Cboe Blogs

Paul Stephens from Cboe conducted a fireside chat with Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss covering their insights into Bitcoin and Bitcoin XBT futures that were listed at the Cboe Futures Exchange in December 2017.   They started out discussing Bitcoin and blockchain technology.  They often refer to Bitcoin as Gold 2.0 and noted that the CFTC has declared bitcoin as a commodity.  Some background was given with respect to the creation of the Gemini Trust, it was noted that it took[...]

Cboe Global Markets (CBOE) announced today that the Cboe Futures Exchange (CFE) has filed a product certification with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to offer bitcoin futures trading. The product certification is subject to regulatory review. The impending launch date for Cboe bitcoin futures, which will trade on CFE under the ticker symbol 'XBT', will be announced shortly. Conceptually, forwards or futures contracts have existed since the time of the Babylonian empire. Ancient[...]

Today at FIA Asia 2017 in Singapore Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, the co-founders of Gemini Trust, participated in a discussion about the cryptocurrency space along with Yvonne Zhang from the Aquifer Institute.  The session, titled Cryptocurrencies 101, was moderated by Nick Solinger from FIA Tech.  One of the first points made was that electronic money transfers between countries often take longer than physically moving cash.  For example, if you wanted to transfer money from[...]