{
  "id": 9012161,
  "title": "Investors gain direct access to Wall Street equities via Bitget Wallet and Reality",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/investors-gain-direct-access-to-wall-street-equities-via-bitget",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-21T21:32:20.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Daily Post Nigeria",
    "slug": "daily-post-nigeria",
    "url": "https://dailypost.ng/2026/09/21/investors-gain-direct-access-to-wall-street-equities-via-bitget-wallet-and-reality/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Bitget Wallet, a self-custodial crypto wallet with over 100 million global users, has partnered with Reality, a regulated tokenized asset issuance protocol. This integration allows users worldwide to access over 1,700 tokenized US stocks and ETFs, including major companies like Nvidia, Tesla, Apple, and Amazon. The tokenized assets, known as rTokens, are backed one-to-one by the underlying US shares held at Alpaca Securities, a FINRA-registered broker-dealer. Daily reserves are independently attested by a third-party CPA firm.\n\nOrders during US market hours route to real Nasdaq and NYSE liquidity, ensuring the user sees the actual market price rather than a synthetic copy. The integration is now live on Arbitrum and Morph networks. Alvin Kan, COO of Bitget Wallet, explains that Reality's model differs from others because it provides real shares, liquidity, and dividends while keeping users in control of their private keys.\n\nBeyond equities, rTokens enable new uses for these assets onchain. Dividends on eligible rTokens are paid directly into a user's wallet in stablecoins. Stock splits and other corporate actions are automatically reflected, and rTokens can be used as collateral or integrated into other onchain applications. Alice Li, Head of Reality, notes that this integration makes rTokens accessible across a wider ecosystem through open APIs, allowing wallets, exchanges, and protocols to connect directly to rToken liquidity without building infrastructure from scratch.\n\nIn Africa, where exchange rates are relatively high, stablecoins are a practical way to hold value in dollars without a foreign bank account. The same wallet that holds these stablecoins can now hold shares in companies like Apple or Amazon. This new Reality integration bypasses the need for a second app or brokerage account, saving users from the friction of multiple platforms with separate KYC processes and brokerage accounts.\n\nCurrently available on the Bitget Wallet app are rNVDA, rTSLA, rAAPL, rAMZN, rSPY, and rQQQ, among over 1,700 US stocks and ETFs. As demand for tokenized assets grows, Bitget Wallet intends to expand its asset coverage and deepen protocol integrations.",
  "summary": "Bitget Wallet, a self-custodial crypto wallet used by 100 million people globally, has integrated Reality, a regulated tokenised asset issuance protocol, giving users across the world direct access to more than 1,700 tokenised US stocks and ETFs. Through this new integration, investors across Africa gain direct exposure to top-tier equities such as Nvidia, Tesla, Apple, […] Investors gain direct…",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "BusinessDay Nigeria",
        "title": "Bitget Wallet lets users trade 1,700+ tokenised US stocks",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/21/bitget-wallet-lets-users-trade-1-700-tokenised-us-stocks",
        "published": "2026-09-21T18:29:22.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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