The crypto exchange Bitget recently announced that trading of its US stock-linked perpetual futures has now passed the $5 billion mark in cumulative volume, a milestone that underlines how rapidly investors are embracing tokenized equities.
Bitget’s CEO, Gracy Chen, said that most of the activity is concentrated on stocks like MicroStrategy (MSTR), Tesla (TSLA) and Apple (AAPL), which “already dominate social finance conversations.”
She explained that the platform now offers “30+ USDT-margined stock perpetuals with up to 25× leverage and promotional fees as low as 0.0065% (limited-time 90% fee reduction across all stock futures).”
Users can fund their accounts in USDT and trade cryptocurrencies such as BTC, ETH, or SOL alongside stock-linked instruments like AAPL, TSLA, NVDA, or MSTR, all without needing a second brokerage account.
Further, Bitget has expanded beyond individual stocks to include index-style contracts, making it possible for traders to get “one-tap exposure” to broader market or tech baskets.
This surge reflects a growing trend where tokenized equities and derivatives blur the line between traditional capital markets and crypto, potentially increasing cross-market liquidity. Such convergence could mean more global capital flow into stock-linked crypto products, influencing price dynamics and risk distribution across both crypto and traditional financial systems.
