Gate Founder Dr. Han: The 2025 crypto market enters a new cycle of institutionalization and structural maturity

Odaily Planet Daily reports that Gate founder and CEO Dr. Han describes 2025 as a pivotal year for the crypto industry’s transformation, highlighting trends such as tightening regulatory environments, influxes of institutional capital, and the rise of on-chain trading platforms. These key factors are profoundly changing the market landscape. Dr. Han points out that retail investors who drove previous bull markets are gradually shifting towards professional traders and institutional investors. To address this trend, Gate has upgraded its infrastructure, notably launching the CrossEx cross-exchange trading and clearing platform to enable unified execution and collateral management across multiple platforms. Over the past year, active perpetual contract trading among professional users has increased, while retail traders have moved more on-chain to seize early token and Meme coin trading opportunities. Gate has responded by building Web3 tools such as Gate Layer, Gate Perp DEX, and Gate Fun, allowing users to participate in decentralized markets without sacrificing execution speed and reliability. Security and transparency remain core to Gate; the platform continuously offers asset proofs combining Merkle trees and zero-knowledge proofs, covering approximately $12 billion in assets, and employs Multi-Party Computation (MPC) vault systems to give users direct control of their funds. Looking ahead to 2026, Dr. Han emphasizes that Gate will focus on lowering operational barriers for users on CEX and DEX platforms. Artificial intelligence is expected to become a key tool, helping users execute trades efficiently without navigating complex interfaces. (Beincrypto)