The skyrocketing demand among institutions towards BTC seems to have changed CBOE’s approach. Two years after closing its Bitcoin futures platform, the CEO of the options exchange indicated that his organization plans to develop new initiatives focusing on various BTC-related products.
The Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), among the largest options exchanges in the US, was the first regulated entity to launch BTC futures in December 2017 – amid the parabolic price increase that drove the asset to near $20,000.
However, the organization had a change of heart just 15 months later – following the year-long bear market that saw bitcoin drop to $4,000.
At the time, CBOE officials said that they are assessing their crypto approach, discontinued adding new futures contracts, while the last ones expired in June 2019.
Fast-forward two years later, and CBOE has made yet another U-turn. During a recent phone interview with Bloomberg, the Chief Executive Officer, Ed Tilly, in
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