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Tom Lee, Chairman of the Ethereum treasury company Bitmine, posted on the X platform stating that as of the third quarter, approximately 20% of the stocks with the highest gains in the Russell 1000 index are cryptocurrency-related stocks. Among them, BMNR has increased by 99% since the third quarter, ranking 4th; MSTR has increased by 67%, ranking 12th; CRCL has increased by 65%, ranking 14th; BLSH has increased by 55%, ranking 21st.Tom Lee added that with only one month left until the end of the third quarter, these strong-performing crypto stocks may become targets for investors to pursue next.

According to Gate market data, on the tokenized stock product gStocks of the cryptocurrency exchange Gate, the MicroStrategy token MSTRG/USDT has increased by 16.33% in 24 hours, priced at $142.83; the Circle internet token CRCLG/USDT has risen by 15.40% in 24 hours, priced at $101.74; the Robinhood token HOODG/USDT has increased by 14.57% in 24 hours, priced at $124.63.Gate gStocks adopts a 1:1 native stock reserve, with each tokenized security corresponding to an equal number of native stocks as the underlying asset, and supports 24/7 trading and fractional share trading.

According to Digital Asset, the South Korean Financial Services Commission has announced plans to advance a tokenization model for listed stocks centered around the Korea Exchange (KRX), referencing pilot programs from the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ. Non-listed stocks will be advanced for tokenization through a trust method.The Financial Services Commission has released a three-phase roadmap for the tokenization of standardized assets. The first phase will launch in February 2027 when the token securities law is implemented, targeting tokenization of private money market funds, private corporate bonds, and non-listed stocks, limited to institutional investors. The second phase will expand the scope to public offerings. The third phase will promote "on-chain settlement," meaning that both securities and settlement methods will complete payments and settlements on the blockchain. The Financial Services Commission stated that on-chain settlement will be officially advanced after stablecoin legislation.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire posted on X that over 1% of CRCL is held in the form of tokenized stock, amounting to over $280 million, more than any other publicly listed company in the world.

Bloomberg ETF analyst Eric Balchunas posted that over the past 6 months, Bitcoin's correlation with the U.S. stock market has been lower than that of gold, small-cap stocks, emerging market assets, and U.S. Treasuries.He stated that Bitcoin's historical correlation with U.S. stocks has roughly maintained around 0.4, while gold and U.S. Treasuries have seen a significant increase in their linkage with U.S. stocks recently.Balchunas noted that although this time window is relatively short, it is sufficient to refute the claim that "Bitcoin is just another QQQ."

Cryptocurrency exchange Backpack announced that users can now use Micron and SanDisk stocks as collateral to deposit into a unified investment portfolio margin account that covers stocks, cryptocurrencies, and other assets. Stock holdings can be used for USD lending, contract trading, and spot margin.Backpack had previously provided 24/7 trading services for some U.S. stocks to international investors, who have complete ownership of the traded U.S. stocks and can perform 1:1 bridging between traditional securities and tokenized assets on Solana. The newly added collateral is limited to the two stocks mentioned above, and Backpack has also launched perpetual contracts for MU, SNDK, SPY, and QQQ. Backpack stated that more assets will be launched in the future, but did not disclose a specific timeline.

On September 2, 2026, at 20:00, the Coin Security Warehouse Leverage, Unified Account Model, and Unified Account Professional Version will add 4 new bStocks tokens---Seagate (STXB), ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ (SQQQB), Moderna (MRNAB), and CrowdStrike (CRWDB)---as eligible collateral assets. Eligible users can use these tokens as margin collateral.

Binance will launch the bStocks tokenized securities trading pairs on September 2, 2026, at 20:00: CrowdStrike (CRWDB), Moderna (MRNAB), ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ (SQQQB), and Seagate (STXB). The spot algorithm trading bot will be activated simultaneously with the spot listing, and the smart holding bot will be enabled within 24 hours after the launch.Users can exchange bStocks for BTC, USDT, or other supported tokens without fees within one hour after the launch. During the event, CRWDB/USDT, MRNAB/USDT, SQQQB/USDT, and STXB/USDT will enjoy zero maker fees until October 1, 2026, at 07:59.

DeFiprime founder Nick Sawinyh analyzed that the Meme coin issuance platform on the Robinhood Chain is massively using tokenized stocks as paired assets. As of September 1, approximately 17.2% of the on-chain supply of 19 high liquidity Robinhood stock tokens is locked in 432 pools that use stock tokens as quoted assets, contributing 31.3% of the DEX trading volume of related stock tokens in the past 24 hours. The four issuance platforms Long, Bankr, Flap, and PAIR have set stock-paired Meme coins as default products.Among them, the AI/NVDA pool holds 8,783 NVDA (accounting for 16.2% of the total on-chain tokenized NVDA), with a 24-hour trading volume of about $6.2 million; the BONER/HIMS pool holds 37,172 HIMS (accounting for 50.4% of the total HIMS on the chain), with a trading volume of about $12.5 million. This mechanism has led to significant premiums for some tokenized stocks over the weekend (when issuers cannot issue more), with HIMS once trading at a premium of 112% compared to the NYSE closing price. The TVL of the Robinhood Chain has nearly doubled since August 1 to $740 million, with on-chain DEX daily trading volume reaching $1.49 billion on August 31. The analysis points out that 9 stock tokens have an on-chain circulating market value of less than $1.5 million, and a single Meme coin pool can absorb a large proportion of the circulating supply. This analysis is based on specific block snapshot data, with prices and pool balances changing rapidly.

According to The Block, Hyperliquid's block trading layer Silhouette launched its Request for Quote (RFQ) trading system on the mainnet on Tuesday, initially supporting tokenized stocks from Payward's tokenized stock framework xStocks. Silhouette stated that the system allows traders to initiate quote requests for any supported xStock and receive competitive quotes from connected market makers, with winning trades able to settle on-chain at any time and in any size.The RFQ system enables trading of supported xStocks without a dedicated order book, and tokens that generate sufficient trading activity can subsequently be upgraded to an independent HyperCore market. Silhouette founder Chandler De Kock mentioned that while tokenized stocks continue to go on-chain, they mostly lack trading venues, and market makers compete for each trade, with settlement completed on-chain, proving that assets with real liquidity will be upgraded to their own HyperCore market.xStocks was launched in June 2025 and is said to have processed over $40 billion in total trading volume, covering more than 200,000 holders, with nearly $20 billion settled on-chain. The platform issues publicly listed stock tokens pegged 1:1, and its business has expanded from U.S. stocks to European and Asian markets. RWA.xyz data shows that the existing tokenized stocks amount to approximately $2.53 billion, with xStocks accounting for about $620.1 million, ranking as the third-largest issuer, following Ondo (approximately $856.3 million) and bStocks (approximately $621.5 million).

The parent company of Kraken, Payward, announced a partnership with the London Stock Exchange (LSE) to tokenize the stocks of the 100 largest companies listed on the LSE into xStocks, which are backed 1:1. The first London-listed xStocks are expected to be launched on Kraken and other platforms supporting the xStocks Alliance in the coming weeks, available to investors in over 110 countries, but not yet open to UK investors.Subject to regulatory approval, the LSE plans to list and support xStocks trading on its newly launched extended trading hours, LSE 24. LSE CEO Julia Hoggett stated that by collaborating with Payward and continuously working with the market infrastructure ecosystem, they are exploring how issuers and investors can benefit from new access methods while maintaining the standards that underpin the public market. In addition to tokenizing existing stocks, both parties will also explore the issuance of native equity tokens through LSE infrastructure, which have the same rights as traditional stocks and are fully interchangeable.Payward's tokenized stock framework was launched in June 2025 and acquired by Payward in December, having processed over $40 billion in total trading volume, covering more than 200,000 holders, with nearly $20 billion settled on-chain. According to RWA.xyz data, there are currently approximately $2.53 billion in existing tokenized stocks, with xStocks tokenizing about $606.6 million, making it the second-largest issuer after Ondo.

According to the official announcement, Binance has announced the launch of US stock and ETF options trading, offering physically settled options contracts, allowing users to trade call or put options, with the maximum loss limited to the premium.This service is provided through NestTradingLimited as the introducing broker, in collaboration with AlpacaSecurities, supporting currencies such as USDC, USDT, USD1, U, BNB, and is limited to limit orders.

The London Stock Exchange (LSEG) and Payward, the parent company of the cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, announced a partnership to bring stocks of the largest listed companies in the UK onto the blockchain. In the coming weeks, the stocks of the top 100 companies listed on the LSE will be available on Payward's xStocks tokenized stock framework. These xStocks are tokens that correspond one-to-one with the underlying stocks, allowing for 24/7 trading on centralized exchanges, self-custody wallets, and on-chain applications.This initiative continues the rapidly expanding framework of Payward. Over the past year, the cumulative trading volume of xStocks has exceeded $40 billion, with nearly $20 billion settled on-chain, and more than 200,000 product holders. Through the blockchain channel, UK-listed stocks will be able to reach investor groups in over 110 countries, although xStocks are currently not available to domestic UK investors.Subject to regulatory approval, the LSE plans to list and support xStocks trading on its newly launched 24-hour trading platform, LSE 24, and will gradually cover tokenized stocks and more asset classes in the US, EU, UK, and Hong Kong. Both parties also stated that they will explore stock tokens issued natively by the LSE, allowing LSE members to issue and service stocks directly on-chain, with the same full interchangeability and rights as traditional stocks. Payward Co-CEO Arjun Sethi stated that for years, people have assumed that crypto and traditional finance must collide and one side would lose, but that has never been the real story;

StableStock, a stablecoin stock trading platform, announced the launch of its Korean stock trading feature, allowing users to trade Korean-listed stocks and ETFs using stablecoins. The first batch includes over 300 Korean stocks and ETFs, covering sectors such as semiconductors, automobiles, internet, and biomedicine, including Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, Hyundai Motor, NAVER, and Kakao.The Korean stock trading on the platform corresponds to real Korean-listed stocks rather than synthetic assets, with trades executed and settled through licensed financial institutions. Over the past year, StableStock has served more than 23,000 users, with a cumulative trading volume reaching hundreds of millions of dollars. The platform has opened API services, supporting users and institutions in combining real stock spot and crypto derivatives to construct market-neutral and funding rate strategies.

According to Hong Kong 01, Binance founder Zhao Changpeng reflected on his journey from a rural area in Jiangsu to a net worth of hundreds of billions in an exclusive interview, sharing his "Four No" financial principles: do not buy stocks, do not speculate on real estate, do not trade cryptocurrencies, and do not hold excessive cash. He explained that real estate transactions are time-consuming and the returns are not worth it, and he never trades stocks or engages in short-term cryptocurrency trading, only holding long-term and selling some crypto assets when needed. "Holding fiat currency is the dumbest investment method; cash continues to depreciate."In 2013, Zhao Changpeng sold his house and invested all his money into Bitcoin, which at one point dropped two-thirds in value and remained stagnant for a year and a half. In 2017, he founded Binance, which became the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange in just five months. In 2023, he was sentenced to four months in prison for violating the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act, and was pardoned by Trump last year. His current net worth is approximately $114.6 billion. He admitted that success is a matter of luck, but the key lies in consistently making the right decisions and quickly correcting mistakes.

According to Gate market data, U.S. stocks opened with the Dow Jones down 0.39%, the S&P 500 down 0.26%, and the Nasdaq down 0.15%. Intel (INTC.O) rose 1.8% after reports that SK Hynix is seeking collaboration to develop chip production.