Kalshi submitted a proposed rule change to the SEC and an approval application to the CFTC for perpetual futures tied to individual U.S. stocks, following a same-day filing by Coinbase. The contracts would have no preset expiry, use periodic funding payments to align prices with underlying shares, be treated as security futures and clear through Kalshi Klear, Kalshi's CFTC-registered clearinghouse. Kalshi already offers perpetual futures tied to Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and XRP; its Bitcoin contract received CFTC approval in May this year. Payward, Kraken's parent company, has also applied through Bitnomial Exchange to offer contracts initially tied to 10 stocks, including Tesla, Nvidia, Apple, Microsoft and Amazon, with a goal of 24-hour trading five days a week. The filings followed the Sept. 15 failure of the CLARITY Act to advance in the Senate. SEC Chairman Paul Atkins said the agency would act within its existing authority to provide regulatory certainty regardless of legislation. The source also highlights a broader crypto and technology news cycle: trader Killa said Bitcoin's ability to absorb rate hikes, CLARITY Act setbacks and other fear narratives could indicate a trend shift; Michael Saylor urged the industry to use existing regulatory openings rather than wait for a final CLARITY compromise; and T. Rowe Price's Blue Macellari said Bitcoin has become central to debates over currency debasement. Other developments included SiliconFlow's completion of B+ and C financing rounds, Gemini's 80% decline from its IPO price and renewed acquisition speculation, potential early beneficiaries of the SEC's five-year tokenized-stock exemption, leveraged ETFs linked to Strive, and data showing Bitcoin's two-year gain sharply outpaced median altcoins. Security, corporate-finance and artificial-intelligence stories included a SingularityNET exploit, Coldcard-related Bitcoin theft, Universal Protocol's planned shutdown, criticism of Metaplanet's compensation structure, AI-model revenue and open-weight competition, Spirit AI's robotics forecast, SemiAnalysis' projected revenue, memory shortages and Crux AI's chip-backed financing. The source also reported a suspected malicious SDK in the ComeCome app, a Binance Wallet pre-access campaign hosted by PancakeSwap, meme-token rankings, and analyses of gold, token launches, altcoin season and ZAMA's fully homomorphic encryption narrative.