Established in 2013, Gate.io is one of the world's pioneering cryptocurrency exchanges, serving over 22 million users globally. It consistently ranks among the top 3 globally in both trading volume and liquidity. Gate.io is currently ranked second globally in 24-hour spot trading volume, supporting spot trading, futures contracts, margin trading, and wealth management products for over 3,800 cryptocurrencies. The platform offers comprehensive and diversified digital asset trading and blockchain application services. It employs zero-knowledge technology to ensure the 100% verifiability of user assets. According to the latest reserve report, Gate.io's total reserves exceed $10 billion, with a reserve ratio of 128.58%. Gate entities have obtained licenses, authorizations, approvals, or completed registrations in various jurisdictions, including Hong Kong, Gibraltar, Malta, Italy, Australia, Lithuania, Dubai DMCC, and the Bahamas.

AscendEX (formerly BitMax) is a leading global digital asset financial platform founded by a group of Wall Street quantitative trading veterans in 2018, building on core value of “Efficiency, Resilience and Transparency.” Driven by its continuous innovative product development and early-mover advantage in strategic alignment with the leading projects from DeFi ecosystem, AscendEX offers trading services across over 200 trading pairs across cash, margin, and futures products, in particular margin trading of over 50 tokens in cross-asset collateral mode and futures trading in both cross-asset and isolated margin modes.