Stacks is a Bitcoin L2, bringing smart contract functionality to Bitcoin, without modifying Bitcoin itself. Stacks takes a pyramid approach, where you have the foundational settlement layer at the bottom (Bitcoin), and then a layer on top of that to add smart contracts and programmability (Stacks), and then layers on top of that for scalability and speed (Hiro's Subnets).
Stacks Labs officially released the Q3 2026 Ecosystem Report. The report shows that the Bitcoin staking feature has launched on mainnet, introducing approximately 735 BTC into the Stacks ecosystem through the first two Bonding Periods. The PoX-5 hard fork was activated on July 30. The first institutional staking period (Genesis Bond), opened on September 10, filled its 230 BTC capacity, with 21Shares, HashKey Cloud, UTXO Management, and Sypher Capital becoming the first participating institutions. The second staking period, opened on October 8, further absorbed an additional 505 BTC.
Odaily News: Bitcoin News posted on X platform that Strike has launched the Stacks Bitcoin savings envelope system, allowing users to divide their holdings into up to 5 custom-named buckets, each of which supports fee-free recurring buys. Transfers between Stacks and the main balance are fee-free and unlimited in number, but funds must first be transferred back to the main balance before withdrawal. On the same day, Strike added 3.6% interest on USD cash balances, with interest paid in Bitcoin, and the relevant assets are still held in Strike's multisig cold storage.
Odaily News: Muneeb Ali stated that in his first 30 days after returning as CEO of Stacks Labs, he will focus on advancing five areas of work: expanding institutional business development, simplifying the management structure, publishing a technology roadmap for the next two years, strengthening communication with large STX holders, and further clarifying the value capture mechanism of STX. He said that institutional demand for Bitcoin Bonds is increasing, and the future roadmap will also cover institution-grade BTC privacy and quantum-resistant technology. Stacks Labs plans to transfer all intellectual property to a shareholder-free Endowment.
Odaily News: According to an official announcement, Binance Auto-Invest will support the following stocks and ETFs starting September 17, 2026 at 10:00 (UTC): ABNB, ACN, ADI, ADP, AEM, AEP, ALL, AMGN, AMT, AMX, ANET, AON, APD, APH, APO, APP, ASX, AXP, AZN, B, BA, BAM, BBVA, BCS, BE, BHP, BKNG, BMO, BMY, BN, BNS, BNY, BP, BTI, BUD, CAT, CB, CDNS, CEG, CI, CL, CM, CMCSA, CME, CMI, CNI, CNQ, COF, COP, CP, CRWD, CSCO, CSX, CTAS, CVS, DASH, DB, DDOG, DE, DELL, DLR, DUK, E, ECL, ELV, EMR, ENB, EOG, EQIX, EQNR, ETN, FCX, FDX, FTNT, GD, GE, GEV, GILD, GLW, GM, GOOG, GSK, HCA, HDB, HLT, HON, HPE, HSBC, HWM, IBM, IBN, ICE, IMO, ING, ITUB, ITW, JCI, KKR, KMI, LIN, LITE, LMT, LOW, LYG, MAR, MCK, MCO, MDLZ, MDT, MELI, MFC, MFG, MMM, MNST, MO, MPC, MRSH, MRVL, MSI, MUFG, NEE, NEM, NET, NGG, NOC, NSC, NTES, NU, NVO, NVS, NWG, ORLY, PBR, PBR.A, PCAR, PDD, PGR, PH, PLD, PM, PNC, PSX, PWR, RACE, RCL, REGN, RIO, ROST, RSG, RTX, RY, SAN, SAP, SCCO, SE, SHEL, SHOP, SHW, SKHY, SLB, SMFG, SNDK, SNPS, SNY, SO, SONY, SPCX, SPG, SPGI, SPOT, STX, SU, SYK, T, TD, TGT, TJX, TM, TMO, TMUS, TRP, TRV, TT, TTE, UBER, UBS, UL, UNP, UPS, USB, VLO, VRT, VRTX, VZ, WBD, WDC, WELL, WM, WMB, WPM.
Stacks co-founder Muneeb Ali stated that the Satoshi Upgrade I hard fork has been successfully completed, and the network's decentralization has further improved after the new signer went live. Regarding Binance's "monitoring label," there are currently no concerns regarding delisting risks or liquidity, but waiting for the next round of formal evaluation is still necessary.
Odaily News NVIDIA has released Vera CPU storage benchmark results, showing that its NVIDIA BlueField-4 STX storage processor can significantly improve encryption, compression, integrity verification, and data recovery performance in AI-native storage, helping enterprises address the growing data processing demands of the Agentic AI era.NVIDIA stated that as AI agents perform knowledge retrieval, call tools, manage long-term memory, and handle larger context windows, storage systems are no longer just simple data read/write components, but have become a critical link in the AI inference pipeline. Large volumes of data need to be encrypted, compressed, verified, and recovered along the storage path, tasks typically handled by the CPU, which can become a performance bottleneck for AI infrastructure. Benchmark results show that the BlueField-4 STX storage processor equipped with the Vera CPU delivers performance improvements over a comparison x86 CPU across multiple storage tasks: AES-128 encryption performance improved by up to 1.43xAES-128 decryption performance improved by up to 1.29xReed-Solomon data recovery performance improved by up to 3.26xCRC32C integrity check performance improved by up to 3.67xCompression performance improved by up to 3.29xDecompression performance improved by up to 1.72xCompression + encryption multi-stage storage pipeline performance improved by up to 3.21xNVIDIA said that while traditional CPUs typically require adding cores, power consumption, and cooling costs to scale storage processing capabilities, AI-native storage needs to maintain low latency under higher concurrency and larger data volumes. By improving per-unit CPU resource processing capability, Vera helps storage systems support more AI agent workloads without significantly increasing infrastructure costs.
Stacks Labs officially released the Q3 2026 Ecosystem Report. The report shows that the Bitcoin staking feature has launched on mainnet, introducing approximately 735 BTC into the Stacks ecosystem through the first two Bonding Periods. The PoX-5 hard fork was activated on July 30. The first institutional staking period (Genesis Bond), opened on September 10, filled its 230 BTC capacity, with 21Shares, HashKey Cloud, UTXO Management, and Sypher Capital becoming the first participating institutions. The second staking period, opened on October 8, further absorbed an additional 505 BTC.
Odaily News: Bitcoin News posted on X platform that Strike has launched the Stacks Bitcoin savings envelope system, allowing users to divide their holdings into up to 5 custom-named buckets, each of which supports fee-free recurring buys. Transfers between Stacks and the main balance are fee-free and unlimited in number, but funds must first be transferred back to the main balance before withdrawal. On the same day, Strike added 3.6% interest on USD cash balances, with interest paid in Bitcoin, and the relevant assets are still held in Strike's multisig cold storage.
According to fund flow research, JPMorgan’s October 7, 2026 research report indicates that retail net inflows reached $5.7 billion in a single week, below the 12-month average of $6.7 billion. The percentile rank for tech sector ETF inflows rose from 4% four weeks ago to 73%. The top five purchased stocks were NVIDIA ($834 million), Google ($265 million), SNDK ($150 million), MU ($135 million), and STX ($129 million). Consensus earnings growth expectations for the Q3 earnings season stand at 31%, or 27% excluding energy. JPMorgan notes that retail investors are net buying across the entire technology sector, with semiconductors, hardware, and software all gaining favor; software has also returned to focus. Whether this rotation can continue will depend on validation during the Q3 earnings season. Large banks, having underperformed recently, present pre-earnings rebound opportunities amid improving net interest income expectations. On the Brazil front, after EWZ surged 13% on Monday, retail investors took profits. JPMorgan strategists project the index could appreciate another 20% in the short term.
Odaily News: Muneeb Ali stated that in his first 30 days after returning as CEO of Stacks Labs, he will focus on advancing five areas of work: expanding institutional business development, simplifying the management structure, publishing a technology roadmap for the next two years, strengthening communication with large STX holders, and further clarifying the value capture mechanism of STX. He said that institutional demand for Bitcoin Bonds is increasing, and the future roadmap will also cover institution-grade BTC privacy and quantum-resistant technology. Stacks Labs plans to transfer all intellectual property to a shareholder-free Endowment.
Odaily News: Muneeb Ali posted on X platform that he will serve as the new CEO of Stacks Labs. Last year, Stacks underwent an ecosystem restructuring, with Stacks Labs becoming the protocol operations hub; over the past year, Alex Miller served as interim CEO of Stacks Labs. Muneeb Ali stated that he is more bullish on STX than ever before; with the successful launch of Bitcoin staking, he will increase investment in the development of the Bitcoin capital markets. Affected by this news, STX has risen 10.9% over the past 24 hours.
Odaily News: According to an official announcement, Binance Auto-Invest will support the following stocks and ETFs starting September 17, 2026 at 10:00 (UTC): ABNB, ACN, ADI, ADP, AEM, AEP, ALL, AMGN, AMT, AMX, ANET, AON, APD, APH, APO, APP, ASX, AXP, AZN, B, BA, BAM, BBVA, BCS, BE, BHP, BKNG, BMO, BMY, BN, BNS, BNY, BP, BTI, BUD, CAT, CB, CDNS, CEG, CI, CL, CM, CMCSA, CME, CMI, CNI, CNQ, COF, COP, CP, CRWD, CSCO, CSX, CTAS, CVS, DASH, DB, DDOG, DE, DELL, DLR, DUK, E, ECL, ELV, EMR, ENB, EOG, EQIX, EQNR, ETN, FCX, FDX, FTNT, GD, GE, GEV, GILD, GLW, GM, GOOG, GSK, HCA, HDB, HLT, HON, HPE, HSBC, HWM, IBM, IBN, ICE, IMO, ING, ITUB, ITW, JCI, KKR, KMI, LIN, LITE, LMT, LOW, LYG, MAR, MCK, MCO, MDLZ, MDT, MELI, MFC, MFG, MMM, MNST, MO, MPC, MRSH, MRVL, MSI, MUFG, NEE, NEM, NET, NGG, NOC, NSC, NTES, NU, NVO, NVS, NWG, ORLY, PBR, PBR.A, PCAR, PDD, PGR, PH, PLD, PM, PNC, PSX, PWR, RACE, RCL, REGN, RIO, ROST, RSG, RTX, RY, SAN, SAP, SCCO, SE, SHEL, SHOP, SHW, SKHY, SLB, SMFG, SNDK, SNPS, SNY, SO, SONY, SPCX, SPG, SPGI, SPOT, STX, SU, SYK, T, TD, TGT, TJX, TM, TMO, TMUS, TRP, TRV, TT, TTE, UBER, UBS, UL, UNP, UPS, USB, VLO, VRT, VRTX, VZ, WBD, WDC, WELL, WM, WMB, WPM.