Gate Ventures announces strategic investment in Sats Terminal to promote the development of Bitcoin-native financial infrastructure

Gate Ventures, the venture capital arm of Gate.com, announced today a strategic investment in Sats Terminal. Sats Terminal is a native Bitcoin financial platform focused on providing self-custody trading, lending, and yield services for Bitcoin holders within the Web3 ecosystem.

This investment reflects Gate Ventures’ view: although Bitcoin is the most trusted and widely held asset globally, its application in decentralized finance remains relatively limited. Currently, trading, lending, and yield infrastructure around Bitcoin are scattered across hundreds of protocols, dozens of chains, and incompatible networks, creating many obstacles for both individual and institutional users. Sats Terminal aims to address this pain point by integrating Bitcoin finance into a convenient, unified layer.

The Investment Logic of Bitcoin Finance: From Store of Value to Productive Capital

As Bitcoin evolves from a simple store of value to a foundational element of a broader financial ecosystem, platforms that simplify, secure, and democratize Bitcoin financial services will play a key role in this transition—without requiring users to relinquish self-custody or face complex technical barriers.

Gate Ventures believes that the Bitcoin financial market is one of the most underexplored opportunities in crypto, and value creation in this space is likely to favor teams building foundational platforms that serve both individual holders and supporting related enterprises.

Construction Direction of Sats Terminal

Sats Terminal is building a native Bitcoin financial layer for Web3—integrating trading, lending, and yield functions into a single self-custody experience through super apps and modular SDKs. It can be used directly via native applications or embedded as an integration solution for wallets and platforms.

Unlike single-function protocols, Sats Terminal adopts a full-stack Bitcoin financial solution—any wallet, exchange, or dApp can integrate once to provide native Bitcoin financial services to their users; individual users can access the same services directly through native apps.

Unique Advantages of Sats Terminal

Gate Ventures believes that by viewing Bitcoin finance as a unified product category rather than a collection of scattered use cases, Sats Terminal has built a structural differentiation advantage in the market. Its SDK-centric architecture enables the platform to expand through the existing Web3 ecosystem rather than compete with it—embedding directly into wallets and platforms commonly used by Bitcoin holders.

This strategy benefits from the founders’ extensive hands-on experience in Web3 product development, business operations, and market expansion, providing a solid foundation for building scalable financial infrastructure and serving a global user base.

About Sats Terminal

Sats Terminal is a Bitcoin liquidity protocol that offers Bitcoin-backed lending, yield, and trading services through a single SDK and self-custody financial applications. Users can access liquidity instantly via cross-chain Bitcoin lending aggregators, purchase Bitcoin directly within mobile apps using any bank account, Cash App, or other methods, and earn yields on USDC, USDT, or BTC within native vaults. It also enables seamless token swaps and cross-chain bridging of Bitcoin through a simple interface or professional trading terminal. Developers can integrate trading, lending, and yield functions into any Web3 wallet or dApp via a single SDK.

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About Gate Ventures

Gate Ventures, the venture capital arm of Gate.com, focuses on investing in decentralized infrastructure, middleware, and applications, aiming to reshape the world in the Web 3.0 era. Collaborating with industry leaders worldwide, Gate Ventures supports innovative teams and startups to drive transformation in social and financial interactions. Official Website | Twitter | Medium | LinkedIn