Gate.io is processing roughly $85 billion a week in traditional finance trading, a 55% increase from the prior week, as users concentrate on US stock-related perpetual contracts (derivatives with no expiry) tied to AI-linked equities, memory chip companies and other high-beta trades. Those contracts accounted for about 60-65% of the platform’s trading volume during the period, underscoring how activity on a venue known for crypto has shifted heavily toward equity derivatives. The current weekly figure is below a recent peak near $98 billion, implying a 13-15% pullback from that high. Across six major centralized exchanges, perpetual futures represented 98.5% of total TradFi trading volume in June 2026, while monthly TradFi volume across those venues rose from $3.46 billion in January 2025 to $393.15 billion in June 2026, marking more than 100-fold growth in 18 months. Gate said it accounts for about 39.4% of reported TradFi derivatives volume among exchanges that disclose data, and during a promotional period ending in mid-August 2026 it logged more than $33 billion in TradFi transactions, with peak single-day volume above $6 billion.