The Charging Bull of Wall Street symbolizes a century-old financial order, while the decentralized network built by code represents a disruptive imagination of the future. However, the wheels of history never stop turning; when the horn of integration sounds, a bridge connecting two great worlds is born. In July 2025, Gate.com shockingly launched the xStocks stock trading section. This event is far from a simple product iteration; it is more like a “wormhole” opened between two financial universes, heralding the arrival of a new era of capital flowing without borders and marking a critical move in Gate’s grand blueprint for building the next generation of financial infrastructure.

Breaking the dimensional wall: From “out of reach” to “one-click access” in the inclusive revolution.

For the vast majority of investors, participating in the stock market—this capital center with the highest liquidity and the most diverse assets—has always been a journey filled with obstacles. The complex account opening process, high cross-border remittance costs, and restrictions on non-24/7 trading together form an invisible “financial Berlin Wall,” keeping countless potential participants at bay. The birth of Gate xStocks has a core mission to systematically dismantle this high wall.

The compliant physical asset tokenization (RWA - Real World Asset Tokenization) model adopted by Gate is the technological cornerstone of this revolution. Each unit of xStocks, whether NVDAX (NVIDIA) or TSLAX (Tesla), is backed by real stocks traded on the public market as full collateral. This means that what users trade is no longer an illusory symbol, but a blockchain certificate backed by real value. The brilliance of this model lies in its perfect combination of the “ownership” of traditional financial assets with the “liquidity” of the crypto world. Users no longer need to navigate the lengthy bureaucratic processes of traditional brokers, but can simply hold mainstream crypto assets like USDT to buy, sell, or hold these top companies’ “digital shares” on the Gate platform with one click.

Behind this is a profound paradigm shift. Traditional financial services are centered around “region” and “identity,” while Gate xStocks has constructed a new system centered on “assets” and “networks.” It completely bypasses the barriers of fiat currency settlement, using cryptocurrency as a unified medium of value, achieving truly “borderless transactions.” A young investor in Southeast Asia can participate in the market without distinction alongside a senior trader from South America, at the same time, with the same depth, and at the same price. Features such as 24/7 trading and support for fractional share investing have further elevated the flexibility of investment to unprecedented heights, allowing the efficiency of capital utilization to no longer be constrained by the opening bell of Wall Street. This is not only a victory of technology but also a radical practice of the concept of financial inclusion, turning the slogan “everyone can equally access financial opportunities” into an attainable reality.

From Imitation to Transcendence: The Profound Significance of Pioneering the Stock Contract Market

If xStocks’ spot trading is a “one-to-one replica” and “channel optimization” of the traditional market, then the concurrently launched stock contract market represents Gate’s “independent evolution” and “bold transcendence” in financial product innovation. As the first trading platform to launch tokenized stock contracts, Gate not only fills a market gap but also opens up a new territory for the entire encryption derivatives world.

Spot trading addresses the problem of “ownership,” while contract (futures) trading solves the issues of “risk management” and “strategy diversity.” In traditional understanding, going long or short on stocks, using leverage to amplify profits, is the domain of professional institutions and a few high-end investors. Gate’s stock contract market has “democratized” this powerful financial tool. Users can conduct long and short operations on popular assets like AAPLX and NVDAX within a unified USDT pricing and margin system. This means that regardless of whether the market is bullish or bearish, investors have the opportunity to profit from price fluctuations. For users accustomed to high-frequency, leveraged trading in the encryption market, this is a transition with almost zero barriers; for professional quantitative teams and arbitrageurs, a completely new arena with potential price differentials and volatility differences compared to traditional markets has thus emerged.

Behind this initiative is Gate’s profound accumulation in the field of trading technology. Carrying a high-frequency derivatives market that integrates the characteristics of two types of assets is no easy task. The platform must undergo comprehensive optimization and restructuring in the response speed of the matching engine, the fairness of the price discovery mechanism, the depth of liquidity, and the risk management system under extreme market conditions. Gate has tailored a highly compatible trading system to accommodate the characteristics of tokenized stocks, ensuring that users can enjoy a smooth, stable, and secure experience whether they are engaged in value investing in spot trading or trend trading in contracts. This is not only a victory for product functionality but also a concentrated reflection of the underlying technological architecture’s strength, serving as evidence of Gate’s evolution from a simple “exchange” to a “comprehensive financial technology platform.”

Connecting the Future: Gate’s Conspiracy and the Endgame of Finance

In examining Gate’s initiative to launch xStocks, we must place it within a larger strategic context. This is not an isolated product line expansion, but rather a concrete realization of its long-term strategic vision of “linking traditional and future finance.” The words of Gate’s founder and CEO Dr. Han, who stated that it aims to “fundamentally reconstruct the relationship between users and assets,” reveal the core of this transformation—Gate aims to become the indispensable “connector” in the future financial system.

At this time node in 2025, Gate has completed its brand upgrade, unified its domain name, and established its leading position in the field of encryption financial infrastructure with strong capabilities, ranking second in spot trading volume and consistently among the top five in the contract market. On this basis, Gate’s “yangmou” is clear: leveraging its massive user base, deep liquidity, and leading technical architecture to build an underlying protocol and trading market that can facilitate the free flow of various valuable assets (whether native digital assets or traditional tokenized assets). xStocks is just the first step; in the future, more traditional assets such as bonds, funds, bulk commodities, and even real estate could potentially be “activated” in a similar manner, entering this 7x24 hour operating value network.

This paints an exciting picture of the future of finance. In this picture, the form of assets is no longer important; what matters is their intrinsic value and liquidity. The exchange and allocation between different assets will be as simple and efficient as sending an email. The flow of capital is no longer restricted by geopolitical barriers and the inefficiencies of traditional financial institutions, but truly realizes decentralization, immediacy, and intelligence. Gate is paving the way for this ultimate goal; it is not only providing trading services but also defining the standards and rules of the next generation of financial markets.

Of course, the road to the future is never smooth. Regulatory compliance of tokenized assets, custodial security of underlying assets, and how to ensure the rigid redemption of on-chain certificates against physical assets in extreme market conditions are challenges that Gate and the entire industry need to continuously face and solve. However, just as every industrial revolution is accompanied by great controversy and risk, so too is the paradigm shift in the financial sector. The launch of Gate xStocks is like the starting gun; it not only locks in a new growth engine for its future development but also presents a bold and imaginative forward-looking answer to the entire industry on the grand proposition of ‘the integration of decentralized financial infrastructure and traditional capital markets.’ History will remember that in the summer of 2025, a financial bridge connecting the past and the future has quietly risen.

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