# Gate.io


By [The best](https://paragraph.com/@the-best) · 2023-06-09

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One of the world's top ten digital currency trading platforms, focusing on the safe trading and hassle-free cryptocurrency journey.

Founded in 2013, [Gate.io](http://Gate.io) has strived to provide its users with the best trading experience in the last 8 years. In terms of trading volume, [Gate.io](http://Gate.io) is one of the top 10 crypto exchanges in the world listing crypto assets that are great in quality and have a high rate of return. [Gate.io](http://Gate.io) provides the most comprehensive and safest trading experience for users from all around the world. [Gate.io](http://Gate.io) offers products and services for all kinds of traders. From elementary traders to professional and institutional traders, [Gate.io](http://Gate.io) serves all.

GT is the native token of Gatechain mainnet. It became exchange token of [Gate.io](http://Gate.io) formally on March 2, 2020 with the new name “GateToken”.Since then, GT has been developing together with [Gate.io.At](http://Gate.io.At) its early stage, GT was distributed to [Gate.io](http://Gate.io) Point purchaser as a free gift, initial supply of 1 billion. With 0.7 billion burned afterward， the current maximum circulation is 0.3 billion. As buyback and burning plans have been implemented, GT is entering into absolute [deflation.As](http://deflation.As) an important part of [Gate.io](http://Gate.io) ecosystem, GT can be used in VIP tier escalation, trading fee debit, exclusive activities participation and [more.Gate.io](http://more.Gate.io) will also increasingly empower GT with more and more applications and use cases to improve its intrinsic value.

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