Gate
BloFinIn short: the difference
How Gate differs from BloFin
Gate is an early-listing venue. On the market since 2013, jurisdiction: Panama, its own GT token.
BloFin is a venue built for leveraged trading. On the market since 2023, jurisdiction: Marshall Islands.
What Gate gives you
Next to a derivatives terminal, Gate answers with something else: A market veteran: live since 2013, and unmatched in our coverage for USDT withdrawal networks. Two thousand spot pairs, a thousand perpetuals. Beside them P2P, yield products, Startup launches, copy trading and trading bots; holders of the GT token pay less in fees.
Where Gate is strong
more USDT withdrawal networks than any other venue we cover, 2000 spot pairs, running since 2013.
What BloFin gives you
Early listings are not the only argument; BloFin answers with its own: Running since 2023 and built around contracts: 528 of them against 504 spot pairs. The 0.02/0.06% futures rate undercuts most venues, and discount tiers are granted on any one of three conditions rather than all at once. Funding rates arrive in a single response, which is rare.
Where BloFin is strong
funding rates for every contract in one response, low futures fees, a network reference with withdrawal fees for 503 coins.
What decides it
Fees, withdrawals and limits: where the gap shows
- Age. Gate has run since 2013, BloFin since 2023 — a gap of 10 years. It guarantees nothing on its own, but the older venue has been through more market cycles.
- Jurisdiction. Gate sits in Panama, BloFin in Marshall Islands. It shapes both the checks you pass and what the venue has to disclose.
- Native token. GT on Gate cuts fees and opens launches; BloFin has no such lever.
- Strengths side by side. Gate: more USDT withdrawal networks than any other venue we cover, 2000 spot pairs, running since 2013; BloFin: funding rates for every contract in one response, low futures fees, a network reference with withdrawal fees for 503 coins.
- Which job. Gate is for anyone who values freedom of choice when moving coins between chains, while BloFin is as the futures leg against spot and as a funding rate source.
- Worth remembering. Gate: the interface is dense with sections: finding the right one takes a while. BloFin: no contract addresses, thinner spot liquidity than the top five, and a website that sometimes asks for a browser check.
Which one fits you
Who Gate suits
Gate — for anyone who values freedom of choice when moving coins between chains.
Who BloFin suits
BloFin — as the futures leg against spot and as a funding rate source.
What people ask most
Questions about Gate
Gate: How trustworthy is Gate? The exchange has been running since 2013 and publishes proof of reserves regularly — by industry standards those are good signs. Such a publication is not a full audit.
Gate: What does the GT token give me? A fee discount and access to exchange programmes, including early sales.
Gate: What does trading on Gate cost? Tier zero is 0.10% for maker and taker. A sixteen-step ladder takes it to a zero maker fee and 0.020% taker at the top. Ordinary crypto contracts start at 0.020% and 0.050%.
Questions about BloFin
BloFin: What are BloFin fees? Futures cost 0.02% maker and 0.06% taker for a regular user, spot costs 0.1%. By tier the maker rate falls to zero and the taker rate to 0.035%.
BloFin: What are the USDT withdrawal fees? TRON — 1 USDT, Ethereum — 0.5, BNB Chain — 0.15, Polygon — 0.05, Solana — 0.5, Arbitrum — 0.2. We collect the full reference for 503 coins ourselves and show it in the table at the top of this page.
BloFin: How are BloFin tiers different? They use "or" instead of "and": a tier is granted for futures volume, or spot volume, or the balance on the account. Most exchanges require all conditions at once.
Both at once
When it makes sense to keep accounts on both Gate and BloFin
Nothing stops you from opening an account on both: it is free, and a pair of venues almost always beats any single one on price. The coin is bought where it already trades, moved across and shorted with a contract on the other — that locks the price while the transfer runs.
Live numbers
Live Gate and BloFin prices side by side
Everything in the table above is recomputed together with the rest of the site — pairs, contracts, P2P, networks and the withdrawal fee. Gate and BloFin can be compared on facts rather than promises.
Where these numbers come from
Prices are read straight from the venues and refresh automatically. There is no averaged rate here: each exchange has its own, which is why both are shown side by side.
How often they refresh
Spot and futures every few seconds; fee tiers and withdrawal networks once a day.
What the numbers say
Where Gate and BloFin diverge the most
Spot is wider on Gate: 2,004 USDT pairs against 505, a gap of 4×. Only Gate of the two reaches our P2P scanner, in 72 currencies. On perpetual contracts Gate is ahead — 1,081 to 505. Gate opens 26 chains for USDT against 12 on BloFin — more routes mean more chances to move funds cheaply. Moving USDT costs less on Gate: 0.0500 over ARBITRUM, where BloFin wants 0.0500 POLYGON.
The source of these values
Every value in the table is read from the venues themselves: pairs, networks, fee tiers, P2P currencies. We add no estimates of our own and spell out the fields that are missing.
When they were last updated
Snapshot from 12 November 2026; on the page the figures refresh on every visit.
