I noticed something on Bitget today, and it genuinely made me think that this could be one of those features Binance eventually includes as well.
In the past, things like P2P trading or copy trading were not standard on exchanges. Once users realized how much easier those features made their workflow, major platforms like Binance integrated them too. It was not about innovation for the sake of it. It was about removing friction.
What I saw was how TradFi markets are being accessed inside the exchange. Not as a separate broker product, but as an extension of the same account structure traders already use. Forex, gold, commodities, and indices are available without opening a broker account, without funding fiat, and without managing a second balance. Everything runs under one account with a single margin pool.
That part is what stood out to me.
Instead of treating traditional markets as something completely separate, it uses the same logic crypto traders already understand. You move funds internally and rotate between markets depending on opportunity. If crypto is slow, you can look at FX or gold. If volatility returns to crypto, you rotate back. No platform switching involved.
How it actually works in practice
You create the TradFi account inside the exchange and fund it using USDT from your main balance. From there, you trade instruments like EURUSD or gold the same way you would trade futures. Position size, leverage, and risk controls are all familiar if you have traded derivatives before.
Leverage here is not framed as a selling point. It is just a parameter. Used properly, it reduces capital lockup per trade. Anyone with futures experience already understands that leverage itself is not the risk. Poor sizing is.
Why this feels like a natural next step for exchanges
This does not replace brokers, and it does not replace crypto trading. It simply adds flexibility, similar to how copy trading did not replace manual trading, and P2P did not replace spot markets.
Once users get comfortable managing multiple asset types under one account, this kind of setup becomes hard to unlearn.
That is why it feels less like a niche feature and more like something major exchanges may eventually adopt for user convenience.
Sharing purely as an observation from what I saw and how it works. Curious how others see this. Would you rather keep traditional markets fully separate, or does a unified account make more sense once you understand the risks?