Goldman Sachs Plans Suite of Bitcoin Products for Q2

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Bakkt Launches Two New Financial Products

Bakkt has just released two new financial products: Bitcoin monthly options and Bitcoin cash-settled futures. Bakkt is expanding its Bitcoin product ecosystem with two new financial products. Starting with Bitcoin-backed monthly futures, the exchange is now expanding.

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What Happened To Bitcoin’s Promised Influx Of Institutional Investors?

The next big bitcoin bull-run was supposed to be led by an incoming swathe of institutional money. Lured in by potential profits unheard of in traditional investment products, and reassured by trusted brands offering institutional-grade custodial solutions.

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Bakkt Launches Bitcoin Option Contracts

Intercontinental Exchange, the parent company of the Bakkt Exchange, is launching two derivatives products for its clients. Institutional investors in the U. S. will now be able to access Bitcoin Monthly Options, while Singaporeans will have access to cash settled futures.

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ICE-Backed Bakkt Exchange Rolls Out Cash-Settled Bitcoin Futures And BTC Options Products

On Monday, December 9, 2019, COO of Bakkt, Adam White announced the live action of two new bitcoin contracts: a Bakkt Bitcoin (USD) cash settled futures and monthly options. As per the blogpost, Bakkt has a benchmark contract that allows them to create products that satisfy customer needs and the aforementioned two products are meant […]

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Bitcoin Futures Exchange Bakkt Launches Two New Products

Bakkt follows in the footsteps of ICE by rolling out new products that leverage its benchmark Bitcoin futures contract

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XRP, Ethereum Classic Futures Debut on OKEx

OKEx added two more futures products to its portfolio, offering a settlement in Tether (USDT). The futures for XRP, Ethereum Classic (ETC), as well as TRON (TRX) and Bitcoin SV (BSV) will be added to earlier products for Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), EOS, Litecoin (LTC), and Bitcoin Cash (BCH).

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BlockFi Launches Crypto Trading Platform

BlockFi, the New Jersey-based DeFi company, has launched a crypto trading platform. The startup’s suite of financial services products now includes BlockFi Trading. BlockFi Trading will roll out trading between its three supported digital assets, the Gemini dollar, Bitcoin, and Ether, before presumably expanding to include a larger number of crypto assets.

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Grayscale Releases November Update For Its Investment Products

The best performing product on November 29 was the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust with a day change of 4.52% followed by the Grayscale Ethereum Classic Trust with an increase of 4.18%. Grayscale Releases November Update According to data provided by Grayscale on November 29, all their single asset products experienced gains. The worst performing product was […]

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Bitcoin Reaching the Masses via Mainstream TV and Newspaper Ads

Bitcoin is getting some real love as TF1 becomes the first national channel in France to air Bitcoin ads. TF1 audience is getting to watch Bitcoin-related ads promoting Keplerk’s BTC services multiple times a day now.

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Cardano Foundation, COTI, Unveil AdaPay for Seamless Cardano (ADA) Payments

AdaPay, a payment solution that will enable merchants to receive Cardano (ADA) altcoin as payments for their products and services has gone live, after its development by Cardano Foundation, the organization focused on accelerating the growth of the Cardano ecosystem, and COTI, an enterprise-grade fintech platform, according to a press release on November 28, 2019.

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Bitcoin (BTC) Futures Markets Hit $5B Daily Volume

The Bitcoin (BTC) market has evolved to include the simplest kind of derivative financial products – futures contracts. Those markets now reach $5 billion in daily volumes, taking a significant chunk from spot trading markets.

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Bakkt Bitcoin Futures Reach Record High as BTC Options Launch Nears

Bitcoin prices may be way down from this year’s peak but institutional investment is showing no signs of slowing down. Futures contracts are naturally a little different to buying and holding BTC but Bakkt keeps breaking the records with their products.

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Bitcoin-Based IRA Investments to Break $1 Billion Soon

The pension crisis is deepening across the world. As a result, Bitcoin-based retirement products are now taking center stage. Most notably, the Bitcoin IRA, which is already processing over $350 million and is projected to reach investments for over $1 billion shortly.

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Cypherpunk takes stake in bitcoin (BTC) based Wasabi Wallet

Cypherpunk, a company investing in technologies and protocols that enhance privacy, announced today that it has completed an equity investment in zkSnacks, whose products include the bitcoin (BTC) based Wasabi Wallet.

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Switzerland's SIX exchange lists Tezos-based ETP

A month ago, Zurich-based stock exchange, SIX Swiss Exchange, had rolled out exchange-traded products [ETP] on its platform. Along with its partner Amun AG, the platform started off with only Bitcoin The post Switzerland's SIX exchange lists Tezos-based ETP appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Sesterce Cloud Mining: Safe Bitcoin Mining Provider for Legit Profits?

What is Sesterce Cloud Mining? Sesterce is a cloud mining platform that offers the best products that are keen on matching your every need with the best technological inventions the world has to offer.

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Tassat and Blockfills create ‘Trade at Settlement’ bitcoin spot product

Tassat, a provider of financial technologies and products for traditional and digital asset markets and Blockfills, a provider of digital asset market making, trading and prime brokerage, today announced they are partnering to introduce an institutional Trade at Settlement (TAS) product for spot bitcoin (XBT/USD).

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CME unveils launch date for options on Bitcoin Futures products

2019 has been a good year for the flow of institutional interest in Bitcoin Futures products, with a significant rise in curiosity around BTC derivatives and BTC Futures. In the same spirit, the ChicaThe post CME unveils launch date for options on Bitcoin Futures products appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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How Will CME Bitcoin Options Launch In 2 Months Affect BTC Prices?

Many have asserted that the first time Bitcoin futures were launched, a planned market crash followed. The exchange that launched those futures back in late 2017 is gearing up for more institutional products in two months’ time so what impact will that have this time around? CME Options Launch In January The Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

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HerdX and UPS Complete First Blockchain-Verified Beef Shipment from U.S. to Japan

United Parcel Service (UPS), the American multinational package delivery and supply chain management company, announced on November 11 a collaboration with agri-tech solutions provider HerdX to develop a blockchain-based platform that improves quality assurance for beef products shipped internationally.

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Spend 10 Cryptocurrencies With These Debit Cards

Debit cards linked to crypto wallets have been a useful payment tool for users who want to be able to spend their cryptocurrencies almost anywhere. Offerings in the segment have been changing over time due to various reasons including regulatory challenges in different markets.

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Korean crypto exchange Bithumb launching Bithumb Coin (BT)

Bithumb Global, a Korean bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange company, today officially announced its new native crypto-token, Bithumb Coin (BT). It will help power the company’s forthcoming Bithumb Chain.

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UAE crypto exchange BitOasis lists EOS token

The team of BitOasis, a UAE-headquartered bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange, has announced that EOS token is now listed and supported for trading. EOS is available on BitOasis’ new Core and Pro products with EOS-AED and EOS-BTC buying, selling and trading now active.

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Ontology (ONT) Inks Partnership Deal with Blocery to Enable Decentralized Shopping

Ontology (ONT) a blockchain project that claims to be dedicated to creating a high-performance public blockchain and a distributed trust collaboration platform, has partnered with Blocery, high-end agricultural products and grocery pre-purchase e-commerce platform, to enable the masses to easily purchase groceries with the latter’s decentralized application (dApp), according to a blog post on NovemberRead MoreRead More.

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Tassat Is One Step Closer to Offering Crypto Derivatives With CFTC Approval

The CFTC has granted Tassat a swap execution facility registration, bringing it one step closer to offering US customers bitcoin derivatives products.

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CME To Usher In Options On Bitcoin Futures Contracts

The CME Group has announced plans to begin offering trading in options on Bitcoin futures contracts from Q1 2020. While the product remains subject to regulatory approval, CME has taken yet another small step to legitimize Bitcoin as an asset class.

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CME Group Publishes Bitcoin Options Specifications

In mid-September, the foreign exchange company CME Group announced the launch of options on its bitcoin futures contracts in Q1 2020, pending regulatory review. CME Group executive Tim McCourt said there was “increasing client demand” for the firm’s bitcoin derivatives and now the company has published specifications for the options products.

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Dubai: BTSE Exchange Launches Monero (XMR) Futures Contracts

Dubai-based cryptocurrency financial products exchange, BTSE, on October 31, 2019, announced the launch of the Monero (XMR) futures contracts. BTSE Introduces Monero Futures Contract While Bitcoin (BTC) futures have become a common occurrence in the rapidly spreading cryptospace, altcoin futures contracts – especially those based on privacy-focused cryptocurrencies – are usually a rare phenomenon.

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German Startup Iconic to List New Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Note (ETN) on Luxembourg Exchange

A new company in Germany is looking to list Bitcoin's products on the Luxembourg and Frankfurt exchange platforms. According to Handelsblatt, a German business news outlet on Oct. 29, the German startup has already filed an outline to be allowed to trade the exchange-traded note (ETN) for Bitcoin. The ETN is supposed to come to […]

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Bakkt Launching New Bitcoin Options for its Futures Contracts in “Industry First”

The Bakkt platform is getting set to launch new Bitcoin trading derivatives. As of December, users of the regulated platform will be able to trade the Bakkt Bitcoin Options contract. Although off to a very slow start, yesterday saw volume on Bakkt increase dramatically.

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Bitcoin, Ethereum weren’t built for payments: Ripple’s Asheesh Birla

Ripple’s SVP of Products, Asheesh Birla, was the latest guest on a recent interview with Seeking Alpha, an interview during which he reiterated Ripple’s take on improving the global financial system.

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Are Bitcoin Futures One Big Market Manipulation Scheme?

Some still assert that the launch of two bitcoin futures products crashed markets in 2017 as it was the first time investors could short the asset. What they have done has completely changed the landscape two years later.

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Bitcoin.com Launches HashRace Promotion to Maximize Miners’ Profits

Bitcoin. com, the world’s leading resource for cryptocurrency-related products and news, has launched the HashRace, a Bitcoin. com Pool promotion aimed at maximizing profits for its extensive network of Bitcoin mining clients.

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Report: Low-quality crypto exchanges still run the show

CryptoCompare’s September report showed that the popularity of low rated crypto exchanges just keeps increasing. Top-tier exchanges and institutional Bitcoin products saw their trading volume decreased by more than 31 percent since August, while low-quality exchanges had higher volumes, trade sizes, and trade counts.

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Bitcoin could become store of value, as institutional interest increases

Institutional interest in Bitcoin has seen a significant rise in 2019, as several derivative financial products on top of Bitcoin have flooded the market. Active exposure of these investors to the digital asset realm has brought back the debate about whether Bitcoin is the new “store of value.

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Regulators can Shut Down Bitcoin Anytime: Bloomberg Editor

Law enforcement authorities can shut down bitcoin anytime, according to Bloomberg Digital’s executive editor Joe Weisenthal. The media talent warned institutions against creating bitcoin-based investment products, stating that they could become a tool to take capital from fiat markets.

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Delta Exchange is Stealing a March on BitMex with Altcoin Perpetuals

From the invention of Bitcoin to the launch of the first crypto exchange to the rise of crypto derivatives, the crypto world has continued to churn out innovative products. And, the best part is that these innovations have the potential to make a significant positive impact on our world.

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Dark Web Vaping Product Bought with Bitcoin Leaves Another Near Death

Another individual has been left in a critical condition after using vaping products bought on the dark web using Bitcoin. This brings the total number of those suffering ill effects from the unregulated products to almost 1,300 — which are mostly isolated to the United States.

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UK IT e-tailer MoreFrom integrates crypto payment solution from Utrust

UK IT e-tailer MoreFrom integrates crypto payment solution from Utrust - CryptoNinjas MoreFrom, a UK based independent online IT retailer, announced today it has partnered with Utrust, a cryptocurrency payment solution offering instant transactions, and crypto-to-cash settlements.

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Grayscale Shows Strongest Demand For Crypto Products Since Inception

Bitcoin and crypto markets may be down from their highs this year and still looking bearish, but longer term crypto investment products are still going strong as Grayscale can testify. The cryptocurrency investment firm has just posted its Q3 report and all is looking rosy.

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Amun and Binance Launch First ETP Based on Binance Coin (BNB)

Starting today, the first ETP in the world based on Binance Coin (BNB) will be launched. This product, issued on the Zurich SIX Swiss Exchange with ABNB ticker, is the result of a collaboration between Binance and Amun.

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European consortium launches Bitcoin secured digital gold network (DGLD)

European consortium launches Bitcoin secured digital gold network (DGLD) - CryptoNinjas A consortium comprising CoinShares, a European-based bitcoin and crypto asset manager, Blockchain.com, a provider of cryptocurrency products including one of the most popular crypto wallets, and MKS (Switzerland) SA, a precious metals and gold dealer, today announced that after two years in development, it has launched the DGLD network with more than $20M in gold […] European consortium launches Bitcoin secured digital gold network (DGLD) - CryptoNinjas

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Diversified Crypto Fund Receives FINRA Regulatory Approval

Grayscale Investments has received regulatory approval to publicly quote shares of its diversified crypto fund. The product, which is the firm’s only diversified offering, invests in five main cryptocurrencies.

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German Multi-Millionaire, Marvin Steinberg, Believes Security Tokens are Blockchain’s most Desirable Use-Case

Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) are the primary marketing issuance of shares from a company to the public. Almost all successful companies undergo this process as it is extremely effective for raising funds for the launch of new products or services as-well-as fueling the growth of startups.

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CME Anticipates Major Interest from Asia as Bitcoin Options Launch Looms

CME Group’s global head of equity products, Tim McCourt, believes that Asian traders and miners will welcome their Bitcoin options product with open arms come Q1 2020. As per an interview with South China Morning Post, CME anticipates greater demand for options contracts given the immense benefits of using it as a hedging mechanism, October 10,Read MoreRead More.

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Gartner: Corporate Blockchain Won’t Take Off for Another Decade

For years, all sorts of companies have flooded the media with reports of using blockchain technology for everything from tracking vegetables to fake luxury handbags. These claims mostly involved tests that were done only for the sake of publicity, riding the coattails of cryptocurrency, and almost never about actual products.

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5,200 Tobacco Shops in France Now Sell Bitcoin

Bitcoin can now be purchased at 5,200 tobacco shops in France. Fintech startup Keplerk launched the service on Oct. 10 after halting it for many months. France’s 24,000 licensed tobacco shops have diversified into non-tobacco products to boost revenue.

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Bitcoin.com Partners with Canada’s Bravio for Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Lotteries

Bitcoin. com has teamed up with Canadian gaming platform Bravio Tech to launch global lotteries in Bitcoin (BTC) and Bitcoin Cash (BCH) according to an official announcement, October 9. The initiatives are part of a mutual effort to boost Bitcoin Cash’s (BCH) adoption while exploring new innovative products for the e-gaming industry.

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