Kraken said late Friday that it expects to launch CFTC-regulated perpetual futures contracts in the US in the next 30 days, hours after the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved the instruments.
The exchange said when it gains approval, the contracts will be listed on Bitnomial Exchange, a CFTC-regulated exchange recently acquired by Kraken’s parent company, Payward.
Payward said on April 17 that it was acquiring crypto derivatives platform Bitnomial for as much as $550 million, aimed at providing Kraken Pro customers with access to Bitnomial’s perpetual futures offering.
However, while Kraken’s announcement said that a filing had been submitted on Friday, no filing for a specific Bitcoin (BTC) perpetual contact was found among Bitnomial’s recent CFTC filings as of Sunday…
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Source cointelegraph.com
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