Ethereum Futures Coming To Wall Street

Crypto backed futures contracts have been the subject of debate ever since the CBOE and CME group started offering Bitcoin (BTC) futures contracts back in mid-December 2017. What happened before the investment instrument went live on Wall Street, is that BTC experienced the greatest bull run to date. By December 17th, BTC was trading at levels of $20,000. After the futures contracts went live, the price of BTC has reduced to current levels of $7,000.

It is with the above example, that news of the CBOE exchange planning on offering Ethereum (ETH) futures sometime this year, that the investment product might be viewed as a double-edged sword to ETH. To start, we might see a rally of ETH to unseen highs as was the case with BTC last year. With the Ethereum futures contracts being scheduled for release late this year, it might be a similar trend for ETH from current levels of around $300 to maybe $10,000. This is given the fact that BTC experienced an increment of approximately 3,300% from September 2017 to December 17th, 2017.

Once ETH pumps to the hypothetical levels of $10,000, we might then see a decline in value as was seen with BTC right after the futures contracts started being traded in December of last year. There is a silver lining if ETH would later decline in that it would be to higher levels of around $2,000.

Ethereum Futures Are Already Available

Another side of the argument is that the anticipated excitement around Ethereum due to the planned CBOE Ethereum futures contracts, might not be as huge as that of Bitcoin last year. This is due to the fact that there are plenty of trading platforms already offering Ethereum futures contracts.

To start is the UK based Crypto Facilities that have been offering futures contracts on the five major cryptocurrencies of Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), Bitcoin Cash (BTC), Litecoin (LTC) and XRP. There is also BitMEX that has been thriving lately due to its futures contracts on the aforementioned 5 cryptocurrencies as well as Cardano (ADA), EOS and Tron (TRX).

ETH is Ready for Wallstreet

Apart from Crypto facilities, all the other futures contracts on Ethereum have only been available on crypto exchanges and not traditional markets. With the ETH futures contracts by the CBOE, a second cryptocurrency gets the much-needed attention of Wall Street further proving it is a viable investment option.

Danny Kim, Head of growth at SFOX (a crypto trading technology firm), had this to say about the ETH futures:

“Cboe’s offering will enable crypto traders to take both long and short positions in ether, and it’s another step forward to a new accepted asset class. With this, I think the new investment opportunity will take crypto out of the bearish market and reverse to a new bull.”

CBOE President Chris Concannon, added that this could be a possible path to an ETF backed by Ethereum:

“We started down this road in the form of an ETF. A healthy market is a healthy underlying market, derivatives markets, and an ETF. That will take time.”

According to sources, CBOE would be basing its futures on Gemini’s underlying market. CBOE also based its Bitcoin futures on the Gemini exchange in  New York and owned by the Winklevoss twins.

The Commodities Futures Trading Commission is doing its due diligence with the product before it gives it a thumbs up for trading. The SEC, on the other hand, does not view ETH futures are violating any securities laws further validating the cryptocurrency and the futures contracts.

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