Author: Deep Tide TechFlow

Introduction

For today's CEX, lacking actions in TradFi already means falling behind.

This is not alarmism.

Under the influence of macro interest rates, geopolitical conflicts, and risk aversion, assets like gold, US stocks, crude oil, forex, and indices, which used to belong more to the traditional financial context, are increasingly entering traders' horizons.

Attention has shifted, but what users face is still a high-friction trading system:

US stocks with brokers, gold in precious metal platforms, forex with FX brokers, Crypto in exchanges… every institution has its own time, region, and cost restrictions, and each asset class has its own account systems, settlement rules, and access thresholds.

Turning attention to the crypto world, although there is 7×24 liquidity, challenges such as currency exchange, deposits and withdrawals, and cross-chain still need to be overcome.

Behind the troubles are real time and capital cost consumption. Traders increasingly need a "comprehensive" platform.

For CEXs that have already realized that "a single Crypto narrative is difficult to continuously attract users," becoming this platform is equivalent to seizing the next stage of growth.

Therefore, we can see that almost all familiar CEX names, including Binance and Kaken, have already taken action towards TradFi.

The track is crowded, which means standing out needs real skill. But many still noticed Gate TradFi's "breakout":

On June 1, 2026, Gate announced the launch of Gate Stocks real stock trading service, connecting with compliance broker AIpaca, allowing users to directly trade over 10,000 stocks and ETF assets on the platform using USDT, with a minimum investment starting from 0.01 shares, and the service currently supports 16×5 trading hours (including pre-market and after-hours), further bridging the crypto market and traditional financial market channels.

△ Source: Twitter @Gate_zh

According to official data, Gate TradFi CFD's daily trading volume has exceeded $30 billion at its peak.

With continuous improvement in product capabilities + high trading activity, what kind of global asset market complete entrance is Gate TradFi reconstructing?

This starts with Gate's support for over 10,000 TradFi assets.

Part 1 From US Stocks to Gold: Ordinary Users and Professional Teams are All Playing

Currently, Gate TradFi mainly includes stock trading, CFD, perpetual contracts, spot, Pre-IPOs, and ETF segments, forming coverage of multiple strategies such as short-term speculation, long-term allocation, and early opportunities, allowing users with different risk preferences and investment cycles to find corresponding ways to trade global targets within this system.

Gate Stocks Stock Trading Zone

The most discussed topic in the community recently is the stock trading section that just launched this week.

US stocks are troublesome? Gate says it's not the case.

In Gate stock trading, users can directly use USDT for stock trading, with a minimum investment starting from 0.01 shares, allowing even small amounts to enter the market. Dividends are automatically calculated and distributed, simplifying operations for easy participation in US stocks.

Not enough targets? Gate provides over 10,000 stocks and ETF asset choices all at once.

Covering mainstream US securities markets such as NYSE, NASDAQ, NYSE Arca, NYSE American, BATS, etc., providing users with richer global securities asset allocation options. Gate's real stock trading service chooses Alpaca as its infrastructure partner. Alpaca has a compliant self-clearing broker system, an API-first technology architecture, and rich experience in the global financial platform service field, responsible for order execution, clearing, settlement, and asset custody, while also supporting services such as dividend distribution and corporate action handling.

In terms of fees, compared to traditional internet brokers with about $1.99 fees for $1,000 transactions, Gate stocks charge a base rate of 0.1% based on transaction amount, with no minimum fee per transaction, no funding fees, no overnight fees, and Gate stocks share a VIP rate system with Gate spot, with VIP level discounts allowing minimum trading rates to drop to 0.023%.

It should be noted that the stock trading service launched by Gate, in addition to intra-day trading, supports pre-market and after-hours trading, extending trading hours to 16×5, and the official states that 7×24 round-the-clock trading is on the way.

△ Source: Gate

Gate TradFi CFD

CFD is one of the absolute cores of Gate TradFi, currently Gate has launched over 440 types of TradFi CFD contracts, including:

• Forex: Major currency pairs and emerging market currency pairs
• Precious metals: Gold, silver, platinum, palladium, etc.
• Stock indices: NAS100, SPX500, US30, HK50, UK100, JPN225, and other mainstream global indices
• Commodities: WTI/Brent crude oil, etc.
• Individual stocks CFD: US stocks, Hong Kong stocks, and Chinese concept stocks

Meanwhile, Gate TradFi runs an efficient responsive new listing mechanism, maintaining an expansion rate of 10 – 20 each day, ensuring where user attention flows, asset coverage follows, continuously expanding coverage breadth advantages.

Of course, just bringing assets in is not enough to keep users on a trading platform long-term.

If 10,000+ assets represent Gate's TradFi承接 capability, then trading-related leverage, tools, and costs test the platform's financial service capabilities, determining whether a user is willing to take this as the main battlefield for trading investment.

For mature traders, leverage settings and directional judgment are equally important.

On one hand, Gate TradFi CFD provides different leverage support for different asset classes, where forex, precious metals, and stock indices can have leverage up to 500x, commodities generally range between 20x–100x, while individual stock CFD is fixed at a maximum of 5x, aligning closer to traditional stock trading rules.

On the other hand, instead of pursuing extreme capital efficiency amplification of "how much leverage can be maximally applied," traders need more flexible control of leverage to achieve finer granularity in risk exposure management.

Therefore, beyond fixed leverage, Gate TradFi CFD innovatively realizes adjustable leverage functionality by launching multiple independent CFD contracts with different leverage multiples for the same underlying asset. Currently, multiple assets including gold, silver, and crude oil on Gate support adjustable multiple leverage. For example, in gold, Gate TradFi CFD offers options such as 20x, 100x, 200x, and a maximum of 500x, providing more flexible position control, more precise risk exposure management, and higher capital utilization efficiency.

It is important to note that at present, Gate TradFi CFD leverage adjustment still belongs to platform preset fixed levels and is not completely user-customizable.

△ Source: Gate TradFi CFD

For professional traders and quantitative teams, Gate TradFi CFD provides multidimensional tool support:

On one hand, Gate TradFi uses MetaTrader 5 as the trading engine, which is one of the most familiar execution environments for global professional traders, supporting 21 time frames and over 38 built-in technical indicators, as well as complete EA automated trading, providing a professional-level trading environment.

On the other hand, Gate has opened a TradFi-specific trading API, supporting order execution, market data acquisition, and account management for assets such as metals, forex, indices, and commodities, suitable for quantitative teams and high-frequency traders to deploy their own strategies, achieving cross-asset algorithm trading, market making, and market-neutral professional models. In addition, according to official data, the minimum transaction cost for Gate TradFi can reach $0.018, plus the fee discount of the Gate VIP system, further fitting high-frequency large traders.

△ Source: Gate Website

In April 2026, Gate also launched CFD/TradFi exclusive Copy Trading, where professional users can share strategies as Lead Traders and receive a share, while ordinary users can act as Followers, copying the positions of high-winning macro traders with one click, without needing to research trends themselves.

RWA, Pre-IPO, and More Play Options

Gate TradFi also supports 70+ tokenized stock spot trading, with cumulative trading volume exceeding $140 billion, and some hot assets have launched perpetual contracts;

The Pre-IPO section has already launched high-heat projects such as SpaceX, providing ordinary users with a new channel to capture potential returns before unicorn companies go public;

ETF direction has also supported related targets such as XAU (gold), XAG (silver), XAUT (Tether Gold), providing users who prefer simplified allocation with more direct exposure.

Of course, beyond this, we can have more expectations for Gate in terms of play options.

It's important to know that Gate is a trading platform serving over 54 million users worldwide.

With years of deep focus on "trading" itself, Gate has developed an understanding of traders' needs, a grasp of the pace of functional iteration, and the ability to make complex financial tools usable, easy to use, and practical.

This foundation brings richer play extensions to Gate TradFi:

It is understood that Gate has gradually launched options, wealth management, Alpha, flash exchanges, copy trading, DEX, quantitative robots, and other functions, constantly pushing the boundary of TradFi play options outward.

Meanwhile, Gate TradFi supports synchronization across Web and App, solving cross-device trading issues, allowing to open positions without limitations on time, place, or device.

As for what further extensions might come, the official has not disclosed more information yet.

But one thing is certain:

This TradFi trading system will continue to grow and enrich.

One account, connects everything

Assets have arrived, the play is rich, and there is still a fundamental issue regarding user experience that needs to be addressed.

Users want to trade globally, the core problem is not the lack of entry, but that there are too many entrances.

Many entrances mean high thresholds, high frictions, and high capital occupation.

Therefore, the first thing Gate does is to merge these scattered small entrances into one large connected entrance, bringing assets originally scattered across brokers, forex platforms, and precious metals markets into one account that users are already familiar with.

This is Gate's unified account function:

With just one master account framework, users can trade US stocks, gold, commodities, indices, ETFs, etc., using USDT, without needing to open accounts with traditional brokers separately, avoid experiencing complex KYC multiple times, nor prepare multiple costly capital thresholds for different platforms.

No longer multiple assets, multiple accounts, but one account supporting all, truly lowering the threshold for global asset allocation.

△ Source: Gate Website

A Continuous Race of Speed and Endurance

Returning to the beginning of the article: CEXs without TradFi product lines have already fallen behind.

But "everyone is doing it" does not mean "everyone is doing the same."

For a long time, the CEX track has shown a pattern of "one leading, many strong."

Perhaps we can see Gate's differentiated strategy and position more clearly from this pattern.

The "leading" Binance's TradFi, relying on Binance's unshakeable size advantage, vast user base, ample liquidity, and top-notch market maker resources, brings depth to the trading of every listed asset.

This is the approach of the CEX elder brother.

In the "many strong" echelon, Gate chooses to focus on CFDs and stocks.

This choice partly stems from the unique advantages of the CFD model:

CFD only requires settlement based on price differences, involving neither actual asset holding nor delivery, and this model is a mature product form widely adopted by global traditional brokers, with clear regulatory frameworks in many jurisdictions, thus being closer to traditional traders' habits and having clearer compliance paths.

On the other hand, the stock market is currently one of the most关注金融领域的市场 for global investors, especially US stocks. Focusing on the stock market will create a dual-drive of flow and RWA narratives.

At this time, some people may have new questions:

Most CEXs in the "many strong" camp have chosen the path of CFD + stocks.

Under these circumstances, Gate's breakthrough bets on responsiveness and functional innovation.

On one hand, striving to "win by speed," rapidly expanding asset coverage, ensuring that the coverage area keeps pace with user demands while quickly broadening tools and play options to ensure users have new things to explore within Gate's TradFi system;

On the other hand, developing differentiated functions based on traders' real needs, such as the widely discussed multiplier leverage adjustable function and the launch of Gate stocks, allowing users to allocate real stock assets, effectively addressing the core pain point of multi-asset allocation;

△ Source: Internet

The logic is clear: expand assets, enhance play, seize mindshare.

In the window period where users have not formed absolute loyalty, in a time when every CEX wants to become the platform for global asset trading, this is a continuous race of speed and endurance.

Conclusion

Of course, who has a better chance of reaching the finish line still has no answer.

But in the early stages of this race, the threshold for "global asset allocation" has already dropped.

In the past, there were too many assets, too many scattered entrances, making asset allocation choices seem like mere decoration;

Now, whether professional traders or ordinary users can open an account on Gate TradFi, trading over 10,000 assets like gold, US stocks, forex, crude oil, etc., all under one margin system.

Moreover, the effectiveness of this system has already seen a daily trading volume of $30 billion as a testament.

As trader users, with the further rise of TradFi and the continuous efforts of various trading platforms, we enjoy the results and welcome competition, while also looking forward to witnessing the continually lowering threshold of "trading globally."