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Panama City – October 13, 2026 -- Eligible BingX users can now buy U.S. stocks and ETFs with USDT and USDC, starting at $5, without wiring fiat or opening a separate brokerage account. The platform launched the service through an integration with Alpaca, a provider of brokerage infrastructure and APIs.

7,000+ U.S. stocks and ETFs are available on one platform

The offering covers more than 7,000 U.S. stocks and exchange-traded funds. Users fund trades with the crypto assets they already hold on BingX, and no separate brokerage account has to be managed by the user.

BingX says these are not tokenized instruments that track stock prices. Access to U.S. securities runs through Alpaca's brokerage infrastructure, including custody, clearing, and settlement processes.

Trading runs 24 hours a day, five days a week

BingX lists these key features:

Dubai – October 12, 2026 -- Eligible Bybit users can now buy and sell more than 1,000 U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs with USDC and no trading commissions. The list includes Apple (AAPL), NVIDIA (NVDA), Tesla (TSLA), Micron Technology (MU) and the Invesco QQQ ETF (QQQ).

Access depends on jurisdiction. Users must be in a permitted jurisdiction and complete the required KYC verification. Bybit says it serves more than 80 million users worldwide.

Real shares, not derivatives, are what users buy

Bybit says the product gives eligible users an economic interest in the underlying securities they purchase, unlike price derivatives or synthetic instruments. Orders run through Bybit's regulated brokerage infrastructure and are executed by Alpaca, a U.S. self-clearing broker-dealer. Alpaca also holds the underlying securities in custody.

Trading runs 24/5 with fractional shares on offer

Key features at launch: