The Moscow Exchange is preparing to expand the list of instruments based on cryptocurrencies for qualified investors. This was announced by the managing director of the derivatives market of Mosbirzhi Maria Patrikeeva.

According to her, the current regulation allows the launch of calculated derivative financial instruments, the basic asset of which is securities with a binding to cryptocurrencies.

“Tools are in demand both by professional participants and qualified investors. Similarly, the calculated futures contract on the ISHHARES BITCOIN TRUSTF investment fund we can consider other similar ETFs, for example, from BlackRock to air, ”Patrikeeva explained.

She emphasized that the futures for the ISHHARES BITCOIN TRUST ETF fund, launched on June 4, had already entered the top 30 instruments of the emergency market in terms of trading, reaching 1 billion rubles a day.

The new class of assets in the Russian market shows good dynamics, and the site will take an active part in its further development within the framework of existing rules, the representative of the trading platform concluded.

Earlier, the managing director of sales and business development, Mosbirzhi, Vladimir Krekoten, said that the site plans to launch trading in the Bitcoin index in the near future, calculated on the basis of information from foreign crypto -platforms.