CME Group (NASDAQ:CME) is planning to roll out spot-quoted futures contracts on June 30, allowing market participants to trade benchmark crypto and equity index futures in spot-market terms, it said ...

The SEC has stated in the past that in order to approve a spot product, they would like to see an established futures market for the asset. After the launch of the spot Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether ...

This has been driven by an arbitrage between the spot and futures market. This can be seen in the chart below. It has normalized some, but is still showing erratic behavior. Figure: 1 Spot vs ...