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.

SEC approves a 3x fix for bitcoin and ether traders

The SEC just approved 3x leveraged bitcoin and ether ETFs — the first in U.S. history. The dollar is at an 18-month high and bitcoin is holding. And 786K ETH is stuck in a two-week exit line. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Monday, October 5, 2026   The SEC approved the first-ever 3x leveraged bitcoin and ether ETFs on Thursday. They can’t trade yet — the issuer still needs registration approval — but the principle is established. The Dollar Index hit an 18-month high of 102.5 this morning and bitcoin is holding firm, continuing to defy the macro headwind. In Ethereum, the MetaMask-driven staking exit surge has left around 786,000 ETH worth over $2 billion in a queue with a two-week wait. Traders are also pricing out an October Fed hike following Friday’s softer jobs data. Stay alert. Read today’s full report → Market snapshot As of 8am EST Asset Price 24h BTC $86,076 +1.12% ETH $2,714 +0.70% SOL $120.55 −0.64% XRP $1.51 +0.88% Prices approximate. Visit coindesk.com/price for live data. What matters today Markets   Story 1 of 3 The SEC just approved 3x leveraged bitcoin and ether ETFs The SEC approved a Cboe rule change on October 2 allowing six Volatility Shares ETFs to deliver three times the daily return of bitcoin, ether, gold, silver, crude oil and natural gas — the first time 3x crypto leverage has been permitted in the U.S., where funds had previously been capped at 2x. The products can’t trade yet as the issuer still needs registration approval, and no deadline was set. These funds hold regulated futures, not spot tokens, and must rebalance daily to keep leverage pinned at 3x, which creates mechanical buying after gains and selling after losses near the close. That daily reset also means multi-day returns can deviate sharply from 3x, and in a sideways market, volatility decay bleeds capital: if bitcoin gains 10% one day and loses 10% the next, a 3x fund ends down 9% while spot ends down 1%. Volatility Shares’ own prospectus warns the fund “is not suitable for all investors” and carries risk of total loss. Read more → Markets   Story 2 of 3 The dollar is at an 18-month high — and bitcoin is holding firm The U.S. Dollar Index hit roughly 102.5 Monday, its highest level since April 2025, rising from near 99 in early September on the back of 19-year highs in Treasury yields and the Fed’s September rate hike. A stronger dollar typically pressures risk assets by raising the cost of dollar-denominated debt and making bonds more attractive — but bitcoin is holding near $86,000, extending a pattern of relative resilience. The euro has dropped to a 17-month low near $1.11 as fiscal concerns in France and Spain’s snap election weigh on sentiment, accounting for the bulk of the DXY move given the euro’s 57.6% weight in the index. Markets are now pricing out an October Fed hike following Friday’s weaker-than-expected nonfarm payrolls, with yields edging lower in response — a modest but meaningful tailwind for bitcoin heading into the week. Read more → Tech   Story 3 of 3 Ethereum has a 25-day wait to start staking — with nearly 1.5 million ETH in line The ETH staking exit queue jumped more than fivefold in three days last week — from 166,000 ETH to roughly 851,000 ETH — after MetaMask began withdrawing validators as a precaution following its September 30 security incident. About 786,000 ETH (worth just over $2 billion) remained in the exit queue as of Monday, with a wait of nearly 14 days, as Ethereum’s protocol limits exits to around 57,600 ETH per day to protect network stability. MetaMask found no evidence of wallet or customer fund exposure; Lido expects affected validators to finish exiting by October 7, after which coins will gradually re-enter staking over a process that could take up to 45 days. Separately, demand to enter staking has been cooling: 1.5 million ETH was in the entry queue Monday with an estimated 25-day wait, down from 2 million ETH and a 35-day wait in early September. Read more → CoinDesk Disclosure: The information contained in this newsletter, and any information linked through the items contained herein, is not intended to provide sufficient information to form the basis for an investment decision. You should seek additional information regarding the merits and risks of investing in any cryptocurrency or digital assets. L1.co Disclosure: This material is for informational purposes only, and the content contained herein should not be considered investment advice or a solicitation, offer, or recommendation to sell or buy any asset, strategy, or product. Investing in digital assets involves a high degree of risk, including the loss of principal. Crypto Daybook Americas: A newsletter from CoinDesk Were you forwarded this newsletter? Sign up here.  Copyright © 2026 CoinDesk, All rights reserved.  CoinDesk, Inc., 61 9th Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10011, USA Unsubscribe Manage preferences

The bull market came back! And so did the hackers...

Bitcoin had its best quarter since Q4 2024 — and crypto lost $1.26B to hackers over the same period. MetaMask pulled ETH staking after a security incident. Citi just set a $113K target. ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Thursday, October 1, 2026   Welcome to Q4. Bitcoin just closed its best quarter since Q4 2024 — up more than 40%. The flip side: crypto lost $1.26 billion to hackers over the same period, with September the worst month of 2026 by both count and dollar value. Citigroup raised its 12-month bitcoin target to $113,000 this morning. MetaMask pulled its ETH staking service overnight after block rewards were diverted to an unauthorized wallet. And the 30-year Treasury yield hit 5.67%, its highest since 2002. Stay alert. Read today’s full report → Market snapshot As of 8am EST Asset Price 24h BTC $83,954 +0.10% ETH $2,707 +0.40% SOL $118.02 −1.18% XRP $1.49 −1.36% Prices approximate. Visit coindesk.com/price for live data. What matters today Markets   Story 1 of 3 Bitcoin had a monster quarter. So did crypto hackers Crypto suffered 247 security incidents in Q3 with losses of $1.26 billion, per CertiK data, even as bitcoin gained more than 40% over the same period. September was the worst month of 2026 by both count and dollar value: 99 incidents and $768.5 million stolen, the most since February 2025. The insurance safety net is shrinking relative to risks — on-chain crypto insurance coverage capacity stood at $130.2 million as of August, down 20% year-over-year. AI is now accelerating the threat by automating the search for smart contract vulnerabilities, a process that once took skilled engineers months. Nansen senior analyst Nicolai Sondergaard noted that most institutional capital is arriving through regulated ETF wrappers and avoiding DeFi entirely, limiting contagion — but the reputational damage from persistent exploits can slow adoption and push regulators to act even when direct losses are contained. Read more → Tech   Story 2 of 3 MetaMask pulls Ethereum staking after a security incident diverts block rewards MetaMask took its Ethereum staking infrastructure offline overnight after a security incident in which payments from producing blocks were diverted to an unauthorized wallet, according to a security researcher who identified the problem. Lido, which provides the underlying staking infrastructure, is warning affected users that they may have lost staking rewards as a result. No user funds held in wallets are reported to be at risk — the issue is confined to validator rewards. MetaMask's staking product allows users to stake ETH without leaving the wallet interface; the service is now suspended while the incident is investigated. The episode comes as the MetaMask parent company has been navigating regulatory scrutiny in several jurisdictions and adds to a string of Ethereum infrastructure security incidents over the past quarter. Read more → Markets   Story 3 of 3 Bitcoin kicks off Q4 in the same $82,000–$85,000 range it has held for weeks Bitcoin is consolidating in the $82,000–$85,000 band as Q4 opens, the same range it occupied before the September 21 breakout and where it has since returned. Citigroup raised its 12-month price target to $113,000 this morning, forecasting around $5 billion in ETF inflows over the next year as wealth advisers and brokerages gradually increase allocations. On-chain data shows the $82,813 level — the former resistance that flipped to support on September 21 — continues to hold, which chart analysts say keeps the broader bull structure intact. The 30-year Treasury yield hit 5.67% overnight, its highest since 2002, which is weighing on sentiment at the open. Nonfarm payrolls data on Friday will be the next major macro catalyst, with a weak print likely to ease yield pressure and give bitcoin room to retest the $85,000–$87,000 resistance zone. Read more → CoinDesk Disclosure: The information contained in this newsletter, and any information linked through the items contained herein, is not intended to provide sufficient information to form the basis for an investment decision. You should seek additional information regarding the merits and risks of investing in any cryptocurrency or digital assets. L1.co Disclosure: This material is for informational purposes only, and the content contained herein should not be considered investment advice or a solicitation, offer, or recommendation to sell or buy any asset, strategy, or product. Investing in digital assets involves a high degree of risk, including the loss of principal. Crypto Daybook Americas: A newsletter from CoinDesk Were you forwarded this newsletter? Sign up here.  Copyright © 2026 CoinDesk, All rights reserved.  CoinDesk, Inc., 61 9th Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10011, USA Unsubscribe Manage preferences