 30th phase, and the cumulative single number yield has exceeded 1,300 USD.

Obtain ecological participation privileges

The role of points goes far beyond “receiving rewards”; it is also a certificate for you to obtain special qualifications and privileges within the Gate ecosystem.

The official stated that contract points will become a key criterion for participating in the platform's TGE (Token Generation Event) subscriptions and other ecological activities in the future. This means that having points may give you early subscription opportunities for popular new projects.

Enhance user loyalty and stickiness

Unlike a “one-time promotional event,” the contract points system is a sustainable long-term incentive model. The validity period and consumption mechanism of its points (usually a 15-day validity period, using the first-in, first-out rule) encourage users to remain active on the platform in order to maintain their rights.

This design transforms short-term trading incentives into long-term user relationship maintenance tools, upgrading the relationship between the platform and users from transaction matching to value co-creation.

Unlock Future Platform Rights

The application scenarios of contract points are continuously expanding. Gate has clearly planned to integrate this system with its newly launched decentralized perpetual contract platform Gate Perp DEX and others.

In the future, points may unlock more rights and benefits, such as trading fee discounts, exclusive feature access, and premium event access, with their value and applications expected to continue to grow.

03 How to Obtain and Effectively Use Contract Points

After understanding the role of points, how to acquire and efficiently utilize them becomes key. The ways to obtain points are designed to be multidimensional to comprehensively assess your contributions.

Every contract trade you make is creating value. According to the official rules, the starting threshold for points calculation is a trading volume of 400 USDT, which earns you 1 point. After that, for every doubling of the trading volume (such as 800 USDT, 1,600 USDT), the points earned increase by 1. The maximum points corresponding to the highest trading volume tier can reach 16 points.

Your asset retention is also rewarded. The platform will take daily snapshots of the balances of USDT and BTC in your contract account (valued in USD) and will distribute a fixed number of points ranging from 1 to 4 daily based on the balance range.

Successfully inviting new users is another effective way. Inviting 1 to 3 eligible new users (who have obtained ≥2 points) can earn you 1 to 3 invitation points respectively.

Regarding efficient point acquisition, some experienced users have summarized certain strategies in practice. For example, using limit order trading may save nearly half of the transaction fees, thereby reducing the cost of obtaining points. Additionally, since the points pool for each event may have a cap and the rules may be fine-tuned, continuously following the official announcements and participating early is usually a wise choice.

04 The Future of Contract Points and Its Industry Significance

The Gate contract points system is not just a simple marketing activity; it reflects a profound evolution in the incentive model of Crypto Asset trading platforms - shifting from “subsidy wars” to “ecological co-construction.”

In the context of increasingly homogenized trading products, the core of competition is shifting towards how to define and provide value to users. The contract points system, by “assetizing” user behavior data, offers a new paradigm for the interaction between users and the platform.

From an industry perspective, this points-based incentive may become a universal framework in the future, not only applied to trading but also potentially extending to measuring DeFi liquidity contributions, NFT ecosystem participation, and other areas.

For users, participation means not just being a trader in the market, but also being an early participant and value sharer in a growing ecosystem.

Future Outlook

The contract points system is expanding its boundaries with the launch of new products like Gate Perp DEX. Points are no longer a static number in the App; they are like a seed implanted in the ecological soil, taking root and sprouting in every rational order, every retention of assets, and every successful invitation.

When a user's trading behavior is quantified by the system and given long-term value, every click on the “open position” or “close position” button becomes a building block in participating in the construction of this decentralized future.