Gate launches event contracts builder, adds $3M grant program

What's the deal? GateDealroom has a profile for this one. Try Dealroom →, a digital asset platform, has launched Gate DexBuilder's first Event Contracts Builder alongside a $3 million grant program. The tool lets project teams, developers, and Web3 applications build event contract markets without engineering the underlying systems themselves.

What's the endgame? The builder offers modular infrastructure covering market creation, trading, liquidity, settlement, and operations. Partners can integrate event contract features into existing products or launch standalone, branded markets on Gate DexBuilder.

How does it work? It supports API and SDK integration and includes market data, order and position management, settlement, risk controls, and an operations dashboard. Target users range from brokers, wallets, and quantitative trading platforms to sports, esports, and entertainment products.

What's the funding for? Selected projects can receive up to $3 million in funding and ecosystem support spanning product development, technical integration, liquidity building, market launch, and user growth. Standouts also gain technical support, official showcases, joint AMAs, and media promotion.

Why now? Gate has expanded in recent years across event contract markets, DEXs, AI, and real-world assets (RWA). Gate DexBuilder's head of global partnerships said the market's future will depend "not only on the growth of trading volume, but also on a broader range of application scenarios and open infrastructure support."

The signal: Event contract markets — covering crypto, sports, macroeconomics, and other scenarios — are drawing infrastructure investment as platforms race to open them to third-party builders. By handing developers ready-made rails, Gate is betting the sector's growth will come from ecosystem breadth, not just trading volume.

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