CRYPTO
Crypto Briefing
06 Oct 2026 · 11:00
CFTC proposes first dedicated crypto market rules with Regulation CTX and CAM
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has unveiled its first set of dedicated rules for the crypto market, dubbed Regulation CTX and Regulation CAM. The proposed regulations aim to establish a voluntary federal framework …
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has unveiled its first set of dedicated rules for the crypto market, dubbed Regulation CTX and Regulation CAM. The proposed regulations aim to establish a voluntary federal framework for exchanges dealing in Bitcoin and Ether. This move is part of the CFTC’s efforts to formalize oversight of crypto exchanges and spot markets, which have previously operated with limited regulatory guidance. The proposal remains in the early stages of federal review, and its full details have yet to be disclosed, marking a significant step towards regulatory clarity in the crypto sector.
Key Takeaways
The CFTC’s proposal appears to indicate a move towards regulatory clarity, which is consistent with increased confidence in crypto markets.
Market pricing suggests that participants view this regulatory development as supportive of a possible increase in Bitcoin’s market value.
The proposal is still under federal review, indicating that the CFTC is taking a proactive stance in the absence of comprehensive congressional legislation.
What to Watch
Observers will closely monitor the progress of the CFTC’s proposal through the federal review process, which could influence market confidence and pricing dynamics. Key developments to watch include any indications from the U.S. Congress on broader crypto legislation and potential responses from major crypto exchanges. Regulatory actions or announcements by the Federal Reserve could also impact market sentiment and pricing scenarios.
CRYPTO
CNA
06 Oct 2026 · 11:00
US commodities regulator proposes new federal crypto oversight rules
Oct 5 : The US commodities regulator proposed on Monday a new federal framework for cryptocurrency exchanges that offer leveraged digital asset trading, seeking to bring parts of the spot crypto market under federal …
Oct 5 : The US commodities regulator proposed on Monday a new federal framework for cryptocurrency exchanges that offer leveraged digital asset trading, seeking to bring parts of the spot crypto market under federal oversight weeks after Congress failed to advance comprehensive crypto regulation.
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission's proposed rules would effectively allow US crypto exchanges to opt into a federal regulatory framework instead of relying primarily on a patchwork of state money-transmitter licenses, the agency said.
The proposed rules make use of a specific authority the CFTC has to oversee margined or leveraged spot assets. The CFTC has long sought authority to regulate spot cryptocurrency markets — which currently operate in a regulatory grey area — but only Congress has the ability to provide the regulator with that purview.
"For years, entrepreneurs building on the new frontier of finance faced uncertainty about whether there was a place for them in our markets. We are giving them an answer," said CFTC Chairman Michael Selig in a speech on Monday at an event in New York held by Fordham University's law school.
RULES WOULD ESTABLISH NEW TRADING VENUE CATEGORY
Under the proposed rules, the CFTC would establish a new category of CFTC-regulated trading venues called a "crypto asset market" for exchanges that offer leveraged or margined trading to retail customers. Those platforms would be subject to specific requirements including anti-market-manipulation controls and a "proof of reserves" obligation.
The CFTC is also proposing that registered futures commission merchants intermediate customer trades on the new category of exchanges.
The agency is not stipulating specific leverage limits, but any exchange offering a leveraged transaction would have to clear that product with CFTC staff, the agency said.
The proposed rules come after Congress failed to advance a major crypto bill, called the Clarity Act, which would have created new rules for the $2 trillion cryptocurrency market, putting the industry on a firmer legal footing. One of the key components of the bill was the explicit authority for the CFTC to police the spot crypto market.
The impasse in Congress has put the onus on US President Donald Trump's crypto-friendly regulators, particularly the Securities and Exchange Commission and the CFTC, to give the industry the regulatory clarity it has long argued it lacks.
Still, analysts have said that without legislation, regulations could be vulnerable to the shifting political climate and court challenges, creating lingering hazards for the crypto industry.
MACRO & FED
Biztoc.com
06 Oct 2026 · 10:45
Wharton's Jeremy Siegel: September jobs report was 'wonderful' for Fed Chairman Warsh
Jeremy Siegel, professor emeritus of finance at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and WisdomTree chief ... Jeremy Siegel, professor emeritus of finance at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and WisdomTree …
Jeremy Siegel, professor emeritus of finance at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and WisdomTree chief ... Jeremy Siegel, professor emeritus of finance at University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and WisdomTree chief ...
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CRYPTO
Pypi.org
06 Oct 2026 · 10:45
tribulnation-sdk 2.9.0
Tribulnation SDK Fully-typed, async Python SDK for crypto trading and data. Market , Wallet , Earn , and Report are abstract interfaces implemented per exchange and chain. Code written against MarketSDK runs unchanged on …
Tribulnation SDK
Fully-typed, async Python SDK for crypto trading and data.
Market , Wallet , Earn , and Report are abstract interfaces implemented per exchange and chain. Code written against MarketSDK runs unchanged on dYdX, Hyperliquid, MEXC, or any other supported venue.
Installation
pip install tribulnation-sdk [ dydx,hyperliquid,mexc ]
See the support matrix for details on extras.
Standalone gateway
Install tribulnation-sdk[gateway] for tn gateway and the remote ProxySDK . Venue adapters are installed separately on the server. See the gateway guide for configuration, supported operations and migration details.
Trading Quick Start
from dotenv import load_dotenv from tribulnation.sdk import MarketSDK , accounts load_dotenv () # load credentials from .env file sdk = MarketSDK ( { 'mexc_account1' : accounts . Mexc ( api_key = '$MEXC_API_KEY' , api_secret = '$MEXC_API_SECRET' ), # 'dydx', 'hyperliquid', and 'mexc' are available by default, even without listing them here } ) mexc = await sdk . market ( 'mexc_account1:spot:BTCUSDT' ) dydx = await sdk . market ( 'dydx:perp:BTC-USD' ) async with mexc . trades_stream () as my_trades : async for my_trade in my_trades : print ( f 'Hedging { my_trade } ' ) await dydx . place_order ( { 'type' : 'LIMIT' , 'qty' : - my_trade . qty , 'price' : my_trade . price , } )
accounts.<Venue>() reads credentials from environment variables named after each field ( accounts.Mexc() reads $MEXC_API_KEY / $MEXC_API_SECRET ) — pass explicit values or other $VAR names to override.
Market IDs & Scoping
<account_id>:<exchange_id>:<market_id> , e.g. mexc_account1:spot:BTCUSDT . account_id is the key you registered in accounts — not necessarily the venue's own name — so you can run several accounts on one venue side by side. Equivalent ways to reach a market:
await sdk . depth ( 'mexc_account1:spot:BTCUSDT' ) venue = await sdk . venue ( 'mexc_account1' ) await venue . depth ( 'spot:BTCUSDT' ) exchange = await venue . exchange ( 'spot' ) await exchange . depth ( 'BTCUSDT' ) market = await exchange . market ( 'BTCUSDT' ) await market . depth ()
Hold a Market reference in hot loops; use the scoped one-shot calls otherwise.
Market Interface
Public data: depth() -> Book depth_stream() -> AsyncContextManager[AsyncIterable[Book]] rules() -> Rules : tick/step size, fees, min/max, rounding helpers candles(interval, start, end) -> PaginatedResponse[Candle] : trade candles opening in [start, end) , with timezone-aware bounds and no ordering guarantee; CANDLE_INTERVALS says which widths a venue serves
User data: query_order(id) -> OrderState | None open_orders() -> Sequence[OrderState] trades_history(start, end) -> AsyncIterable[Sequence[Trade]] trades_stream() -> AsyncContextManager[AsyncIterable[Trade]] position() -> Position available_notional() -> Decimal : max. notional you could open now
Trading: place_order(order) -> OrderResponse place_orders(orders) -> Sequence[OrderResponse] cancel_order(id) cancel_orders(ids) cancel_open_orders()
Perpetual markets: index() -> Decimal next_funding() -> FundingRate funding_rates(start, end=None) -> AsyncIterable[Sequence[FundingRate]] : market-wide rate history funding_payments(start, end) -> AsyncIterable[Sequence[FundingPayment]] : your own settled cashflows perp_position() -> PerpPosition : includes entry price
Full reference: docs/market/index.md, with per-venue notes for dYdX, Hyperliquid, and MEXC.
Mutating methods also take an optional settings dict for venue-specific options, keyed by venue:
await dydx . place_order ( { 'type' : 'LIMIT' , 'qty' : 0.01 , 'price' : 60_000 , }, settings = { 'dydx' : { 'order_flags' : 'SHORT_TERM' , 'short_term_gtb' : 2 }}, )
Other SDKs
Same account-mapping shape as MarketSDK :
WalletSDK : deposit/withdrawal methods — docs/wallet.md
: deposit/withdrawal methods — docs/wallet.md EarnSDK : yield instruments — docs/earn.md
: yield instruments — docs/earn.md ReportSDK : balance/position history, with provenance — docs/report.md
Every SDK object is an async context manager: call methods on it directly, or enter it with async with to close its connections at a point you choose. Details: Async Usage.
Error Handling
All errors subclass Error : NetworkError , ValidationError , ApiError ( BadRequest , AuthError , RateLimited ), LogicError .
Context, Logging & Retries
SDK calls are plain by default — no logging, no retries. Wrap them in a Context to add both:
from tribulnation.sdk import Context , NetworkError , RateLimited ctx = Context () . retried ( NetworkError , RateLimited , max_retries = 5 ) . logged () with ctx . use (): await sdk . place_order ( 'mexc_account1:spot:BTCUSDT' , { 'type' : 'LIMIT' , 'qty' : 0.01 , 'price' : 60_000 } )
Retries back off exponentially and only wrap plain async calls, not streams or paginated history. Nested SDK calls each re-apply the active context, so retries can compound across scoping layers. Details: Context, Logging & Retries.
License
MIT
CRYPTO
Crypto Briefing
06 Oct 2026 · 10:45
CFTC moves ahead with crypto market rules after Clarity Act failure
Chair Michael Selig said Regulation CTX and Regulation CAM would create a federal framework for registered crypto exchanges while stopping short of requiring spot platforms to register. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is moving …
Chair Michael Selig said Regulation CTX and Regulation CAM would create a federal framework for registered crypto exchanges while stopping short of requiring spot platforms to register.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is moving ahead with its first dedicated rules for crypto markets after Congress failed to advance comprehensive market structure legislation.
CFTC Chair Michael Selig said the agency is proposing two rulemakings, Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions, or Regulation CTX, and Regulation Crypto Asset Markets, or Regulation CAM, following the Senate’s failure to advance the Clarity Act.
The proposals would establish requirements for CFTC-registered exchanges that offer crypto assets such as Bitcoin and Ether for trading.
Unlike the Clarity Act, however, the rules would not require crypto assets to trade on CFTC-registered platforms.
Selig said the agency does not have the authority to impose such a requirement without congressional action. Instead, the proposals are intended to create a purpose-built federal option for crypto exchanges that voluntarily choose to operate under CFTC oversight.
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Those platforms could offer retail customers margined, leveraged or financed crypto trading, distinguishing them from ordinary spot exchanges and bringing them more clearly within the CFTC’s existing jurisdiction.
The move follows a joint interpretation from the CFTC and Securities and Exchange Commission earlier this year that Selig said clarified that a broad group of crypto assets, including Bitcoin and Ether, are non-securities subject to the CFTC’s authority.
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Selig framed the new approach as a break from the enforcement-heavy strategy used by regulators under the previous administration.
He argued that requiring crypto firms to fit into rules designed for traditional financial infrastructure created uncertainty and pushed some businesses offshore rather than establishing clear standards before problems emerged.
Selig pointed to the collapse of FTX as an example of the risks created by fragmented oversight. While most of FTX’s offshore and state-regulated entities entered bankruptcy, he said customer property held through its CFTC-registered subsidiary remained segregated and secure.
In his view, the episode demonstrated the value of federal market rules covering areas such as customer asset protection, conflicts of interest, manipulation and orderly trading.
State money-transmitter regimes have allowed crypto businesses to operate in the US for years, but Selig argued those frameworks were designed primarily for payments rather than financial markets and vary significantly across states.
Regulation CTX and CAM are intended to give crypto exchanges an alternative: a single federal market-regulatory framework specifically designed around the structure of crypto markets.
The CFTC’s authority remains limited without legislation. The agency cannot force spot crypto platforms into the framework or fully replace the broader market structure regime envisioned by Congress.
Selig acknowledged that agency action cannot indefinitely substitute for legislation but said the CFTC intends to move ahead with the authority it already has.
“Today’s action is just the beginning,” Selig said, adding that the agency will continue addressing gaps in crypto market structure and developing what he described as clearer rules for market participants.
CRYPTO
Pypi.org
06 Oct 2026 · 10:30
dcex 0.36.2
dcex - DEX & CEX trading library English | 繁體中文 dcex is a Rust-backed exchange library with synchronous and asynchronous Python clients and a standalone Rust crate. It covers market data, account queries, order …
dcex - DEX & CEX trading library
English | 繁體中文
dcex is a Rust-backed exchange library with synchronous and asynchronous Python clients and a standalone Rust crate. It covers market data, account queries, order APIs, and public and private WebSocket streams.
Broker codes: dcex does not set or attach a broker code or broker tag by default. You can specify one explicitly when the exchange API supports it.
Forked from krex, a simplified version of the ccxt Python library.
Installation
Python:
pip install dcex # or, in a uv-managed project: uv add dcex
Rust:
cargo add dcex
Key features
Synchronous and asynchronous Python HTTP clients, plus public and private WebSocket clients.
HTTP, WebSocket, and signing APIs for direct use from Rust.
A Product Table Manager (PTM) that normalizes exchange symbols and trading specifications.
Support for multiple CEX and DEX platforms; available endpoints vary by exchange.
Documented withdrawal, market-maker and partner endpoints are in scope; current coverage and specification gaps are recorded in the endpoint ledger. API withdrawals have no second confirmation; they execute on submit. Trading API keys should not have withdrawal permission. PTM includes listed options from Binance, Bybit, and OKX; option trading remains exchange-specific.
Supported exchanges
Exchange HTTP Sync HTTP Async WS Public WS Private Binance Yes Yes Yes Yes Bybit Yes Yes Yes Yes OKX Yes Yes Yes Yes Bitget Yes Yes Yes Yes Kraken Yes Yes Yes Yes MEXC Yes Yes Yes Yes BingX Yes Yes Yes Yes KuCoin Yes Yes Yes Yes Hyperliquid Yes Yes Yes Yes Lighter (Mainnet + Robinhood) Yes Yes Yes Yes Backpack Yes Yes Yes Yes Aster Yes Yes Yes Yes Extended Yes Yes Yes Yes Ondo Yes Yes Yes Yes Arcus Yes Yes Yes Yes
Bitget began migrating accounts to UTA on 2026-09-15. Classic-account private endpoints that Bitget rejects for UTA accounts (error 40085) have been removed; public market-data, tax and institutional-loan endpoints that still work remain. Use a UTA account for trading. See the official UTA upgrade guide and account settings.
Private WebSocket support includes authenticated or address-scoped user-data streams. Trading WebSocket APIs are available for Binance, Bybit, Bitget, OKX, KuCoin and Kraken Spot; Hyperliquid and Lighter accept signed actions, and Arcus provides signed request construction. Lighter Mainnet and Robinhood use separate credential profiles; select the network per client (Mainnet is the default); see .env.example and the Lighter examples. Ondo spot currently supports only public market data (depth, trades, symbol_info, history and WS spot channels); Ondo has not published its spot trading API, so private operations such as placing or cancelling orders with a -SPOT symbol fail locally without sending a request.
Endpoint coverage, limitations and verification.
Python quick start
Synchronous HTTP:
import dcex client = dcex . binance () print ( client . get_klines ( product_symbol = "BTC-USDT-SWAP" , interval = "1m" ))
Asynchronous HTTP:
import asyncio import dcex.async_support as dcex async def main (): client = await dcex . binance () try : print ( await client . get_klines ( product_symbol = "BTC-USDT-SWAP" , interval = "1m" )) finally : await client . close () asyncio . run ( main ())
Additional profiles cover Binance Alpha, Aster Prediction, KuCoin Classic/Pro and Kraken Spot V1. Bitget SBE returns raw binary frames for caller-side decoding.
Public WebSocket:
import asyncio from dcex.ws import binance async def main (): async with binance . public () as ws : await ws . subscribe_agg_trades ( "BTC-USDT-SPOT" ) print ( await ws . recv ()) asyncio . run ( main ())
Product Table Manager
PTM maps normalized product_symbol values, such as BTC-USDT-SWAP , to exchange-native exchange_symbol values and exposes trading metadata. Clients use this mapping where applicable.
Fields Meaning exchange , product_symbol , exchange_symbol Exchange and normalized/native symbols product_type , exchange_type Normalized and exchange-specific market types base_currency , quote_currency Product currencies price_precision , size_precision Price and size increments min_size , min_notional Minimum size and notional size_per_contract Contract multiplier
from dcex.product_table.manager import ProductTableManager table = ProductTableManager . get_instance ( "binance" ) print ( table . get_exchange_symbol ( "binance" , "BTC-USDT-SWAP" )) print ( table . get_product_symbol ( "binance" , "BTCUSDT" , product_type = "swap" )) print ( table . rows ()[ 0 ])
More examples and development
Runnable examples are in Python sync, Python async and WebSocket, and Rust. They focus on public data or read-only account queries. Private HTTP examples require credentials; private stream examples require credentials or a user address.
uv run python examples/sync/binance_public.py uv run python examples/async/binance_ws_public.py cargo run -p dcex --example binance_ws_public
For direct Rust usage, see the crate README. The default test suite runs offline with uv run pytest ; live suites are opt-in. See the contributing guide for development and testing details.
This project uses the MIT License; see the third-party notices for additional licenses.
MACRO & FED
Biztoc.com
06 Oct 2026 · 10:15
Iran’s oil minister resigns as country’s economic crisis worsens
Departure comes amid large drop in oil receipts, rampant inflation and shrinking economy Iran’s oil minister has resigned days after allegations that an intermediary trust selling Iranian oil abroad owed millions of dollars’ worth …
Departure comes amid large drop in oil receipts, rampant inflation and shrinking economy
Iran’s oil minister has resigned days after allegations that an intermediary trust selling Iranian oil abroad owed millions of dollars’ worth of export receipts to the st… Departure comes amid large drop in oil receipts, rampant inflation and shrinking economyIrans oil minister has resigned days after allegations that an intermediary trust selling Iranian oil abroad ow…
CRYPTO
Cointelegraph
06 Oct 2026 · 10:15
Bitcoin price fails to break higher after best weekly close in eight months
Bitcoin’s highest weekly close in eight months formed low-timeframe resistance at the start of Monday’s US trading session. Bitcoin (BTC) fluctuated around $86,000 after Monday’s Wall Street open as US bond yields continued to …
Bitcoin’s highest weekly close in eight months formed low-timeframe resistance at the start of Monday’s US trading session.
Bitcoin (BTC) fluctuated around $86,000 after Monday’s Wall Street open as US bond yields continued to rise.
Key points:
Bitcoin rejected near its weekly close of $86,570 after the start of the US trading session.
US bond yields staged a rebounBitcoin price action continued with smaller moves, with the 2026 yearly open at $87,570 lingering overhead as key psychological resistance.d to eye new 24-year highs after dropping on Friday.
Glassnode analysis reported less “aggressive upward momentum” visible in onchain data in recent days.
Bitcoin indecisive as US bond yields return higher
Data from TradingView showed BTC/USD struggling to move beyond its weekly open level near $86,500 after the highest weekly close since late January.
BTC/USD one-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView
US bond yields, already under scrutiny, headed higher on the day. The 30-year yield passed 5.67% once again, just two basis points below 24-year highs seen last week. The 10-year yield returned to 5.31%, with last week’s high at 5.34%.
US 30-year bond yield one-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView
Commenting, trading company QCP Capital reiterated that even recent cooler US employment data had not been enough to calm bond markets as broader geopolitical uncertainty persisted.
“Despite the dovish employment print, elevated oil prices and elevated long-dated yields continue to limit upside momentum for risk assets broadly,” it wrote in its latest analysis.
US stocks opened moderately higher on Monday, with the S&P 500 and tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index up 0.5% and 0.7%, respectively, as traders saw the Federal Reserve pausing interest-rate hikes at the next Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting on Oct. 28.
S&P 500 one-day chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView
In a note quoted by CNBC, Deutsche Bank analysts suggested that the minutes from the September FOMC meeting, to be released on Wednesday, would carry more weight than usual due to the bond sell-off.
“The highly unsettled bond market makes the incoming US data and Fed communication particularly relevant. So the minutes will be worth watching for how the broader Committee is framing the current tightening cycle and for its discussion of the neutral rate, where estimates shifted higher in the September SEP,” they wrote, referring to the Fed’s most recent summary of economic projections.
BTC price “aggressive upward momentum” fades
Bitcoin price action continued with smaller moves, with the 2026 yearly open at $87,570 lingering overhead as key psychological resistance.
Related: Bitcoin ETFs notch third inflow week as Ether ETFs shed $138M
Compared to mid-September, when BTC/USD returned to $87,000 for the first time in eight months, onchain analytics platform Glassnode flagged a drop in buyer dominance.
“This behavior reflects a moderation in aggressive upward momentum without signalling an immediate trend reversal or structural exhaustion,” it wrote in its latest Weekly Market Pulse on Monday.
Glassnode added that Bitcoin has held its September upside even as profit-taking continues to “run hot.” Previously, Cointelegraph reported on BTC owned by long-term holders (LTHs) being of particular interest in the area beyond $85,000.
CRYPTO
Crypto Briefing
06 Oct 2026 · 10:15
Bloomberg Terminal adds Hyperliquid perpetual futures quotes for live tracking
Bloomberg Terminal has integrated live streaming quotes for Hyperliquid perpetual futures, spanning various asset classes including cryptocurrencies, equities, commodities, foreign exchange, and indexes. This development marks a significant milestone in Hyperliquid’s visibility within professional …
Bloomberg Terminal has integrated live streaming quotes for Hyperliquid perpetual futures, spanning various asset classes including cryptocurrencies, equities, commodities, foreign exchange, and indexes. This development marks a significant milestone in Hyperliquid’s visibility within professional environments, as it becomes part of a platform widely used by financial institutions for market analysis. Although the Bloomberg Terminal will not facilitate execution for Hyperliquid’s products, the availability of real-time data is expected to enhance market participants’ ability to track and analyze these assets. Hyperliquid operates on its own Layer-1 blockchain, offering decentralized perpetual futures that have gained enough prominence to be included alongside traditional financial benchmarks.
Key Takeaways
The integration of Hyperliquid quotes on Bloomberg Terminal suggests increased visibility for the decentralized exchange in professional circles.
Market participants appear to view this development as supportive of a YES outcome for Hyperliquid reaching $100 by the end of 2026, with the market currently pricing this scenario at 76% YES.
The availability of live quotes may indicate heightened interest and potential activity in Hyperliquid’s perpetual futures.
What to Watch
Observers will focus on whether the increased exposure from Bloomberg Terminal leads to higher volumes and broader adoption of Hyperliquid’s offerings. The trajectory of Hyperliquid’s price and market cap will be key indicators to watch, especially if it enters the top 10 cryptocurrencies. Additionally, any major partnerships or institutional endorsements could further influence market expectations regarding Hyperliquid’s price targets.
CRYPTO
Crypto Briefing
06 Oct 2026 · 10:15
Story pauses IP trading for October token migration to DATA
Trading in Story's IP token is disabled from October 5 to 7, 2026, while holdings convert automatically to DATA at a 1:1 ratio Trading support for Story (IP) is temporarily disabled from October 5 …
Trading in Story's IP token is disabled from October 5 to 7, 2026, while holdings convert automatically to DATA at a 1:1 ratio
Trading support for Story (IP) is temporarily disabled from October 5 to October 7, 2026. For three days, the token sits in a kind of witness protection program while it gets a new name and a new job.
The pause covers the window in which IP converts into DATA, the token of the newly rebranded DATA Foundation and Data Network. Holders don’t need to do anything. Their balances are set to convert automatically at a 1:1 ratio.
How the migration works
The trading halt applies across several exchanges, including Coinbase. During the October 5 to 7 window, IP balances convert to DATA or DATAIP, one for one.
No claim forms, no bridges, no wallet gymnastics. The swap happens on the exchanges’ end while trading is frozen.
Trading in the new DATA token is set to resume once the conversion wraps up. The supply structure carries over unchanged from IP to DATA.
IP had a capped supply of 1 billion tokens. Because the conversion is 1:1 and the supply structure stays the same, a holder’s slice of the total pie is meant to look identical on both sides of the migration.
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From IP licensing to AI data
The migration is the final mechanical step in a rebrand announced on June 25, 2026. That announcement moved the project from Story Protocol to the DATA Foundation and Data Network, with a new focus on AI training data infrastructure.
Story launched its mainnet and IP token in February 2025 as a Layer 1 blockchain built for intellectual property. The idea was to tokenize IP and handle licensing on-chain, so creators could register work and get paid when others used it.
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Story Protocol raised approximately $134 million from investors including Andreessen Horowitz.
The shift toward data started with Trace, an on-chain data registry. Think of it as a ledger that records where a piece of data came from and who has rights to it.
The project then added an integration with Kled, which aims to document 1.5 billion user-contributed records through Trace.
The price history behind the pivot
IP reached a peak of around $14.78 and has since fallen nearly 98% from that high.
What this means for holders and the project
For current IP holders, the immediate takeaway is simple. If your tokens sit on a participating exchange like Coinbase, the conversion should happen automatically. Your job is mostly to not panic when the IP ticker disappears and DATA shows up in its place.
The DATA Foundation carries over the Story infrastructure, the Trace registry and the Kled integration, rather than launching an entirely new chain or token supply.
On the business side, the pivot puts the project into a crowded but growing field. AI developers increasingly need training data that is rights-cleared, meaning it comes with clear permission to use. A registry that can prove provenance and track rights could fill a real gap, especially as scrutiny of how models are trained keeps building.
Documenting 1.5 billion records through Kled is an ambitious target, and the value of the network will depend on whether AI companies actually use Trace to source and license data.
For now, the next concrete milestone is October 7, 2026, when the conversion window closes. After that, DATA trades on its own merits, without the IP name to lean on or blame.