Morning Minute: Robinhood Adds Perps, Weekend Stocks, and AI Traders — Robinhood announced a suite of new products at its HOOD Summit, including crypto perpetual futures with up to 10x leverage, weekend stock trading, AI agents that place trades, and earnings contracts. The company also lau (Decrypt, 2026-09-30)
Financial Services Roundup: Market Talk — China's newly announced mortgage subsidies appear to have fallen short of market expectations, according to Julius Baer's Richard Tang. The scope of the measures was likely disappointing, as noted in a client note. The s (The Wall Street Journal, 2026-09-30)
Bitwise Launches First US Spot Near ETF After Token Nearly Triples Since August — Bitwise launched the first U.S. spot Near ETF on NYSE Arca under ticker NRR, charging a 0.75% annual fee and holding actual Near tokens. The fund stakes tokens to target average rewards of about 5%, though Bitwise notes (Decrypt, 2026-09-29)
DoubleZero Adds Phoenix Perpetual Futures to Multi-Venue Market-Data Platform, Edge — DoubleZero Foundation announced that trading firms can now access perpetual futures market data from Phoenix, Hyperliquid, and Kalshi through a single connection on its Edge platform, eliminating the need for separate in (PR Newswire, 2026-09-29)
Current price of Ethereum for Sept. 28, 2026 | Fortune — Ethereum traded at $2,669.76 as of September 28, 2026, representing a $3.64 daily increase but a $1,475.12 decline year-over-year. The second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization at approximately $233 billion, (Fortune, 2026-09-28)
Morning Minute: SEC Clears Token Buybacks for Crypto Networks — The SEC's Division of Corporation Finance updated its crypto FAQ, clarifying that token buybacks by functional networks do not constitute promises of 'essential managerial efforts' under the Howey test, nor do network ma (Decrypt, 2026-09-28)