Futures

This article explains the concept of arbitrage in the cryptocurrency perpetual contract market, focusing on the "cash and carry trade" strategy, which allows traders to profit from discrepancies between spot and futures prices. By using perpetual contracts and spot positions simultaneously, traders can earn passive income through funding rates.

Perpetual contracts are an essential derivative in the DeFi sector. Due to the lack of a fixed expiration date, these contracts have become a favorite among traders. This article provides an in-depth look at how perpetual contracts work, the operational framework of decentralized perpetual contract platforms, and the role of liquidity providers.

This article will explain how to use Gate.com's trading bots and API features to implement quantitative trading strategies, helping users automate their trades and take advantage of opportunities in the crypto market.

DEXs let users retain custody of their funds, allow the community to participate and foster open innovation. However, these benefits have historically come at a cost of higher latency and lower liquidity due to the throughput and latency limitations of underlying blockchains.

The funding rate is a key element in cryptocurrency perpetual contract trading, influenced by the market. This rate, which reflects the balance between long and short positions, can vary significantly with market movements. A high positive funding rate increases the cost for long positions, while a negative rate raises costs for short positions. These fluctuations can impact trading costs, market volatility, and overall strategy. Traders must monitor the funding rate closely and adjust their strategies accordingly to optimize costs and minimize risks.

This article introduces ZKX, an emerging project in the Perp DEX space, covering its background, objectives, and strategies. Facing a competitive market environment, ZKX offers high performance and seamless user experience through its Dapp Rollup/App Chain+CLOB order book infrastructure, attracting a large user base to the on-chain perpetual contracts ecosystem through multiple airdrop incentives and a socially gamified trading model.

This article introduces the innovative impact of EIP-3074 on EOA. By allowing EOA to transfer control to the Invoker contract, it gains the same multi-functional operation capabilities as the contract. This not only significantly improves the user experience, but also reshapes the existing authorization method to make it more secure without changing the user experience.

Aevo is a leading decentralized derivatives trading platform dedicated to options and perpetual contracts trading. As of 2025, the platform has achieved significant growth with monthly trading volumes exceeding $15 billion and 250,000 active traders. The AEVO token has shown remarkable performance, with a 609% market cap increase to $780 million since 2023. The platform has expanded with multi-chain integration, advanced risk management tools, and strategic partnerships, establishing itself among the top 5 decentralized derivatives platforms with approximately 28% market share in DeFi options trading.

Perpetual contract funding rate arbitrage refers to the simultaneous execution of two transactions in the spot and perpetual contract markets, with the same underlying asset, opposite directions, equal quantities, and offsetting profits and losses. The goal is to profit from the funding rates in perpetual contract trading. As of 2025, this strategy has evolved significantly, with average funding rates stabilizing at 0.015% per 8-hour period for popular trading pairs, representing a 50% increase from 2024 levels. Cross-platform opportunities have emerged as a new arbitrage vector, offering additional 3-5% annualized returns. Advanced AI algorithms now optimize entry and exit points, reducing slippage by approximately 40% compared to manual execution.

LogX is a perpetual contract trading aggregator, helping investors find the optimal trading platform from multiple underlying contract trading protocols.

This article starts with the issue of DA and data withholding, and explores the reasons why Plasma has been buried for so long.

1.This “Gate Learn Futures” Intermediate course introduces concepts and the use of various technical indicators, including Candlestick charts, technical patterns, moving averages and trend lines. 2.Learn about trend-related concepts. We elaborate on the classification of short-term, medium-term, and long-term trends, and the relationship between trends and transactions.

This “Gate Learn Futures” Intermediate course introduces concepts and the use of various technical indicators, including Candlestick charts, technical patterns, moving averages, and trend lines. This article expands on the application skills of moving averages arranged in various patterns, including bonding, converging, and diverging. We will concentrate on definitions, pattern recognition, implications, and practical application of these three MA patterns.

This “Gate Learn Futures” Intermediate course introduces concepts and the use of various technical indicators, including Candlestick charts, technical patterns, moving averages, and trend lines. In this guide, we place a strong emphasis on the application of moving average crosses, mainly including the golden cross and death cross.

This Gate Learn Futures Intermediate course introduces concepts and uses of various technical indicators, including Candlestick charts, technical patterns, moving averages, and trend lines. This section introduces the application skills of moving averages, especially how to use the short-moving average array with lines of short-term, medium-term, and long-term to predict the market trends in trading.