What Is a Universal Exchange (UEX)? How One Account Can Trade Crypto, Stocks, and Gold Together

For most of financial history, trading different assets meant using different platforms: a brokerage for stocks, a bullion dealer or ETF for gold, a foreign-exchange service for currencies, and, more recently, a crypto exchange for digital assets. Each came with its own account, funding method, and fees. A newer model tries to collapse all of...