The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced on June 25 that it has approved LedgerX’s application as a designated contract market (DCM). A DCM may “list for trading futures or option contracts based on all types of commodities and that may allow access to their facilities by all types of traders, including retail customers,” according to the CFTC.
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Crypto market advancing in quest to enter mainstream financial markets
Plans by Fidelity, the CBOE, and B2C2 would bring entry to option and stock markets
Three companies, including the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and financial services firm Fidelity Digital Assets, announced advances in their trading platforms.
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The Nasdaq is an electronic marketplace. When reporters go on TV and say, "We're live at the NASDAQ!" they are really at a studio set up in Times Square. This is the studio. It's much better than looking at just a bunch of wires (photo by Luis Villa del Campo, via Wikimedia Commons).NASDAQ jumps on the cryptocurrency futures train
The world’s second largest exchange will launch Bitcoin futures in 2019
The NASDAQ stock exchange will launch Bitcoin futures trading early next year, a spokesperson confirmed to Britain’s Daily Express on Monday. The world’s No. 2 stock exchange is awaiting approval from the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), NASDAQ’s Joseph Christinat told the British tabloid, adding that NASDAQ is confident it will receive approval and begin trading in the first half of 2019. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) and Cboe Futures Exchange began futures trading in late 2017. These trades are settled in cash rather than in Bitcoin. With the confirmation of the long-rumored news, NASDAQ joins Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), owner of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), which has…
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Must-reads for October 24, 2018: New cryptophone, ETF advocates meet SEC, and more Tether drama
These are the crypto stories you should be following today
HTC launches its blockchain-focused phone, but you can only buy it in cryptocurrency (CNBC) The new Exodus 1 phone ban be bought for 0.15 BTC or 4.78 ETH—but you can’t buy it with fiat. “The Exodus 1 comes with a secure enclave — a secluded area on the phone’s chip kept separate from the Android operating system (OS) it runs on — that uses technology made by SoftBank’s Arm Holdings to keep a customer’s cryptocurrency safe,” writes CNBC’s Ryan Browne. SEC Publishes Memorandum From Meeting on SolidX, VanEck BTC ETF Proposal (CoinTelegraph) The meeting occurred October 9. Besides SolidX and VanEck, the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) was also…
