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CME Says It Will Launch Bitcoin Options in January

Chicago exchange CME Group has announced it will launch options on its bitcoin futures contracts in mid-January.

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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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Bakkt to Launch Options on Its Bitcoin Futures Dec. 9

Bakkt plans to add options on its physically delivered bitcoin futures in December.

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Crypto Derivatives: On Misleading Measurements

Noelle Acheson shows how using notional volumes to compare derivatives markets to spot is misleading – but, for now, it’s all we’ve got.

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Liquidity Provider B2C2 Launches Gold Derivative Settled in Bitcoin

The U.K.-licensed firm's new product allows clients to synthetically trade gold against bitcoin and aims to capitalize on a growth in haven assets.

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Now Traders Can Make Bets on When Facebook's Libra Will Launch

Crypto futures exchange CoinFLEX is issuing derivatives linked to the launch of the Facebook-led Libra cryptocurrency project.

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Pantera Leads $5 Million Round for Decentralized Derivatives Market

A protocol built to put financial middlemen out of business has secured a $5 million seed round from Pantera, Ripple's Xpring, Hashed and others.

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Fidelity Digital Assets to Provide Custody for Bitcoin Derivatives Yield Fund

The Los Angeles-based Wave Financial has launched what it touts as the first crypto-derivatives-based yield fund on the market.

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Kleiner Perkins Backs $2 Million Seed Round for Crypto Derivative Data Firm

Crypto data analytics startup Skew has raised $2 million in seed funding from several VC firms including Silicon Valley icon Kleiner Perkins.

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Rebranded TrueDigital Partners for 'Imminent' Bitcoin Derivatives Launch

Tassat, formerly trueDigital, has teamed up with AlgoTrader to provide institutional traders access to its soon-to-launch bitcoin swaps contracts.

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