Gate Europe CEO: Digital Identity Key to Multi-Asset Services

Framing digital identity as a trust bridge is a telling signal from a crypto-native exchange: the pitch to multi-asset services now runs through compliance infrastructure rather than product breadth. That shifts the competitive ground toward firms able to reconcile know-your-customer and security requirements across both traditional and digital instruments. The open question is whether identity becomes a shared utility across venues or a proprietary moat for the largest platforms — and how that shapes access for smaller participants.