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 <li>Southeast Asia accounts for 81.9% of tokenized asset volume on Bitget, according to a joint report with Block Scholes for Q1 2026.</li>
 <li>The platform surpassed $6 billion in daily volume of tokenized traditional financial products during periods of high volatility.</li>
 <li>Bitcoin reached its highest correlation with stock market indices since late 2025, driving demand for real-time cross-asset hedging.</li>
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The way traders respond to global macroeconomic shocks is undergoing a structural transformation. A&nbsp;<a href="https://www.blockscholes.com/research/tokenised-markets-on-bitget-uex-how-traders-are-utilising-24-7-real-world-assets-for-real-time-macro-hedging?ref=blockhead.co" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">report </a>published by&nbsp;<a href="https://crypto-economy.com/bitget-unveils-ipo-prime-opening-to-pre-ipo/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Bitget </a>in conjunction with quantitative analysis firm&nbsp;Block Scholes&nbsp;documents how active traders&nbsp;are abandoning fragmented platforms to migrate toward environments that allow seamless movement across different asset classes&nbsp;on a continuous basis, without depending on traditional market hours. The data covers the first quarter of 2026, with&nbsp;Asia&nbsp;as the undisputed protagonist.
Southeast Asia accounts for 26.2% of active traders on Bitget, a platform operating across 150 regions with over 125 million users worldwide. It is followed by&nbsp;South Asia with 20.5% and the Middle East and Africa with 18.4%. However, this concentration becomes even more pronounced when the analysis focuses on&nbsp;tokenized real-world assets: Southeast Asia represents&nbsp;81.9%&nbsp;of total RWA volume on the platform.
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<h2 id="southeast-asia-rewrites-the-rules-of-hedging">Southeast Asia Rewrites the Rules of Hedging</h2>
Bitget’s tokenized traditional finance products reached&nbsp;$2 billion&nbsp;in daily volume just days after launch, then doubled to&nbsp;$4 billion&nbsp;and&nbsp;surpassed $6 billion&nbsp;during the quarter’s volatility peaks. The report identifies a specific episode as a case study: when Middle East tensions&nbsp;sustained demand for safe-haven assets, volumes in gold-linked contracts spiked sharply on the platform, as traders began executing hedges&nbsp;outside any conventional trading session.
“Modern traders no longer wait for markets to open —&nbsp;they know they never close,” said&nbsp;Gracy Chen, CEO of Bitget, in a statement. The executive noted that tokenization enables trading in&nbsp;stocks,&nbsp;<a href="https://crypto-economy.com/bitfinex-adds-xaut0-on-celo-for-tokenized-gold/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">gold</a>, silver, and commodities&nbsp;around the clock.
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<h2 id="bitcoin-increasingly-behaves-like-a-macro-asset">Bitcoin Increasingly Behaves Like a Macro Asset</h2>
The report also finds that&nbsp;the correlation between&nbsp;<a href="https://crypto-economy.com/crypto-market-rebounds-bitcoin-breaks-76k/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Bitcoin</a>&nbsp;and major stock market indices reached its highest level since late 2025, a phenomenon Block Scholes links to&nbsp;emerging markets&nbsp;responding to the same macroeconomic drivers. This alignment is key to understanding the logic of&nbsp;managing cryptocurrencies and traditional assets within a single operational ecosystem.

Southeast Asia Becomes the Epicenter of Tokenized RWA Trading Growth

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