Derivatives

Taking a look at some of the structural changes in the bitcoin derivatives market over the course of 2021 and what they mean.

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Wave Financial is offering a bitcoin derivatives yield fund, giving investors indirect exposure to bitcoin.

FTX is a new crypto exchange and trading exchange offering futures contracts, leveraged tokens and an over-the-counter portal.

The service will be available via Huobi’s Derivative Market (Huobi DM) to customers of select countries and will allow them to open both short and long positions for a handful of cryptocurrencies.

An unconfirmed report claims that NASDAQ has plans to launch BTC-based futures contracts, and that these plans are continuing to go forward despite the recent crypto crash.

Last month, the peer-to-peer (P2P) blockchain startup Level01 announced its partnership with TR in order to create a “derivatives” exchange that would change how parties interact with one another, without the fear of losing funds to unknown third parties.

U.K.-based cryptocurrency futures exchange Crypto Facilities is adding a bitcoin cash product to its offerings.

American investors can now invest in bitcoin Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) through an Exchange-Traded Note (ETN) called Bitcoin Tracker One on the Nasdaq Stockholm Exchange in Sweden, per a Bloomberg report.

The CFTC says it’s focusing on the latest “best practices” for launching cryptocurrency derivative contracts.