You Won’t Believe How Brazil’s Stock Exchange Is Embracing Crypto Futures 👀

And so it comes to pass, in our own Brazil—where sunlight battles bureaucracy and samba resists silence—a proclamation echoes through the marble halls of B3, the nation’s bespectacled stock exchange. News: Solana
Solana logo
(SOL, $150.7, 24h volatility: 2.6%, Market Cap: $78.04 B, Vol. 24h: $3.80 B)
and Ethereum
Ethereum logo
(ETH, $1 845, 24h volatility: 2.6%, Market Cap: $222.72 B, Vol. 24h: $14.22 B)
futures shall walk among us, starting June 16, 2025. Like potatoes on the dinner table, they’re not for everyone, but try telling that to the hungry.

B3 to drive adoption with solana and ethereum futures

The bureaucrats in their infinite grayness have shuffled enough paper for the exchange to receive the blessing of Brazil’s Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM). A miracle only rivaled by water into wine or, dare I say, fiat into crypto 📑💸.

Still, they persist! B3 insists institutional investors—those suited survivors yearning to diversify—must have simple, “seamless” access to this brave new world. Custody headaches will apparently be anesthetized by the very structuring of these products. Sleep well, investors, for B3 guards your digital dust. (At least until they accidentally type their key wrong.)

early rollout before the end of the year, with fingers crossed tighter than miners at a halving event.

As for Bitcoin
Bitcoin logo
(BTC, $96 611, 24h volatility: 2.1%, Market Cap: $1.92 T, Vol. 24h: $29.09 B),
the original blockchain beast—the size of futures contracts will shrink from 0.1 BTC to 0.01 BTC. Allegedly this will bring “market liquidity,” but perhaps it’s more about giving the little guy’s wallet a fighting chance—before he loses it all to swing trading with a hangover.

Brazilian stock exchange b3 in the etf niche

If all this weren’t enough, last month, B3—ever the flamboyant innovator—miraculously gave birth to Brazil’s first XRP
XRP logo
(XRP, $2.22, 24h volatility: 0.8%, Market Cap: $129.99 B, Vol. 24h: $2.17 B)
ETF: Hashdex Nasdaq XRP Fundo de Índice. “Hashdex Nasdaq XRP FI” (if you can say it three times fast, you get a free blockchain).

Supposedly, not only the first in Brazil, but the first worldwide tracking the fabled spot price of Ripple. Now there’s a pub trivia question for your Christmas party.

Roughly a year ago, B3 even partnered with BlackRock, that tireless titan of money mountains, to plop a Bitcoin ETF (IBT39) onto our sandy shores—a BDR of the iShares Bitcoin Trust ETF, so rich and layered in acronyms you’d think Brazil was short on vowels.

What does it all mean? B3 is elbowing deeper into Brazil’s crypto buffet line—slipping digital assets between your beans and rice, daring you to stay hungry.

Say what you will—at least watching the regulators chase the exchanges is more entertaining than most telenovelas. 🙃

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2025-05-09 20:10