Gate TradFi Future Outlook: How Will Traditional Finance Redefine Investment When It Meets the Crypto World?

This is a microcosm of the collapsing walls between the crypto assets (CeFi) and traditional finance (TradFi) worlds. According to CoinDesk, decentralized exchange Hyperliquid saw its platform token HYPE surge over 50% in a short period after expanding into tokenized equity indices, individual stocks, and commodities trading, outperforming mainstream cryptocurrencies.

This is not an isolated case but the beginning of a structural integration. As the fourth-largest global exchange by market share, Gate is actively laying out its strategy. Its TradFi zone has quietly gone live, offering users 24/7 trading services across a variety of traditional assets including precious metals, forex, and indices.

Trend Convergence: The Boundaries Between TradFi and CeFi Are Fading

Traditional finance and crypto finance used to be two parallel worlds. But today, the wave of convergence is unstoppable. The core driver of this integration is asset tokenization—the process of converting traditional assets like stocks, bonds, and commodities into digital tokens on the blockchain.

Hyperliquid’s case is highly representative. Originally focused on crypto perpetual contracts, this decentralized exchange successfully integrated stock indices, individual stocks, and commodities through an upgrade. Just three months after the upgrade, its new market’s total trading volume reached an astonishing $25 billion.

This fusion brings about a revolutionary change: 24/7 market continuity. In traditional markets, traders can only react during business hours and specific times. But in the integrated market, the impact of global events is instantly absorbed, and prices can reflect all available information even on weekends or late at night.

Market Validation: Explosive Growth in Tokenizing Traditional Assets

The market is voting with real money for this convergence. Behind the sharp rise of the HYPE token is a clear value logic. When users trade tokenized gold, silver, or stock indices on the platform, transaction fees are generated.

These fees, through an automated token burn mechanism, directly influence the value of the platform’s token. Reports indicate that Hyperliquid can allocate up to 97% of its fee income for buybacks and burning of HYPE, creating strong deflationary pressure and value support.

The success of this model is backed by solid data. During periods of sharp gold and silver price fluctuations, a single trading pair—silver against USDC—on Hyperliquid saw over $1 billion in trading volume within 24 hours. This massive trading activity translates into continuous fee income, which, through the deflationary mechanism, ultimately strengthens the entire ecosystem’s value foundation.

Gate’s Strategy: Building a One-Stop TradFi × CeFi Super Gateway

Faced with this historic opportunity, Gate, founded in 2013, has leveraged its deep industry experience and keen insights to deploy a systematic strategy. Gate’s TradFi approach is not just about stacking features but about creating a deeply integrated, seamless experience through a super gateway.

The precious metals zone is a key step forward. Users can now trade perpetual contracts for gold, silver, and other precious metals directly with USDT, enjoying a more flexible trading experience closely linked to traditional markets.

Gate is also actively exploring index, forex, and other diversified traditional financial asset CFD trading scenarios, aiming to condense major global financial markets into a single platform.

Technical Foundation: Gate Layer and Unified Account Support

Any grand financial innovation relies on a solid technical infrastructure. Behind Gate’s vision for TradFi is its increasingly powerful self-developed public chain, Gate Layer, and an efficient unified account system.

As of December 2025, Gate Layer’s on-chain addresses exceeded 100 million, with over 20 million transactions, and integrated with Stargate Finance, enabling cross-chain assets with Ethereum, Arbitrum, and other major networks.

On the trading layer, Gate’s unified account mode allows users to manage spot, derivatives, options, and even TradFi assets within a single margin account. This maximizes capital efficiency, allowing users to flexibly allocate positions and seize cross-market trading opportunities without frequent transfers between different accounts.

Compliance and Future: Leading Innovation Within Regulatory Frameworks

Sustainable financial innovation must operate within compliant boundaries. Gate founder Han Lin explicitly stated in a recent interview that regulatory oversight of centralized exchanges (CEX) and decentralized finance (DeFi) will deepen gradually. Gate will continue to strengthen its global compliance presence.

This compliance awareness is reflected in concrete actions. Gate regularly publishes reserve proof reports. The latest report shows its total reserve ratio reaching 125%, with BTC reserves at 140.69%, far exceeding user deposits, providing transparent security for assets.

Looking ahead, Gate Ventures has outlined five frontier trends for 2026, with “Institutional DeFi evolving into a unified yield platform” and the integration of TradFi and CeFi directly related.

Future platforms may integrate trading, lending, yield farming, and other fragmented activities, providing users with an all-in-one risk management and yield generation engine similar to traditional financial “full-service brokers.”

User Perspective: Practical Value of the New Model

What does the new TradFi × CeFi model mean for end users? First, borderless global market access. An investor in a region where opening US stocks is difficult can now, through Gate’s TradFi products, gain exposure to the stock price movements of companies like Apple and Tesla.

Second, diversified strategies and enhanced hedging capabilities. Crypto traders can directly allocate part of their profits into gold contracts on the same platform to hedge against high volatility in the crypto market. This cross-asset flexibility, which previously required multiple platforms and complex procedures, now becomes simple and straightforward.

Finally, ultimate convenience. A single unified account and one major stablecoin as the trading medium allow users to explore a broad investment universe—from Bitcoin to gold, from altcoins to indices. This greatly reduces the learning curve and operational friction of cross-market trading.

Future Outlook

When the traditional clock stops ringing on Wall Street’s closing bell, the global indices, forex, and precious metals quotes on the Gate interface continue to tick non-stop. The over $25 billion in tokenized traditional assets traded on Hyperliquid already signals the walls are falling.

Gate’s precious metals zone and expanding TradFi footprint are the stitches that sew together these two parallel worlds. There are no market close times, no borders—only 24/7 continuous flow and reconfiguration of value.