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The Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) has received necessary regulatory approval and has launched its new Bitcoin (BTC) futures options as of today, Jan. 13.According to the official website of CME, the new type of Bitcoin derivatives contract — Bitcoin futures options — is now live, which comes in line
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Chicago exchange CME Group has announced its highly-anticipated bitcoin options are now open for trading.Options on CME's bitcoin futures contracts launched on the CME Globex around 15:00 UTC Monday. Each contract, quoted in U.S. dollars, represents five bitcoin and is cleared centrally to avoid counterparty risk. CME relies on trade
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The adoption of blockchain technology and decentralized applications by mainstream industry segments doesn’t need any more introductions, as there are many glowing examples of Fortune 500 companies as well as startups in their respective spaces implementing such solutions to further optimize their processes. As the use cases for cryptocurrency technologies
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Turkey's Istanbul Clearing, Settlement and Custody Bank (Takasbank) announced that its blockchain-based, physical gold-backed transfer system is now live.Turkish Takasbank launched BiGA Digital Gold to provide banks with a blockchain-based system for the issuance, repayment and transfer of digitized gold, according to an announcement on Dec. 30. The BiGA system
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Its value will rely solely on the “basket of national currencies” whose collective worth backs up SGA’s list price. Meant to mimic the International Monetary Fund’s Special Drawing Rights, a currency-like reserve asset pegged to the dollar, euro, renminbi, pound sterling and yen, this “basket” will ensure SGA’s stable price. Source
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Bakkt, the Bitcoin (BTC) trading platform geared toward institutional investors on December 9, 2019, announced that it had launched two new digital currency products – Bakkt Bitcoin Monthly Options, and Bakkt Bitcoin (USD) Cash Settled Futures. Expanding the Crypto Product Catalogue Intercontinental Exchange’s (ICE) Bakkt said on December 9 that it will
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The blog post compared Intercontinental Exchange’s bitcoin ambitions to those of its Brent Crude Oil Futures. The company launched a number of swaps, options and futures contracts based on the crude oil product, and hopes to follow “a similar playbook” to grow its bitcoin-related products. Source
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Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on CryptoX in one link.Top Stories This WeekEthereum completes Istanbul hard forkIt’s happened!
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Hitting at block number 9,069,000, the systemwide upgrade is the network’s third in 2019. Source
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New York-based ETF provider Wisdomtree has launched a physically backed bitcoin exchange-traded product (ETP) on Switzerland’s SIX stock exchange. According to Wisdomtree,
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