What is the xStocks zone?

xStocks is a stock token contract trading zone launched by Gate, primarily trading perpetual futures contracts that are anchored to the real stock price movements. These contracts are supported by professional institutions such as Backed Finance, ensuring that contract prices closely follow the corresponding stock market performance. Users do not need to hold actual stocks and can trade contracts using USDT, enabling investment decisions on the stock prices of giants like Apple, Google, and Amazon. The xStocks zone supports 1-10x leverage, allowing for both long and short positions. It offers flexible trading and a clear mechanism, suitable for users accustomed to digital asset operations but focused on stock market trends.

Perptual Futures new products launched, covering multiple star stocks.

Figure:https://www.gate.com/futures/USDT/GOOGLX_USDT

On July 5, 2025, Gate announced the official launch of the xStocks section, including 7 major Perptual Futures such as GOOGLX (Google), TSLAX (Tesla), DFDVX (De-leveraged Value ETF), MSTRX (MicroStrategy), QQQX (Nasdaq ETF), SPYX (Environmental S&P ETF), and AMZNX (Amazon). These contracts are settled in USDT and support 1-10x leverage trading, providing users with a diverse selection from technology giants to ETF sectors.

The newly added contracts cover growth stocks, technology stocks, and strategy index products, greatly enriching the contract underlying assets and providing traders with more operational space to capture opportunities amidst market fluctuations.

A flexible trading method that allows both long and short positions.

Unlike traditional stocks, xStocks contracts support both long and short positions. This means that users can go long when they are bullish on a stock and profit by shorting when they are bearish. All transactions are settled in USDT, eliminating the need for currency exchange or cross-border transfers, while providing up to 10x leverage, allowing users to formulate trading strategies based on their risk preferences.

Whether you are a day trader or a trend-following investor, the xStocks contract mechanism offers sufficient flexibility. Thanks to the on-chain mechanism and the deep matching on the Gate platform, the trading process is smooth and efficient.

Activity support, empowering users to participate

While launching new products, Gate is holding a series of trading reward activities to attract more users’ attention to the xStocks section.

For example, in the “xStocks Zone Trading Competition” event, users who trade a specified amount daily can receive up to 100 USDT, and continuous trading can earn additional rewards. At the same time, new users who complete their first deposit and trade can also receive a 100 USDT contract experience voucher and 10 GT tokens. The event also includes benefits such as daily lucky draws, deposit rebates, and trading volume prize pool sharing.

These activities have significantly lowered the initial participation threshold for users and provided tangible profit incentives for experiencing xStocks.

Conclusion: New Ideas for “Stock Trading” in the Digital Market

Gate’s xStocks area not only breaks the barriers between stocks and crypto assets but also opens up a convenient channel for ordinary users to explore the fluctuations of top global stocks. Through contract trading, users can seize short-term opportunities while also positioning themselves for medium to long-term trends.

The launch of new products such as GOOGLX and AMZNX further improves the contract category matrix and injects new vitality into the market. With the optimization of trading experience and increased market attention, xStocks may become a new star in the contract trading market.