Gate WCTC S8 successfully concluded: Multi-track competitions drive trading volume to surpass 50 billion USD

Gate WCTC (World Crypto Trading Competition) Season S8 of 2026 has officially concluded. This season saw over 80,000 registered users and 9,500 participating teams, with a total trading volume exceeding $50 billion, setting new records for both the scale of the event and user participation.

As one of Gate's key annual trading events, WCTC S8 features a parallel mechanism of team competitions, individual competitions, and 1v1 king PK matches, catering to different types of trading users and trading strategy needs. During the event, participating users competed in rankings based on performance and trading volume, which also enhanced the overall trading activity on the platform.

In terms of gameplay, this year's WCTC S8 further strengthened interactive experiences based on trading competitions. In addition to the core event, the platform also launched various activities such as blind box tasks, invitation events, and Gate Live interactive broadcasts, enhancing user participation through task incentives and community interaction, and further boosting platform ecosystem activity.

Regarding the trading scope, WCTC S8 unified spot, contract, and CFD contract products into the event's statistical system. By integrating different trading scenarios, this event further reinforced the weight of multi-asset trading capabilities within the competition framework, making the event structure closer to real market trading environments. This competition adopted differentiated weight calculations, with a total weighted trading volume exceeding $50 billion, where the CFD contract sector showed active trading performance, with a cumulative trading volume surpassing $140 billion.

In recent years, Gate has continued to expand its multi-asset product matrix, advancing the layout of TradFi assets in trading scenarios such as spot and contracts, and continuously expanding its product ecosystem around CFD contracts, Pre-IPOs, and prediction markets. Currently, the platform supports over 440 types of CFD contract assets and more than 70 tokenized stocks. The CFD contracts have launched a copy trading feature, with daily trading volume from copy trading increasing by 45.1% week-on-week over the past week, maintaining over 40% growth for two consecutive weeks.

With the successful conclusion of WCTC S8, Gate will also launch a series of large-scale events, including the Red Bull Trading Competition and contract mall, which will see upgrades and returns. A large CFD contract trading competition will also officially launch, further expanding the platform's trading event ecosystem and user participation scenarios. In response to the growing demand for multi-asset trading, the platform will also expand event mechanisms and strategy gameplay around traditional financial assets such as gold, oil, indices, and stocks, and combine copy trading ecology with multi-asset trading capabilities to provide users with a richer global market participation experience.

Currently, Gate's global user base has surpassed 53 million, maintaining a leading advantage in spot liquidity, contract trading, and multi-asset trading. The successful hosting of WCTC S8 further reflects the platform's continuous improvement in global user operations, trading ecosystem construction, and event organization capabilities. In the future, Gate will further expand the integration of crypto assets with traditional financial scenarios, continuously promoting product and business innovation around multi-asset trading, globalization of the ecosystem, and user experience, to provide users with a richer, more efficient, and diversified global trading and asset allocation experience.

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Gate was founded in 2013, with Dr. Han as the founder and CEO, and is one of the world's leading cryptocurrency trading platforms. The platform serves over 53 million users and supports trading of over 4,600 types of crypto assets. As an industry benchmark, Gate was the first to achieve 100% reserve proof, with an ecosystem that includes Gate Wallet, Gate Ventures, Gate for AI Agent, and other diverse services.

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