KuCoin TradFi Expands to 170+ Assets Across Global Markets

KuCoin announced an expansion of its TradFi trading arm to cover more than 170 assets, extending around-the-clock access to contracts referencing equities from the United States, Hong Kong, and South Korea, as well as metals and other commodities. The move marks a significant broadening of the crypto platform's bridge between digital-asset infrastructure and traditional financial markets.

The expansion gives eligible users continuous trading windows that conventional stock exchanges do not offer, a structural advantage that crypto-native platforms have increasingly leveraged to attract users frustrated by standard market hours. By referencing — rather than directly holding — underlying equities and commodities, the contracts allow participants to gain price exposure without requiring custody of the traditional assets themselves.

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KuCoin, headquartered operationally in the Turks and Caicos Islands, has positioned TradFi as a product designed to blur the boundary between crypto and legacy finance. The addition of South Korean and Hong Kong equity references alongside U.S. stocks signals an effort to capture demand across Asia-Pacific time zones, where overnight gaps in U.S. market access have historically limited retail participation.

The announcement reflects a broader industry trend in which crypto exchanges seek to retain and grow their user bases by offering asset classes beyond Bitcoin and altcoins. Whether regulators in key jurisdictions will scrutinize the contracts as securities products remains an open question that could shape the product's long-term availability. Continue reading at Cryptocurrency.