#GatePartnersWithAlpacaToBridgeCryptoAndStocks

Gate and Alpaca Strategic Partnership: Bridging Digital Assets and Traditional Markets

Gate is proud to announce a landmark strategic partnership with Alpaca, a leading brokerage infrastructure provider, marking a significant milestone in our mission to create a unified multi-asset trading platform. This collaboration enables eligible Gate users to access real U.S. stock and ETF trading directly through the Gate platform, representing a major step toward bridging the gap between cryptocurrency and traditional financial markets.

Through this partnership, Gate users will gain access to over 10,000 U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs across major securities markets including the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq. The integration allows users to trade traditional equities using USDT, creating a seamless experience that eliminates the friction typically associated with moving between digital and traditional asset classes. This development reflects Gate's long-term vision of building a comprehensive financial ecosystem that serves diverse investment needs.

The collaboration with Alpaca leverages their robust brokerage infrastructure to provide regulated market access while maintaining the intuitive user experience that Gate customers expect. By combining Alpaca's expertise in traditional market infrastructure with Gate's strengths in digital asset trading, we have created a solution that lowers barriers to global investment and enables true portfolio diversification within a single platform.

This initiative aligns with broader industry trends toward convergence between digital and traditional finance. As financial markets evolve, investors increasingly seek unified platforms that eliminate the need to maintain separate accounts across multiple providers. Gate's multi-asset approach addresses this demand by offering stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies within one cohesive ecosystem, simplifying portfolio management and reducing operational complexity.

The stock trading feature represents Gate's evolution from a digital asset exchange to a comprehensive multi-asset financial platform. Users can now construct diversified portfolios that include both growth-oriented technology stocks and established blue-chip companies alongside their cryptocurrency holdings. This capability enables sophisticated asset allocation strategies that were previously difficult to execute across fragmented platforms.

Alpaca's API-first infrastructure ensures that the integration delivers institutional-grade reliability and execution quality. Users benefit from real-time market data, competitive pricing, and the security standards expected in regulated securities trading. The partnership maintains Gate's commitment to providing professional-grade tools while expanding accessibility to traditional markets for our global user base.

We believe this partnership fundamentally transforms what users can expect from a trading platform. By removing the artificial barriers between digital and traditional assets, Gate empowers investors to pursue opportunities wherever they exist in the global financial landscape. This is the future of finance unified, accessible, and designed for the modern investor who recognizes value across all asset classes.