Data from SEIBro, operated by the Korea Securities Depository, shows that Korean investors used the Qualified Foreign Investor, or QFI, channel to buy CXMT Tech, making it the most heavily net-bought A-share among Korean investors in the past month as of Aug. 18. Net purchases totaled $45.322233 million, or about RMB 307.53 million, and the stock also ranked first over the past three months. The case drew attention because the security appeared in SEIBro without an ISIN code. KSD’s securities data division told China Fund News that the stock has not yet been assigned an ISIN, even though QFI settlement instructions submitted to KSD require one. As a result, Korean brokerages involved in the trade temporarily used a virtual code, and the name displayed in the system followed that temporary virtual ISIN. KSD said the stock trades only on Shanghai’s STAR Market and has not been added to the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect mechanism, meaning Korean investors can currently access it only through QFI rather than Stock Connect. The local code used to identify the stock is 688825, which corresponds to newly listed CXMT Tech. The report also said Tema ETFs added CXMT Tech to Tema Memory ETF (DISK) on its listing day, July 27, with a 10.56% weight, while Roundhill Memory ETF and MSCI China All Shares Index also moved to include the company later.

SK Hynix said on Aug. 19 it would carry out a 40 trillion won share buyback and cancellation plan, the largest such move in South Korean corporate history according to the source article, while also pledging to return more than 50% of free cash flow to shareholders from 2025 to 2027. The announcement lifted SK Hynix shares by about 6% and sent the Hong Kong-listed CSOP 2x Long SK Hynix product, 07709.HK, up more than 20% during the session. The article says 07709, one of the most closely watched and best-performing equity ETPs of the past year, was listed on Binance a week earlier alongside products tied to Kuaishou, Meituan and a 2x long Samsung Electronics vehicle. Since its Binance debut, the related product’s price has climbed as much as 59%, with 24-hour trading volume topping $24.6 million as of 16:00 on Aug. 19. The report frames 07709’s rise as part of a broader convergence between crypto and traditional finance. It links the product’s popularity to SK Hynix’s position in the AI memory trade, citing a 64% global HBM market share, strong ties with Nvidia, sold-out 2026 HBM capacity, and first-quarter 2026 revenue of 52.58 trillion won and net profit of 40.35 trillion won. It also says Binance is using Asian stock perpetuals to expand its TradFi and RWA derivatives lineup.

South Korean equities fell sharply again on Aug. 19, according to market data cited by BlockBeats from Bitget. The move followed a decline in U.S. markets the previous day and hit major Korean heavyweight names. SK Hynix fell more than 8%, while Samsung dropped more than 7%. Leveraged products tied to the two stocks posted steeper losses. The CSOP 2x Long Hynix ETF fell 14.63%, and the CSOP 2x Long Samsung ETF lost 13.43%. The figures point to a broad risk-off move in Korean equities and amplified downside pressure in double-long exchange-traded products tracking the two companies.

Binance Futures has added four USDT-margined perpetual contract pairs on Aug. 11, according to an official announcement. The new listings are KUAISHOUUSDT, MEITUANUSDT, CSOPSKHYNIX2LUSDT and CSOPSAMSUNG2LUSDT. The first two track Kuaishou and Meituan, while the latter two are tied to leveraged products linked to South Korea semiconductor names through CSOP offerings listed in Hong Kong. Binance said Kuaishou and Meituan contracts support leverage of up to 20x. The two semiconductor ETF-related contracts support leverage of up to 10x. For all four contracts, the funding rate cap is set at +2%/-2%, with settlement every eight hours. The contracts also support Multi-Assets Mode. The exchange said CSOPSKHYNIX2LUSDT tracks the CSOP SK Hynix Daily (2x) Leveraged Product listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under ticker 7709. CSOPSAMSUNG2LUSDT tracks the CSOP Samsung Electronics Daily (2x) Leveraged Product, listed under ticker 7747. Binance also warned that digital asset prices can be highly volatile and that futures trading carries elevated risk, which investors must bear themselves.

Tokenized money market and Treasury funds are moving beyond their original role as yield products and into a new position inside institutional digital cash systems. By May 2026, tokenized Treasury and money market funds had reached about $10 billion in combined assets, with BlackRock’s BUIDL alone accounting for roughly 40% of that total. At the same time, Hong Kong moved tokenized funds from a subscription-and-redemption model toward 24/7 secondary trading, while banks in Singapore began testing tokenized fund shares as collateral for lending and trading activity. The competition is now centered on utility rather than issuance alone. In the United States, tokenized funds are increasingly being tied to stablecoin reserve structures, including JPMorgan’s JLTXX on Ethereum, which is designed for reserve use under the GENIUS Act framework. Europe and the UK are focusing on fitting these products into formal regulatory systems. Singapore is pushing the collateral use case. Hong Kong, meanwhile, is trying to combine issuers, banks, trading venues and settlement infrastructure in one regulated market structure. What is emerging is not simply a new wrapper for traditional money funds. Tokenized fund shares are being tested as assets that can circulate across trading, settlement and credit networks. That raises a broader question for asset managers, banks and crypto platforms alike: in a market where cash management tools, bank deposits and digital currencies start to share the same rails, who will control access to the system itself?

Gate's stock-focused futures section has gone live with eight new perpetual contracts, effective Aug 12 at 14:00 (UTC+8). All contracts are settled in USDT and support leverage from 1x to 20x. The list includes CSOPSKHYNIX2L (CSOP SK Hynix Daily (2x) Leveraged ETF 7709.HK), CSOPSAMSUNG2L (CSOP Samsung Electronics Daily (2x) Leveraged ETF 7747.HK), SpaceX-related SSPC and SPCH, plus GFS, VST, OKTA and OUST. Separately, Gate is running the 13th airdrop campaign for its stock futures zone from Aug 12, 16:00 to Aug 21, 16:00 (UTC+8). New users get 5 USDT for their first futures trade; daily trading-volume check-ins can earn up to 35 USDT; trading the participating symbols qualifies for a share of a 30,000 USDT pool. The total prize pool is 50,000 USDT, with a per-user cap of 240 USDT.

Bybit has listed four new stock perpetual contracts on its platform. The new instruments are Kuaishou (KUAISHOUUSDT), Meituan (MEITUANUSDT), the CSOP SK Hynix Daily Leverage (2x) product (CSOPSKHYNIX2LUSDT) and the CSOP Samsung Daily Leverage (2x) product (CSOPSAMSUNG2LUSDT). The Kuaishou and Meituan perpetuals support up to 25x leverage, while the two CSOP daily leverage products are capped at 20x leverage. Alongside the launch, Bybit is running a limited-time fee promotion across all four contracts, with limit order fees set at 0% and market order fees discounted to 50% of the usual rate. The listing expands Bybit's equity-linked derivatives suite with familiar Chinese tech names as well as two Korea-focused products from CSOP. Traders can already access these new markets on the exchange.

On August 10, Binance announced via an official notice that its futures platform will launch four USDT-margined perpetual contracts between 10:00 and 10:15 (UTC+8) on August 11, 2026. The new contracts are KUAISHOUUSDT, MEITUANUSDT, CSOPSKHYNIX2LUSDT and CSOPSAMSUNG2LUSDT, each supporting up to 20x leverage.