CBOE Plans Ethereum Futures, Barclays Punishes BTC Trader: Best of the Week

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Ethereum futures in the future

The largest options and futures exchange in the US, CBOE, is planning to begin offering Ethereum futures by the end of 2018. The Chicago exchange was one of the first venues to start selling Bitcoin futures, back in December 2017.

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Ethereum was recently classified as not-a-security by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the US’ main financial regulator, but CBOE now needs authorisation from another one, the Commodities Futures Trading Commission. The firm intends to base the Ethereum contracts on market prices as reported by an American cryptocurrency exchange ... (read more)