This new bi-weekly report by Gate.io brings popular events to your attention as well as brand spanking new events to help you stay ahead of the market. Here is a quick recap of the most significant events from the past two weeks:

Grid Trading: $5.4 Million+ Total Investment And $800K User Profits
Grid Trading Competition Is on Fire!
Gate.io Has Launched First Leveraged ETF Trading Daily Competition
Gate.io Supports The Polkadot Eco by Listing Vetted Polkadot Projects on without trading fees (Extra Rebate Points)
USDT Integrated Hodl & Earn Was Enabled at Gate.io, First!
Gate.io Startup: Farmland(FAR) Initial Sale Result & Listing Schedule
Gate.io Listed Multiple Tokens with an Accumulative Value of $120,000 in Airdrops.

Over the past two weeks, the total perpetual contract trading volume was about 5,189,333,937 USDT and the crypto-to-crypto trading volume amounted to about 2,434,914,534 USDT.


1. Grid Trading: $5.4 Million+ Total Investment And $800K User Profits
At present, more than 27,000 strategies are running. Thank you to all users for your support and trust. We will make continuous efforts to provide an even better trading service. View more details: https://www.gate.io/en/article/18686


2. Participate in Grid Trading Competition & Win $20,000 (Still Ongoing)
Our daily grid trading competition with over $20,000 in rewards will end at 00:00 GMT January 1st, 2021. During the activity period, participants will be ranked on a daily basis. Participate now: https://www.gate.io/en/article/18617


3. Leveraged ETF Trading Daily Competition Enables You to Win $50,000 (Still Ongoing)
Gate.io has launched the first daily competition for leveraged ETF trading with $50,000 in rewards. Everyday, we will choose 100 winners ranked by their 24 hours trading volume for the consecutive 10 days.
Participate now:https://www.gate.io/en/article/18727


4. Gate.io Supports The Polkadot Eco by Lists Polkadot Projects with Zero Trading Fees & Double Point Earnings
Gate.io will list Polkadot projects with zero trading fees for these projects. Gate.io will also provide a points rebate that will equate to twice the trading fee amount to all traders. This way, both Polkadot projects and Gate.io users benefit. View more details: https://www.gate.io/en/article/18779


5. Gate.io launched the DOT POS, with an estimated reward of 9% P.A.
No lock-up and registration only
View more details: https://www.gate.io/en/article/18779


6. BTC , USDT Integrated Hodl & Earn Launch.
The BTC Integrated HODL & Earn locks up 14 days with an Floating Interest Rate up to 5%. And the yield will be distributed daily. First-come, first served. Integrated HODL & Earn is a financial product that combines DeFi liquidity mining, borrowing & lending, and structured products, aiming to achieve higher yield and lower risks.
View more details: https://www.gate.io/en/article/18794


The USDT Integrated HODL & Earn locks up 28 days with a Floating Interest Rate up to 15%. The total volume is 2,000,000 USDT. The yield will be distributed daily. Integrated HODL & Earn is a financial product that combines DeFi liquidity mining, borrowing & lending, and structured products, aiming to achieve higher yield and lower risks.
View more details: https://www.gate.io/en/article/18769


7. Deposit 1INCH to Gate.io & Win $10,000 USDT (Still Ongoing)
As of 10:00 January 1st, 2021, a total of $10,000 USDT will be given to 100 users, with a grand prize of $2,800! Participate now: https://www.gate.io/en/article/18712


8. Deposit WHITE to Gate.io & Win $10,000 USDT (Still Going on)
As of 12:00 January 4th, 2021, a total of $10,000 USDT will be given to 100 users, with a grand prize of $2,800! Participate now: https://www.gate.io/en/article/18753



9. Deposit GRAP to Gate.io & Win $10,000 USDT (Still Going on)
As of 12:00 January 4th, 2021, a total of $10,000 USDT will be given to 100 users, with a grand prize of $2,800! Participate now: https://www.gate.io/en/article/18763


10. Gate.io Listing Vote Airdrops A Total of $120,000.
ACH, ALEPH, BOR, WOZX have successfully voted and listed at Gate.io. We also provide airdrop rewards for vote users. Stay tuned: https://www.gate.io/en/poll


11. . Multiple Tokens Were Listed at Gate.io
Over the past two weeks, Gate.io has listed many tokens and enabled trading, including: HARD、RUNE、GRT、ESD、LUNA、FRAX、FXS、POND、ROOK、BAC、BAS、LON、MAHA、CBK、CHZ、1INCH、DSD、OCTO、SHARE、LINA、WHITE、GRAP、ONX. Trade at:https://www.gate.io/trade/BTC_USDT


12. GateChain Development Update: December Second 2020
Currently, the cross-chain is almost complete. Now the focus is to develop Cross-Chain monitoring and perform functional tuning. More details: https://www.gate.io/en/article/18606


13.Multi-Tokens Margin Trading And Margin Lending Were Added on Gate.io
Gate.io has added XLM, NEO, XMR, KLAY, GRT, AR, BTS, NBS, POND, API3, LON, TWT, BAS, BAC, 1INCH margin trading as well as margin lending.
Trade now: https://www.gate.io/margin_trade/BTC_USDT?ch=ann18808


14.Gate.io Enables Multi-tokens Perpetual Contract (USDT Margining)
Gate.io has added GRT/USDT, LON/USDT, 1INCH/USDT, BEAM/USDT, GRIN/USDT, ZIL/USDT, and THETA/USDT perpetual contract trading (USDT margin), supporting up to 20X leverage.
Trade perpetual contract at:
https://www.gate.io/futures_trade/USDT/BTC_USDT?ch=ann18808


15. Gate.io Enables Multi-tokens Leveraged ETFs
Gate.io has added the following ETFs: GRT, DOGE, THETA, LON, 1INCH, SKL, SOL, BEAM, and GRIN.
Trade now: https://www.gate.io/trade/BTC3L_USDT?ch=ann18808


16. Gate.io Lists Farmland (FAR) Startup
Total orders for Farmland reached 1150 with the total value of over $2.8 million. Gate.io commenced FAR trading at 3:00 AM UTC, December 23rd.
Details: https://www.gate.io/en/startup/58


17. Gate.io has been distributing ETH2.0 staking rewards daily, since December 21st, 2020
Since December 21st, 2020, Gate.io has been distributing ETH2.0 staking rewards daily, based on users average ETH2 holdings over a period of 14 days. The current reward rate is 16% P.A, and the minimum eligible balance or a reward is 1 ETH2. ETH2 is freely tradable on the market. Users can buy and hold ETH2 to earn staking rewards or sell their ETH2 holdings anytime they want. For more information: https://www.gate.io/eth2


18. Leaderboard of the top traders is introduced at Gate.io
The top trader's leaderboard is listed on the Gate.io website, which includes strategy rankings and total user return rankings. Details: https://www.gate.io/en/rank


19.Gate.io Profits buyback and GT Burn Result for September & October &November 2020
Over the past three months (September, October and November) in 2020, a total of $3337023.845 GT needed to burn. (75% of which are bought back from the market). The total value of the burned GT was 7412,314 (about 7,412,300 tokens).
Details: https://www.gate.io/en/article/18708



20. Summary of Completed Activities

Trading Suterusu (SUTER) competition is due to end on Dec 31st, 2020. The total prize pool is 2,500,000 SUTER, with a grand prize of $2300 in SUTER.
Details: https://www.gate.io/en/article/18704


WOZX Bonanza week will end today. The $40,000 WOZX giveaway benefit is waiting for you! Details: https://www.gate.io/en/article/18682


Gate.io’s global Christmas Bonanza week is going to end. Gifts delivered across the world, such as: iPhone 12Pro Max, $50Points and so on.
Details: https://www.gate.io/en/article/18619


Gate.io ALEPH deposit competition ends and the $ 38,000 ALEPH giveaway benefit is going to give away.
Details: https://www.gate.io/en/article/18622


Gate.io GRT deposit competition ends and the $ 10,000 GRT giveaway benefit is going to give away.
Details: https://www.gate.io/en/article/18624


Gate.io LON deposit competition ends and the $ 10,000 GRT giveaway benefit is going to give away.
Details: https://www.gate.io/en/article/18687


Gate.io ACH deposit competition ends and the $ 10,000 ACH giveaway benefit is going to give away.
Details: https://www.gate.io/en/article/18687


Gate.io Christmas 3-day bonus carnival ends and tens of thousands of red pockets are going to give away.
Details: https://www.gate.io/en/article/18716

21. Upgrade & Support
According to the official information of Arweave(AR), the mainnet upgrade will take place when the block height reaches 591,140. Gate.io has closed AR top-up and withdrawal services and will exchange AR mainnet assets for users, we will resume top-up and withdrawal as soon as the mainnet upgrade is completed.
Details: https://www.gate.io/cn/article/18652

Gate.io has upgraded OM (v1) to the new version OM (v2) according to the official instructions of MantraDAO, after that the old version of OM will be automatically named as OMV1 and support OMV1 withdrawal service.
Details: https://www.gate.io/cn/article/18660

Gate.io will commit to support 1:1 distribution of new COVER tokens for users. Gate.io snapshot will be available at 12:00 on December 30, 2020. will use COVER to represent the new token symbol and continue trading. After distribution the old COVER tokens will be renamed to COVER_OLD and users will be able to withdraw at any time. Details: https://www.gate.io/cn/article/18766

Gate.io will take a snapshot of the platform's ANKR position near the ETH block height of 11,513,500 and airdrop the OnX finance token ONX for users accordingly. The airdrop ratio is 1 ONX for every 10,000 ANKR.
Details: https://www.gate.io/cn/article/18674

Gate.io is an established exchange that holds integrity, transparency, and fairness to a very high standard. We charge zero listing fees and only choose quality and promising projects. Our exchange consists only of 100% real trading volume. Thanks to everyone who has joined us in our journey. We always intend to improve and innovate to reward our users for their continuous support.

Gate.io Team
Dec. 31, 2020

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