Bitget, one of the world’s largest Universal Exchange (UEX) has revealed that the demand for its US stock-linked perpetual futures exploded, pushing cumulative trading volume beyond $5 billion only days after its last product update.
According to CEO Gracy Chen, ” the surge underscores a clear shift in user behavior, traders increasingly want equities and digital assets under one roof, with a single balance and uninterrupted 24/7 access”.
Chen further noted that activity is currently concentrated around some of the most heavily watched tickers in the social-finance ecosystem such as MicroStrategy (MSTR), Tesla (TSLA), and Apple (AAPL).
Bitget now offers more than 30 USDT-margined stock perpetuals, each supporting up to 25× leverage alongside promotional trading fees as low as 0.0065%, a temporary 90% discount.
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Chen said that the appeal is in the simplicity. Users can fund their accounts in USDT and trade BTC, ETH, and SOL directly alongside AAPL, TSLA, NVDA, MSTR, and other major names without opening a separate brokerage account.
Bitget initially rolled out perpetual futures tied to 25 leading U.S. companies including Google, Amazon, Meta, Apple, and Microsoft and has since expanded the lineup to include index-style contracts for one-tap exposure to broad-market or thematic baskets. All contracts are margined and settled in USDT.
“The UEX framework puts everything in one place crypto, stocks, futures, spot, Earn meaning no app-hopping or fragmented balances,” Chen said. “For African users especially, this fits naturally with existing patterns of moving between local fiat and USDT through P2P. Now they can express a view on AAPL, TSLA, or NVDA in the same venue where they already manage their crypto portfolio.”
Bitget’s stock-linked perpetuals run on crypto-native trading hours, offering around-the-clock access rather than tying traders to U.S. market sessions. Chen emphasized that these contracts mirror price movements of the underlying equities but remain derivatives, not shares; meaning no dividends, no voting rights, and P&L realized entirely in USDT.
She added that users should always review individual contract specs before trading, noting that fees, maximum leverage, and maintenance margins vary by market and are periodically updated. “Use stop-loss orders and start small as you get familiar,” Chen advised.
