Bitget Says Non-Crypto Trading Hits 40% of Volume

The exchange said daily trading in TradFi perpetual contracts and CFDs has topped $10 billion each, while it added stock perpetual contracts, U.S. stock options and Hong Kong stock Quanto contracts over the past year. It also said rToken has passed $100 million in assets under management in five weeks and logged more than 3 million cumulative transactions.

For investors, the message is that crypto exchanges are increasingly competing on product breadth, infrastructure and trust rather than just coin listings. Bitget said one in four new users now starts with rToken, while it is also pushing AI Playbook, its autonomous trading agent, to deepen engagement and keep users inside its ecosystem.

Chief executive Gracy Chen said the company is still “in the early stage” of defining trading’s future, with crypto and traditional markets blending and institutional participation rising. The pitch echoes a wider industry trend as platforms seek to capture traditional asset demand on-chain and through crypto-native wrappers.

Bitget is also stressing balance-sheet resilience and compliance as it expands. It said Proof of Reserves coverage will grow from four to 24 verifiable assets, while its Protection Fund averaged about $382 million in August 2026.

The expansion comes as crypto exchanges face pressure to prove they can scale without sacrificing oversight, especially with regulators still shaping the rules around tokenized assets and cross-market products. The next test for Bitget will be whether the UEX model can keep attracting TradFi flow and institutional capital beyond the anniversary campaign.