Tagged: futures

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

August 27, 2023 @ 7:03 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TradeStation Securities, Inc., a self-clearing online brokerage for trading stocks, ETFs, options and futures, has announced its integration with Unusual Whales, an option flow platform and information service. This collaboration makes TradeStation “the first major U.S. multi-asset class broker dealer integrated into the Unusual Whales… Read More

August 6, 2023 @ 8:34 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The futures basis, the difference in price between monthly settled bitcoin futures traded on the CME and the spot price of bitcoin, is “showing receding optimism from traders,” the team at NYDIG Research notes. The NYDIG Research team points out that the rolling 1-month futures… Read More

July 15, 2023 @ 3:18 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Clear Street, a New York-based independent prime broker, announced that it intends to enter the futures clearing market with the acquisition of React Consulting Services, LLC and its proprietary, cloud-native futures clearing platform, BASIS. BASIS will be integrated “into Clear Street’s existing cloud-native clearing, settlement,… Read More

June 19, 2023 @ 6:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Synthetix is pleased to announce the addition of Lido Finances’ stETH as the latest asset for leverage trading on Synthetix Perps. This new perpetual futures market “has been approved by SIP 2021 and had parameters set in SCCP 2015.” Synthetix Perps claims it is “the… Read More

June 15, 2023 @ 10:53 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FIA Tech, which claims to be a leading futures industry technology provider, announced that it raised an additional $25.4 million in a funding round “led by six existing shareholders, Bank of America, Barclays, Citi, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Wells Fargo, in addition to BNP… Read More

May 25, 2023 @ 9:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

TradeStation Group, Inc., a Florida-based company whose operating subsidiaries provide self-clearing online brokerage services for trading stocks, ETFs, options, futures, and crypto that aim to offer the ultimate trading experience, has announced its integration with Plaid, a data network powering the digital financial ecosystem. The… Read More

July 10, 2022 @ 6:54 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

FIA Tech, the tech provider to the exchange-traded derivative industry, recently announced the launch of FIA Tech’s Cash and Collateral reference data service. At launch, the data set will be “used by several global clearing firms that manage more than $120 billion of collateral held… Read More

December 31, 2021 @ 9:45 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitfinex Derivatives provides a derivatives platform that’s accessible via Bitfinex, a digital token trading platform. Bitfinex Derivatives has announced the launch of a perpetual contract for Curve DAO Token (CRVF0:USTF0). Curve DAO Token (CRV) is an Ethereum token that is used to power transactions via… Read More

January 22, 2021 @ 11:11 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Citi announced on Thursday it has launched a new suite of intelligent execution algorithms for global listed derivatives. These algorithms have been specifically engineered for the futures markets and are available across all major exchanges in the North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific regions. According… Read More

December 28, 2020 @ 12:42 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

OKEx, a top 20 crypto exchange, announced on Monday the launch of real-time settlement for all perpetual swaps, futures, and options contracts that are coming soon to the platform. According to OKEx,  the new feature will provide a better trading experience for users, improve the… Read More

December 16, 2020 @ 12:31 pm By JD Alois  |  

CME Group intends to launch Ether futures starting February 8, 2021, pending necessary regulatory review. CME states that the new contract will be cash-settled, based on the CME CF Ether-Dollar Reference Rate, which serves as a once-a-day reference rate of the U.S. dollar price of… Read More

September 15, 2020 @ 6:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Binance, the world’s largest digital asset exchange, will be offering cryptocurrency futures contracts for Elrond (EGLD), the native token of a “highly” scalable, fast and secure blockchain platform for creating distributed apps; and Sola (SOL), the native digital currency of a “decentralized” social platform developed… Read More

May 16, 2020 @ 4:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Digital assets derivatives exchange FTX has introduced Bitcoin (BTC) hashrate futures. These financial products are being offered, so that BTC miners can hedge against the leading cryptocurrency’s continuous mining difficulty adjustments. The Bitcoin hashrate is the amount of computing power securing the BTC blockchain network… Read More

March 10, 2020 @ 4:52 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued an Order of Designation to Small Exchange, Inc., located in Chicago, Ill., granting it status as a designated contract market (DCM), effective today. Small Exchange is incorporated under Delaware state law. The Small Exchange seeks to make… Read More

December 18, 2019 @ 10:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE:ICE) recently announced the first block trade of Bakkt Bitcoin (USD) Monthly Options (BTM) submitted to ICE Futures U.S. In a release, Trabue Bland, President of ICE Futures US, stated: “Based on our benchmark physically delivered bitcoin futures, these options contracts offer… Read More

November 24, 2019 @ 12:39 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

OKEx, one of the world’s largest futures digital currency exchanges, revealed an update on November 22 regarding its four main business partners for OKB, the trading platform’s globally accessible utility token, which is aimed at “connecting digital asset projects.” According to a press release shared… Read More

November 24, 2019 @ 11:44 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin (BTC) futures daily trading volumes on crypto-asset platform Bakkt recorded another all-time high, according to data obtained from the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the trading desk’s parent company, which also owns the New York Stock Exchange. Over $20.3 million in Bitcoin futures contracts, or 2728… Read More

September 7, 2019 @ 9:10 am By JD Alois  |  

Digital asset exchange and ecosystem Bakkt is nearing complete launch. Bakkt, part of the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) – a group that also owns the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), received the necessary regulatory approvals earlier this year. Bakkt proves a compliant platform that expects to… Read More

July 4, 2019 @ 9:28 am By Cali Haan  |  

ErisX, a Chicago-based derivatives dealer licensed to sell cash-settled SWAP futures since 2011, has announced it has been granted a derivatives clearing organization (DCO) license for digital assets futures under the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA) in the USA. ErisX said they worked collaboratively with the Commodity… Read More