In a bear market, liquidity is essentially mutual bloodletting.

Today I looked at CoinGecko’s newly released Q2 report: the global Top 10 spot trading volume shrank by 27.9% (from 2.7 trillion being dumped down to 1.95 trillion), and the overall market is basically stagnant.
But if you look closely at the structure, it’s very interesting: platforms supported by a “top-up listing” strategy saw their spot volumes directly cut in half and drop out of the top ranks, while Gate’s share actually squeezed up against the trend from 7% to 11%. Its growth rate from May to June was first across the whole network, directly pushing it into the global top three.
This isn’t any kind of market-wide dividend—this is pure zero-sum competition for existing liquidity.
When the market is brutal, capital and market makers become extremely picky—if someone’s order book can’t be filled, or the slippage is large, users will definitely switch platforms.
After using it over the past few years, it feels like Gate isn’t just winning solely on the traditional “listing speed” anymore.
While laying down deep spot order-book liquidity, it also connects to Polymarket prediction markets and launches CFD and other cross-industry playbooks—basically, it funnels the hottest on-chain trends and traditional finance tactics into one entry point.
A bear market is, at its core, a brutally ruthless selection process.
As fake liquidity retreats, everyone who gets drained and everyone who gets fed is clearly visible in the on-chain data.
At this point, I can’t help but say: Gate is awesome!!!!!
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