Bitget marks 8 years with multi-asset expansion

Bitget has opened its eighth-anniversary campaign with a $3 million trading competition and a separate 50,000 USDT community reward pool.

Bitget’s official anniversary page presents the campaign as part of its expansion from a cryptocurrency exchange into a platform covering digital assets and traditional financial products. The company calls the model a Universal Exchange, or UEX.

Meanwhile, the “8uilt for Perfect Trades” campaign invites users to submit personal trading stories of up to 500 characters. Eligible participants will compete for a share of 50,000 USDT, according to the company.

Submissions can be made through the anniversary page or a linked Google form. Bitget had not displayed a closing date on the public anniversary page at the time of review, so participants must check the campaign rules and regional eligibility requirements before entering.

A separate competition, KCGI 2026, offers a reward pool of 3 million USDT. The contest covers cryptocurrency futures, traditional finance perpetual contracts and contracts for difference.

Bitget describes KCGI as a multi-asset trading contest. Its anniversary page directs users to a dedicated registration section containing the competition’s schedules, volume requirements and reward conditions.

The company has created a VIP fast-track campaign as another anniversary activity. Users who complete specified tasks can receive temporary tier upgrades and access benefits connected with its traditional finance products.

Top participants may reach VIP7, Bitget’s highest published account tier. Access remains subject to the exchange’s campaign conditions, verification requirements and restrictions applying in each jurisdiction.

Bitget uses UEX to combine several asset classes

Founded in 2018, Bitget began with cryptocurrency spot trading. It introduced USDT-margined futures in 2019 and launched one-click copy trading in 2020, according to the company’s product timeline.

Grid trading followed in 2022, while PoolX and pre-market trading arrived in 2024. Bitget opened its on-chain trading service in April 2025 before launching stock perpetual contracts four months later.

By September 2025, the platform had listed more than 100 U.S. stock tokens powered by Ondo Finance. Contracts for difference arrived in January 2026, followed by a pre-IPO product called PreSPCX in April.

The exchange released rToken stock trading in June through Reality, an infrastructure provider for tokenized real-world assets. Stock+ and U.S. equity options followed later that month.

Bitget says UEX now places cryptocurrencies, stocks, exchange-traded funds, forex, gold and commodity products within one account. Product availability differs across countries because securities, derivatives and digital assets fall under separate local rules.

Tokenized stock products have drawn increased industry attention as platforms test different legal and technical structures. As crypto.news reported, Base tokenized stock trading reached $100 million in daily decentralized exchange volume, with Aerodrome accounting for most activity during the measured period.

Questions remain over whether certain products represent direct share ownership or financial exposure through separate instruments. In related coverage, Robinhood defended third-party stock tokens that do not alter an issuer’s shareholder records.

Product figures come from Bitget’s internal data

On its anniversary page, Bitget reports daily cryptocurrency spot volume exceeding 600 million USDT and USDT-margined futures volume above 16 billion USDT. The figures were not accompanied by independently audited trading-volume statements.

Traditional finance perpetual contracts generate more than $10 billion in daily volume across stocks, commodities and precious metals, the company said. Bitget reported another $10 billion in daily CFD volume covering forex, crude oil and gold.

Bitget claims rToken has processed more than 3 million trades since its June launch. The exchange says one in four new users begins trading through the tokenized-stock product.

Earlier company material stated that rToken crossed $100 million in assets under management within five weeks. Bitget has not published an independent audit confirming the adoption and volume figures presented in its anniversary campaign.

Non-cryptocurrency products represented as much as 40% of total platform trading volume during parts of the previous year, according to Bitget. The exchange did not provide a complete monthly breakdown showing how the share changed during that period.

“Crypto and traditional markets are converging, AI is changing the trading experience, and institutional participation is accelerating,” CEO Gracy Chen said in the anniversary statement.

Chen described UEX as Bitget’s proposed model for bringing different markets onto one platform. Her remarks represent the company’s strategy and are not a forecast guaranteeing future adoption or revenue.

Proof-of-reserves coverage grows beyond four assets

Three days before the anniversary announcement, Bitget expanded its proof-of-reserves system from four cryptocurrencies to more than 20 assets. The previous coverage was limited to Bitcoin, Ether, USDT and USDC.

The current list contains BGB, BTC, USDT, USDGO, ETH, USDC, XRP, SOL, HYPE, DOGE, BNB, XAUT, TRX, SUI, TAO, LINK, ONDO, ADA, PI and NEAR.

Users can inspect reserve ratios, customer balances, platform holdings and their distribution across supported blockchains. The exchange provides personal verification through Merkle tree records containing an encrypted user identifier, asset amounts, a nonce and the corresponding Merkle leaf.

Bitget’s open-source verification software is available through its repository. Customers can use the tool to check whether their balances were included in a particular snapshot.

The August report was Bitget’s 45th consecutive monthly disclosure since December 2022. It showed a company-reported total reserve ratio of 122%, meaning the assets included in the calculation exceeded covered customer balances by 22%.

A proof-of-reserves snapshot does not disclose every corporate obligation or provide the same information as a full financial-statement audit. No independent audit opinion covering Bitget’s entire balance sheet accompanied the anniversary announcement.

Bitget maintains a separate protection fund containing 5,500 BTC, according to the fund’s public page. The company said its average value during August was approximately $382 million, while the anniversary material describes it as a fund worth at least $300 million.

Customers whose accounts are compromised through events not attributed to their own actions may submit a claim. Bitget retains the right to investigate each case and decide eligibility based on its findings.

Institutional services form part of the ninth-year plan

Bitget reported a 45% increase in net assets held by institutional customers during the second quarter compared with the end of 2025. The number of what it calls core active market makers grew from 90 to 248 during the same period.

The exchange plans to invest in execution systems, application programming interfaces, quantitative trading tools and off-exchange settlement services. Future product releases remain subject to technical development and regulatory permission.

Artificial intelligence forms another part of the company’s product plan. Bitget has introduced AI Playbook, which it describes as an autonomous trading agent designed to provide access to AI-assisted strategies.

The exchange previously launched GetAgent as an AI-based market assistant. Its published 2026 roadmap lists UEX, artificial intelligence and compliance as the three main business priorities.

Bitget says it serves 125 million users and employs more than 2,000 people worldwide. The anniversary page separately claims licensing or registration across more than 10 regions, though access to individual products depends on local regulations.

During the anniversary period, the exchange will run regional events, product-community missions and trading-volume challenges. Entrants seeking rewards must use Bitget’s official campaign pages because eligibility, account verification and distribution rules may differ between promotions.