One of the major U.S.-based trading platforms, E*Trade, is close enough to start cryptocurrency trading, Bloomberg reports.
E*Trade is a digital platform that allows trading with financial assets including common stocks, preferred stocks, futures contracts, exchange-traded funds, options, mutual funds, and fixed income investments
The platform will initially list bitcoin (BTC) and ethereum (ETH), and will consider adding other currencies in the future, notes Bloomberg.
Moreover, according to a tech journalist at The New York Times, Nathaniel Popper, eTrade is preparing to begin offering both BTC and ETH trading to its 5 million or so customers and "is just finalizing a third party to actually hold the coins."
In the wake of TD Ameritrade quietly opening Bitcoin trading for some of its customers, I was just told that eTrade is preparing to begin offering both Bitcoin and Ether trading to its 5 million or so customers and is just finalizing a third party to actually hold the coins.
— Nathaniel Popper (@nathanielpopper) April 26, 2019
Earlier, the Nasdaq stock exchange shared a relevant piece of news in an online statement it will start offering real-time data on two crypto market-related indices — the Bitcoin Liquid Index (BLX) and the Ethereum Liquid Index (ELX).
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