Some exciting news is developing on the US regulatory front. LedgerX, the first CFTC-regulated swap execution facility, is set to begin trading next month. They have officially notified the CFTC that they will be listing their Bitcoin swap contract as early as October 4th:
https://twitter.com/WhalePanda/status/910962349581971457I'll take this with a grain of salt, but the CEO of ETF.com believes that we can expect a Bitcoin ETF in the U.S.
by the end of this year. That seems ambitious given how brutal the SEC was in its decision early in the year. But time will tell.
https://www.thestreet.com/story/14315353/1/bitcoin-futures-based-etf-likely-to-be-approved-first.html