Gate contract points run for 30 periods, how to break through $1300 in single order profit?

As of December 3, 2025, the contract point system of Gate exchange has steadily progressed to its 30th phase. Official data shows that the cumulative earnings of a single active account have exceeded $1,300.

This system, which officially launched in October 2025, is different from traditional trading rebates or short-term promotions. It attempts to quantify users' trading, holding, and social behaviors and assign continuous value through a logic of “behavior monetization.”

01 Evolution of Contract Points: From Incentive Tool to Ecological Infrastructure

As competition in the cryptocurrency derivatives market enters the stage of stock games, the focus of major exchanges has shifted from competing for liquidity to how to deeply retain users. In the past year, the market incentive system has undergone a qualitative change, shifting from temporary promotional activities to systematic and institutionalized incentives.

The Gate contract point system is a concentrated embodiment of this trend. It is not merely a simple marketing campaign, but is regarded as a systematic upgrade that Gate is undertaking in its contract business.

The system aims to establish a new balance between trading rebates, tiered systems, and asset incentives, with the core logic shifting the incentives from “rewarding trading volume” to “rewarding ecological participation.”

02 Three-dimensional Integral Acquisition Mechanism: Comprehensive Quantification of Transactions, Assets, and Social Interactions

The design of the contract points system has broad adaptability, allowing users with different trading styles and capital volumes to participate through three core dimensions.

Trading points are fundamental. The system distributes points based on the user's daily effective contract trading volume, with a threshold starting at a trading volume of 400 USDT to earn 1 point, and a tiered structure where the maximum corresponding trading volume of 13 million USDT can earn 16 points. The calculation includes both opening and closing positions to curb one-sided volume manipulation.

Balance points enhance stickiness. The system takes a snapshot of the USDT and BTC balances in the contract account daily, providing daily points ranging from 1 to 4 based on asset scale, but funds in the wealth management account are not counted. This directly links the retention of platform funds to user earnings.

Invite points to expand the ecosystem. Users can earn 1 to 3 points for every 1 to 3 valid new users they invite (the invited must meet the ≥2 points activity standard). This design ensures the quality of new user acquisition while extending the lifecycle of the incentives.

03 Points Consumption and Value Realization: Closed Loop Design and Redeemable Benefits

Obtaining points is just the first step; how to consume them and realize their value constitutes a complete incentive loop. Contract points have a validity period of 15 days and follow a “first in, first out” (FIFO) consumption rule.

This means that the points are “ephemeral,” encouraging users to remain active continuously rather than participating in short-term bursts.

The core value of points is realized through airdrop exchanges. Users can use points to participate in the airdrop activities regularly held by Gate, exchanging for various rewards such as USDT, platform token GT, popular project tokens (like DOGE, PENGU), contract experience vouchers, and more.

According to the initial activity data disclosed by the official sources, this points system provides a reference value anchor of approximately 2 USDT per point.

04 Revenue Perspective: Looking at the Real Returns of Contract Points from Data

The ongoing 30-period activities provide a window to observe its long-term returns. The cumulative single order revenue exceeding 1,300 USD indicates that the reward design of the system has matured, and the revenue structure is relatively stable.

For users, this is a “little by little” profit model. Users do not need to significantly increase trading costs or risks, and can accumulate substantial additional returns merely through daily trading activities.

For example, based on historical data, eligible users received an airdrop reward worth approximately $21 during the early PENGU airdrop campaign.

If calculated at the lowest threshold (400 USDT trading volume for 1 point, with a point value of approximately 2 USDT), the short-term return rate is about 0.5%. For high-frequency or high-net-worth users, this ratio may be further improved by optimizing strategies.

05 System Design Logic: Why does it say it is more than just marketing?

The deep significance of the contract point system lies in its reconstruction of the relationship between users and the platform. It treats user behavior data for the first time as “monetizable assets,” financializing trading frequency, capital retention, and social dissemination in the form of points.

This has brought about three layers of structural changes: it avoids the drawbacks of traditional rebate “only rewarding big players” through low thresholds and multi-dimensional sources. The closed loop formed by the validity period and the airdrop cycle drives users to remain active in the long term. The points system can serve as a customized interface for the platform to collaborate with external project parties, achieving precise user traffic and exposure.

Therefore, this system is more like a multi-dimensional incentive protocol layer that serves long-term ecological construction, aimed at transforming users from mere traders into co-creators of the ecosystem.

06 Industry Impact and Future Outlook: The Spillover Effects of Points Incentives

In the context of limited incremental growth in the cryptocurrency derivatives market, Gate's contract points attempt to have certain industry sample significance. It demonstrates a potential path from “external blood transfusion” high-cost promotions to “internal blood production” institutional incentives.

The points system allows user behavior to be recorded and measured in the form of “digital assets”, which lays the foundation for potential cross-platform incentive collaboration in the future.

Looking ahead, the contract points system is expected to integrate more deeply with Gate's other product lines (such as Gate Perp DEX), expanding the application scenarios for points. The types of tasks, scale of rewards, and forms may also be further enriched, even exploring smart acceleration features combined with NFT and AI.

Future Outlook

When the contract points system operates to the 30th phase, it has transformed from a novel experiment into a stable incentive infrastructure within the Gate ecosystem.

It validates a possibility: in the fiercely competitive trading arena, the platform's advantages may not only lie in products and liquidity, but also in how systematically it defines, measures, and rewards every genuine action of its users.

The “behavior capitalization” logic represented by this system may be writing a new footnote for the incentive paradigm of the entire crypto trading industry.