Bitget Wallet has expanded access to US equities by integrating Reality, a regulated tokenised asset issuance protocol, allowing users to trade more than 1,700 tokenised US stocks and exchange-traded funds directly from their crypto wallets without opening a foreign brokerage account.
This integration gives Nigerian users access to tokenised versions of major US-listed companies such as Nvidia, Tesla, Apple and Amazon from within Bitget Wallet without opening a foreign brokerage account, converting funds off an exchange, or handing custody of their assets to anyone else.
The tokenised assets, called rTokens, are backed one to one by the underlying US shares, held at Alpaca Securities, a FINRA-registered, SIPC-member broker-dealer. Reserves are independently attested daily by a third-party CPA firm.
The tokenised assets, called rTokens, are backed one to one by the underlying US shares, held at Alpaca Securities, a FINRA-registered, SIPC-member broker-dealer. Reserves are independently attested daily by a third-party CPA firm.
During US market hours, orders route to real Nasdaq and NYSE liquidity rather than an isolated pool of onchain trading activity, so the price a user sees reflects the actual market, not a synthetic copy of it. More than 90 of the highest volume rTokens keep trading after those hours too, including weekends, matched through Bitget’s own market infrastructure until the exchanges reopen. The integration is live now on the Arbitrum and Morph networks.
Dividends on eligible rTokens are paid directly into a user’s wallet in stablecoins. Stock splits and other corporate actions are reflected automatically, and the tokens can be used as collateral or built into other onchain applications.
‘Most users globally have had no viable path to US equity exposure, not because of lack of demand, but because the infrastructure was either inaccessible or required giving up custody. Reality’s model is different: real shares, real liquidity, real dividends, and users keep control of their keys throughout. That combination is what makes this integration meaningful,’ said Alvin Kan, COO of Bitget Wallet.
This integration with Reality deepens a broader push toward tokenised traditional assets, following an announcement earlier this year where Bitget introduced tokenised equities, ETF indexes, and precious metals via Ondo Global Markets. On the self-custodial front, Bitget Wallet has maintained a steady rollout, having already onboarded Ondo and xStocks prior to this latest release.
More recently, stablecoins have become one of the few practical ways to hold value in dollars without a foreign bank account in the middle. The same wallet that already holds those stablecoins can now hold shares in Apple or Amazon too.
Previously, accessing these markets required navigating an additional platform, complete with separate identity verification and dedicated brokerage infrastructure. This integration with Reality bypasses those extra hurdles entirely, allowing users to keep their existing wallet setup and private keys intact while seamlessly managing American shares right next to their current crypto holdings.