Wall Street Meets DeFi: Gate Launches Tokenized Stocks with First-Mover Advantage

Will stocks soar in 2025 but be hard to participate in? Gate’s stock debut “tokenized stock contracts” allows you to go long/short on Tesla and the SPY index directly with USDT, breaking through brokerage barriers. Discover how a platform with 30 million users reconstructs the investment paradigm of stock assets through on-chain mapping.

The Stock Market is Booming, but It’s “Too Far” from Crypto Users

In 2025, stocks remain the most attractive investment target in the stock capital market. The Nasdaq has risen over 20% this year, with sectors like AI, chips, and technology rotating upward, and “crypto concept stocks” like Coinbase and MicroStrategy have also become amplifiers of sentiment. However, for stock crypto users, the participation threshold remains high. The traditional brokerage account opening process is cumbersome, there are many restrictions on fiat currency settlements, and trading hours are fixed, which clashes with the “always-on” rhythm of the crypto market.

This is also why the xStocks stock trading area launched by Gate has attracted industry attention. It not only supports spot trading of tokenized stocks but also innovatively launched a tokenized stock contract market, allowing crypto users to trade stock-related assets directly with USDT, truly achieving “trading unfamiliar assets in a familiar way.”

Gate’s “Leading the Way”: Not Only Fast, But Deeper

Why has Gate been able to take the lead in this cross-border breakthrough? The answer may lie in its accumulation over the past decade.

Founded in 2013, Gate has served a total of 30 million stock users, ranking second in spot trading volume in the stock market, with the contract market consistently in the top five. In terms of system performance, asset security, and product diversity, Gate has established a complete trading infrastructure that possesses the capability of “tokenization” of traditional assets.

Compared to other platforms that are still experimenting with tracks like “DeFi” and “GameFi”, Gate has taken the lead in proposing and practicing the strategic positioning of “linking traditional and future finance”, laying out an on-chain trading system for traditional assets in advance. The launch of xStocks is the first implementation of this long-term strategy.

What is xStocks? Understand its “disruptive design” in one article

The core of the xStocks stock zone is to map real-world stock assets to an on-chain trading system through the “physical asset tokenization” mechanism. The tokens issued by the platform (such as AAPLX, TSLAx, SPYx, etc.) are all anchored to real stocks and are fully collateralized by the assets. These tokens support on-chain transfer and free circulation, and can be compatible with multiple ecosystems.

Unlike traditional securities accounts, Gate users do not need fiat currency or stock brokers; they only need to hold USDT to participate in trading. This “borderless investment channel” not only greatly lowers the threshold but also enables trading to be truly uninterrupted 24/7, while supporting fractional share trading and contract leverage strategies.

It is especially worth mentioning that Gate has become the first trading platform to launch a tokenization stock contract market, allowing users to flexibly go long or short under the USDT pricing system and seize the fluctuations of the stock market. This combination trading experience is currently unique among stock exchanges.

In comparison, where does Gate actually lead?

Currently, mainstream platforms like Binance and OKX are exploring real-world asset tokenization (RWA), but they mostly focus on institutional scenarios such as bonds and funds. Products that truly serve “retail investors” and have a closed-loop trading system are still rare.

The advantages of Gate lie in “product integration” and “user adaptation”:

1. In terms of products, xStocks synchronously supports spot + contracts, with complete functionality.
2. From a technical perspective, the on-chain and off-chain asset scheduling system is efficient and the transactions are stable;
3. At the user level, facing 30 million existing users, the conversion path is shorter;
4. On the market level, it supports cross-chain, borderless transactions, and low-threshold participation, suitable for retail stock investors.

Rather than saying Gate is the platform that “takes the first bite of the crab”, it is better to say that it provides a “viable paradigm for tokenization of stocks” for the entire industry.

From a Product to a Trend: Gate’s Ambition Goes Beyond

In 2025, Gate completed its brand upgrade and unified the use of the Gate.com domain name, making its tokenization strategy increasingly clear. The ecological layout has covered multiple core areas including wallets, venture capital, on-chain strategies, and RWA. Gate is no longer a single trading platform but a “diverse on-chain financial gateway.”

The launch of the xStocks zone appears to be an extension of the product line, but in reality, it is a deepening of its financial logic centered on “connection.” Gate’s founder, Dr. Han, has publicly stated: “We are not here to add a trading category, but to reconstruct the relationship between users and stock assets.”

This transition from product thinking to platform thinking enables Gate to potentially occupy a long-term strategic high ground in the future integration of crypto finance and traditional capital.

Who can truly put “assets” on-chain?

Stocks, gold, bonds, funds… assets in the real world are gradually migrating to on-chain. Whether it’s JPMorgan or BlackRock, they are all experimenting with asset tokenization. Gate’s approach, although not coming from the traditional financial system, is more in line with the actual needs of ordinary investors, providing a way to participate “without the need to change identity or habits.”

xStocks is not just a product iteration of Gate, but a redesign of the investment path for stocks. When more assets begin to take root “on-chain”, whoever can provide a stable channel and closed-loop trading system first will have the opportunity to become a key node in this new market.

Gate has played its hand, how the market will respond, we shall see.