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Buying US stocks with USDT: crypto exchange or traditional broker? (2026)

In 2026, the real trap when buying US stocks with USDT isn't the fee — it's whether what you clicked on is actually a stock. Search TSLA on the same platform and you may see three things at once: real shares, tokenized stocks and stock perpetual futures. This article first explains the legal nature and risk of the three products, then shows you four pieces of evidence to tell them apart, and finally compares the four real-stock entries from Binance, Gate, Bitget and MEXC.