Gate and Alpaca have entered into a strategic partnership to jointly expand their global real-money stock trading services for users.

Gate has announced a strategic partnership with Alpaca to provide eligible users with real stock trading services, marking an important step in the convergence of digital assets and traditional finance.

Product & Features: Users can trade over 10,000 US stocks and ETFs (covering NYSE and Nasdaq) directly using USDT through a unified account, with fractional share trading starting at $1, enabling seamless connection between crypto and equities.
Strategic Significance: This service is a key move in Gate’s evolution into a multi-asset financial platform, lowering barriers to global investment and offering one-stop cross-market allocation. Gate already serves 54 million users and offers a broad range of TradFi products.
Partnership: Alpaca, as a compliant self-clearing broker, provides essential infrastructure including order execution, clearing, settlement, and asset custody, ensuring secure and smooth trading.
Outlook: Gate will continue to bridge crypto and traditional markets, driving product innovation and inclusive global financial services.

Gate has announced a strategic partnership with Alpaca to further open up real-money stock trading services to eligible users. This collaboration marks a significant milestone for Gate in its ongoing efforts to integrate digital assets with traditional financial markets and create a unified multi-asset trading ecosystem.

Through this partnership, Gate users will be able to trade over 10,000 stocks and ETFs covering major U.S. securities markets, including those listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and Nasdaq, and will support fractional share trading with a minimum investment of $1. Leveraging Gate's unified account system, users can directly trade stocks and ETFs using USDT, achieving a more seamless connection between digital assets and traditional financial markets.

Accelerating the connection between digital assets and global capital markets

Founded in 2013, Gate is one of the world's leading digital asset and integrated financial services platforms, currently serving over 54 million users globally. The launch of its stock trading service reflects Gate's long-term strategic direction of building a unified multi-asset trading platform, further promoting the deep integration of digital assets and traditional financial markets.

In the traditional model, investors entering the global stock market often need to open separate brokerage accounts, complete cumbersome registration processes, and manage funds and assets on different platforms separately. By integrating digital assets with traditional financial products, Gate is continuously creating a more efficient and convenient one-stop global investment experience.

To further lower the barriers to entry for users participating in the global financial market, Gate is evolving from a digital asset trading platform into a comprehensive multi-asset financial platform. The upcoming stock trading service marks a significant step forward for Gate in building a unified multi-asset platform, enabling users to more easily participate in and allocate diversified assets through a unified platform and account system.

Gate's stock trading service leverages a compliant and regulated market infrastructure to provide users with the ability to trade real stocks and ETFs, enabling them to participate in traditional financial market investments within a familiar, crypto-native experience.

Leveraging Alpaca's brokerage infrastructure to expand real stock trading capabilities

Gate selected Alpaca as its infrastructure partner primarily based on Alpaca's compliant self-clearing brokerage system, API-first technical architecture, and extensive experience in global financial platform services. As a clearing brokerage partner, Alpaca will be responsible for core processes such as order execution, clearing, settlement, and asset custody, while also supporting services such as dividend distribution and corporate action processing.

This partnership will help Gate efficiently expand its stock trading capabilities while maintaining a smooth user experience. Leveraging Alpaca's brokerage infrastructure, Gate can offer eligible users a wide range of trading services for US-listed stocks and ETFs, further solidifying its market position as a multi-asset trading platform.

Jointly promote the inclusive development of financial services

Gate Founder and CEO Dr. Han stated that the financial system is moving towards greater integration and interconnectivity. As the connection between digital assets and traditional financial markets strengthens, user demand for efficient access to diversified investment opportunities continues to grow. Through its partnership with Alpaca, Gate will further advance this vision, providing users with seamless access to real-world stock market investments while maintaining the convenience and efficiency inherent in digital asset platforms. We believe that multi-asset investment gateways will become a crucial component of the next generation of global financial services.

Alpaca co-founder and CEO Yoshi Yokokawa stated that Alpaca's mission is to make financial services more accessible to everyone globally through modern infrastructure. We are delighted to partner with Gate to support its expansion of US stock market investment services and its continued development of a comprehensive financial ecosystem for global users. Together, we will create a more interconnected and efficient global investment experience.

Deepen multi-asset portfolio and connect crypto with global capital markets

The partnership with Alpaca is a key component of Gate's multi-asset strategy and further strengthens its vision of a unified platform connecting digital assets and traditional financial markets. In addition to supporting over 10,000 equity assets, Gate has been continuously expanding its TradeFi product portfolio in recent years, extending its business to multiple sectors including stocks, indices, metals, commodities, and forex, creating more cross-market investment and asset diversification opportunities for users.

In response to the growing integration of the crypto industry with traditional finance, Gate will continue to promote market openness and product innovation, improve capital allocation efficiency, and continuously optimize users' multi-asset investment experience, helping global users participate in the global financial market more conveniently.

About Gate

Founded in 2013 by Dr. Han, Gate is one of the world's leading cryptocurrency and integrated financial services platforms. With over 54 million users, the platform supports trading in over 4,700 crypto assets and over 10,000 stock assets, comprehensively covering TradeFi assets such as metals, stocks, indices, forex, and commodities, providing users with a one-stop, multi-asset trading experience. As an industry benchmark, Gate was the first to achieve 100% proof of reserves and encompasses a diversified product and ecosystem including Gate Wallet, Gate Ventures, and Gate for AI Agent.

About Alpaca

Alpaca is a US-based self-clearing brokerage and a leading global provider of brokerage infrastructure API services, offering trading access for both traditional financial assets and on-chain assets. Currently, Alpaca supports hundreds of fintech companies and institutions in over 40 countries and regions worldwide, covering more than 10 million securities accounts, and has raised over $320 million in funding. For more information, please visit alpaca.markets.

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