BTC: Gate Perpetual Open Interest

Shown as its 18–24 May 2026 sample; the latest readings and full history are included with Plus.

USD value of open BTC perpetual positions on Gate (all its BTC perpetuals together), one side of each position.

Why use it. A single venue's open interest with a longer history than our cross-venue charts, which start when our own collection began in October 2026: rising open interest means leverage entering the market, falling open interest positions closing. How to read it. Read the changes alongside price: price up with open interest up suggests new leveraged positions; a sharp drop marks liquidations or mass closing. One venue only, so compare its trend, not its level, with the cross-venue charts.

Calculation. Each period takes every Gate BTC perpetual's open interest at the period's last five-minute mark, in USD, and sums them. Gate publishes its statistics summed over both sides of every position; they are halved here, so each position counts once, as in our own collection. Before our own collection of Gate began, the values are Gate's published five-minute statistics (Gate serves the latest 180 days); from then on they are our own minute-by-minute collection of Gate's one-side figure. Source: the public open-interest history Gate publishes for all its BTC perpetuals, read once by us on 7 November 2026: five-minute statistics for the latest 180 days (each contract from its listing if later). It is joined to our own collection of Gate's public futures data from 14 October 2026. Gate alone: other venues are not included, nor contracts Gate no longer lists.