Gate Ventures, the venture capital arm of Gate.com, today announced its strategic investment in Sats Terminal, a Bitcoin-native finance platform focused on enabling self-custodial trading, borrowing, and yield for Bitcoin holders across Web3.
This investment reflects Gate Ventures’ view that Bitcoin, despite being the world’s most trusted and widely held asset, its utility within decentralized finance remains relatively limited.. The infrastructure to trade, borrow, and earn with Bitcoin is fragmented across hundreds of protocols, dozens of chains, and incompatible networks — creating friction for both retail and institutional users. Sats Terminal is addressing this by bringing Bitcoin finance together into a single, accessible layer.
A thesis on Bitcoin finance: from stored value to productive capital
As Bitcoin matures beyond a store of value into the foundation of a broader financial ecosystem, the platforms that may play an important role in supporting this transition make Bitcoin finance simple, secure, and universally accessible — without requiring users to sacrifice self-custody or navigate technical complexity.
Gate Ventures believes the Bitcoin finance opportunity is among the largest untapped markets in crypto, and that value creation in this segment is likely to favor teams building foundational platforms
serving both individual holders and the businesses that build for them.
What Sats Terminal is building
Sats Terminal is building the native-Bitcoin finance layer for Web3 — a super app and modular SDK that packages trading, borrowing, and yield into a single self-custodial experience, available both through a native application and as an embeddable integration for wallets and platforms.
Rather than operating as a single-purpose protocol, Sats Terminal takes a full-stack approach to Bitcoin finance — allowing any wallet, exchange, or dApp to offer Bitcoin-native financial services to their users through a single integration, while retail users access the same capabilities directly through the native app.
Why Sats Terminal stands out
Gate Ventures believes Sats Terminal has identified a structurally differentiated position in the market by treating Bitcoin finance as a unified product category rather than a collection of isolated use cases. Its SDK-first architecture means the platform scales through the existing Web3 ecosystem rather than competing within it — embedding into wallets and platforms where Bitcoin holders already are.
This approach is reinforced by a founding team with proven execution experience across Web3 product development, business operations, and go-to-market — bringing the operational depth required to build production-grade financial infrastructure and scale it across a global user base.
About Sats Terminal
Sats Terminal is a Bitcoin liquidity protocol powering Bitcoin-backed loans, yield, and trading through a single SDK and a self-custodial finance app for retail users and businesses. Users can access liquidity instantly via a cross-chain Bitcoin loans aggregator, buy Bitcoin with any bank account, Cash App or other methods directly in the mobile app, earn yield on USDC, USDT, or BTC through native vaults, and seamlessly swap or bridge Bitcoin tokens through a simple interface or pro trading terminal. Developers can integrate trading, borrowing, and earning into any Web3 wallet or dApp through a single SDK
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About Gate Ventures
Gate Ventures, the venture capital arm of Gate.com, is focused on investments in decentralized infrastructure, middleware, and applications that will reshape the world in the Web 3.0 age. Working with industry leaders across the globe, Gate Ventures helps promising teams and startups that possess the ideas and capabilities needed to redefine social and financial interactions. Website | Twitter | Medium | LinkedIn
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