Luxor Expertise and Bitnomial launched the primary absolutely regulated Bitcoin mining by-product product for buying and selling within the US on Might 28.
The brand new product — dubbed Bitcoin Hashrate Futures — goals to extend liquidity and transparency whereas decreasing counterparty danger for market members.
Hashrate Futures, buying and selling beneath the ticker $HUP, enable miners to hedge their income and provides traders a brand new solution to entry the Bitcoin mining market.
Every contract represents 1 petahash (PH) and has a month-to-month period. Settlement makes use of Luxor’s Bitcoin Hashprice Index, which tracks the worth of hashrate, a digital commodity central to the contracts.
Luxor’s Head of Derivatives Matt Williams mentioned:
“Hashrate Futures are the pinnacle of Bitcoin mining hedging products. These contracts, the first fully regulated Bitcoin mining derivative, will usher in a new era of hashrate trading that is more transparent, secure, and liquid.”
Luxor and Bitnomial designed the product for accessibility, permitting anybody with a Futures Fee Service provider (FCM) account related to the Bitnomial trade to commerce the product.
Luxor additionally established an Introducing Dealer (IB) enterprise to assist companies onboard to those FCMs. Hashrate Futures complement Luxor’s suite of hashrate monetary merchandise, together with bodily delivered and non-deliverable Hashrate Forwards.
Bitnomial founder and CEO Luke Hoersten mentioned:
“The mining community has shown unprecedented demand for a futures product fungible with Luxor’s spot and forwards offerings. Hashrate Futures provide a new hedging method for Bitcoin miners and institutional investors, meeting the growing demand for crypto-based derivatives.”
Bitnomial’s distinctive place within the Bitcoin derivatives market presents physically-backed contracts, permitting merchants to redeem them for Bitcoin as an alternative of fiat.
Trade knowledge signifies that Bitnomial Bitcoin Futures volumes and open curiosity hit all-time highs within the first quarter of 2024, reflecting the rising curiosity in physically-backed Bitcoin monetary merchandise.
The addition of Hashrate Futures enhances Bitnomial’s complete Bitcoin derivatives complicated, which incorporates Bitcoin Futures, Choices, Deci Futures, and now Hashrate Futures. This complicated presents numerous instruments for managing danger and investing within the Bitcoin market.
