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Bitget has listed perpetual contracts for three stocks: EIDO (iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF), STM (STMicroelectronics), and EQT (EQT Corporation). These contracts are settled in USDT and support up to 20x leverage and 24/7 trading. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 382 stock contract underlying assets.
Odaily Report: Tether has announced the establishment of FASE (Financial Access and Systemic Empowerment Foundation), a Swiss nonprofit foundation focused on four key areas: financial security, financial inclusion, access to resources, and responsible AI and robotics technology. Founding parties include Tether, Kraken, Bybit, the Solana Foundation, Chainalysis, and Anchorage Digital, among other institutions.FASE's first batch of projects includes a partnership with youth platform Goodwall, planning to provide digital education and anti-fraud tools to up to 10 million young people, with a focus on Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia; and a pilot with Prosper Global to distribute humanitarian aid via stablecoins, initially covering up to 1 million people.In addition, FASE will collaborate with the United Nations Trust Fund to support civil society organizations in multiple African countries that provide assistance to survivors of human trafficking.
Odaily reports: On October 26, multiple US stock and ETF-related tickers on Gate gStocks posted gains, with assets tied to the semiconductor, pharmaceutical, and technology sectors showing active performance. According to the latest market data from Gate, the Direxion Semiconductor 3x Inverse ETF (SOXSG/USDT) rose 2.28% over 24 hours and is now trading at $53.03; the tokenized AbbVie stock (ABBVG/USDT) gained 1.78% over 24 hours and is now at $286.25; and the tokenized SK Hynix stock (SKHYNIXG/USDT) rose 1.77% over 24 hours and is now at $974.87.Gate gStocks employs a 1:1 fully collateralized native stock reserve mechanism, whereby each tokenized security is backed by an equivalent number of underlying native shares, and supports 7×24 trading, unified account management, a minimum investment of 1 USDT, and fractional share trading. Users can participate more flexibly in popular global stock investments and achieve one-stop allocation across digital assets and traditional securities. As the tokenized securities ecosystem continues to expand, Gate gStocks will keep adding more high-quality stocks and ETF tickers, offering users a more diversified range of global asset allocation options.
Odaily News: On October 26, WEEX Exchange announced the launch of its Halloween Invite Friends Celebration. Users can sign up and invite friends to register on WEEX. When the invited friend completes the campaign tasks of a net deposit ≥100 U and trading volume ≥10,000 U, the inviter will receive 1 gacha opportunity, with each inviter eligible for a maximum of 3 opportunities. Gacha rewards include: 50g of gold, PS5 Pro, Nintendo Switch 2, SPCX position airdrops, WXT token airdrops, USDT bonuses, and more. Campaign period: 10/26 18:00 - 11/16 17:59 (UTC+8).
Odaily Report: Bitget, together with its tokenized US equity protocol Reality, and Nasdaq-listed gold reserve company Aurelion (NASDAQ: AURE) have announced a strategic partnership. They plan to launch tokenized shares rAURE, with Bitget serving as the primary trading platform for the asset upon listing. rAURE will be issued by Reality and pegged 1:1 to the underlying custodied US equity asset AURE.Aurelion is a listed company whose primary reserve asset is tokenized gold XAU₮ (Tether Gold). This partnership will bring the tokenized equity assets of a Nasdaq-listed gold reserve company into the Web3 trading market, driving the integration of listed company equities, asset tokenization, and the gold sector. After rAURE is listed, users will be able to trade it on Bitget 24/5 and combine it with other tokenized equities and digital assets for portfolio allocation, expanding cross-asset trading scenarios and enhancing asset allocation flexibility and capital efficiency.
According to official news from Odaily, Gate Event Contracts has launched a limited-time trading campaign running from October 22 at 16:00 to November 5 at 08:00 (UTC+8), featuring a total reward pool worth 100,000 USDT, covering new user first-order rewards, trading check-ins, trading milestones, and a peak trading competition. On the product side, a new INDEX (contract index price) market has been added, covering BTC and ETH on 5-minute and 15-minute cycles, using the Gate contract index price as the settlement basis and operating independently from the existing TWAP market; the simultaneously launched "one-click trading" feature supports preset amounts of 5, 20, and 100 USDT as well as custom amounts, simplifying the order placement process for short-cycle trading.During the campaign, users must register before trading. The first 1,000 eligible new users who complete their first trade with a net buy value of no less than 20 USDT can receive a reward worth 5.5 USDT; users who complete the required trades and check in for at least 3 cumulative days can share in a prize pool worth 10,000 USDT based on the proportion of check-in days. Users with a daily trading volume of no less than 10,000 USDT who meet the requirement for 7 consecutive days can receive a reward worth 140 USDT; those with a cumulative trading volume of 20,000 USDT can also participate in a 30,000 USDT trading volume sharing prize pool. On the peak leaderboard, users with a cumulative trading volume of 150,000 USDT can receive a guaranteed reward worth 1,000 USDT, and the first-place winner can additionally receive a reward worth 4,000 USDT. All rewards are issued in the form of Event Contract trial coupons; the first-order reward can be stacked, while the other three types of rewards are issued at the higher value. This campaign, combined with product upgrades, brings Gate Event Contract users more market choices and a more efficient order placement experience.
According to official announcements, Odaily reports that Huobi HTX listed PG/USDT and ABBV/USDT perpetual contracts on October 26, supporting 1-20x long and short positions. Meanwhile, from now until October 29 at 15:00 (UTC+8), Huobi HTX is launching a new contract trading competition. Users who complete registration, participate in trading the designated contract pairs, and reach the specified thresholds will have the opportunity to share a total prize pool of 1 billion $HTX and 5,000 USDT in contract trial funds.
According to the official announcement, Binance Futures will list four USDT-margined TradFi perpetual contracts in batches from 17:00 to 17:15 on October 26 (UTC+8): EIDOUSDT, EQTUSDT, STMUSDT, and ABBVUSDT, corresponding to the iShares MSCI Indonesia ETF, EQT Corporation, STMicroelectronics, and AbbVie.
Bitget launches its Futures Trading Ranking Competition, running from October 26 at 11:00 to November 9 at 11:00 (UTC+8). During the event, users who complete cumulative futures trading volume tasks can earn up to 18 scratch card attempts, with a maximum reward of 1 XAUT per attempt. Additionally, the event features a trading leaderboard. Users ranking in the top 30 by total trading volume who meet the corresponding thresholds will receive Lao Pu Gold jewelry, Chow Tai Fook gold ingots, and up to 1,000 USDT in rewards. For more details, please visit the official Bitget platform.
CoinDCX has issued an announcement stating that it detected anomalous system activity on October 21, and subsequent investigation confirmed that the anomalous activity affected legacy wallet infrastructure that had been deprecated following the July 2025 security incident. CoinDCX stated that due to a malfunction in the automated fund sweeping service that lasted for a period of time, some user deposits mistakenly sent to old addresses were not transferred in a timely manner, ultimately resulting in a loss of 15.99 million USDT, with the related losses borne by the company.CoinDCX emphasized that existing wallets and trading systems were unaffected, user funds remain securely held in isolated cold wallets, and trading, deposit, and withdrawal services all continue to operate normally.
Binance Futures will launch PREDICT/USDT perpetual contract pre-market trading at 14:45 (Beijing Time) on October 25, with a maximum leverage of 5x.
Odaily — Digital asset company Tether has announced that 15 Bitcoin mining companies, ASIC manufacturers, and mining pools have committed to jointly building and maintaining integrations for its open-source mining development kit, MDK. MDK aims to unify access methods across different mining infrastructures, enabling developers to build applications and AI automation systems.Participants will develop and maintain MDK Workers, converting their respective hardware, mining pool, or system interfaces into universal interfaces; without needing to replace existing technology, they can also decide which features to open up. Existing applications can connect to different mining environments through MDK.Tether's QVAC mining agent has already connected to mining infrastructure through MDK. MDK version 0.11 will be released on October 23–24 at the Plan ₿ Forum in Lugano, with the first stable version 1.0 planned for launch by the end of 2026. (Tether News)
Bitget has listed perpetual contracts for 2 stocks: DHR (Danaher) and TSTOCK (AT&T). These contracts are settled in USDT and support up to 20x leverage and 24/7 trading. As of now, Bitget supports a total of 376 stock contract underlying assets.
SlowMist released a security alert warning that the NEM token contract suffered an attack, causing losses of approximately $821,920. The root cause stems from NemTokenV2 recording tokens transferred into the liquidity pool (LP) in the sell volume without verifying swap settlement. Exploiting this vulnerability, the attacker repeatedly executed transfers, called skim() to clear the incoming tokens, and called flushLpSellRecycle() a total of 42 times, depleting the pool's original reserves and suppressing the NEM reserve balance. The attacker then sold the remaining NEM at the inflated price to extract USDT.
according to an official announcement, Huobi HTX listed CMCSA/USDT and IOST/USDT perpetual contracts on October 22, supporting 1-20x long and short positions. Meanwhile, from now until October 29 at 15:00 (UTC+8), Huobi HTX is launching a new contract token trading competition. Users who complete registration, participate in trading the designated event tokens' contracts, and reach the specified threshold will have the opportunity to share in a total prize pool of 1 billion $HTX and 5,000 USDT in contract trial funds.
Odaily — Gate has released its "Q3 2026 Report," showing continued growth in its trading business and a significant expansion of its multi-asset trading product matrix in Q3 2026. According to CoinDesk data, Gate's derivatives trading volume reached $396 billion in September, up 38.2% quarter-over-quarter, ranking among the global top three centralized derivatives exchanges with market share rising to 10.1%. Over the same period, spot trading volume reached $48.8 billion, up 21.9% quarter-over-quarter, while its RWA perpetual contract market share reached 9.1%, ranking third globally.On the TradFi side, Gate's stock and ETF coverage increased to over 12,800 instruments, spanning U.S., Hong Kong, Korean, and Japanese equities, providing users with a rich selection of global asset allocation options. Its tokenized stock business gStocks continued to expand its tradable instruments, with monthly trading volume exceeding 2.5 billion USDT in August, and its comprehensive competitiveness in stock spot trading ranking among the global top two. Gate ETF quarterly trading volume approached 60 billion USDT, with ETF trading pairs supported by the platform increasing to 424; options quarterly trading volume grew 23.8% quarter-over-quarter, and the number of new trading users rose 52.1%, as U.S. stock options continue to broaden traditional financial asset trading scenarios. The launch of stock copy trading further connects stock and ETF trading across multiple markets, enriching the ways users can participate in global financial markets.From crypto asset trading to global stocks, ETFs, CFDs, and multi-asset derivatives, Gate continues to broaden its product coverage and trading scenarios, driving the accelerated integration of digital assets and traditional financial markets while refining its one-stop multi-asset trading service system.
Bitget has listed USDT-margined AXIS perpetual futures, supporting up to 20x leverage, and its futures trading bots will be made available simultaneously.
Binance Wallet has announced the launch of the PREDICT/USDT pre-market perpetual contract, supporting up to 5x leverage. Additionally, eligible users who enable multi-asset mode can use their held tokenized stocks (bStocks) as collateral, with up to 90% of their market value counted toward margin.
Bybit today added the Axis Robotics (AXIS/USDT) perpetual contract, supporting up to 20x leverage.
Peso has announced the completion of its Pre-Seed funding round, led by Tether. Peso is a Bolivian fintech company that offers a USDT account integrating savings, spending, investing, and cross-border transfers. It connects to the Bolivian banking system through QR codes and the ACH payment network, supporting exchanges between stablecoins and local fiat currency. Peso has integrated USDT payments into the digital services platform Yango, allowing users to pay for food delivery orders directly within the app. The funds from this round will be used to expand Peso's local fiat on-ramp and off-ramp channels in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, and Argentina, as well as to build a merchant-facing POS payment network and virtual account infrastructure.