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MEXC RealStocks growth and stock futures expansion

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MEXC’s zero‑fee exchange introduced its RealStocks service on June 1, 2025, enabling users to buy U.S. stocks and ETFs through a licensed broker. Early data showed the SpaceX‑related ticker SPCX dominated activity, representing 29.7% of total RealStocks trading volume. In August 2026, MEXC expanded its promotional activities with the ‘Earnings Season RealStocks Rally,’ a competition running from August 3 to August 24 featuring a $1 million prize pool. This was followed by the ‘0808: Stock Season’ event, which launched on August 8 with a $500,000 prize pool. To support advanced users, MEXC launched the RealStocks API in partnership with regulated broker Atomic Vaults Securities (AVS), allowing quantitative traders to automate commission-free strategies for over 7,000 U.S. companies and ETFs using USDT while retaining full shareholding rights and dividend entitlements. Additionally, the exchange introduced ‘MEXC Win: Infinity Arena,’ a team-based futures trading competition with a progressive prize pool reaching up to 10 million USDT. Market expansion has led to significant volume surges. In the second quarter of 2026, average daily stock futures trading volume in Asia increased by 3,308%, with Southeast Asia seeing a 6,648% jump and East Asia a 1,957% increase. As MEXC expands into traditional assets like forex and commodities, CEO Vugar Usi has addressed concerns regarding retail risk, noting the difficulty in justifying extreme leverage levels, such as 500x, in an industry that lacks a common standard for retail leverage. On September 8, 2026, MEXC launched the ‘Trade Wall Street, Without Walls’ campaign to highlight how crypto-native trading reduces barriers to stock market participation. The initiative identifies five specific constraints, or ‘walls’: Access, Fee, Time, Capital, and Direction.

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