What is Gate Travel? How does encryption payment travel new experience reshape the value of the Gate ecosystem?

On August 15, 2025, the world's leading crypto exchange Gate officially launched Gate Travel, an innovative one-stop travel booking platform that supports users in directly paying for flight and hotel expenses using over 50 mainstream crypto assets. It covers more than 190 countries, over 1 million hotels, and routes from 150 airlines. Its launch not only represents Gate's business expansion into the physical consumption scene but also signifies a key application of crypto payment in the trillion-dollar tourism market.

##Core Features of Gate Travel: A New Paradigm for Travel Expenses of Crypto Native Users

full-chain payment and incentive mechanism

• Seamless multi-currency payments: Supports direct settlement of over 50 Crypto Assets including BTC, ETH, USDT, and is compatible with traditional payment methods such as bank cards and buy now pay later, meeting diverse user needs.
• Travel Points Cashback System: Each order automatically generates travel points that can be redeemed for cash, combined with a 5% exclusive discount for Gate users, significantly reducing travel costs.
• Advanced coupon linkage benefits: Users holding the Gate Crypto Card can receive up to 7% cashback on their spending when booking through Gate Travel, creating a "payment-consumption-incentive" closed loop.

Operation path: 3 steps directly to the encryption travel consumption scenario

Users only need to enter the Gate Life page on the Gate App homepage → Click the Travel module → Choose a flight or hotel and complete the encryption payment to achieve one-click booking. Its minimalist path design significantly reduces the usage threshold of Web3 services, promoting the penetration of encryption payments from investment scenarios to life scenarios.

##The Strategic Significance of Gate Travel to the Gate Ecosystem: From Exchange to Lifestyle Portal

user growth and stickiness dual engine

• Activate the value of 34 million users: As of July 2025, Gate has over 34 million registered users globally, with a monthly derivatives trading volume of 740 billion USD. Gate Travel awakens dormant users through essential consumption scenarios, enhancing platform activity and capital retention rate.
• Build non-trading traffic entry points: Travel booking, as a low-frequency high-unit-price behavior, attracts traditional consumers to engage with encryption payments, redirecting traffic to core businesses such as trading and wealth management, achieving ecological synergy.

expand GT value support scenario

• Destruction and deflation strengthen scarcity: In Q2 2025, Gate will destroy 1.92 million GT, with a cumulative destruction ratio exceeding 60%, and the deflation model will continue to tighten circulation.
• Consumer empowerment enhances practicality: GT holders can enjoy exclusive discounts and points bonuses on Gate Travel, promoting the upgrade of tokens from "governance certificates" to "ecosystem passports," solidifying the foundation for long-term value.

promotes the implementation of Web2-Web3 integration infrastructure

As the industry's first deeply integrated travel resource encryption platform, Gate Travel constructs a three-in-one architecture in the payment layer (multi-chain settlement), incentive layer (points and token linkage), and compliance layer (embedded KYC/AML risk control), providing a standardized template for traditional industries to access the crypto economy.

Table: Comparison of Core Differences between Gate Travel and Traditional OTA Platforms

| Dimension | Gate Travel | Traditional OTA Platform | | -------- | ------------------ | -------------- | | Payment Method | 50+ types of Crypto Assets + fiat mixed payment | Only supports fiat payment | | User Incentives | Travel Points + GT Ecosystem 5% Discount | Limited Membership Points | | Capital Efficiency | Real-time settlement on-chain, no cross-border fees | Exists exchange rate loss + cross-border fees | | Account System | One-click interconnection with exchange wallet/coupons | Independent account, no external linkage |

##Ecological Synergy Effect: How to Leverage Gate's Multiple Business Line Growth?

Activate financial management and holding coin demand

• Earn product linkage scenario: Users can directly convert the income from Gate Earn financial products (such as the total subscription amount of Yubibao of 3.8 billion USD) into travel funds, promoting the expansion of financial management scale.
• HODLer airdrop gain logic: Users who hold GT to participate in the airdrop (July GT snapshot amount 70 million coins) can convert the airdrop tokens into travel purchasing power, forming a positive cycle of "holding coins - profiting - consuming".

enhance the platform's overall competitiveness

• Differentiated customer acquisition barrier: While platforms like Binance and Bybit focus on the trading arena, Gate opens a new battlefield by leveraging travel scenarios to attract non-speculative users.
• VIP system value upgrade: In conjunction with the VIP benefits renewal plan (spot rate discount up to 75%, withdrawal limit of 20 million USDT), providing high net worth users with a full-chain high-end service from investment to consumption.

##Challenges and Future: The Evolution Direction of Gate Travel

Despite Gate Travel taking a crucial step in the popularization of Crypto Assets payments, it still faces real challenges:

• Compliance risk: Different countries have varying regulatory policies regarding the use of Crypto Assets for travel payments (e.g., South Korea plans to impose a 28% crypto tax), and it is necessary to dynamically adapt to regional compliance frameworks.
• User Experience Optimization: Further simplification of the on-chain identity binding process for hotel/flight searches is required to reduce the migration cost for Web2 users.

Possible future evolution paths:

• NFT travel rights: Flight/hotel booking vouchers are issued as on-chain NFTs, supporting secondary market trading and collection.
• DeFi + Travel Finance: Introducing the "Booking to Mining" model, turning consumption behavior into liquidity mining rewards.
• Metaverse scene linkage: Connecting with Gate ecosystem games or metaverse platforms to achieve the integration of virtual and real travel experiences.

##Future Outlook

When users tap the "Travel" button in the Gate App and pay for the Paris hotel with USDT, the crypto economy has made a crucial leap from trading assets to service life. Gate Travel is more than just a booking platform; it is the core module of Gate's construction of the "crypto life operating system"—it allows the digital assets held by 34 million users to truly flow in every departure and arrival in the real world.