Capital Markets
Crypto Futures and Institutional Interest: Looking in the Wrong Place
Cboe’s suspension of bitcoin futures highlights a mistake we’re all making when it comes to institutional involvement, argues Noelle Acheson.
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Cboe’s suspension of bitcoin futures highlights a mistake we’re all making when it comes to institutional involvement, argues Noelle Acheson.
An experimental service that allows users to pay for futures data from exchanges Kraken and BitMEX via the lightning network is now live.
Crypto Facilities, which provides futures data to CME, saw its own trading volume jump five-fold after being acquired by Kraken.
An Indonesian financial watchdog has set out new regulations for the trading of crypto assets on futures exchanges in the country.
Crypto trading firm ErisX has hired a COO from megabank Barclays and a head of infrastructure from YouTube.
Kraken has inked a “nine-figure” deal that now makes it the only crypto exchange to offer regulated futures trading in Europe.
The SEC and CFTC have five weeks of work to catch up on, and crypto advocates have no illusions that bitcoin ETFs and the like are a priority.