How crypto futures could gain popularity, SEC approval: Execs
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Thursday was the last day of Blockworks’ Digital Asset Summit. It also marked Volatility Shares’ launch of two solana futures ETFs — and we even saw Canary Capital file for a Pudgy Penguins fund.
As we try to predict what the SEC may approve next, let’s go over what I heard on the DAS stage and in my chats with executives at some of the biggest issuers.
Bloomberg Intelligence’s James Seyffart said, during a Thursday panel with BlackRock’s Robbie Mitchnick and Nasdaq’s Giang Bui, that futures products are used more as trading vehicles and see less demand than spot products.
“But it’s still very interesting to…