Gate Chain is described on its official website as an EVM-compatible Layer 1 that provides “fast, secure, and reliable dApp infrastructure”. In the document, the Gate ecosystem is expressed as a combined structure of Gate Chain L1 and Gate Layer L2, with L1 serving as the foundation for security, settlement, and data availability. Therefore, this report analyzes Gate Chain not as a simple exchange utility token system, but as an L1 economic system that uses GT as a medium for consensus, gas, governance, and staking rewards. 1. GT/GateToken on-chain state mapping: exists. Consensus Account / Con-account on-chain state mapping: exists.
However, the acquisition and integration of Stargate by the LayerZero Foundation in 2025 is an event that significantly changed the maturity assessment of the project. Although Stargate's product implementation is mature, the v2 streamlining is a trade-off of “less on-chain purity, higher operational efficiency”.
Investment View
Stargate Finance's overall maturity is evaluated at 68.5/100.