Gate Stock Token and the New Web3 Financial Ecosystem: 2025 Year-End Strategic Panorama

In 2025, Gate completed a crucial strategic upgrade: transforming from a functionally focused trading platform into a full-stack Web3 operating system.

One of the core driving forces behind this transformation is the deep integration of traditional financial assets, among which, tokenized stocks are playing an increasingly important role as a bridge connecting the crypto world with traditional capital markets.

01 Platform Transformation: From Exchange to Asset Expansion in the Web3 Operating System

In 2025, Gate underwent a profound brand and strategic upgrade, with its core being the evolution from a cryptocurrency exchange to a “full-stack Web3 operating system”. This transformation is not only a change of name but also signifies a significant expansion of service boundaries and capabilities.

In the new operating system architecture, tokenized assets have become a key component. This means that in the future, users will encounter not only cryptocurrencies on the Gate platform, but potentially also tokenized stocks representing ownership of publicly traded companies like Apple and Tesla.

This attempt to bring traditional financial assets into the blockchain world aims to break down the barriers between asset classes, providing a unified, efficient, and transparent environment for asset trading and management for global users.

The comprehensive data of the platform also verifies the success of this transformation. By the end of 2025, Gate's global user base has surpassed 46 million, with a monthly spot trading volume reaching $160 billion.

At the same time, Gate received an A rating in the spot trading section of the CoinDesk exchange benchmark assessment, and an AA rating in the derivatives section, ranking among the top platforms globally.

02 Ecological Layout: The Position of Tokenized Stocks in the Gate New Ecosystem

In the vast Web3 ecosystem built on Gate, tokenized stocks do not exist in isolation but operate in synergy with a range of innovative products and services, collectively forming a complete closed loop of the digital asset lifecycle.

Underlying Infrastructure is supported by Gate Layer, which is an Ethereum Layer 2 network built on the OP Stack. It attracted over 100 million active wallets in just two weeks, becoming one of the fastest-growing centralized exchange affiliated L2s, providing a high-speed, low-cost on-chain environment for asset issuance and trading.

Asset Issuance and Launch stage, has a diversified tool matrix. This includes the Launchpad for early-stage projects, the Launchpool which allows users to earn new tokens through staking, and the CandyDrop where users can obtain airdrops by completing tasks.

In 2025, Gate Launchpad achieved breakthrough success, such as the launch of the Kodiak ( KDK ) project, which attracted over 100,000 users to participate, the tickets sold out within minutes, and the average return rate after listing reached 3 to 5 times.

Trading and Liquidity aspect has formed a pattern of parallel centralization and decentralization. Users can use powerful centralized trading platforms or experience Gate Perp DEX—a decentralized perpetual contract exchange built on the Gate Layer, which combines the security of self-custody with a smooth experience akin to centralized exchanges.

03 Strategic Cooperation: Alliances with Traditional Financial Giants and Market Impact

In 2025, Gate took the most iconic step in promoting the tokenization of real-world assets: establishing a strategic partnership with global asset management giant Franklin Templeton.

Franklin Templeton is known for its leadership in the tokenized money market instruments field, with assets under management reaching $1.6 trillion.

This collaboration aims to combine Franklin Templeton's expertise in compliant tokenization with Gate's extensive trading infrastructure and user base. A potential focus of the collaboration is its BENJI tokenized money market fund.

Although the fund is primarily issued on the Stellar chain, the cooperation between both parties indicates that there may be future expansions on Gate's blockchain. This move will directly open up channels for traditional mainstream financial assets to enter the crypto ecosystem, greatly enhancing Gate's credibility and appeal in the field of compliant financial innovation.

This high-profile collaboration has had an immediate positive impact on market sentiment. After the announcement, the native token GT of the Gate platform saw a significant increase in price, reaching an all-time high of $902.55 and nearly 29% growth within the year.

This reflects the market's high recognition of Gate's strategic direction, as well as the optimistic expectations for the future potential of innovative asset classes such as tokenized stocks.

04 Recent Updates: Year-End Market Activities and Performance of Popular Assets

As we approach the end of 2025, the Gate platform ecosystem remains active, with a series of market activities and the performance of popular assets setting the tone for the coming year.

Platform Activities: Gate has launched multiple incentive programs. For example, Gate Perp DEX has initiated the “Year-End Trading New Journey” event, establishing a trading volume leaderboard with a total prize pool of 20,000 USDT.

In terms of spot trading, a trading competition has been held around newly launched assets such as Kodiak ( KDK ), with a prize pool containing tokens worth tens of thousands of dollars.

Popular Asset Level: According to the year-end data insights released by Gate for 2025, user activity is concentrated on both blue-chip assets and emerging topics. Among them, BTC and ETH continue to serve as the pillars of market liquidity, while high-performance public chain tokens such as SOL are also receiving significant attention.

Among emerging assets, tokens issued through Launchpad, such as Pump Fun ( PUMP ) and Kodiak ( KDK ), have attracted significant speculation and community attention. This pattern of balancing mature assets with high growth potential assets demonstrates the healthy asset diversity of the Gate ecosystem.

Recently, Gate has also completed the launch arrangements for Tronbank ( TBK ), and launched the CandyDrop event, where users can share a prize pool of 500,000 TBK through sign-in and trading tasks.

05 Compliance and Security: The Cornerstone of Global Operations and User Asset Protection

For platforms involved in sensitive financial innovations such as tokenized stocks, compliance and security are non-negotiable cornerstones. In 2025, Gate achieved milestone progress in its global compliance layout.

In Europe, Gate has obtained the key MiCA license, allowing it to compliantly serve 450 million European users. In Australia, it became one of the first overseas exchanges registered with AUSTRAC. In Dubai, Gate has also obtained the DMCC license as well as the extended VARA certificate.

In addition, Gate US has launched operations in 42 jurisdictions in the United States. This series of initiatives has cleared regulatory obstacles for the compliant global launch of innovative products, including tokenized stocks.

In terms of asset security, Gate takes trust as its core strategy. The platform regularly releases transparency reports throughout the year and has introduced asset reserve proofs and real-time asset verification mechanisms.

At the same time, targeting institutions and high-net-worth users, Gate launched Gate Vault—an institutional-grade self-custody wallet solution based on multi-party computation technology, providing security controls and policy management for user assets similar to that of a prime broker.

Future Outlook

When the head of digital assets at Franklin Templeton talks about “turning tokenization from concept into practice,” he is depicting the very picture that Gate is currently building: a world where BTC, ETH, and tokenized Tesla stocks and BlackRock funds can be traded seamlessly on the same interface.

More than 100 million active wallets on the Gate Layer second-layer network are not just a figure of traffic, but a prelude to the influx of traditional capital. The future has arrived, it just hasn't been evenly distributed.