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OG.com Markets has submitted a filing to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) seeking approval to launch cash-settled perpetual futures linked to individual stocks—an effort to bring a product format widely used in crypto derivatives into traditional equity markets.

According to the CFTC filing released Thursday, the proposed rules would cover single-stock futures that do not expire (“perpetuals”), trade around the clock, and are designed to offer continuous exposure without requiring traders to roll positions into new contract months.

Key takeaways

• OG.com Markets is pursuing CFTC approval for perpetual futures tied to specific U.S. equities.
• The product is described as cash-settled and perpetual, with continuous trading for five days a week.
• Regulatory momentum comes as other major crypto trading and prediction-market players also seek permission to offer similar stock-linked perps.
• The CFTC has been building a framework for perpetual contracts through approvals and temporary relief tied to specific arrangements.

OG.com’s CFTC filing outlines stock-linked “perps”

In a Thursday filing with the CFTC, OG.com Markets outlined a proposed rule set intended to enable the listing of cash-settled single-stock futures that never expire. The proposal also calls for trading to operate 24 hours a day, five days a week.

Perpetual futures differ from traditional futures by removing the need for contract expiration. For traders, that structure can reduce the operational friction of rolling between dated contracts, while for markets it can support more continuous liquidity and positioning.

The concept is not new in crypto. Perpetual contracts were pioneered in digital-asset derivatives, with BitMEX introducing an early version of the model in 2016—helping make “perps” one of the most actively traded derivatives formats in the sector.

How OG.com ties into the wider prediction-markets and derivatives shift

OG.com Markets recently emerged as an independent prediction markets and derivatives platform after being spun out from crypto exchange Crypto.com. At the time of the separation, OG.com was described as being valued at $5 billion, and CEO Kris Marszalek said the company planned to expand beyond prediction markets into futures and perpetual contracts.

Shortly after the spin-off, Robinhood acquired an equity stake in OG.com as part of a multi-year agreement. The deal includes the use of OG.com’s CFTC-regulated derivatives exchange and clearinghouse for prediction markets. That backdrop matters because it places OG.com’s U.S. equity-derivatives ambitions directly within a set of business relationships already aligned with regulated derivatives infrastructure.

Importantly, while OG.com is now aiming at stock-linked perpetual futures, its current positioning originates in prediction markets—where the mechanics of cash settlement and continuous trading can be attractive to participants who want to express views over time without physical delivery.

Not alone: Coinbase, Kraken’s parent, and Kalshi have also filed

OG.com’s move fits into a growing cluster of filings from platforms attempting to introduce perpetual futures tied to individual U.S. stocks. Earlier coverage noted that Coinbase, Kraken parent Payward through its Bitnomial exchange, and prediction market platform Kalshi all filed to offer similar stock-linked perpetual futures.

The timing also reflects a regulatory environment that has been more permissive toward certain crypto-adjacent activities than some market participants expected. The shift gained attention after U.S. Senate action failed to advance the proposed CLARITY Act on Sept. 15—yet regulators continued moving forward on crypto initiatives through other channels.

In particular, after the Senate vote, the SEC cleared limited onchain trading of tokenized U.S. stocks under its Innovation Exemption, and the CFTC expanded regulatory relief for software providers that connect users to regulated derivatives platforms, including those offering perpetual contracts.

The CFTC’s groundwork for perpetual contracts

The CFTC’s approach to perpetual futures has not been confined to one company or one application. The agency previously began laying out a path for perpetual contracts through a combination of case-by-case review and targeted relief.

In May, the CFTC established a case-by-case review process for perpetual contracts and approved Kalshi’s Bitcoin perpetual futures product. It then followed in June with temporary relief allowing certain registered exchanges to convert existing crypto futures into contracts without expiration dates.

That incremental regulatory scaffolding helps explain why the market is converging on perpetual structures now. Even without a single comprehensive rule that automatically covers every new product variation, firms can structure applications around how the CFTC has already evaluated perpetual contracts—making the approval process feel more navigable than it might have been in earlier years.

For investors and traders, the key question is how quickly the CFTC can translate precedent from crypto perpetuals and targeted relief into approvals for cash-settled, stock-linked perps. Watch for updates on the OG.com rulemaking process and whether regulators request changes to trading mechanics, settlement terms, or operational guardrails as these filings move through review.

When Haru meets Fedir—whose wife is a Paris-based dance champion, though the marriage is an open one—she glimpses fresh possibilities, or at least just an adventure. In an early scene, after she and Fedir have had a pleasant, platonic dinner together, they’re ready to part ways in the street. A crew of drunken businessmen jostle Haru, and Fedir stands up for her. What follows is a cleverly choreographed dream ballet—though the genre is actually the bachata, one of the dance forms Fedir teaches, its movements an expression of longing and heartache—in which Fedir defends Haru’s honor against this gang of boorish men. Other passersby join in, and the scene becomes a metaphor for the act of rejoining life. By the end of the evening, Haru and Fedir have tumbled into bed.

Their two hookups are enjoyable and tender—until the wife shows up, and Haru realizes she has feelings she can’t control. Kikuchi shifts gears smoothly: One minute, she shows how Haru is nearly deadened by sorrow. The next, her exhilaration becomes a kind of artificial sunshine. But a flash of anger and jealousy causes her to act out, in a scene that makes you recoil a bit even as you laugh. Kikuchi is perhaps best known for her roles in movies like Babel and Pacific Rim, as well as HBO’s Tokyo Vice, several episodes of which Wladyka directed. Here, she captures the spirit of a woman who longs to get back to being herself, if only she could remember who that self was. Haru is both breezy and cautious, and totally lost. By the movie’s end, she has found her way forward, because she realizes there’s no going back. She’ll have to be a new person, encompassing the experiences and memories of the old one. Kikuchi captures that difficult butterfly transition as it unfolds; it’s both painful and funny to watch. But in the end, she shows us how Haru finds her way back to the music, which is the only way she can move into the future, one note, and one dance step, at a time.   

Summer Mersinger is leaving the helm of the Blockchain Association, one of the crypto industry’s leading advocacy groups, a week after the sector weathered a major legislative setback in the loss of the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act.

Mersinger will be replaced — for now — by Kristin Smith, the organization’s original CEO who ran the association from its launch in 2018 until 15 months ago, according to a Friday statement. The handover is set for October 16, closing a tumultuous era that saw major crypto wins in Washington and a significant defeat last week, when the U.S. Senate failed to advance the Clarity Act in a wide loss in which all the Senate’s Democrats and some Republicans declined to support it.

“I’m proud of how far we’ve come together, from the GENIUS Act to real regulatory clarity at the SEC and CFTC,” said Mersinger, who’d taken the job after leaving her post as a member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, in a statement. “Kristin built this association from the ground up, and BA is in good hands. I’ll be cheering them on.”

Hsin-Ju Chuang, a former partner at the crypto venture firm Hack VC, has died at age 37, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner. The county’s Coroner Death Registry later listed her death as a suicide.

California Highway Patrol officers responded on Aug. 24 to a report southbound on Interstate 15 south of Field Road in Harvard, California, where Chuang was pronounced dead at the scene, the sheriff’s office said in a coroner press release linked in the report.

Key takeaways

• San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner records list Chuang’s death as a suicide after an Aug. 24 response on Interstate 15.
• Chuang previously worked across major crypto ecosystems, including roles tied to Stellar and Solana.
• Hack VC said it had not spoken directly with Chuang for more than 10 months and had no additional details about the circumstances.
• Chuang had publicly accused Hack VC of mistreatment and said she planned to release evidence, according to her earlier posts.

What authorities and county records show

Officer response details point to an Aug. 24 incident on Interstate 15 in Harvard, California. Chuang was pronounced dead at the scene, according to the information referenced from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s media materials.

A search of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department Coroner Death Register shows Chuang’s entry dated Aug. 24, 2026. The registry later categorized her death as suicide.

Chuang’s background in crypto investing and projects

Chuang’s professional profile traces a career spanning both venture and ecosystem growth. Per her LinkedIn profile, she founded Dystopia Labs and held leadership roles that included head of growth at Stellar and Solana.

In venture, she joined Hack VC in 2021 as a venture partner. Later, she became partner and head of platform in 2025, according to the same publicly listed career history.

Hack VC’s statement and what it said it knew

Hack VC co-founder and managing partner Alexander Pack said the firm was “shocked and saddened” by Chuang’s death and extended condolences to her family, friends, and those close to her.

Pack added that Hack VC had not spoken directly with Chuang for more than 10 months. He said the firm was not aware of the circumstances surrounding her death and that it had “no further information,” urging people to be respectful of those grieving.

Earlier public accusations and unresolved questions

Before her death, Chuang had publicly accused Hack VC of mistreating her during her time at the firm. In her posts, she said she intended to release evidence supporting her allegations.

In that context, Chuang also described attempting suicide after experiencing what she characterized as mistreatment while she was “going through a serious medical emergency,” according to the account presented in the earlier public statement referenced in the report.

With the coroner registry now listing her death as suicide, the relationship between those prior allegations and the circumstances of her death remains a sensitive and unconfirmed area that readers should approach cautiously. Hack VC’s statement emphasizes it did not have recent direct contact and did not know the circumstances at the time of her passing.

Chuang’s death also raises a broader question for the crypto industry: how mental-health and workplace conflict are handled, documented, and addressed—especially in highly networked environments where reputational battles can move quickly into public channels.

For now, what matters most is what additional public information, if any, emerges from the coroner process and whether any further verified details about the earlier claims become available. Observers will likely watch for follow-up statements from those close to Chuang, as well as any developments that clarify the gap between her earlier allegations and the circumstances surrounding her death.

Bitget has revised its accounting of losses from last week’s security breach, raising the figure tied to attacker-controlled addresses to $387.5 million—up from an earlier estimate of $352 million. The updated incident report, released Thursday and followed by another update Friday, also said the incident remains contained and that no further unauthorized transfers are possible.

The exchange reiterated that it will continue pausing withdrawals and said it has launched a bounty program intended to help freeze or recover affected assets. The key change in Bitget’s latest disclosure is a “more complete accounting” of transfers, including assets that were not included in the initial estimate.

Key takeaways

• Bitget updated its breach figures: $387.5 million was transferred to attacker-controlled addresses, not $352 million.
• The exchange said the revision reflects additional accounting of affected assets on Zcash and TRON, without indicating any new unauthorized activity.
• Withdrawals remain paused, while Bitget launched a bounty program aimed at freezing or recovering funds.
• Bitget reported involvement of multiple networks, including EVM chains, XRP Ledger, Zcash, and TRON.

What Bitget changed in its incident report

In its revised accounting, Bitget said that the updated figure comes from a fuller reconciliation of transfers that occurred during the incident. The exchange attributed the adjustment to affected assets on Zcash and TRON that were left out of the initial estimate, stating that the new number does not reflect further unauthorized transfers.

Bitget’s statement emphasized containment: the company said the incident remains contained and that “no further unauthorized transfers are possible.” For users watching the case, the practical implication is that the revision is about measurement and scope rather than evidence of an expanded compromise.

Withdrawals paused as attacker routing is traced on-chain

In its Friday update, Bitget confirmed it will continue pausing withdrawals. At the same time, the platform said it has launched a bounty program designed to incentivize efforts to freeze or recover the assets that were moved to addresses controlled by the attacker.

Bitget also pointed to on-chain tracing in explaining where funds went. According to the exchange, “$387.5 million were transferred to attacker-controlled addresses,” with the revised total about $35 million higher than the earlier number. In other words, the updated report is not just a re-phrasing of loss estimates—it is an adjustment tied to the mapping of those transfers to attacker-controlled endpoints.

Networks and assets implicated across the ecosystem

Bitget’s revised incident report lists multiple affected blockchain environments. The exchange said the incident involved addresses on Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) networks as well as the XRP Ledger, Zcash, and TRON.

The follow-up disclosure also enumerated several assets the attackers allegedly took. According to Bitget, stolen or affected assets included XRP, Ether (ETH), Tether’s USDt (USDT), Zcash (ZEC), USDC, USDT0, XAUt, BNB, AVAX, and TRX.

For investors and traders, the multi-network nature of the incident matters because it affects how quickly risk can be reduced. Different chains can require different monitoring, compliance processes, and—critically—different operational steps for exchanges trying to halt or limit withdrawals and protect hot and intermediate custody.

Broader industry context and what remains unclear

Even with the clarification on the corrected loss figure, Bitget’s security breach remains among the largest incidents to hit the industry. The article’s context highlights that hackers stole about $1.5 billion worth of Ether from Bybit in February 2025, underscoring how damaging major exchange compromises can be even when withdrawals are halted and funds are monitored.

Notably, Bitget’s later update did not directly address comments made by CEO Gracy Chen from Thursday. In earlier coverage, Chen speculated that a North Korean hacking group might be behind the attack, citing what she described as “IP clues.” The revised incident report, as presented in the update, focuses on accounting and containment rather than attributing the breach to a specific actor.

That leaves an important tension for readers: while the exchange’s updated figures aim to settle questions about scale, attribution and motive appear to remain separate and unresolved in Bitget’s latest public disclosures. As the bounty program ramps up and tracing work continues, additional information could emerge—either from on-chain evidence, coordination efforts to identify and freeze assets, or follow-on updates from the exchange.

For now, market participants should watch whether Bitget later provides more details on recovery efforts and the timeline for when withdrawals might resume, alongside any further revisions to affected totals. The updated numbers suggest the incident’s spread is better understood, but the path from attacker-controlled transfers to recoverable funds—and the question of who carried out the breach—will likely determine the next phase of this story.

Crypto exchange Bitget released an updated incident report on Thursday’s security breach, clarifying that about $388 million in assets had been affected and not $352 million as previously reported.

In a Friday update, Bitget said it would continue to pause withdrawals following the security breach, and the company had launched a bounty program to incentivize freezing or recovering the assets. The exchange confirmed that “$387.5 million were transferred to attacker-controlled addresses” based on onchain tracing — about $35 million more than reported on Thursday. 

“The revised figure reflects a more complete accounting of transfers that occurred during the incident, adding affected assets on Zcash and TRON that were not included in the initial estimate,” said Bitget. “It does not reflect further unauthorized transfers. The incident remains contained and no further unauthorized transfers are possible.”

According to Bitget, the incident included addresses on Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) networks, the XRP Ledger, Zcash and TRON. Among the assets stolen were XRP, Ether (ETH), Tether’s USDt (USDT), Zcash (ZEC), USDC, USDT0, XAUt, BNB, AVAX and TRX. The follow-up report did not address comments made by CEO Gracy Chen on Thursday speculating that a North Korean hacking group may have been behind the attack.

Even with the update on the assets transferred to hacker-controlled addresses, the Bitget security breach remains one of the largest to impact the industry. Hackers stole about $1.5 billion worth of Ether from Bybit in February 2025.

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Strategy is asking shareholders to approve a change to the payment schedule for its four preferred “digital credit” securities—moving them from periodic payouts to daily dividends. The company says the switch would not alter the preferred stocks’ dividend rates or the total amount paid, but would make dividend record dates occur on every calendar day.

According to a Friday filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the board approved the proposal on Thursday. Shareholders are set to vote on the amendments during a virtual special meeting scheduled for Oct. 28.

Key takeaways

• Strategy wants to convert STRC, STRF, STRK, and STRD to daily dividend record dates, without changing their dividend rates or aggregate payout.
• If approved, each calendar day becomes a record date, with payments made on the next business day.
• STRC would be the first to transition, with an initial expected daily dividend payment on Nov. 2.
• The other three preferred stocks would follow in January, with their first daily-schedule payments expected on Jan. 4.
• Strategy is following Strive’s earlier step toward daily dividends after Strive became the first public company to adopt the model.

Strategy seeks approval for daily dividend schedule

In its SEC filing, Strategy outlined amendments that would alter how dividends are timed for its preferred stock lineup, including STRC. The company’s stated goal is to shift to a daily framework while keeping economics consistent—specifically, maintaining the same dividend rates and the same total amount paid.

Under the proposed structure, a dividend record date would be set for every calendar day. The corresponding dividend payment would then be processed on the next business day. Strategy also specified an implementation sequence: STRC would transition first, followed by STRF, STRK, and STRD in the subsequent months.

Strategic timing details included in the filing indicate that STRC’s first expected daily dividend payment would arrive on Nov. 2. The remaining three preferred stocks are expected to begin daily payouts in January, with the first payments under the daily record-date schedule anticipated for Jan. 4.

The company said the amendments would take effect after Strategy updates the preferred stock certificates governed under Delaware law.

A broader shift in Bitcoin treasury preferred securities

Strategy’s move arrives after Strive, another Bitcoin treasury-focused public company, changed its own preferred stock payout mechanics to daily dividends. Earlier coverage of Strive noted that SATA began paying dividends every business day on June 16 at a 13% annual rate, after Strive reported eliminating outstanding debt in the first quarter.

While both companies are aiming for the same general outcome—more frequent income timing—the details differ. The source describing Strive’s change emphasized dividends on each business day. Strategy’s plan, by contrast, would treat every calendar day as the record date, with payments aligned to the next business day. For investors, that distinction matters for cash-flow timing and for how dividends accrue around weekends and holidays.

Strategy also positions the preferred securities within its “digital credit” approach—preferred securities designed to generate income from a capital structure anchored by its Bitcoin holdings.

Why daily dividends may matter to holders

Daily dividend schedules can be appealing because they more closely align income distribution with the passage of time. For traders and income-focused investors, more frequent payouts may reduce reliance on longer intervals between distribution dates and can improve short-term planning around liquidity needs.

At the same time, Strategy emphasized that the proposal would not change the dividend rates or the total amount paid. That detail signals the company is aiming primarily at payment mechanics rather than changing the underlying economics of the securities.

Strategy’s scale within the Bitcoin treasury category provides context for why the proposal could draw attention. According to BitcoinTreasuries.NET, Strategy holds about 846,000 BTC, compared with Strive’s 26,355 BTC.

CEO discusses volatility tied to leverage in STRC

Beyond the dividend schedule, Strategy has also been managing investor expectations around STRC’s trading behavior. The article notes that STRC saw notable volatility during the year. In June, it dropped sharply below its $100 stated amount, with an intraday low reported at $71.25 on June 26 based on Yahoo Finance data.

Speaking on Natalie Brunell’s Coin Stories podcast earlier this week, Strategy CEO Phong Le attributed the downturn to more leverage entering the STRC market than the company expected. He said that some investors borrowed against Bitcoin at lower rates to buy STRC and capture the spread between their borrowing costs and STRC’s dividend yield. When Bitcoin’s price declined, Le said those positions faced pressure to add collateral or sell STRC.

“We did not expect the amount of leverage that came into the system,” Le said. “And so that’s a lesson learned, next time around.”

Le also described measures Strategy is pursuing to avoid another similar unwind. These include maintaining a strong U.S. dollar reserve, using a policy that allows the company to repurchase STRC when it trades below its $100 stated amount, and working to attract more long-term holders—particularly institutional investors.

Since the June lows, the article states that STRC has recovered to around $98.41, near Strategy’s stated target range of keeping the security between $99 and $100. It also notes that STRC currently carries a 12% variable annual dividend rate.

What to watch before the shareholder vote

Investors should focus on the Oct. 28 special meeting outcome and on the implementation details once Strategy updates its Delaware certificates. If the daily schedule is approved, traders will likely watch how the more frequent record-date structure interacts with STRC’s ongoing volatility and with the company’s repurchase and reserve strategy.