24/7 Stock Trading Arrives With Bitget and Ondo’s Partnership

A New Era of Investing

The line between traditional finance and the crypto economy just blurred in a big way. Bitget, one of the world’s leading cryptocurrency exchanges and wallet providers, has partnered with Ondo Finance to launch tokenized stocks and ETFs that can be traded 24/7.

This development opens the door for investors around the globe to gain exposure to major companies like Apple, Tesla, Microsoft, Amazon, and Nvidia, as well as popular ETFs, without being bound by Wall Street’s opening bell or regional brokers. It’s a move that could fundamentally change how markets operate and how everyday investors access them.

Understanding the Partnership

Bitget has been steadily building its CeDeFi ecosystem, a hybrid model that combines the security and liquidity of centralized exchanges with the innovation of decentralized finance. Its collaboration with Ondo Finance takes that mission a step further. Ondo Finance provides the Global Markets infrastructure that directly connects tokenized assets to equity markets, ensuring liquidity and execution at the level investors expect from major stock exchanges.

By integrating Ondo’s system into Bitget’s platforms, users can bypass many of the traditional barriers to investing. They gain the ability to trade tokenized real-world assets at any time of day, without waiting for market hours or relying on intermediaries. This creates a seamless link between traditional equities and blockchain-based trading.

What Are Tokenized Stocks and ETFs?

Tokenized stocks and ETFs are digital representations of real-world securities issued on a blockchain. For each share or ETF unit held in custody, an equivalent number of tokens is created onchain. These tokens mirror the performance of their underlying assets, tracking both price movements and, in many cases, dividend payouts.

One of the most powerful aspects of tokenization is fractional ownership. Instead of buying a full share of a high-priced stock like Amazon or Nvidia, investors can purchase a portion of it for as little as one dollar. This dramatically lowers the barrier to entry for those who want to diversify but lack the capital to buy whole shares in major companies.

Trading tokenized assets also brings advantages that traditional markets can’t match. Settlement is nearly instantaneous, transactions occur around the clock, and access is not restricted to the hours of a specific exchange. However, tokenized securities do come with limitations. They rarely confer legal ownership rights or voting privileges in the issuing company. Instead, they provide economic exposure backed by custodians who hold the real shares in reserve.

How Bitget and Ondo’s Integration Works

Through this partnership, Bitget users can now trade more than 100 tokenized stocks and ETFs on both the exchange and the Bitget Wallet. All assets are denominated in U.S. dollars and reflect the performance of their underlying securities, including dividends.

The offering is designed to be accessible. Investors can get started with just one dollar, and all tokens are fully backed by regulated custodians to ensure protection. The assets are initially available on Ethereum, but Bitget and Ondo plan to expand support to Solana and BNB Chain in the near future. By relying on Ondo’s Global Markets infrastructure, trades are executed with the speed and efficiency of traditional stock exchanges, but without the time restrictions that come with them.