Bitget announced a strategic partnership between Reality, the protocol in its ecosystem responsible for tokenized U.S. stocks, and Merkl, a DeFi rewards infrastructure provider. The two parties will use Merkl’s reward forwarding feature to identify actual rToken holders in supported DeFi protocols. When users use rTokens for lending, liquidity pools, or staking, they can still receive stablecoin dividends in accordance with the applicable rules. According to DeFiLlama, rToken’s cumulative trading volume reached $1.16 billion from June to July 2026.