Cumulative buying and selling quantity for Bitget’s inventory futures contracts has reached $5 billion, the corporate introduced yesterday (Tuesday), simply 4 months after the product line’s launch in July and a five-fold improve from the $1 billion recorded in early November.
In line with the corporate’s statistics, the buying and selling quantity of the cryptocurrency alternate exceeded $3 billion per week in the past. MicroStrategy futures led the commerce with $1.4 billion in trades, adopted by Tesla with $1 billion and Apple with $472 million.
Tokenized inventory buying and selling exercise displays know-how rally
The surge in quantity follows positive aspects within the U.S. inventory market, the place third-quarter outcomes and renewed curiosity in synthetic intelligence shares pushed main indexes increased. Bitget at present lists over 30 USDT margin perpetual futures associated to US shares, providing as much as 25x leverage and 0.0065 p.c commissions.
The alternate has launched a brief price discount of 90 p.c on all inventory futures pairs till January thirty first. The platform went stay with 25 equity-linked derivatives in July and has been steadily including contracts since then.
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“This rapidly exceeds $5 billion and exhibits that merchants are adopting tokenized inventory futures as a part of their buying and selling methods, moderately than simply taking part in round with them,” stated Bigget CEO Gracie Chen.
The corporate has 120 million customers worldwide and positions itself as a “common alternate” that bridges crypto-native merchandise and conventional monetary markets below a unified account construction.
Enlargement into Europe with Ondo integration
Development in Bitget’s inventory futures comes because the platform expands its tokenized inventory providing via its partnership with Ondo World Markets. The US-based tokenization firm this week acquired regulatory approval from the Liechtenstein Monetary Markets Authority to supply tokenized shares and ETFs throughout the European Union and European Financial Space.
Liechtenstein has adopted a cryptocurrency market framework although it isn’t an EU member state. This authorization will allow Ondo to serve retail traders in 30 international locations, together with all 27 EU international locations, plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
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Bitget built-in with Ondo Finance in September, giving customers outdoors the US entry to over 100 tokenized shares and ETFs with a minimal buy of $1. These corporations had been among the many first to supply tokenized inventory buying and selling at scale to a retail base outdoors of america.
Aggressive pressures improve with tokenized shares
Different crypto platforms have additionally moved to equity-linked merchandise this 12 months. Robinhood has partnered with Bitpanda to provide European clients 24/7 entry to fractional buying and selling in U.S. shares, whereas Kraken and Coinbase have been exploring related providers via regulated channels.
The tokenized inventory market stays small, with a market capitalization of roughly $424 million as of mid-2025, however development projections recommend speedy enlargement sooner or later. Ondo manages over $1 billion in tokenized property and its merchandise are constructed via a regulated custodian and a authorized framework removed from chapter.
Bitget inventory futures contracts are completely different from straight tokenized shares. Derivatives are settled in USDT and function 24 hours a day, 5 days per week, matching conventional inventory market enterprise hours, however with cryptocurrency-style steady buying and selling and stablecoin settlement.
Tesla futures generated $380 million in quantity inside the first month of launch, adopted by MicroStrategy with $262 million and Apple with $87 million, in accordance with the corporate’s November information.
