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Gate DEX/Gate Wallet Launches the USDD Staking Challenge, covering Meme, Swap, Perps, and Spot all lines, from 2026-06-01 14:00 to 06-30 18:00 (UTC+8). Two major rewards: 1) Returning users who stake at least 500 USDD on BSC for the first time can receive 2 USDD, with 1,000 spots; 2) Total staking amounts of 3k/10k/60k/200k/300k USDD, corresponding to additional rewards of 1/5/40/100/200 USDD, with 200/100/5/2/1 spots available. Rewards can be stacked, and will be distributed within 14 working days after the event ends.

Why Are More and More Investors Paying Attention to Stocks and ETFs?
In recent years, the link between the digital asset market and the traditional financial market has been growing stronger.
From artificial intelligence, semiconductors to cloud computing, new energy, and medical technology, a large number of listed companies continue to draw market attention. At the same time, ETFs are gradually becoming an important tool for more and more investors to allocate assets over the long term, thanks to their broad coverage of industries, indices, and investment themes.
As investment needs continue to evolve, more and more digital asset users are starting to focus on how to participate in stock and ETF investments more efficiently while keeping the use of funds convenient.
Against this backdrop, investment approaches that connect digital assets with the securities market are receiving increasing attention.
What Is Gate Stock?
Gate Stock is a stock trading service launched by Gate.
Users can directly use the Gate App

On June 1st, Gate announced the official launch of real stock trading services, partnering with licensed U.S. broker Alpaca to provide users with a direct connection to the U.S. securities market, all settled in USDT throughout the process.
As of the time of writing, the total amount of stablecoins like USDT held by global crypto users has exceeded $320 billion, and this capital inherently has the potential for cross-market liquidity. However, the "buy U.S. stocks with crypto" services offered by different platforms have fundamental differences in the underlying asset nature, clearing pathways, liquidity matching, holding costs, and dividend handling. These differences directly determine whether users truly hold the stocks, whether they can receive real dividends, and whether they can execute trades at the expected prices amid market volatility. Therefore, systematically comparing the advantages and disadvantages of different models is a prerequisite for choosing a trading path.
What are the fundamental differences in the underlying asset nature across different models?
When

Gate officially launches real stock trading, allowing users to buy and sell U.S. stocks and ETFs with USDT on the platform, directly connected to licensed brokers (such as Alpaca), enabling genuine asset trading rather than tokenization. Covering over 10k assets, with intraday trading, and potentially achieving 24/7 trading in the future; a unified account system integrates crypto assets and traditional finance. Update the app and complete KYC to trade in the TradFi stock section. Spot trading has no financing costs, and cross-broker transfers may be supported in the future.

Gate’s real stock trading uses an Omnibus architecture to connect directly to US stocks and ETFs via USDT. Users can buy and sell real stocks on the Gate App without needing an overseas brokerage account or exchanging USD. The system cooperates with US brokers to provide market liquidity and NBBO. During trading hours, you can place market orders; when the market is closed, you can only view quotes and your holdings. In the future, we will further expand features such as stop-loss.

The integration of crypto assets with traditional finance is entering a new phase. In the past, if users wanted to participate in the U.S. stock market with cryptocurrencies, they mostly could only choose tokenized stock products or derivative contract offerings, but these paths had clear limitations in terms of asset selection, liquidity, and holding costs. Now, through a compliant brokerage partnership model, Gate enables the direct buying and selling of real U.S. stocks using stablecoins such as USDT.
Why do crypto users choose to configure U.S. stock assets through Gate?
With the growing demand among crypto asset investors for cross-asset allocation, more and more users are starting to pay attention to traditional financial assets in the U.S. stock market, such as technology stocks, AI concept stocks, and ETFs. Gate’s real-stock trading, with a direct connection between stablecoins and the U.S. securities market, provides crypto users with a more convenient investment entry point.
First, users can participate in the U.S. stock market without leaving the crypto ecosystem. The account’s US

Why are stocks once again attracting investor attention?
In recent years, the connection between global capital markets and digital asset markets has become increasingly close. Fields such as artificial intelligence, semiconductors, cloud computing, new energy, and consumer technology continue to draw market attention, while long-term allocation tools like index ETFs are gradually becoming important choices for investors' asset allocation.
For many digital asset users, participating in stock investment is not due to a lack of interest, but is often influenced by factors such as account opening barriers, fund transfer efficiency, and the complexity of cross-market operations.
As digital financial infrastructure continues to improve, using stablecoins to participate in stock investments is beginning to become a new trend.
What is Gate Real Stock Trading?
Gate Real Stock Trading is a stock investment service launched for digital asset users.
Users can directly complete stock and ETF transactions within the Gate App.

This article introduces Gate.Ai as the foundational infrastructure for the cryptocurrency market information, providing a unified interface to connect with over 200 large models, intelligent routing, and cost management, while implementing zero data retention to address issues of dispersed information sources, usability, and governance costs. It elevates AI integration from application layer tools to infrastructure layer connectivity and governance, enhancing usability, transparency, and compliance, and promoting industry AI adoption.

Short-term fluctuations in the crypto market are giving way to longer-term allocation considerations. As Bitcoin hovers around $73,678 on June 1, 2026, and Ethereum falls back to approximately $2,007.35, the difficulty of profiting solely through price elasticity has clearly increased. An increasing number of on-chain addresses are shifting toward yield tools outside of non-custodial wallets, and this behavioral migration has precisely driven the structural upgrade of centralized platform financial products. Gate Finance's recent integration of a matrix of current, fixed-term, and staking products is not just a simple listing of offerings but a response to users' differing time preferences and liquidity needs. The core issue in the current market is no longer "are there yield products," but rather "how can different types of crypto assets, with varying capital attributes, find yield curves that match their time constraints and risk tolerance?"
How market structure changes reshape crypto wealth management

Gate contract points are based on daily snapshots across three dimensions—balance, transactions, and invitations—which are then combined into total points. Holdings earn 1–4 points each day according to their tier. Transaction volume is scored with increments that double as volume increases, and rewards for high-frequency volume boosting are reduced. Invitation points use a 15-day rolling window, and only invitees who actually trade can have their points take effect. Points are used for airdrops, such as position experience vouchers and leveraged tokens, aiming to put "quality" in place of "quantity"—enhancing capital stickiness and user quality, while suppressing meaningless volume boosting.

GateCard links GatePay with Visa, allowing USDT, BTC, ETH, and GT to be spent directly at over 150 million merchants worldwide. Virtual cards are activated in 3-5 minutes, and physical cards support contactless payments and ATM withdrawals. Transactions are exchanged at real-time exchange rates instantly, with competitive fees; ATM withdrawals incur a 2% fee. Cashback is awarded in points, up to 5.00% (T4), with 100 points equal to 1 USDT, and points are valid indefinitely.

When a trading platform begins offering spot order fee rates of 0.09% for users with a monthly trading volume of 1 million USDT, this is not just a simple promotional discount. It signifies that the platform is restructuring user value tiers using a tiered cost structure, shifting the focus of competition from acquiring new users to activating existing ones.
The Gate VIP system currently covers 14 levels from VIP1 to VIP14, built on a three-dimensional upgrade framework based on asset holdings, GT holdings, and monthly trading volume. As of June 1, 2026, Bitcoin (BTC) is priced at $73,678.0, Ethereum (ETH) at $2,007.35, and Gate’s native token GT at $7.15— the market is in a relatively low-volatility period. During such phases, trading costs have an amplified impact on users’ net gains, and

The precious metals market is being pulled into the native crypto trading environment.
On January 14, 2026, Gate officially launched the metals zone, primarily offering XAU/USDT and XAG/USDT perpetual contracts, supporting up to 50x leverage, enabling 24/7 uninterrupted trading.
This means two things happening simultaneously: the time barrier of traditional precious metals trading is being broken for the first time structurally, and crypto market capital is gaining a macro hedge tool with low correlation to Bitcoin.
This is not just a simple product launch.
It is a key move by Gate in the direction of traditional finance (TradFi) contractization, reflecting the evolution of crypto trading platforms from a single digital asset derivatives market to a comprehensive derivatives market across multiple asset classes.
For traders holding both crypto exposure and macro exposure, gold no longer needs to be allocated through ETFs or futures accounts.

As the market continues to debate whether AI Agents can replace human traders, a more fundamental question has emerged: even if AI Agents have the ability to generate strategies, they still cannot independently complete a full payment transaction. This gap is not a minor technical fix but a structural prerequisite for the true operation of intelligent agent economies. Gate's recent launch of the Gate for AI Agent infrastructure specifically targets this gap, attempting to equip AI Agents with a native "crypto bank account" through a set of API account systems and on-chain payment protocols. What makes this noteworthy is not just the addition of a new product feature, but the potential to redefine the source of liquidity in the crypto market—from manual human operations to automated, programmatic, and intelligent agent-driven autonomous execution.
From dialogue to trading, AI A

Gate DEX launches the Bonus Earning Zone, a decentralized staking and yield platform. USDD ETH Phase 1 features a 4% base APY, with a maximum prize pool of 20,000 USDD, running from 5/31 18:00 to 6/30 18:00. To participate, you must stake USDD/USDT through the USDD Earn protocol in the Gate App; daily rewards are calculated based on your individual staking share and settled hourly. Staking/Redemption is based on sUSDD as the proof; USDT/USDD can be exchanged at 1:1, and rewards are distributed in ETH.

Gate DEX Bonus earning coins now enter the USDD Earn Phase 3, from 2026-05-31 18:00 to 2026-06-30 18:00 UTC+8, with a base APY of 4% and a maximum prize pool of 30,000 USDD.
Participate through the Gate APP DEX page, where USDD/USDT staking on BSC is distributed daily based on individual staking share; settled in sUSDD, staking/unstaking is completed with the same receipt, and Gas fees are paid in BNB.

On May 28th local time, Dell Technologies released its fiscal first quarter earnings report for fiscal year 2027, delivering the strongest performance since its listing: revenue of $43.8 billion, up 88% year-over-year, far exceeding market expectations of $35.4 billion; non-GAAP earnings per share of $4.86, up 214% year-over-year, also significantly surpassing market expectations. After hours, the stock price surged more than 39%. Behind this increase is not only the robust fundamentals supported by AI server revenue reaching $16.1 billion in a single quarter but also the combined effect of multiple narratives, from Trump’s initial positioning and public endorsements to the Department of Defense contract win.
Dell has transformed from an underestimated PC hardware manufacturer into a key supplier of AI computing infrastructure, and the timeline of Trump personally buying shares and publicly endorsing Dell is becoming an unavoidable external variable as the market re-evaluates valuation premiums.

Nvidia’s fiscal 2027 first-quarter earnings report, released in May 2026, once again delivered a performance that—on an absolute basis—far exceeded average market expectations. Revenue for the period reached $81.6 billion, up 85% year over year, and the data center business remained the core driving force. However, after the earnings report was released, the stock price in after-hours trading did not continue the strong gains from the prior quarter; instead, it saw choppy trading followed by a downward slide.
The core of this phenomenon is that the market’s definition of “better-than-expected” has changed. There is a significant gap between the sell-side analysts’ consensus expectations and the implicit psychological threshold used by buy-side institutions. When a company delivers results far above the initial guidance for multiple consecutive quarters, the market naturally raises the “acceptable lower bound.” In this earnings report, while Q1 revenue was above the $79 billion range expected by sell-side analysts, it failed to reach the 830–850 billion… figure estimated by some large buy-side institutions.

Gate DEX BountyDrop gathers popular airdrop tasks, and users participate through the Gate wallet to increase their chances of winning. The newly launched LART airdrop runs from 2026-05-29 19:00 to 2026-06-28 19:00 (UTC+8), with a prize pool of $15,000 LART, awarded to the top 3,000 winners. To participate, complete at least 10 U transactions on the BNB Chain, follow Gate DEX and LART on Twitter, join LART's Telegram and Discord, and access BountyDrop from the event page. Note: Tasks require verification; only the highest reward will be issued per device with multiple addresses; the platform reserves the final interpretation rights. High risk involved, please assess carefully.