One of the ways the convergence of digital assets and traditional finance is happening is through tokenization, enabling US securities to move onchain and reshaping how investors can access global markets.1
Gate, a global cryptocurrency and integrated financial services platform serving more than 6058 million users, aims to meet this growing demand by offering a more comprehensive investment experience between onchain and traditional markets.
We recently spoke with Dr. Han, Founder and CEO of Gate, to better understand how Gate is bringing these asset classes together with the launch of US stocks and ETFs, IPO allocations, and tokenized stocks, with the underlying infrastructure powered by Alpaca.
Building Beyond Digital Asset Trading
Founded in 2013, Gate was established in the early days of the digital asset industry, when the immediate problem was providing people with a secure, transparent place to hold and trade digital assets. That first priority, building a platform users could trust, shaped how the company grew.
As the industry matured and customer needs evolved, the scope widened well beyond trading. Gate expanded into wealth management, payments, Web3, and artificial intelligence, building toward a multi-asset financial ecosystem.
"We believe the future of investing is not about choosing between digital assets and traditional finance, but about bringing them together through a more open and connected financial ecosystem," said Dr. Han. “We’re committed to breaking down barriers and enabling seamless multi-asset investing.”
Bridging Digital Assets and Traditional Finance for Global Investors
While investors would like exposure to both digital assets and traditional financial products, for most, a single portfolio still lives in two places, with digital assets in one account and equities behind a separate brokerage relationship, opened separately and held under a different regulator.2 That split carries practical costs and adds complexity at every step, from funding to reporting, and restricts access to global markets, as investors in many regions find US equities and IPOs difficult to reach through the accounts they already have.2,3
Crypto-native platforms are unusually well placed to close that gap. They already hold the funded account, the customer relationship, and the daily trading habit. What they have not historically provided is regulated access to US equity markets.
Through its partnership with Alpaca, Gate is addressing this from a single platform. Gate customers can now:
- Access more than 10,000 US-listed stocks and ETFs through Gate Stocks
- Access IPO allocations for eligible US IPOs
- Access tokenized US equities (gStocks) with the underlying shares held in custody through Alpaca's infrastructure
- Manage digital assets and traditional market exposure through a unified platform
Each product answers a different need. Gate Stocks covers direct exposure to US companies and broad-market ETFs. IPO access allows customers to access allocations in eligible new listings. And gStocks extends equity exposure onto onchain rails for customers who prefer to hold tokenized assets alongside their broader digital asset portfolio.
“Our goal is not simply to add more products, but to make global investing more accessible by enabling users to participate in multiple markets,” added Dr. Han. "Alpaca's infrastructure helps us broaden access to US markets, bring multiple asset classes together within the Gate ecosystem, and give our customers a more seamless way to manage their investments."
Powering Multi-Asset Expansion Through Alpaca
Gate chose Alpaca as its infrastructure partner because of a shared vision for the future of finance, our brokerage infrastructure and API, and a mutual commitment to delivering a reliable investment experience for customers.
Rather than going to separate providers for equities, IPO access, and tokenized assets, we enabled Gate to build all three on a single brokerage infrastructure layer, while handling custody and settlement of the underlying shares.
“With strong expertise in trading infrastructure, API technology, and financial services, Alpaca is a key infrastructure partner for this launch, and we highly value the long-term relationship we are building together. Both teams share a commitment to delivering a simpler, more efficient investment experience for users,” said Dr. Han.
"When a platform like Gate moves into traditional markets, it needs a regulated broker-dealer relationship, an API that fits the product it has already built, and custody and settlement handled end to end, at a scale that supports millions of accounts from day one," said Yoshi Yokokawa, Co-founder and CEO of Alpaca. "Meeting all of that at once is the hard part, and it is why a growing number of crypto-native platforms are expanding into US markets with Alpaca."
Exploring AI-Powered Investing and Agentic Trading
Beyond US equities, Gate and Alpaca have aligned on a shared vision for agentic trading, in which AI and trading infrastructure work together rather than sit in separate systems.
Gate views AI as a key foundation of future financial services, helping investors analyze markets, manage assets, and make more informed investment decisions. Through Gate AI, the platform aims to connect those capabilities directly to financial infrastructure, so that analysis and execution are part of the same workflow rather than handled in different places.
“Gate AI aims to connect AI capabilities with financial infrastructure, enhancing the investment experience and exploring new possibilities in agentic trading,” explained Dr. Han. “Our goal is to make AI-powered capabilities accessible to a wide range of users, including retail investors, professional traders, and developers.”
Our agent-first brokerage infrastructure is similarly designed for this pattern, exposing brokerage functionality through APIs that both builders and AI agents can leverage.
What’s Next for the Partnership
This launch marks an important milestone in Gate's evolution from a digital-asset trading platform into a multi-asset financial services ecosystem.
For Gate, the measure of success is not the launch itself but whether customers use these products and gain lasting value from them. The near-term focus for the company is on broadening the range of available assets, making portfolio management across asset classes more efficient, and continuing to reduce friction between a customer's digital assets and their traditional market exposure.
Both companies remain open to exploring additional opportunities based on evolving user needs and market developments.
Contact Alpaca
Interested in learning more about Alpaca’s brokerage infrastructure? For prospective partners, please contact Alpaca’s Sales team at [email protected].
For existing partners, please contact your Customer Success Manager (CSM) or email the Success team at [email protected]
References
- The Digital Asset Revolution: Preparing for the Next Generation of Financial Markets, Broadridge, P4, Accessed August 14, 2026
- Tokenized stock trading hits all 724 S&P 500 stocks, no broker needed, Coindesk, August 7, 2026
- SpaceX IPO access now available via xStocks, Kraken, June 5, 2026
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