Christinat told the Daily Express that the planet’s second-largest stock market by market capitalization expects to start bitcoin futures trading in the coming year’s first six months.
“Bitcoin Futures will be listed and it should start in the first half of next year,” Christinat said, adding that Nasdaq is currently”awaiting the go-ahead” from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). “There’s been enough work put into this to make that academic. We’ve seen plenty of rumors and speculation about what we might be doing… so, here you go — we are doing this, and it’s happening.”
Christinat claimed that Nasdaq remains committed to ensuring the launch of bitcoin futures, emphasizing the company’s long-term outlook on the market that was cryptocurrency.
“We got into the blockchain game five decades ago,” Christinat said and bitcoin casino no enrollment . “When the technology first popped up we just leant out of the window and shouted’hey come over here’ right at it.”
Christinat also said Nasdaq has devoted a significant amount of resources “We’ve put a hell of a lot of money and energy into providing the ability to do this and we’ve been all over it for a very long time — way before the market went into turmoil, and which will not affect the timing of the in any way. No. Period. We’re doing this no matter what.”
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