1. What is a CrossEx Account?
The CrossEx account, also known as CrossEx, is an all-in-one trading and settlement platform designed for professional traders, quantitative teams, and institutions to operate across multiple exchanges. Leveraging a unified cross-exchange account system, low-latency order matching, and a consolidated settlement model, CrossEx enables users to access multiple leading exchanges at minimal cost, share margin across platforms, and significantly improve both trade execution quality and capital efficiency.
2. What services are supported by CrossEx accounts?
- Supported trading types: spot, cross-margin, and USDT-margined perpetual contracts.
- Maximum leverage: up to 20x.
- Supported position modes: single-direction and dual-direction positions.
- Supported margin modes: cross-exchange margin mode and per-exchange margin mode. The former allows USDT, BNB, BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP, and USDC to serve as unified cross-exchange margin assets for centralized risk management, improving capital efficiency. The latter supports USDT and other tokens as individual exchange margin assets for independent risk control.
3. Which tokens can be transferred via CrossEx accounts?
Currently, the following tokens can be transferred bi-directionally within the CrossEx account or between the unified account using the fund transfer interface: USDT, BTC, ETH, XRP, BNB, SOL, TRX, DOGE, ADA, SUI, AVAX, LTC, DOT. For up-to-date information, refer to the /api/v4/crossex/transfers/coin interface.
4. What are the advantages of CrossEx?
- Unified access: No need to open separate accounts or develop integrations for multiple exchanges. Simply connect to the CrossEx API to trade across multiple exchanges simultaneously, greatly reducing technical and operational barriers for cross-exchange trading.
- Enhanced capital efficiency: CrossEx offers cross-exchange margin and fund transfer capabilities, allowing a single USDT balance to be shared across exchanges, with profits and losses offset between positions, significantly improving capital utilization.
- Unified system: CrossEx features a unified trading, settlement, and independent risk control mechanism, masking underlying differences between exchanges and improving overall trading experience and risk controllability.
- Cost advantage: Offers competitive fee rates that cater to retail, broker, and institutional clients, helping you reduce trading costs.
5. How are assets in CrossEx accounts distinguished?
- When assets in a CrossEx account are located on different exchanges, the symbol will include the specific exchange identifier, such as BINANCE_FUTURE_ADA_USDT or OKX_FUTURE_ADA_USDT.
- When USDT is used as the unified cross-exchange margin, the symbol will not include an exchange identifier.
6. How do you trade with a CrossEx account?
CrossEx accounts only support API trading.
You can query trading pair information via the /api/v4/crossx/rule/symbols interface. The returned symbol field indicates the corresponding exchange and market type (e.g., BINANCE_FUTURE_ADA_USDT or OKX_FUTURE_ADA_USDT). Only assets with matching symbols can be traded in their respective exchange markets. For details, please refer to the CrossEx API documentation.
7. How are fund transfer fees charged?
When transferring funds between exchanges or between the unified account and CrossEx account, Gate charges fees according to the chain fee standard of the respective exchange, without adding extra chain fees. The following two types of transfers are internal (non-chain) and incur no fees:
- USDT transfers under the cross-exchange margin mode.
- Transfers between Gate’s unified account and CrossEx account under any mode.
8. How do you check trading fee rates?
CrossEx account trading fees generally follow the Gate VIP fee schedule, with additional rules and restrictions based on the exchange. At higher Gate VIP levels, cross-exchange fees may differ from Gate VIP fees. For specifics, refer to /api/v4/crossex/fee.
9. Do you need to create API Keys and sub-accounts on other exchanges?
No. CrossEx account assets can be traded directly on other exchanges via the CrossEx API.
10. What are the differences between exchanges?
CrossEx is responsible for margin calculation, risk control rules, and API request routing. Differences between exchanges mainly involve parameter configurations, such as funding rates, order parameters, contract tiers, debt tiers, discount rates, collateral ratios, interest deductions, and liquidation procedures.
11. Is there an insurance fund?
Yes, there is an insurance fund. During forced liquidation, a 2% liquidation fee is charged, and the remaining balance is used to build the insurance fund, which subsidizes losses from liquidation breaches.
12. How do you switch margin modes?
Switch to per-exchange margin mode:
- Switching conditions: No initial margin, no maintenance margin, no contract positions, no leveraged positions, no open orders in the account.
- Switching method: Switch via /api/v4/crossex/accounts.
- Asset changes: All equity in CROSSEX_USDT is converted to GATE_USDT, and other assets are mapped to their respective exchanges.
- Position mode: If all exchanges have the same position mode, it remains unchanged; otherwise, single-direction position mode is used.
Switch to cross-exchange margin mode:
- Switching conditions: No initial margin, no maintenance margin, no contract positions, no leveraged positions, no open orders in the account.
- Switching method: Switch via /api/v4/crossex/accounts.
- Asset changes: All equity in CROSSEX_USDT is converted to GATE_USDT, and other assets are mapped to their respective exchanges.
- Position mode: Contract position mode remains unchanged.
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