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Bakkt, back in 2018, was the first traditional financial company to want to offer derivatives on the Stock Exchange to allow indirect investments in BTC. At the time, there was still no spot Bitcoin ETF in the USA, and Bakkt, which was owned by the New York Stock Exchange (ICE), wanted to offer something similar.  …

Futures interest in Bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency by market cap, has rebounded considerably, with Ethereum and Solana derivative volumes remaining flat. While Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana have seen similar downward price action, interest in the assets has diverged. For perspective, BTC remains largely unchanged, while Ether and SOL have corrected 2% and 1% in the …