Bitget, the Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange, launched a revamped market maker incentive program on Mar. 4 that sorts all spot and futures trading pairs into three groups, each with its own tiered maker rebate schedule ranging from −0.012% to 0.000%, in an effort to attract deeper order-book liquidity across its platform.
What Happened: New Maker Rate Tiers
The updated program assigns every trading pair to one of three categories. Group A covers major pairs such as Bitcoin (BTC)/USDT, Group B targets mid-tier tokens like HYPE (HYPE)/USDT, and Group C includes smaller or newly listed markets.
Maker rebates are determined by a five-tier system, MM1 through MM5, applied separately to spot and futures. The most favorable spot rebate sits at −0.012% for MM1 participants, while the top futures rebate is −0.008% at the same tier.
Bitget also changed how it evaluates market maker performance. Trading volume is now weighted by group, with higher multipliers assigned to less liquid markets, and scores factor in bid-ask spread requirements alongside cumulative order volume.
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Why It Matters: Institutional Liquidity Push
The program arrives as institutional traders account for a growing share of Bitget's activity. According to the exchange's 2025 Transparency Report, institutional participants generated 82% of spot trading volume and 60% of futures volume.
Those figures suggest that professional market makers already dominate order flow on the platform. The tiered rebate structure is designed to reward that activity while steering liquidity toward thinner markets in Groups B and C.
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