An account invests worldwide! Gate TradFi integrates and launches gold, forex, and stocks

Gate January 14th expands TradFi features, opening trading for gold, forex, indices, commodities, and stock CFDs. USDx is pegged 1:1 with USDT, allowing transfers to trade without currency exchange. Based on the MT5 system, forex and indices offer up to 500x leverage, stocks up to 5x leverage, with fees as low as $0.018. Margin requirements are reduced to 50% for strong liquidation.

How Gate TradFi Uses USDT to Trade Traditional Assets

The crypto asset trading platform Gate continues to expand its TradFi features, offering users traditional financial asset CFD trading services covering gold, forex, indices, commodities, and some popular stocks. This marks Gate’s further extension into the realm of traditional financial asset price trading. Such an expansion strategy is rare among crypto exchanges, which typically focus on digital assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum, but Gate chooses to bridge two financial worlds.

According to reports, Gate TradFi contracts use USDx as the margin and account display unit, pegged 1:1 with USDT. After transferring USDT, users can participate in trading without additional currency exchange or fees. This design is very clever: crypto users often hold large amounts of USDT, and traditionally, trading traditional assets requires converting USDT to fiat and opening accounts with brokers, which is complex and time-consuming. Gate TradFi eliminates this friction, allowing USDT to directly serve as margin, realizing the vision of “one account to trade globally.”

This product follows traditional financial market trading rules, with fixed trading hours. This is a significant difference from 24/7 crypto markets: stock CFDs must follow the opening hours of respective stock exchanges, forex markets are closed on weekends, and commodities like gold and oil have specific trading windows. Gate needs to integrate these complex traditional financial rules into its system, which is a major technical challenge.

Four Core Features of Gate TradFi Products

Leverage Flexibility: Forex and indices up to 500x, gold and commodities with moderate leverage, stock CFDs up to 5x

Ultra-Low Cost: Single trade fees as low as $0.018, far lower than traditional brokers

Hedging Mechanism: Full position margin mode, allowing hedging of long and short positions on the same trading pair

MT5 System: Based on the mature MetaTrader 5 platform, familiar to professional traders

Contract leverage is fixed, with forex and indices supporting up to 500x leverage, and stock CFDs up to 5x. The 500x leverage is an extreme figure, meaning $100 margin can control a $50,000 position, but a 0.2% price movement can trigger liquidation. Such high leverage attracts aggressive traders but carries very high risk. Margin is in full position mode, allowing hedging of long and short positions on the same trading pair.

On the system and risk control side, Gate TradFi provides trading services based on MT5 and employs margin ratio risk control mechanisms. When the account margin ratio drops to 50% or below, forced liquidation is triggered. MT5 (MetaTrader 5) is one of the most popular forex and CFD trading platforms worldwide, with a mature technical architecture and a large user base. Gate’s choice of MT5 over a custom system indicates its desire to attract traditional forex traders into the crypto ecosystem.

The Irreversible Trend of Combining TradFi and DeFi

The integration of TradFi and DeFi has become an irreversible trend. Traditional finance (TradFi) symbolizes a mature banking system, institutional investor networks, and complex regulatory frameworks, while decentralized finance (DeFi) is based on blockchain technology, creating open, transparent, and intermediary-free financial protocols. Over the past few years, the two have been viewed as “parallel universes,” but this pattern is rapidly changing.

By 2025, as digital assets gradually evolve from speculative tools to institutional-grade strategic assets, innovations like Bitcoin ETFs, regulated stablecoins, and asset tokenization are being implemented. 88% of banks have invested in some form of blockchain service, showing that TradFi is actively embracing core DeFi technologies. Industry leaders like VanEck’s Nick van Eck emphasize that TradFi and DeFi are not zero-sum competitors but are “converging and integrating.”

Regulated stablecoins are becoming an important bridge between daily payments and the banking system. Through programmable contracts and on-chain clearing, banks and decentralized networks are achieving more efficient collaboration in cross-border payments and real-time settlement. Companies like Chainlink promote standardization of blockchain protocols, reducing data and compliance friction between different systems. These standards are expected to lower the technical barriers for integrating traditional financial systems with DeFi protocols.

By 2025, the total value locked (TVL) in DeFi protocols will remain high, with market size continuing to expand. Regulated assets like XRP and regulated stablecoins will boost institutional investor confidence. Despite overall market volatility, key assets driven by the integration trend—such as tokens linked to real-world assets—show stronger resilience and long-term potential.

From Gate’s perspective, launching TradFi features is a strategic combination of defense and offense. On the defensive side, providing traditional asset trading during crypto bear markets can maintain platform activity and revenue. On the offensive side, Gate TradFi can attract traditional financial traders to the platform and then guide them into crypto assets, expanding the potential user base.