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Bybit Starts Selling Real Shares for USDC, Next to Its Own Stock Tokens
The exchange has launched trading in more than 1,000 US stocks and ETFs funded with USDC, with Alpaca executing and holding the shares, sitting alongside Bybit's tokenised xStocks products.

A Money Market Fund Becomes Exchange Margin, and Keeps Paying Yield
Bybit will accept Franklin Templeton's Benji-issued tokenized fund shares as collateral for stablecoin credit lines, with the shares staying in off-exchange custody. Franklin ran the same structure with Binance in February.

Bets on OpenAI's Valuation Arrive in Europe, With Leverage Attached
OKX is offering European users up to 10x leverage on private-company valuations including OpenAI and Anthropic, alongside 100 tokenized stocks and ETFs, as Bybit prepares a European app combining equities and derivatives.

Bybit Is Putting Options on Top of Stock Perpetuals, Starting With a Company That Is Not Listed
From 17 September the exchange says users will be able to trade round-the-clock options on its SpaceX and Nvidia perpetual contracts, in fractional lots settled in USDT.