Bitget launched 36 tokenized stocks and ETFs on Tuesday, letting users collect dividends in USDT rather than traditional currency. Apple, Tesla, NVIDIA, and Microsoft are among the equities now tradable through the crypto exchange’s upgraded platform.
The move marks the second major iteration of Bitget’s tokenized stock offering.
Called Stocks 2.0, the product connects users to real equity market liquidity whilst keeping everything denominated in stablecoins. Cash dividends get converted to USDT and dropped into account balances. Stock dividends, splits, and reverse splits get reflected in token positions automatically, maintaining alignment with the underlying shares.
Bitget processed more than $1 billion in cumulative tokenized stock spot volume by January 2026. The platform also captured roughly 89% of all trading volume for Ondo-issued tokenized stocks in December 2025, according to company figures.
The upgraded system does more than replicate stock ownership. Eligible tokens can now plug into Bitget’s unified margin account, spot grid tools, futures grid strategies, copy trading functions, and select yield products. That integration gives traders ways to leverage equity exposure across the platform’s broader ecosystem—something traditional brokers don’t offer.
“Tokenized equities are the bridge crypto is building between global markets,” said Gracy Chen, CEO at Bitget. “By 2030, we could see over 10% of global financial assets to be tokenized, which will be fueled by platforms built by access, depth, and compliance. As of today, we have successfully shipped the requirements being built for that future.”
The tokens themselves are issued by Reality, described as a licensed real-world asset issuance platform backed by Bitget’s infrastructure. Reality handles compliance and asset mapping whilst Bitget provides trading access, liquidity, and custody within its exchange environment.
Fees sit at 0.1% as a base rate. Maker and taker fees drop to 0.05% for users holding BGB, Bitget’s native token. The exchange claims those rates undercut existing competitors in the tokenized equity space, though specific rival pricing wasn’t disclosed.
Bitget’s stock futures product had already crossed $10 billion in cumulative trading volume before this launch, positioning the exchange as an early mover in what it calls the Universal Exchange model—a single platform spanning crypto, equities, commodities, foreign exchange, and precious metals.
The first batch of Stocks 2.0 assets includes major tech names—Amazon, Meta, Alphabet—alongside the QQQ ETF, which tracks the Nasdaq 100. Availability depends on user jurisdiction and eligibility requirements that vary by region. Bitget operates across 150 countries, though regulatory restrictions apply in several markets.
What’s less clear is how traditional finance will respond. Tokenized equities occupy a grey zone between securities regulation and crypto oversight, with different jurisdictions taking vastly different approaches. Reality’s licensing provides one layer of compliance, but the structure hasn’t been tested at scale across all regions where Bitget operates.
The exchange serves over 125 million users and lists more than 2 million crypto tokens alongside its growing tokenized asset catalogue. Partnerships with LALIGA and MotoGP have pushed the brand into mainstream sports, whilst a collaboration with UNICEF targets blockchain education for 1.1 million people by 2027.
Bitget’s stock futures launched well before competitors moved into tokenized equities. That head start translated into the dominant market share it now holds in Ondo-issued stock tokens—a figure that suggests limited competition in the space so far.
Still, the $1 billion milestone remains modest when measured against traditional equity markets. For context, daily trading volume on the New York Stock Exchange alone regularly exceeds $100 billion. Tokenized stocks remain a niche product, even as exchanges like Bitget build infrastructure around them.
The 2030 projection Chen cited—10% of global financial assets tokenized—would require massive regulatory clarity, institutional adoption, and technological standardisation that doesn’t yet exist. Whether platforms can deliver the “access, depth, and compliance” she mentioned will determine if that timeline holds.
For now, the 36 stocks represent a concrete expansion. Users in eligible jurisdictions can buy fractional shares of Apple or Tesla using stablecoins, collect dividends without touching traditional banking rails, and deploy those holdings across margin and strategy tools designed for crypto natives.
The question is whether that’s enough to pull traditional equity traders into crypto exchanges, or if it remains a feature for existing crypto users looking to diversify. By year-end, trading volume data should provide an answer.
