Just as the Intercontinental Exchange is reportedly eyeing a BitLicense for its cryptocurrency exchange Bakkt, just a few months ago, Nasdaq launched Brave New Coin's Bitcoin and Ethereum Liquidity Indexes.
Today, Nasdaq is back in the news on what appears to be the testing of bitcoin trading for some users on its exchange.
Cryptopolist, a quantitative analyst at StrongMarket.com, went viral after tweeting that he was able to purchase one Bitcoin through TD Ameritrade, a broker that offers an electronic trading platform that can be connected to Nasdaq.
The analyst showed how Nasdaq began offering the BTC/USD pair for trades on Apr.
10, 2019.BREAKING: BTC is now being traded on the Nasdaq! I bought one BTC through my TDAmeritrade account! According to the chart it started trading April 10, 2019!! Other digital assets are soon to follow!! pic.
UPDATE: According to TDAmeritrade support - it's not a real trade in my account - it appears they are testing only using their Paper Trading platform.
Cryptopolis contacted TD Ameritrade's support team to question whether or not the bitcoin was trading on Nasdaq via CXERX, but support said they had no idea about what the symbol stands for and that it could be just an index.
Charlie Lee, the creator of Litecoin, had also noticed the listing of Bitcoin on the TD Ameritrade platform.
Of course, the implication of Bitcoin being listed on Nasdaq is significant and would only help expedite the adoption of cryptocurrencies.
Although evidence suggests that Nasdaq is working on something, it is too early to assume that Nasdaq will be offering Bitcoin trades to the general public anytime soon.
Is Nasdaq about to introduce Bitcoin?
gepubliceerd op Apr 23, 2019
by Cryptoslate | gepubliceerd op Coinage
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