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BT Bitso VS GT Gate.io
Both exchanges offer Spot. The differences below come from our individual reviews of Bitso and Gate.io.
| Bitso | Gate.io | |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2014 | 2013 |
| Regions | Full retail product available in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia, with a 2025 expansion into Chile and Peru. Not available to retail customers in the US or Canada: the US-facing 'Bitso' presence is a separate business-to-business arm serving companies, not a consumer trading account. | Available in most regions outside the US for most of its history; added regulated US spot trading in August 2025. Operates from the Cayman Islands with regional teams rather than a single onshore headquarters. |
| Products | Spot, Staking, Stock and ETF trading (select markets, via Alpaca), Cross-border remittances (Bitso Shift) | Spot, Margin, Perpetual futures, Copy trading, Launchpad (new-token offerings) |
| Maker fee | Verify current tier: Bitso uses a volume-based maker/taker schedule that varies by country and by trading pair, with USD and MXN markets pricing differently | Verify current tier: Gate.io uses a volume-based maker/taker schedule |
| Taker fee | Verify current tier: Bitso uses a volume-based maker/taker schedule that varies by country and by trading pair, with USD and MXN markets pricing differently | Verify current tier: Gate.io uses a volume-based maker/taker schedule |
Bitso pros
- The dominant crypto on-ramp for the Mexico-US remittance corridor, reportedly moving over $6.5 billion in 2024 alone, more than a tenth of total corridor volume, using stablecoins as the settlement layer
- One of the few Latin America-focused platforms with formal registration in its home market: licensed in Mexico under the Fintech Law with CNBV and Banco de México oversight, plus a Gibraltar DLT license
- No history of a direct hack resulting in lost customer funds, and it publishes cryptographic zero-knowledge proof-of-reserves rather than a simple balance snapshot
- Backed by serious venture capital (Coatue, Jump Crypto, BOND, and others, across roughly $330 million raised) and still expanding regionally, adding Chile and Peru in 2025
Gate.io pros
- One of the widest altcoin listings in the industry, often ahead of larger competitors on new tokens
- Long operating history (since 2013) and a large, regularly updated Merkle-tree proof-of-reserves program
- Broad product suite in one account: spot, margin, futures, copy trading, staking, and a token launchpad
- Recently added regulated US spot access, unusual for an exchange with Gate.io's offshore structure
This table is generated from the same data behind our individual exchange reviews. See methodology for how it's put together. Fee figures marked "not yet verified" need confirming against live terms before this page is treated as launch-ready.