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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has approved options trading on a Nasdaq Bitcoin index, marking a significant expansion of regulated Bitcoin derivatives infrastructure in the United States. The move gives institutional and sophisticated retail investors a new, SEC-sanctioned vehicle to express directional views on Bitcoin through a major national exchange.
Nasdaq-listed index options carry a different regulatory weight than exchange-traded products approved at the ETF level — they plug Bitcoin exposure directly into the derivatives toolkit that professional portfolio managers already use for equities and macro hedging. The approval deepens the legitimacy of Bitcoin as an institutional asset class and is likely to draw fresh participation from desks that were waiting for regulated optionality before sizing up exposure.
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