Gate Update: Verstappen Comes To TOKEN2049, While DJI Prizes And 830% APRs Drive October Campaigns
In Brief
Gate Update: Verstappen at TOKEN2049 Singapore, DJI drone prizes, 830% Launchpool APRs, Convert rewards, Options growth and new CT and POD futures.
October opens with a busy week at Gate. Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen is heading to Singapore for a fan meet-and-greet at the Gate Lounge during TOKEN2049. One Launchpool staking pool is showing an APR above 830%. And VIP traders are competing for DJI gift boxes that include a flagship Air 3S drone. Here is the full rundown of what Gate has launched and announced.
Gate at TOKEN2049 Singapore
Gate is taking a full presence to TOKEN2049 Singapore, held October 7–8 at Marina Bay Sands. On October 7, Founder and CEO Dr. Han will deliver a keynote on the main stage titled “One Gate, Everything Money.” Gate will also run a brand booth and an exclusive lounge to showcase its multi-asset product suite.
The headline moment is the Oracle Red Bull Racing meet-and-greet on October 7, from 10:30 to 11:30 UTC. Gate is an official sponsor of the team, and it has invited Max Verstappen and teammate Isack Hadjar to the Gate Lounge for autographs and photos. Gate frames the collaboration as a way to connect digital assets with global sports and popular culture.
The evening of October 8 brings the Gate Gala Dinner & Awards Ceremony at Raffles Singapore, running 17:30–22:00 local time. The invite-only event will bring together founders, institutional leaders, investors, creators and partners. The program includes a roundtable dinner, keynotes, live prize draws and networking. The GATE GALA Awards cover three categories: “Voices of Influence,” “Growth & Ecosystem,” and “Impact & Honors.”
Campaigns and Rewards
VIP Exclusive Airdrop Carnival Round 19 carries a “DJI Autumn Travel” theme with two separate trading tracks, Futures and CFD. A total of 200 limited-edition gift boxes are available. Prizes include the DJI Autumn Travel Set (Pro Backpack and Umbrella), the Osmo Mobile 7P gimbal, the Osmo 360 panoramic action camera and the Air 3S dual-camera drone.
- Period: September 30, 16:00 to October 30, 15:59 (UTC).
- Tiers: The Futures track has four volume tiers starting at 30,000,000 USDT. The CFD track has four tiers starting at 200,000,000 USDx.
- Rules: Boxes go out in the order users hit their targets. Rewards from the two tracks cannot be claimed together, so a user who qualifies on both gets the higher-tier box.
The Convert Lucky Draw is aimed at newcomers and runs September 28, 10:00 to October 12, 10:00 (UTC). Users complete Convert tasks to unlock mystery box draws, with GT tokens or Dual Investment trial funds as prizes.
- Draw chances: A first-ever Convert of at least 1 USDT earns one draw. Each day with 50 USDT in Convert volume adds one more. Cumulative volumes of 300, 1,000 and 3,000 USDT each add another. Each verified invited friend who makes a first Convert of at least 1 USDT adds one, up to 10.
- Leaderboard: Users with at least 30,000 USDT in cumulative Convert volume enter the ranking. The top 200 share 20,000 USDT worth of GT, and first place can receive 1,888 USDT worth of GT.
- Fees: Convert starts at 1 USDT and charges zero trading fees.
The Convert New User Bonus, launched September 30, runs alongside it. Users who have never used Convert can get 20 USDT after a first Convert of at least 100 USDT, limited to the first 1,000 users. Those who reach 500 USDT in valid cumulative volume can also get 2 XRP, limited to the first 300 users. The two rewards can be combined.
Futures Points Airdrop Phase 149 opens October 2 from 10:00 to 15:59 (UTC), with two first-come, first-served redemption pools. Users can redeem 15 Gate Futures Points for 0.016 QQQG, with a tiered balance requirement. Users with a balance of at least 40 points can redeem 20 points for a 100 USDT Position Voucher.
Earning and Staking
Four Launchpool projects are currently active.
| Project | Pools and current APRs |
| GT (18,400 GT reward pool) | ETH 6.28% (about 13,132.63 ETH staked); BTC 3.61% (about 694.48 BTC staked) |
| CT (1,000,000 CT reward pool) | USDT 8.74%; CT 830.06%; GT 5.15% |
| XAUT | USDT 7.01%; XAUT 12.06%; GT 6.91% |
| LAPTOP | LAPTOP 275.65%; BTC 2.06% |
Options Activity
Gate Options saw strong growth in September. Through the 29th, total trading volume was up about 18.7% on the full month of August, and premium volume rose about 141.3%. New-user trading volume grew around 180.0%, and average volume per new user rose about 179.2%.
As of September 30, 06:00 (UTC), BTC options open interest was split between 234,389.80 BTC in calls (64.54%) and 128,761.00 BTC in puts (35.46%). Over the past 24 hours, calls made up 51.27% of volume (10,896.40 BTC) and puts 48.73% (10,357.20 BTC). Calls dominate open interest, but recent volume is nearly balanced, so these figures alone do not show a clear market direction.
Gate has also opened its Options Newcomer Season. New users can pick Easy Options or U.S. Stock Options and complete tasks to unlock first-trade rewards, a first-trade loss rebate and weekly trading rewards.
New Futures Listings
Gate has added two perpetual futures contracts:
- CTUSDT: USDT-margined, with up to 20x leverage. Concrete is a full-stack institutional operating system for on-chain finance, covering vaults, strategies, custody, accounting, risk management and distribution across crypto assets and real-world assets.
- POD (USDT-M): 1–10x leverage, launched together with POD trading bots and copy trading. POD (Dolphin) is a decentralized AI inference and DePIN network where users contribute idle GPU power to run Dolphin and other open-weight AI models.
Market Snapshot
GT, Gate’s platform token, gained 2.19% over 24 hours. It reached a high of 11.21 USDT and was trading at 11.17 USDT.
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