1. What is a CrossEx Account?
The CrossEx account, also known as CrossEx, is an all-in-one trading and settlement platform designed for professional investors, quantitative teams, and institutions to trade across multiple exchanges. Leveraging a unified cross-exchange account system, low-latency matching and execution, and a unified cross-exchange clearing and settlement model, CrossEx enables users to access multiple major exchanges at minimal cost, share margin across exchanges, and significantly improve trading execution quality and capital efficiency.
2. What business scope does the CrossEx account support?
- Supported trading types: spot, cross-margin leverage, and USD-margined perpetual contracts;
- Maximum leverage: up to 20x;
- Supported position modes: single-direction and dual-direction positions;
- Supported margin modes: cross-margin mode;
- Supported account margin modes: cross-exchange margin mode and single-exchange margin mode. The former allows USDT, BNB, BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, USDC, KRAKEN_USD, and HYPERLIQUID_USDC to be used as unified cross-exchange margin assets for centralized risk management, improving capital efficiency. The latter allows USDT and other assets of the respective exchange to be used as single-exchange margin assets for independent risk management.
3. Which cryptocurrencies can be transferred in a CrossEx account?
Currently, the following assets can be transferred bidirectionally within the CrossEx account or between the unified account via the fund transfer API: USDT, BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, TRX, DOGE, ADA, SUI, AVAX, LTC, DOT. Please refer to the /api/v4/crossex/transfers/coin API for the most up-to-date information.
Special restrictions:
- CROSSEX_KRAKEN: Only USDT transfers are supported.
- CROSSEX_HYPERLIQUID: Only USDC transfers between SPOT accounts are supported.
4. What are the advantages of CrossEx?
- Unified access: No need to open separate accounts or develop integrations for multiple exchanges. Simply connect to the CrossEx API to trade across multiple exchanges simultaneously, greatly reducing technical and operational barriers for cross-exchange trading.
- Enhanced capital efficiency: CrossEx offers cross-exchange margin and fund transfer capabilities, allowing a single USDT balance to be shared across exchanges. Position profits and losses offset each other, significantly improving capital utilization.
- Unified system: CrossEx features a unified trading, clearing, settlement, and independent risk control mechanism, shielding users from underlying differences between exchanges and improving overall trading experience and risk controllability.
- Cost advantage: Offers competitive fee rates covering retail, brokers, and institutional clients, helping you reduce trading costs.
5. How do you distinguish assets in a CrossEx account?
- When assets in the CrossEx account are located on different exchanges, the symbol will include the specific exchange identifier, such as BINANCE_FUTURE_ADA_USDT or OKX_FUTURE_ADA_USDT.
- When USDT is used as a unified cross-exchange margin, the symbol will not include an exchange identifier.
6. How do you trade on a CrossEx account?
CrossEx accounts only support API trading.
You can query trading pair information via the /api/v4/crossx/rule/symbols endpoint. The returned symbol field indicates the corresponding exchange and market type (e.g., BINANCE_FUTURE_ADA_USDT or OKX_FUTURE_ADA_USDT). Only assets with matching symbols can be traded in the respective exchange's market. For details, please refer to the CrossEx API documentation.
7. How are fund transfer fees charged?
For transfers between exchanges within the CrossEx account or between the CrossEx account and the unified account, Gate charges fees according to the on-chain fee standards of the respective exchange, with no additional on-chain fees imposed. The following two types are considered internal, non-on-chain transfers and incur no fees:
- USDT transfers under the cross-exchange margin mode;
- Transfers between the unified account and CrossEx account within Gate under any mode.
8. How do you check trading fee rates?
CrossEx account trading fees generally follow the Gate VIP fee schedule, combined with specific exchange fee rules and limitations. At higher Gate VIP levels, CrossEx fees may differ from Gate VIP fees. Please refer to /api/v4/crossex/fee for details.
9. Do you need to create API Keys and sub-accounts on other exchanges?
No, assets in the CrossEx account can be traded directly on other exchanges via the CrossEx API.
10. What are the differences between exchanges?
CrossEx is responsible for margin calculation, risk control rules, and API request routing. Differences between exchanges mainly lie in parameter configurations, such as funding rates, order parameters, contract tiers, debt tiers, discount rates, collateral ratios, interest deductions, and liquidation procedures.
11. Is there an insurance fund?
Yes, there is an insurance fund. During forced liquidation, a 2% liquidation fee is charged, and the remaining balance of the liquidation fee is used to establish the insurance fund, subsidizing losses from liquidation breaches.
12. How do you switch margin modes?
Switching to single-exchange margin mode:
- Switching conditions: No initial margin, no maintenance margin, no contract positions, no leveraged positions, no open orders in the account;
- Switching method: Switch via /api/v4/crossex/accounts;
- Asset changes: All equity in CROSSEX_USDT is converted to GATE_USDT, and other assets are mapped to their respective exchanges;
- Position mode: If all exchange position modes are the same, the position mode remains unchanged; otherwise, single-direction position mode is used.
Switching to cross-exchange margin mode:
- Switching conditions: No initial margin, no maintenance margin, no contract positions, no leveraged positions, no open orders in the account;
- Switching method: Switch via /api/v4/crossex/accounts;
- Asset changes: All equity in CROSSEX_USDT is converted to GATE_USDT, and other assets are mapped to their respective exchanges;
- Position mode: Contract position mode remains unchanged.
13. Are there frequency limits for placing orders on Hyperliquid? How is the quota calculated?
Each Hyperliquid account has a default quota of 100 order placement API requests. Each order placement request consumes 1 quota; after a successful order, for every 1 USDC traded, 1 quota is added. Once the quota is depleted, only 1 order placement request can be made every 10 seconds until the quota is restored.
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