Today, ErisX, which is New York-based crypto trading firm, backed by TD Ameritrade, has launched bitcoin futures trading.
The company has yesterday strangely reached out to its users with a notification of trading hours for futures digital currency products. The contractual details are made publicly available today.
Thereby, we kept reiterating crypto-derivative avenue has been obtaining the myriad interests after the recent trends in Bitcoin price sentiment, ErisX’s physically deliverable bitcoin futures contracts are the next step in building out the intermediary-friendly model for digital assets.
With this new trading setup, ErisX intends to penetrate the market for regulated crypto products in an industry that has gained a reputation as something of a Wild West as their contracts traded at and cleared through our CFTC regulated Designated Contract Market (DCM) and Derivatives Clearing Organization (DCO), the futures contracts trade alongside the spot market on an innovative and unified platform bringing price transparency and collateral efficiency.
Well, in an earlier interview, TD Ameritrade CEO Steven Quirk said that they had received calls and emails from investors interested in trading crypto. While the ErisX CEO, Thomas Chippas added: “ErisX is unique in that for our digital asset market, we have divided the trading and settlement functions using traditional DCM (exchange) and DCO (clearing) models. This reflects the structure that institutional investors expect from other asset classes and will help drive these markets toward greater relevance and accessibility.”
On the other hand, the counterpart, LedgerX has also bagged their DCM license when the CFTC approved the application of LedgerX LLC for designation as a contract market.
With DCM category, ErisX reckons that the miners are similar to hedgers in traditional commodity markets and they term them as modern hedgers, they can leverage the ErisX suite of futures products to enable price discovery and risk transference. They believe that their innovative and unified platform for spot and regulated futures will provide price transparency and collateral efficiencies.


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