D2X, an Amsterdam-based crypto derivatives exchange designed for institutional investors, has raised 4.3 million euro ($5 million) in a strategic funding round. Circle Ventures, CMT Digital and Canton Ventures joined the raise as strategic investors, alongside the renewed backing of Point72 Ventures, Tioga Capital, GSR, and Fortino Capital. Licensed under the EU’s MiFID II framework … Read more
Clearmatics, one of the first startups to explore how financial instruments can live on blockchains, is unveiling an entirely new class of decentralized futures products, which it is calling forecast markets. These fully on-chain instruments take the form of dated futures contracts that can track any public time series data, whether it's crypto indexes, inflation … Read more
Need evidence of speculator fervor. Look no further than Coinglass' crypto derivatives leaderboard, which shows that fartcoin (FARTCOIN), the Solana-based memecoin, is now the 10th largest token based on derivatives open interest. As of writing, notional open interest in futures tied to fartcoin totaled over $1 billion, placing the joke cryptocurrency ahead of well-established coins, … Read more
Reeling under strict tax policies, India witnessed a rather stunted growth in the crypto sector. Industry leaders in India believe that futures trading in crypto can be a great solution to help potential investors still trade in crypto without having to worry about the tax load. Nischal Shetty and Avinash Shekhar – both veterans of … Read more
Crypto exchange Kraken on Tuesday debuted its U.S.-regulated crypto derivatives trading platform as it eyes expansion into a broader set of asset classes. Dubbed Kraken Derivatives US, the marketplace integrates futures trading with spot crypto markets, giving traders a single interface to manage margin and risk. The service allows for instant collateral transfer between spot … Read more
Digital-asset prime brokerage firm FalconX has acquired Arbelos Markets, a derivatives startup launched in 2023 by two crypto industry veterans. Terms of the transaction weren’t disclosed. Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday that the transaction was expected to be financed through a mix of cash and FalconX stock, according to people familiar with the deal, who … Read more
Kraken has acquired a licence that allows the crypto exchange to offer services like derivatives trading to advanced traders in the EU. This week, Kraken announced that it has secured a Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID) licence in the EU. With this, the exchange plans to expand its service portfolio across all EU member … Read more
Chicago-based CME Group plans to revamp the infrastructure of its derivatives marketplace, CME Exchange. This week, it announced a partnership with Google Cloud to explore blockchain services like asset tokenisation. In an official statement, the risk management firm noted that US President Donald Trump’s support for the crypto sector has pushed it to explore blockchain … Read more