Search Results for: futures

February 17, 2025 @ 11:05 am By Omar Faridi  |  

R.J. O’Brien & Associates (RJO), the futures brokerage and clearing firm in the United States, and Phlo Systems, a provider of digital solutions for commodity trading, trade finance and international trade compliance, announced that the firms have entered into a tech partnership, which includes an… Read More

January 30, 2025 @ 2:45 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

CME Group, the derivatives marketplace, and Robinhood Derivatives, LLC, announced that some of CME Group’s most “popular” futures products have started rolling out on the Robinhood mobile app. Over the coming weeks, eligible Robinhood (NASDAQ:HOOD) customers in the U.S. will have access to futures products… Read More

January 13, 2025 @ 8:49 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced a default judgment regarding the case of Mosaic Exchange Ltd. and its owner and Chief Executive Officer Sean Michael, of Miami, Florida. The CFTC initiated the enforcement action alleging a fraudulent digital asset commodity scheme. The order is based on a… Read More

December 21, 2024 @ 2:58 pm By Michael Wong  |  

Crypto derivatives platform Binance Futures has introduced the CGPT/USDT Perpetual Contract, highlighting the rising prominence of AI-focused cryptocurrencies in the digital asset landscape. The new offering allows traders to leverage ChainGPT token (CGPT) transactions up to 75x, with USDT as the settlement currency, adding to… Read More

November 20, 2024 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Webull is working with Coinbase Derivatives to offer crypto futures, according to a note from the firm. Webull is a digital brokerage that allows investors to purchase shares, ETFs, and other investments, including crypto. It is controlled by China-based holding company Hunan Fumi Information Technology,… Read More

November 3, 2024 @ 4:20 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets firm Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) whose share prices fell significantly this past week after announcing weaker than expected earnings also revealed that it will be rolling out Silver (SLR) and Stellar (XLM) Futures from Coinbase Derivatives. Coinbase, which remains the largest crypto exchange in the… Read More

October 14, 2024 @ 2:47 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Cboe Global Markets, Inc. (Cboe: CBOE), the derivatives and securities exchange network, announced its Options on Cboe Volatility Index (VIX) Futures (Ticker: UX) are planned to begin trading on Cboe Futures Exchange, LLC (CFE) on October 14. The Options on VIX Futures will aim to… Read More

October 11, 2024 @ 10:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Airwallex announced that Airwallex Capital is now licensed by the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong (SFC) in order to offer asset management services, paving the way for the upcoming launch of its Airwallex Yield in Hong Kong early next year. As explained in a… Read More

October 2, 2024 @ 9:55 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CME Group, the derivatives marketplace, announced that its Bitcoin Friday futures (BFF) have launched and are available for trading. 31,498 contracts traded across two different contract weeks. The first trade, a block, took place on Sunday, September 29 and was executed by Galaxy and Marex…. Read More

August 31, 2024 @ 3:09 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission issued an order filing and settling charges against Nasdaq Futures, Inc., formerly a designated contract market (DCM). The order finds Nasdaq Futures, Inc. reportedly failed “to properly establish, monitor, or enforce rules related to an incentive program Nasdaq Futures, Inc. offered… Read More

August 30, 2024 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CME Group said it will further expand its cryptocurrency derivatives offerings by introducing Bitcoin Friday futures (BFF) on September 30, pending regulatory review. Sized at one-fiftieth of one bitcoin, these new weekly futures contracts “will be cash-settled to the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate New… Read More

June 25, 2024 @ 8:44 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

ION, a global enabler of trading and workflow automation software, high-value analytics, and strategic consulting, announces the successful integration of its fixed-income solutions with XTP Execution, extending client access to a range of futures markets for trading and market data. In today’s highly competitive and… Read More

June 22, 2024 @ 11:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CME Group, the derivatives marketplace, announced its foreign exchange (FX) futures reached an all-time single-day volume record of 3.26 million contracts (equivalent to $314B notional) on June 12. The previous record of 3.15 million contracts ($296B notional) was “set on March 8, 2023.” In addition,… Read More

May 20, 2024 @ 10:02 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase Derivatives is reportedly expanding its futures offering to include Oil and Gold. On June 3, 2024, Coinbase Derivatives, part of Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN) and a CFTC-regulated futures exchange, will launch retail-sized futures contracts “for oil and gold.” These new contracts should help traders with further… Read More

April 24, 2024 @ 12:24 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

We recently connected with Jonathan Chang, the COO of Nibiru, the new Layer-1 chain co-founded by veterans from Google, Tendermint, and JP Morgan. In addition to a throughput-optimized infrastructure with a comprehensive developer toolkit suite, Nibiru provides an open, permissionless version of interconnected CEX-style applications,… Read More

April 21, 2024 @ 8:26 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The United States Justice Department is reporting its first cryptocurrency open-market manipulation case. A federal jury in New York has now “convicted a man residing in Puerto Rico of commodities fraud, commodities market manipulation, and wire fraud in connection with the manipulation on the Mango… Read More

April 12, 2024 @ 3:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Coinbase Derivatives says its primary goal in launching new crypto futures contracts is to create markets that offer retail traders diversification, price discovery, risk management, and margin. Since launching their futures contracts for Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and Litecoin (LTC), they claim to have “seen deeper… Read More

April 2, 2024 @ 9:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Open interest for Bitcoin futures, as indicated by recent activity on centralized crypto exchanges, has recorded a new high, a trend that points to a boost in overall trading volumes across the largest cryptocurrency in terms of market cap and global adoption. CoinGlass data reveals… Read More

March 15, 2024 @ 11:34 am By JD Alois  |  

ByBit is a crypto exchange that has been granted the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) Preparatory License by Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), following the Provisional License it received in March 2022, has been noted as a “suspicious virtual asset trading platform” by the Hong… Read More

March 1, 2024 @ 3:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

SynFutures V3, the latest version of the decentralized derivatives trading protocol, is live on Blast mainnet. Now that they’ve brought permissionless perps to Blast, users can reportedly “earn up to 3x the rewards potential through Blast, Blast Gold (Big Bang developer airdrop allocation), and our… Read More