The St. Petersburg Exchange plans to launch bidding with calculated futures, including the Bitcoin index. This will happen in July – September, the general director Yevgeny Serdyukov said at the annual meeting of shareholders.

According to Serdyukov, in addition to the calculated futures on the bitcoin index, it is planned to add futures to the paper of companies from the so -called friendly Russia’s countries:

“The launch time depends on the readiness of our brokers. At one of the following stages, we will expand the number of traded tools. ”

The Director General of St. Petersburg Birgi said that the bitcoin index will be the first cryptocurrency tool in the line of fixed-term contracts on the site. Other areas of development are considered, one of them can be the market for digital financial assets (CFA). The volumes of the issuance of debt TsFA increase, allowing you to attract new investors and expanding the range of available investment decisions, said Serdyukov.

Earlier, the managing director of sales and business development of the Mosbirzhi, Vladimir Krekoten, said that soon a trade in a Bitcoin index, calculated on the basis of information from foreign crypto platforms, will be launched on the site.