Gate US has rolled out an in-app crypto gift card feature for KYC-verified users, opening a new way to send digital asset gifts across 46 U.S. jurisdictions. Users can send a gift card to another verified account through a phone number, email address, or UID, and the funds are credited instantly once redeemed. The company said the entire flow runs inside a KYC-based account system built to keep transfers secure, traceable, and compliant with applicable regulatory requirements.
Gift transfers stay inside verified accounts
The product is aimed at making crypto gifting feel closer to ordinary social payments, but access is tightly controlled. Both the sender and the recipient must complete identity verification. Gate US is clearly framing the feature around compliance, keeping transfers inside verified accounts rather than allowing loosely identified or anonymous movement of funds.
The tool also supports flexible currency combinations. A user can pay with one cryptocurrency while gifting a different asset to the recipient. Gate US did not publish a new denomination range in this update, though the report points to an earlier Gate.io global launch where crypto gift cards could be issued in values starting from 0.0001 USDT and extending to crypto amounts worth tens of thousands of dollars. In that earlier rollout, Gate.io described gift cards as a fresh, alternative, and convenient way to interact with cryptocurrencies. Gate US is now bringing a similar concept into a regulated American setting.
35 state licenses back the compliance footprint
Gate US currently holds 35 state-level money transmitter licenses. Based on earlier regulatory updates from the company and third-party coverage cited in the report, its compliant operations now span 46 U.S. jurisdictions after recent approvals in states including Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. The company has said it is expanding and reinforcing its regulatory and compliance footprint across the country as new jurisdictions are added.
The strategy matches Gate’s parallel expansion in Europe. The report notes that Gate.com recently obtained a PSD2 payment institution license in Malta to scale crypto payments in the European Union. The pattern is consistent: consumer-facing payment products are being paired with formal licensing structures rather than launched ahead of them.
Exchanges keep pushing crypto into social payment use cases
Gate US’s move also fits a wider industry pattern. Exchanges and wallets have been using gift cards, vouchers, and social payment tools to pull digital assets closer to familiar consumer behavior. Earlier coverage has pointed to crypto gift card platforms and crypto vouchers as bridges between traditional spending habits and digital assets. Social-oriented products such as Bundle in Africa and Coinbase’s Base App have also leaned on peer-to-peer transfers and onchain social features as entry points for users.
What sets this launch apart is not the gift card format alone, but the compliance wrapper around it. Gate US is presenting crypto gifting as a regulated, ordinary payment activity, not as an informal workaround operating outside the usual controls.