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CME Group, the world's largest derivatives marketplace, plans to introduce Solana (SOL) futures on March 17, expanding its suite of cryptocurrency derivatives, it said in a press release on Friday. The new contracts, pending regulatory review, will allow traders to manage SOL price risk with two contract sizes: 25 SOL and 500 SOL.“With the launch of our new SOL futures contracts, we are responding to increasing client demand for a broader set of regulated products,” said Giovanni Vicioso, CME Group’s Global Head of Cryptocurrency Products.The contracts will be cash-settled, using the CME CF Solana-Dollar Reference Rate, which tracks SOL’s price daily at 4:00 p.m. London time. CME already offers bitcoin and ether futures, which have seen significant growth in trading...

Boerse Stuttgart, one of Germany’s top stock exchanges, has announced a partnership with DekaBank to bring cryptocurrency trading to the German investment bank’s institutional clients.The partnership allows DekaBank, a financial giant with over 411 billion euros ($427 billion), to integrate crypto into its offerings using Boerse Stuttgart Digital’s regulated brokerage infrastructure.“Partnering with DekaBank to offer crypto trading to its institutional clients underscores our commitment to providing financial institutions across Europe with secure and fully regulated infrastructure solutions,” said Boerse Stuttgart Group’s CEO Matthias Voelkel.Boerse Stuttgart Digital, a subsidiary of Boerse Stuttgart Group, provides brokerage, trading, and custody services for financial institutions in Europe. Last month, the exchange revealed its cryptocurrency trading business had exploded in recent years and now accounts...

By Omkar Godbole (All times ET unless indicated otherwise)It's the dip that keeps on dipping. Bitcoin took another hit early Friday, falling below $80,000 and taking February's decline to over 20%. That spurred a bloodbath in the broader crypto market, with ether sliding below $2,100, a level it managed to hold since August.It's not just crypto. Increased volatility in cryptocurrencies mirrors trends in traditional markets. Compare the 10% jump in the Volmex BVIV, which tracks the 30-day implied volatility in bitcoin, with the equal increase in the MOVE index, which measures the implied volatility of U.S. Treasury notes. The VIX, Wall Street's so-called fear gauge, has risen by 14%. These movements, coupled with a sell-off in growth-sensitive commodity currencies like...

As bitcoin's (BTC) price wilts, traders on crypto exchange Bitfinex are living up to their reputation of being dip buyers, offering some hope to battered crypto bulls given their track record of predicting market peaks and troughs.The number of bitcoin bought on Bitfinex with borrowed cash, a bet that the BTC price will rise and leave the investor with a profit once they've repaid the loan, has risen to more than 60,000 BTC from 50,773 this month. It's jumped 2% in the past 24 hours alone, according to data from Coinglass and TradingView.The increase in so-called margin long positions is a vote of confidence in the largest cryptocurrency, which has lost more than 20% this month and is on track...

Bitcoin (BTC) is on track for its worst month in three years, falling 22% as President Donald Trump's tariffs on major U.S. trading partners raise concerns of faster inflation, reduced chance of interest-rate cuts and lowered appetite for risky investments.The last time the largest cryptocurrency fell as much as June 2022, when it fell by more than a third. This week alone, BTC has dropped almost 18%, the steepest slide since the week ended Nov. 13 of the same year.The slide leaves investors who've bought bitcoin this year severely underwater. The average purchase price is since the start of January $97,880, and BTC dropped below $80,000 earlier Friday, leaving average buyer some 18% worse off.Historically, this isn't entirely unusual. Investors...