MEXC TradFi Volume Hit 30-40% as Bitcoin (BTC) Trading Slowed

TradFi Volume Reached 30-40% of MEXC Trades

MEXC's TradFi trading volume climbed to 30-40% of total platform volume during the recent crypto market downturn, according to WuBlockchain, which published an interview with the crypto exchange's product director Vivien Lin on September 11. Lin argued that traditional finance and crypto have moved past the conceptual-convergence stage and are now genuinely interconnecting assets and capital, with users able to rotate between stock and contract trading positions without leaving the platform. She noted the TradFi share falls back whenever crypto speculation re-accelerates, making the 30-40% reading a downturn snapshot rather than a structural baseline. As of this writing, Bitcoin (BTC) changes hands near $76,826, well off its all-time high — precisely the kind of lull Lin described.

The centerpiece of the push is RealStocks, a US equities product MEXC launched on June 1 through a regulated securities broker. Unlike tokenized wrappers, the company says it grants access to actual US-listed shares — the full US market, from Meta Platforms to Cisco Systems, rather than a limited token roster — with dividend eligibility under stated conditions. Per the exchange's official FAQ, user accounts are opened in the name of VistaMX Markets Limited, while order execution, clearing, settlement and custody sit with Atomic Vaults Securities and related institutions; MEXC itself does not hold the stock assets. Funding runs through Tether's USDT, so users convert stablecoin balances into equity-buying power inside one account. Most RealStocks activity so far comes from existing crypto-native users rather than incoming TradFi customers, but Lin framed the opportunity as tenfold, arguing that tools like grid trading — trivial on a crypto venue, nearly inaccessible at a conventional broker — are the wedge that pulls traditional traders in.

Plain-Language AI Strategy for Futures

AI is the second pillar. MEXC rolled out AI Strategy on May 6, letting users type a trading idea in plain language — “buy when MACD reverses, sell on the next reversal” — and have the system expand it into professional instructions wired to the API and order engine. Users can tune parameters or accept recommended ones, backtest the result, then deploy. Strategies generated this way run in a separate sub-account, with the user reviewing configuration before execution. Lin was explicit that this is assistance, not autonomy: MEXC applies AI to news, search, strategy generation and internal workflows, but the platform has not entered the stage of making investment decisions on a user's behalf, and she argued human-to-machine trust must build first. Internally, staff convert repetitive tasks into reusable AI Skills, with localized models trimming token costs on high-frequency support queries. She also sketched a near-future flow where a user states a market view and risk appetite, the AI runs strategies and returns execution suggestions — with humans defining risk tolerance rather than each order. Lin additionally addressed liability when user-built AI agents trade on-platform: the exchange pushes standardized official tooling precisely to reduce third-party friction, since it cannot control which bots users attach to its interfaces.

Regulatory divergence shapes the rest of the roadmap. Lin said serving every market with a single product is no longer viable; MEXC builds modular, atomic components — order types, promotions, card features — that recombine per jurisdiction. As assets homogenize and centralized venues resemble traditional brokerages, she expects competition to shift to fees, R&D speed, product experience and licenses. She called decentralized exchanges' resilience underestimated: as compliant CEXs lose room for high-risk product experiments, freer DEX environments will keep carrying the industry's product and asset innovation. Readers tracking the market in real time can follow live spot and futures prices on Bitget.

The Brokerage-ization Race Ahead

The through-line is brokerage-ization: once a crypto exchange can settle equities custody through a regulated broker and generate executable futures strategies from a sentence, the old boundary between Wall Street and the trading floor becomes procedural, not technical. MEXC's official FAQ is the load-bearing document here — it confirms the VistaMX account structure and third-party custody chain that make the equity claims verifiable rather than marketing. The unresolved risks are equally concrete: institutional omnibus structures may differ from standard brokerage protection by jurisdiction, and the 30-40% TradFi share lacks a published methodology. COINOTAG's read is that fee schedules and license coverage, not asset lists, will decide the next round of the best crypto exchanges ranking.