An exchange says 53.7% of its users bought stocks. It ran the survey

The exchange MEXC launched a five-season education programme called Opportunity Compass, running from September to December, and led the announcement with a number: 53.7% of crypto users have moved into stocks. NewsBTC carried it.

MEXC ran that survey. The announcement gives no sample size, no method and no field dates, and the text carries the boilerplate of a company release rather than reporting.

“Finding opportunities is important. What matters even more is having a systematic way to understand, evaluate and act on them.”

— Vugar Usi Zade, chief executive of MEXC, MEXC announcement, 8 September 2026

Quote source: Vugar Usi Zade, chief executive of MEXC, 8 September 2026

Four numbers on crypto users buying stocks

Four figures are quoted, all from the same unnamed survey.

• 53.7% of respondents have already bought stocks.
• 43.1% of those who never used stock products blamed insufficient knowledge.
• 48.3% of those who tried and stopped gave the same reason.
• 44% of current stock investors said price movements drew them in, and 34% named the AI boom.

Every one of them points the same way: people want to buy stocks and feel they do not know enough. That is a fair description of most retail investors in any market, and it is also precisely the finding an education programme needs in order to exist.

None of this makes the numbers false. It makes them unverifiable, which is a different problem and worth saying out loud when a percentage carries a decimal point.

The figure that measures behaviour

A second figure in the same release is far more useful, because it measures behaviour rather than opinion. Trading in traditional financial assets on crypto exchanges reached $1.45 trillion in the first half of 2026, close to ten times the total for all of 2025.

That number squares with what we have been measuring. Tokenised equities made up 67% of HIP-3 volume on Hyperliquid last month, and we found this morning that the tokenised asset base kept growing even as derivative trading on it cooled. Stocks arriving inside crypto venues is the trend; the survey is decoration on top of it.

Who the curriculum belongs to

The partner list is worth reading as part of the offer rather than as endorsement. It includes xStocks by PAYWARD, Plume, Tether, Pyth, Optimism, CMT Digital and RootData, and season four covers tokenised assets, real-world assets and prediction markets.

Those are products the partners issue or route. An education programme whose curriculum lands on the sponsors' categories is a normal piece of marketing, and readers deserve to know that before season four rather than during it.

Exchanges earn on volume, and every one of them now wants users trading more asset classes rather than more coins. We saw the same argument from Binance yesterday when its founder predicted offerings move on-chain while his exchange sold the product that assumes it.

Take the free lessons if they are good. Treat the 53.7% as a marketing claim until someone publishes the sample, and watch the $1.45 trillion instead, because that one is measured in trades rather than in answers.

This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute investment advice.