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• The SEC approved Cboe BZX to list six new Volatility Shares ETFs, including 3x Bitcoin and Ether ETFs, along with 3x gold, silver, crude oil, and natural gas ETFs.

• This is the first US approval of 3x leveraged $BTC and $ETH exchange-traded products.

• These are based on CME futures contracts, not spot Bitcoin or Ethereum holdings.

Some books woke up.
Some books didn’t.

Drop one word for your September:
🟢 green
🔴 red
😴 slept
💀 liquidated

Uptober’s already on the desk

Japan is now paying over 4% to borrow for 30 years - a historic reversal from decades of ultra low rates.

$ETH All the way back to the breakout level of its recent pump.

A lot of that move was perp driven of which most open interest has now been washed back out.

Alt season got cancelled before it even begun

$BNC +40.58%
$VVV +31.38%
$WAVES +29.92%
$USELESS +28.85%
$FF +23.26%

📈 The market is heating up which contract are you watching today?

The hackers claim to be white hat hackers, and said to “contact us on chain”

Copy Trading - Apply to lead with 0 threshold.

Where to find?
App/Web → Prediction Market
App/Web → Copy Trading → Apply

Equities spent most of the month re-running July's script, chip-stock led whipsaws dragging the Nasdaq around while the Dow stayed comparatively calm, before Nvidia's August 26 earnings beat broke the pattern decisively. Nvidia jumped roughly 8–9% on doubled year-over-year sales and a bullish forward outlook, dragging the broader semiconductor complex and the Nasdaq Composite up 1.57% in a single session, with cybersecurity names like CrowdStrike and Okta posting even sharper gains on the back of agentic-AI demand.

Source: Zoomex

Zoomex used the same week to ship its own answer to that rotation. On August 27, the platform rolled out a major TradFi Zone upgrade, consolidating Stock Contracts, Commodity Contracts, and Stock Tokens into a single destination alongside an Early Bird campaign offering an 80% trading-fee discount coupon on TradFi pairs through September 2. Coming directly off a week where Nvidia alone moved the entire tape, the timing underlines what Zoomex Stocks has been built to do all year: give users Fair Access & Rule-Based Execution across crypto and the same AI-linked equities dominating headlines, from a single USDT-denominated account, without waiting on Wall Street's opening bell.

Zoomex by the Numbers

None of that changed what Zoomex actually is, a platform Focused on Derivatives, running sub-10ms execution on a dual liquidity pool architecture that blends internal depth with aggregated external liquidity, wrapped in a minimalist interface built to hold up whichever direction volatility breaks. The platform continues to serve over 3 million registered users across 35-plus regions, with 700-plus trading pairs spanning Perpetual USDT, Inverse Perpetuals, Spot, tokenized equities, and Predict Market contracts.

August's stress test looked different again from June's crash and July's grind, this time it was a whipsaw, Extreme Fear to Extreme Greed inside three weeks, layered under a hawkish Fed surprise and an industry-wide hack total north of $200 million. Zoomex's regulatory stack, Canada MSB, US MSB, US NFA, and Australia AUSTRAC, stayed unchanged and fully active through it, and the platform's Hacken audits and Proof of Reserves framework kept doing what they're designed to do: let users verify balances and reserves for themselves rather than take a platform's word for it.

What We Shipped in August

Zoomex Widens Its Equities Lineup

August's TradFi Zone upgrade, consolidating Stock Contracts, Commodity Contracts, and Stock Tokens into a single destination alongside an 80% trading-fee discount Early Bird campaign running through September 2, landed alongside a fresh slate of Stock Perpetuals: UnitedHealth, General Electric, JPMorgan, Gilead, Amgen, Regeneron, Walmart, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Mastercard, PayPal, and Berkshire Hathaway B-shares among them. Each trades 24/7, long or short, on the same USDT-settled, cross- or isolated-margin mechanics as Zoomex's crypto perpetuals, extending Fair Access & Rule-Based Execution to a set of blue-chip names that have nothing to do with crypto hours.

Zoomex, a global cryptocurrency trading platform focused on derivatives trading, has officially launched Demo Trading, a new feature that lets users practice the complete futures trading process, placing orders, managing positions and closing trades, using demo funds instead of real capital. The launch is part of Zoomex's ongoing effort to deliver a clearer and more efficient trading experience, built on user-friendly design, transparent balance and rule mechanisms, and fair access to legitimate earnings for every trader on the platform.
Demo Trading is now live and accessible to all Zoomex users on both the web platform and mobile app, with full setup guidance available through the Zoomex Help Center.

Easy to Use, From the First Trade

Zoomex has built its reputation on being easy to use, and Demo Trading extends that philosophy to the part of the trading journey that historically carries the steepest learning curve: derivatives. Rather than asking new users to learn margin, leverage and order execution with real funds on the line, Zoomex now gives them a fully functional practice environment that mirrors the live trading interface. Users can place orders, manage open positions and close trades exactly as they would in live markets, with zero financial risk while they do it.

Accessing Demo Trading takes seconds and requires no deposit. On the web platform, users simply log in to Zoomex, click the profile icon in the top-right corner, and select "Demo Trading" from the menu. On the Zoomex App, the same feature is available by tapping "More" on the homepage and selecting "Demo Trading" from the grid of trading tools. From there, users can start practicing immediately, using demo funds to explore the full futures trading workflow.

Transparent by Design

Being transparent by design sits at the center of how Zoomex has built Demo Trading. The feature was announced directly to users through an official platform notice confirming that Demo Trading is "now officially live," giving traders clear, upfront visibility into exactly what the feature does and how to use it, rather than folding it quietly into the interface. Zoomex has framed Demo Trading explicitly as preparation for live trading: a way to help users get familiar with the trading interface and execution workflow before they commit real capital, with every action inside the demo environment clearly separated from a user's live balance.

That same transparency extends to how Zoomex talks about risk more broadly. Leveraged derivatives trading is genuinely difficult, and industry-wide data across futures, forex and crypto markets consistently shows that a large majority of leveraged traders lose money over time, a pattern that holds across asset classes rather than being specific to any single platform. Zoomex's decision to launch a dedicated, fully-featured demo environment reflects a broader shift across the derivatives trading industry, where regulators and platforms alike are placing renewed emphasis on making sure traders understand how leverage and liquidation actually work before their own funds are exposed. Demo Trading gives Zoomex users a concrete, risk-free way to build that understanding.

Fair Access & Rule-Based Execution

Fair access and rule-based execution are core to the Zoomex trading experience, and Demo Trading is built to reflect the same rules that govern live futures trading on the platform. Order placement, position management and trade closure inside the demo environment follow the same logic users will encounter once they move to real funds, so nothing about the experience is simplified or artificially smoothed over. This consistency matters: a demo environment is only useful if it teaches the mechanics traders will actually rely on later, rather than a stripped-down version that leaves gaps once real money and real volatility enter the picture.

Focused on Derivatives
Demo Trading reinforces Zoomex's positioning as a platform focused on derivatives, sitting alongside the exchange's broader suite of futures-focused tools. It complements the Strategy Center, where users can backtest and automate trading strategies, and Zoomex's copy trading service, which lets less experienced traders follow vetted master traders instead of managing positions independently. Together, these tools give Zoomex users multiple paths into derivatives trading, whether they want to build confidence through hands-on practice, validate a strategy before going live, or rely on experienced traders while they learn.

A Refined Brand & Trading Experience

The launch of Demo Trading is the latest step in a broader push toward a more refined brand and trading experience across Zoomex. Founded in 2021, Zoomex has grown into a global cryptocurrency trading platform serving traders across more than 700 perpetual contracts, with features spanning one-click copy trading, the Strategy Center, and leverage up to 1:150. Demo Trading fits naturally into that stack, giving the platform a genuine, no-cost entry point for traders who want to understand the mechanics of derivatives trading before committing capital, without diluting the depth available to more experienced users.

Availability
Demo Trading is available now to all Zoomex users on both the web platform and mobile apps (iOS and Android). Users can access it directly via the profile menu on the web or the "More" section of the app homepage, with no deposit required. Full setup guidance is available through the Zoomex Help Center, alongside broader trading guides covering spot, futures and copy trading. Zoomex encourages new users to spend time in the demo environment before funding a live account, particularly to understand how leverage and position size affect liquidation risk.
For real-time updates on Zoomex's trading tools and future product releases, users can follow Zoomex's official channels on X (@ZoomexOfficial) and through the Zoomex Media newsroom.

AIS-tracked traffic remains ~90% below pre-conflict levels.

With new US sanctions due at 2:00 AM SGT, watch the ships not just the headlines.