At 7:13 p.m. ET on October 10, 2026, wallet 0x2025...840e opened 30 ETH short positions at 660x leverage on Papertrade with a total notional value of $297 million

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The 31.4% tax proposed in Amendment I-3898 on crypto-to-stablecoin swaps would disrupt French trading strategies that use stablecoins to park digital asset gains and avoid immediate capital gains taxes

Binance.US CEO Stephen Gregory outlined plans in July 2026 to pursue a Commodity Futures Trading Commission license allowing Binance.US to offer event contracts, prediction markets, and derivatives

In September 2026, Binance enabled eligible users to use supported bStocks as margin and futures collateral, allowing borrowing up to 5x leverage

Binance reported that more than half of early bStocks users also traded perpetual futures or direct equities on the platform

PaperTrade operates as a synthetic derivative perpetual trading platform built on Hyperliquid that offers up to 1,000x leverage

PaperTrade generated $1 trillion in synthetic trading volume during the platform's first week of operation

Prior to introducing direct spot trading, Standard Chartered provided client exposure to digital assets through cryptocurrency exchange-traded funds, structured products, and over-the-counter derivatives.

The binary KPI options approved by the SEC on October 13, 2026 are cash-settled, European-style contracts paying a fixed $1 if a company's reported metric meets or exceeds a strike level, or $0 if it falls short

The SEC classified the binary KPI options approved on October 13, 2026 as National Market System securities subject to standard securities exchange rules covering customer accounts, margin management, trading halts, and market-maker quoting duties

MARA Holdings' approved option metrics include Bitcoin produced, Bitcoin purchased, total Bitcoin holdings, number of blocks won, and energized hashrate.

Cboe Exchange filed its initial binary KPI options proposal on June 30, 2026, and submitted a revised Amendment No. 1 on October 1, 2026, before receiving SEC approval.

Approved Cboe binary option contracts cover reported business metrics across 23 public companies, including Coinbase Global, MARA Holdings, Robinhood Markets, Nvidia, Tesla, and Apple.

Coinbase Global's approved option metrics include total trading volume, transaction revenue, total revenue, subscription and services revenue, and diluted net income per share.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission granted accelerated approval on October 13, 2026 to a Cboe Exchange rule proposal permitting the listing and trading of binary options linked to reported corporate key performance indicators.

Robinhood Markets plans to be the first retail broker to offer Cboe binary KPI options, with both Cboe and Robinhood planning fee waivers through December 31, 2026.

Robinhood Markets' approved option metrics include total net revenues, funded customers, average revenue per user, and Robinhood Gold subscribers.

Ripple Prime, the institutional unit of XRP issuer Ripple, launched 24/7 perpetual swap contracts tied to real-world assets for institutional clients on October 15, 2026.

Ripple Prime's institutional perpetual swap offering operates through Trade.xyz, an exchange built on Hyperliquid for real-world asset-linked perpetual futures.

The collaboration between Ripple Prime and Trade.xyz on Hyperliquid enables 24/7 access and settlement for Real World Asset swaps across multiple asset classes.

The perpetual swap product launched by Ripple Prime on October 15, 2026, references more than 100 underlying real-world asset markets, including stocks, indexes, ETFs, and commodities.