Gate.io
EU · MiCA Authorised UAE · Licensed JP · Licensed
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Licensing: Genuine licence held (the EU/EEA (MiCA), UAE, and JP)
Audit & reserves: Not yet researched
Gate.io holds a genuine crypto-specific licence covering the EU/EEA (MiCA), UAE, and JP. It first appears in our register on 2019-11-27 and is currently tracked across 32 jurisdictions through 3 legal entities.
Countries covered (32)
- 🇦🇹Austria
- 🇧🇪Belgium
- 🇧🇬Bulgaria
- 🇭🇷Croatia
- 🇨🇾Cyprus
- 🇨🇿Czechia
- 🇩🇰Denmark
- 🇪🇪Estonia
- 🇫🇮Finland
- 🇫🇷France
- 🇩🇪Germany
- 🇬🇷Greece
- 🇭🇺Hungary
- 🇮🇸Iceland
- 🇮🇪Ireland
- 🇮🇹Italy
- 🇯🇵Japan
- 🇱🇻Latvia
- 🇱🇮Liechtenstein
- 🇱🇹Lithuania
- 🇱🇺Luxembourg
- 🇲🇹Malta
- 🇳🇱Netherlands
- 🇳🇴Norway
- 🇵🇱Poland
- 🇵🇹Portugal
- 🇷🇴Romania
- 🇸🇰Slovakia
- 🇸🇮Slovenia
- 🇪🇸Spain
- 🇸🇪Sweden
- 🇦🇪UAE (Dubai & Abu Dhabi)
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Gate Technology FZE
- Jurisdiction
- UAE
- Regime
- Dubai VARA VASP licence
- Status
- Licensed
- Reference
- VL/25/04/007
- Since
- 2025-04-25
- Activities
- Exchange Services
Gate Japan Co., Ltd.
- Jurisdiction
- JP
- Regime
- Japan FSA Crypto-asset Exchange Service Provider registration
- Status
- Licensed
- Reference
- Kanto No.00018
- Since
- 2019-11-27
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Is Gate.io the best crypto exchange for you?
There's no such thing as the best crypto exchange in absolute terms — only the best fit for a given person's situation. The right choice for a business that needs a clean, auditable compliance trail is rarely the right choice for an individual just holding a small amount long-term, and both are different again from someone trading derivatives professionally. We don't recommend Gate.io, or anyone else — we give you what's independently verifiable so you can make that call yourself.
Here's what we've actually verified about Gate.io, specifically:
- Holds a genuine crypto-specific licence in the EU/EEA (MiCA), UAE, and JP.
- Tracked across 32 jurisdictions through 3 legal entities, appearing in our register since 2019-11-27.
- We haven't yet researched Gate.io's audit or proof-of-reserves history — that's an unresearched gap, not a red flag.
None of this tells you whether Gate.io is right for you — that depends on what you're trying to do, which jurisdiction you're in, your own risk tolerance, and practical details this register doesn't track (fees, product range, day-to-day UX). What it does give you is what's actually checkable, so you're deciding from facts rather than the exchange's own marketing.
Sources: ESMA interim MiCA register (CASPS.csv), retrieved 2026-08-31 — original file · Japan FSA Registered Crypto-asset Exchange Service Providers List, retrieved 2026-09-04 — original file · Dubai VARA Public Register, retrieved 2026-09-03 — original file .