B3, the Brazilian Inventory Alternate, confirmed that inside six months it intends to launch its first official product aimed on the cryptocurrency market — Bitcoin (BTC) futures buying and selling. The group’s chief monetary officer, André Milanez, made the announcement throughout a convention name on Monday.

Milanez didn’t present many particulars on how the product will work. It’s not but identified if B3 will kind a partnership or if it is going to supply Bitcoin futures buying and selling instantly, however the timeline for launching this product was said to be comparatively quick. “We plan to launch bitcoin futures within the subsequent three to 6 months,” he mentioned.

Presently, in Brazil, institutional and retail buyers can commerce 11 ETFs by way of B3 with publicity to cryptocurrencies, together with CRPT11 from Empiricus with Vitreo; the NFTS11of Investo; QBTC11, QETH11 and QDFI11 all from QR Belongings and META11, HASH11, BITH11, ETHE11, DEFI11, WEB311 all from Hashdex. As well as, in Brazil, there are greater than 25 funding funds authorised by the Securities and Alternate Fee (CVM) that provide several types of publicity to the crypto-assets market.

In January Jochen Mielke de Lima, director of knowledge know-how at B3, had already mentioned that the Brazilian inventory change would launch a number of merchandise with publicity to cryptocurrencies in 2022, together with Bitcoin futures and Ethereum (ETH) futures

On the time, the chief highlighted that the Brazilian inventory change had been trying intently on the cryptocurrency market from a technological level of viewsince 2016.

Based on the assertion, B3 solely wanted to settle the query on whether or not the negotiations could be carried out towards the U.S. greenback or towards the Brazilian actual. Futures contracts want a reference index, so if the workforce chooses Brazil’s native foreign money, it is going to be essential to compose a crypto-assets index in reais — one thing that doesn’t exist now.

The B3 rep additionally mentioned it’s exploring methods to supply knowledge inputs for the nation’s central financial institution digital foreign money, or CBDC.

B3 and Cryptocurrencies

Along with BTC and ETH futures, B3 additionally intends to supply providers to nationwide cryptocurrency exchanges and to be a form of “centralizer” of custody and settlement operations, in accordance toJochen Mielke de Lima:

“We have now round 30 nationwide crypto exchanges, aside from the worldwide ones that function right here. We might supply a service to facilitate and standardize their operations. I imagine it has one thing to discover in offering custody providers and within the settlement course of.”

Mielke, additionally said that the cryptocurrency market is similar to the regulated inventory market, because it includes issuing, buying and selling, settlement and custody. He said due to this fact that B3 might assist resolve widespread issues between exchanges.

“We’re figuring out factors of friction that we may help resolve to face up, similar to serving to our prospects present the most effective entry to their finish prospects,” he mentioned.

As well as, B3 plans different merchandise based mostly on cryptocurrencies and blockchain to launch in 2022. Amongst them, there are research on a platform for asset tokenization, cryptocurrency buying and selling, cryptocurrency custody, amongst others.

“Buying and selling and entry to liquidity facilities: this implies mitigating the complexities of accessing a fragmented, world and 24×7 market; Digital Asset Custody: offering dependable custody (therefore, objective of blockchain transactions); Over-the-counter facilitation: thIn this manner, it desires to supply extra safety and effectivity within the motion and DVP of digital property; Capital effectivity positive aspects: thus, it desires to mitigate the pre-funded nature of operations and Crypto as a service: make it simpler for purchasers to discover the crypto market with low friction,” highlighted B3.

For 2022, B3 reps mentioned they foresee the official launch of a reinsurance platform. This can work on the Corda blockchain R3, and is a partnership between the change and IRB Brazil.