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- Cboe will launch new futures offering long-term exposure to bitcoin and ether.
- The contracts aim to provide a perpetual-style trading experience within a U.S.-regulated setting.
- This step expands Cboe’s product roadmap and supports institutional and retail traders.
Cboe Global Markets has unveiled its plan to introduce Cboe Continuous futures on November 10, 2025, subject to regulatory approval. The new contracts will debut with bitcoin and ether, offering U.S. traders long-term digital asset exposure through a regulated marketplace.
Product design seeks to overcome a common challenge in futures trading. Ordinary futures entail rolling positions from expired contracts into new contracts on a regular basis. It may involve an additional cost, complexity, and time risk.
Cboe’s new system facilitates this with a single contract with a 10-year expiration. Investors won’t need to change their positions often. Futures are cash-settled and are linked in real-time to prices from the spot market.
Periodic daily cash settlement adjustments shall synchronize values with explicit funding rate protocols. Such a system attempts to emulate the benefits of perpetual futures available in the offshore markets but under a U.S.-regulated platform.
Institutional and Retail Interest in Bitcoin and Ether Expands
It is a new day for the mainstream financial system’s inclusion of digital assets. Cboe bills the contracts as a utility for both the institutional and retail participants.
Market experts use them to hedge against risk or exposure, while single traders enjoy a hitherto untouchable product in U.S. markets. Clearing of the products through Cboe Clear U.S. makes central supervision and regulation a possibility.
Such a system is a contrast to Unregulated offshore platforms where Perpetual contracts dominate trade volumes. As a regulated alternative, Cboe aims to instill confidence in traders who are looking for protection and transparency.
The program also reflects increased demand for standardized derivatives for digital assets. Institutional investment in bitcoin and ether has increased in recent years, and retail interest continues to rise. Cboe’s format combines aspects of perpetual futures with familiarity in a well-respected exchange.
Cboe Enhances Access with Regulated Futures Offerings
This introduction continues Cboe’s ongoing strategy of innovation. The exchange currently offers a diversified set of futures, including its popular volatility index contracts. Cboe expands its position as a center for both mature and digital instruments in the markets with the addition of bitcoin and ether continuous futures.
Cboe’s educational wing, Options Institute, will provide publicly available courses on the new contracts later in October and in November. The courses are aimed at allowing individuals to become accustomed to the mechanics and potential usages of the products.
Cboe frames the new futures as a continuation of the corporate mandate to expand access, diversify products, and develop sustainable market opportunities. A first-of-its-kind release of long-dated, perpetual-style futures in a U.S.-regulated setting constitutes a significant step towards uniting digital assets and cross-border financial systems.
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