Bitget, the world's largest Universal Exchange (UEX), has released CEO Gracy Chen's mid-year address, setting out the company's long-term strategy for building a more connected financial ecosystem powered by tokenization, artificial intelligence and seamless access to global markets.
The update comes as investor behavior continues to diversify. During the first half of 2026, around 52% of Bitget users held both cryptocurrencies and stocks, while 35% invested in gold or other precious metals.
More than half of the platform's users also adopted AI-powered trading tools, reflecting growing demand for products that combine multiple asset classes within a single platform.
Breaking down barriers between markets
Rather than expanding into a simple collection of financial products, Bitget says its goal is to eliminate the barriers that have traditionally separated crypto, equities and other investment markets.
According to Chen, the company's strategy is built on four priorities: improving capital efficiency, delivering global investment opportunities through a crypto-native experience, expanding access to financial markets through products such as tokenized assets and pre-IPO investments and simplifying trading with AI-driven automation.
"Our focus has evolved from being a crypto exchange to becoming a universal financial platform," Chen said. "We are removing the barriers that have divided financial markets for decades. Today users can access crypto, stocks, CFDs, gold and more while putting their capital to work around the clock."
Tokenization and AI at the center
The address highlights tokenization as one of the biggest long-term opportunities for financial markets. Chen reiterated her view that tokenized assets could eventually represent around 10% of global capital markets, pointing to products such as Stock+ and Reality as early examples of how blockchain infrastructure can make investing more efficient and accessible.
AI represents the second major pillar of Bitget's strategy. Rather than limiting AI to market analysis, the company envisions systems capable of executing investment strategies based on user-defined objectives and risk preferences.
Bitget says it now serves more than one million AI trading users alongside more than one million copy trading users following the introduction of products including GetClaw and GetAgent Playbook.
Chen concluded the address by describing Bitget's broader mission as extending investment opportunities beyond traditional financial institutions.
She characterized the company's long-term objective as moving from "banking the unbanked" toward "brokering the unbrokered," reflecting a vision of broader participation in global financial markets through blockchain technology and artificial intelligence.
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