Sixty U.S. stocks are headed onchain

Nvidia, Tesla, Apple and 57 others — traded 24/7 against stablecoins on a public blockchain. Here's how OKXICE's new market actually works, and what could stop it. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ SPONSORED BY Monday, October 5, 2026 Nvidia, Tesla and Apple are going onchain. Here's how OKX and ICE's new market will work OKXICE — a joint venture between OKX and NYSE owner ICE — filed to offer more than 60 tokenized U.S. stocks around the clock, including Nvidia, Tesla, Apple, Coinbase and SpaceX. Each token is backed one-for-one by an underlying share, carries voting rights and dividends, and trades against stablecoins in blockchain liquidity pools rather than a traditional order book. Companies get a 30-day window to object. Cerebras already has. TD Securities says the real question is whether enough liquidity shows up to keep prices tight — especially on a Sunday night. Read more → A message from eCash Bitcoin hasn't shipped a meaningful upgrade since Taproot in 2021. So on October 31, Bitcoin's 18th birthday, it's being hard forked. eCash (ECX) is a Bitcoin hard fork that activates Drivechains (BIP300/301): opt-in sidechains for payments, privacy, and prediction markets. Same ledger, same addresses, same SHA-256 proof of work, plus the upgrade Bitcoin never merged. If a sidechain succeeds, Bitcoin miners earn new fee revenue. If it fails, L1 is unaffected. At the fork block (~973,728), every self-custodied BTC address is credited ECX 1:1, no claim, no sign-up. Your BTC stays on Bitcoin, untouched. Beta is live now, with 7 pools mining and a community already shipping new wallets, explorers, and trackers, unprompted. Holding BTC in your own wallet? You're in. See how the fork works Policy CFTC joins SEC in proposing crypto regulations, though spot-market gap lingers The CFTC proposed two rules Monday to establish federal oversight of leveraged and margined crypto trading — catching up to the SEC's earlier moves. The big gap remains unchanged: spot crypto trading stays under state money-transmission rules, not federal oversight. Chairman Selig, the sole commissioner on a five-member body, is moving unilaterally and says more guidance is coming. 4-minute read → Business Stripe to expand stablecoin cards to over 100 countries by the end of the year Stripe is rolling out stablecoin-backed payment cards to over 100 countries by year-end — letting users spend USDC and USDT anywhere Visa and Mastercard are accepted. "If you're a freelancer in Argentina or a developer in Nigeria, a stablecoin card is a better dollar account than most banks will give you," said Henri Stern, Stripe's new head of stablecoins. 3-minute read → Know someone who should be reading this? Share this newsletter See all of CoinDesk’s newsletters    CoinDesk, Inc., 61 9th Avenue, 5th Floor, New York,NY,10011,USA, Unsubscribe Manage Preferences   Copyright © 2026 CoinDesk, All rights reserved.