The Background of Gate Stocks and the Era of Multi-Asset Trading

Growing Demand for Global Asset Allocation

In the past, investors who wanted to participate in both the cryptocurrency and US stock markets typically needed to open separate crypto trading accounts and overseas securities accounts, as well as complete fund transfers between different platforms.

This process often involves:

• Managing multiple platforms

• Handling cross-border funds

• USD conversion procedures

• Operating different account systems

For many users, the real challenge is not the investment itself, but the various preparatory steps required before entering the market.

As stablecoins have gradually become an important settlement tool in the digital asset market, the industry has started to consider a new question: Is it possible to directly use stablecoins for global financial asset allocation?

What Are Gate Stocks

Gate Stocks is Gate's traditional financial stock trading service. Users can directly use USDT on the Gate platform to trade US stocks and ETFs without opening separate accounts with overseas brokers or handling their own USD conversions.

With a unified account system, users can access:

• Crypto assets

• US stocks

• ETF products

all on one platform, further lowering barriers to cross-market investing.

How Gate Stocks Differs from Stock Tokenization

In recent years, there has been intense discussion about stock tokenization and RWA-mapped assets. However, Gate Stocks and stock tokenization products represent two different models.

Stock tokenization typically involves third-party institutions issuing token assets pegged to real stocks. Users trade on-chain mapped tokens, with asset quantity and liquidity often affected by the scale of token issuance. Gate Stocks, on the other hand, provides real stock trading services, allowing users to buy and sell US stocks in the actual market—not trade on-chain mapped tokens. Therefore, Gate Stocks emphasizes market access capabilities and compliant trading systems rather than token issuance logic.

From Digital Asset Trading to a Multi-Asset Ecosystem

The launch of Gate Stocks signifies that the platform is further bridging the gap between digital assets and traditional financial markets. For users who have long used stablecoins for asset management, USDT's application scenarios are now expanding from digital asset trading to global stock asset allocation. In the future, platform development will focus on building a unified trading and asset allocation system around crypto assets, stocks, and more global financial products.