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Getting Ready For A Bitcoin ETF
Today bitcoin futures are available for retail and institutional traders, but U.S. investors have limited options for investing directly in Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Let’s look back at the history of ETFs to see how Bitcoin ETFs could enable U.S. investors to invest directly, and what options are currently available.
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Understanding The Crypto Derivative Market: New Assets, Old Rails
In September 2015, bitcoin became the world’s first digitally native commodity when it was officially designated as a tradeable commodity by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
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Crypto Derivatives: A Precursor
#Derivatives are changing. And the future of #Futures is unfolding at a rapid pace. Learn how these changes set the scene for a new evolution in #crypto derivatives.
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Delivering Practical Privacy in Blockchain and DLT Applications
In the early days of crypto, privacy was a critical focus in blockchain development but difficult for the average user to achieve. From 2011–2014, creating multi-signature transactions was considered a cutting-edge technique that provided advanced users more privacy and security than executing standard peer-to-peer transactions alone. Now multisig is standard and more user friendly than…
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ICOs, Securities, and Utility Tokens: Getting Ahead of the Compliance Curve
Every day cryptocurrency and blockchain startups in the U.S. face a lingering regulatory question, “how do you fit a square peg in a round hole?” Here I summarize how regulatory uncertainty affects blockchain development, what last week’s SEC commentary means for cryptocurrencies, and explain how decentralized applications are positioned within today’s regulatory landscape.
