#Gate事件市场月交易量达7300万美元 Gate×Polymarket: CEX Brings “Prediction Markets” into an App for the First Time—Behind $73 million in Monthly Trading Volume Is a Battle for “Distribution Rights”
In March 2026, Gate officially integrated the world’s largest decentralized prediction market, Polymarket, becoming the first CEX globally to integrate the platform—users can directly use USDT in their accounts to participate in predictions on popular events in sports, finance, crypto, and more, without any on-chain operations. It now has $73 million in monthly trading volume, ranking second among Polymarket’s partner channels—Gate had long ranked first before this (during the World Cup, it ranked first among all channels in daily/weekly/monthly volume, with cumulative trading volume exceeding $622 million).
The significance of this partnership lies not in the “$73 million” figure itself, but in three things—① Gate uses “account + USDT” to bring prediction markets from the on-chain enthusiast circle into the mainstream user pool; ② the “first CEX” first-mover position is real, but “number one channel” requires sustained operations (being overtaken now shows that competition has arrived); ③ prediction markets are shifting from a “niche pastime” into “financial infrastructure,” and Gate has secured a ticket for this ship.
Why is this worth taking seriously?
For Gate: Breaking through a “product boundary” 🚪
The traditional battlefield for CEXs is “trading coins”; prediction markets are “trading events”—sports, macroeconomics, politics, and crypto are all major traffic magnets. By bringing Polymarket into its App, Gate is essentially using its account system + direct USDT payments to turn “infrequent predictions” into a “high-retention entry point”—when users are not trading crypto, they can still come by to “guess the outcome.” This is an evolution from a “trading platform” into a “finance + information + entertainment gateway.”
For Polymarket: CEX is a “mass-market expansion engine” 🚀
No matter how popular Polymarket becomes, the barrier of on-chain wallets shuts out 90% of ordinary people. An integration like Gate’s, which lets users “participate with USDT in one click,” is equivalent to opening a “direct pipeline” to Polymarket—Gate driving its daily trading volume to first among all channels during the World Cup is the best proof.
For the industry: Prediction markets, or “future pricing markets,” are going mainstream 📈
The probabilities on Polymarket are essentially “the market’s pricing of real-world events”—from Fed rate hikes, CPI, and sporting events to crypto events. As more and more capital uses real money to price the “future,” prediction markets are evolving from “gambling” into “alternative information markets.” Gate Research itself has concluded that prediction markets are developing in parallel along two tracks: “open on-chain infrastructure + centralized integration.”
Gate×Polymarket is a “win-win first move”—Gate gains the “first CEX” positioning and a distribution barrier through direct USDT payments, while Polymarket gains mass-market traffic; $73 million in monthly volume proves the model works, but being overtaken for “number one channel” reminds us that first-mover status is an advantage, while operations are the moat. For Gate users, the most tangible change is that you do not need to understand on-chain wallets—you can use the USDT sitting in your account to “bet” on any hot event, and that is part of “Everything Money.”
