Futures
Access hundreds of perpetual contracts
TradFi
Gold
One platform for global traditional assets
Options
Hot
Trade European-style vanilla options
Unified Account
Maximize your capital efficiency
Demo Trading
Introduction to Futures Trading
Learn the basics of futures trading
Futures Events
Join events to earn rewards
Demo Trading
Use virtual funds to practice risk-free trading
Launch
CandyDrop
Collect candies to earn airdrops
Launchpool
Quick staking, earn potential new tokens
HODLer Airdrop
Hold GT and get massive airdrops for free
Pre-IPOs
Unlock full access to global stock IPOs
Alpha Points
Trade on-chain assets and earn airdrops
Futures Points
Earn futures points and claim airdrop rewards
Promotions
AI
Gate AI
Your all-in-one conversational AI partner
Gate AI Bot
Use Gate AI directly in your social App
GateClaw
Gate Blue Lobster, ready to go
Gate for AI Agent
AI infrastructure, Gate MCP, Skills, and CLI
Gate Skills Hub
10K+ Skills
From office tasks to trading, the all-in-one skill hub makes AI even more useful.
GateRouter
Smartly choose from 40+ AI models, with 0% extra fees
These days I keep seeing screenshots of NFT floors being bought and sold back and forth, pretty much like slipping on ice outside a winter cabin... To put it plainly, when liquidity is poor, everyone talks about narratives, but in reality they’re just looking at whether they can sell it or not. The same goes for royalties—when the market is hot, people are willing to pretend they support creators; when it cools down, they start complaining that it “blocks transactions,” and a bunch of ways to bypass royalties pop up. Human nature is just like that.
What’s even more subtle is the community narrative layer. When it’s hot, a phrase like “We are family” can hold up the floor price a bit; when it’s cold, hearing the same words feels a little awkward. Recently, that main chain is about to upgrade/maintain, and people in the group are guessing whether projects will migrate. I think it doesn’t really matter whether they migrate or not; the key is that someone has to take over if they do. No matter how beautiful the story is, without liquidity, it’s like having no firewood in the house. For now, just keep watching less market and reading more books. When things warm up again, I’ll come out and hang out.