One of the most anticipated launches, Bakkt's futures exchange, turned out to be a giant dud on the first day of trading. Now fingers are pointing at that as the reason bitcoin prices are went on the south side of the $8,000 level Tuesday afternoon.
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LedgerX spokesperson quits after CEO’s profanity-laced tirade against federal regulators
RGPR’s Ryan Gormley dropped LedgerX after Paul Chou lashed out at the CFTC on Twitter
An hour after Chou accused the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulator of acting in bad faith and being in the pocket of one of the largest companies it oversees, RGPR agency founder Ryan Gormley took to twitter with a message of his own.
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TD Ameritrade-backed ErisX and Binance bring small investors more futures options
A new license from the CFTC and a new futures exchange from Binance means more futures can be settled in cryptocurrency rather than cash
The cryptocurrency futures market took another two steps towards normalization Tuesday.
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LedgerX beats NASDAQ and ICE to the retail cryptocurrency futures market
The CFTC has awarded the company the first futures trading license open to individuals rather than institutions
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.
