On September 30, Robinhood launched perpetual contracts (Perps) for U.S. traders. These contracts have no expiration date, support round-the-clock trading, and allow users to customize leverage up to 10:1. With this product launch, Robinhood becomes the first mainstream brokerage to offer trading services across all six major asset classes on a single platform, including stocks, options, cryptocurrencies, futures, prediction markets, and perpetual contracts.

Market data shows that BTC briefly fell below $83,000, currently priced at $83,010.77, with a 24-hour decline of 0.01%. The market is experiencing significant volatility, so please ensure proper risk management.

On September 29, U.S. President Trump stated that Iran is facing severe defeat and will soon come to an end. Oil prices will drop significantly.

U.S. President Trump: To sign a strong executive order on artificial intelligence. (Jin Shi)

On September 29, Vlad Tenev, co-founder of Robinhood, announced that the U.S. SEC issued a no-action letter to Tesla on the same day, removing obstacles for its plan to empower retail investors in shareholder voting. Tenev stated that when millions of individuals hold shares in a public company, they should be able to exercise their voting rights more conveniently. His team is collaborating with Tesla to implement the project and has already provided features within the app for shareholder information access, retail voting, and real-time Q&A during earnings calls, with more tools to be launched in the future.

On September 29, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump administration has launched an AI-driven tool, which developers claim will serve as a 'digital steward' for the federal government, aimed at modernizing the relationship between citizens and the government. The tool was deployed on the America.gov website, which officially went live on Tuesday, with the goal of becoming a unified entry point for all federal public services. Joe Gebbia, head of the White House National Design Studio and co-founder of Airbnb, stated that this portal will set the 'standards that a superpower should have.'

On September 29, Axios reported that OpenAI's annual recurring revenue is nearing $70 billion.

On September 29, the yield on U.S. 30-year Treasury bonds reached 5.587%, the highest level since May 2004.

On September 29, Bitwise announced that the cryptocurrency asset management firm Bitwise (with client assets of $9 billion) has listed the Bitwise NEAR ETF (ticker NRR) on the NYSE Arca, making it the first spot NEAR exchange-traded product (ETP) in the United States. The fund began trading on September 29, 2026, with a management fee of 0.75%, providing exposure to spot NEAR and plans to stake the NEAR tokens held by the fund. NEAR serves as a blockchain infrastructure for the AI economy, with block times of approximately 1.2 seconds and transaction costs of less than one cent. Bitwise Chief Investment Officer Matt Hougan stated that NEAR is at the intersection of two major technological trends: AI and cryptocurrency.

On September 29, U.S. stock markets opened with mixed results. The Nasdaq rose by 0.33%, the S&P 500 increased by 0.14%, while the Dow Jones fell by 0.04%. AMD saw a 1.5% increase after announcing an $8.2 billion acquisition of World Labs, with Fei-Fei Li set to become AMD's Chief Scientist. Meta rose by 1.3%, officially launching a corporate platform to provide AI technology to businesses and developers. SpaceX's stock increased by over 1% as its Starship successfully entered Earth's orbit for the first time, deploying 26 V3 Starlink satellites.