The latest upgrade to Gate gStocks really surprised me.

There are already more than 58 types of tokenized securities, supported by 1:1 native stock reserves. They’re tradable 24/7, and you can get started with as little as 1 USDT.
Then your holdings can also be directly used as collateral to borrow crypto, deposited into a unified account in YubiBao, and you can go long or short. If you meet the requirements, it can also automatically collect dividends.
Before, when you held stocks yourself, you basically just had to wait for price gains or losses. Now, the same asset price exposure still exists, but you can also rotate capital, manage it, and bundle it—basically, stocks finally have crypto-style composability.
Efficiency has improved, but so has the risk. Borrowed crypto comes with interest, leverage carries liquidation risk, and tokenized securities are not the same as holding equity directly in a broker account. In short, no matter how many tools there are, in the end it still depends on whether you can control your position size and keep within the boundaries.