PANews reported on October 14th that, according to Bitcoin Magazine, Cake Wallet has integrated xStocks, allowing global users to trade stocks like Google, Amazon, and Nvidia in tokenized form within the app, emphasizing privacy and low barriers to entry. Issued by Switzerland-based Backed.fi, the platform has been operating since 2021; users may not have voting rights, and the dividend mechanism is unspecified. Due to regulatory restrictions, the service is not available to the United States, Australia, Canada, Belgium, the United Kingdom, Afghanistan, Belarus, Cuba, Iran, and North Korea, and may implement geo-screening based on IP addresses. A similar product has been launched by Phantom, which does not require personal information beyond private keys.



Bitcoin’s market cycles may stretch longer as ISM manufacturing data remains weak, hinting at extended macro headwinds and slower business recovery. The Institute for Supply Management’s (ISM) Manufacturing Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) has historically aligned with major peaks in Bitcoin’s market cycles — a pattern that, if repeated, could imply a longer-than-usual cycle this time around.The correlation between the ISM PMI and Bitcoin’s (BTC) price was first popularized by Real Vision’s Raoul Pal and has since gained traction among macro-focused crypto analysts.“All 3 past Bitcoin cycle tops have broadly aligned with this monthly, oscillating index,” analyst Colin Talks Crypto noted, referencing the recurring overlap between Bitcoin’s market highs and the PMI’s cyclical peaks.Read more