This Monday, October 20, Roxom, the inventory trade that makes use of bitcoin (BTC) as its native foreign money and unit of account, was formally launched worldwide.
The platform, co-founded by Argentines Borja Martel Seward and Nicholas Damico, permits for the primary time to commerce perpetual futures of conventional belongings such because the S&P 500 index and gold, settled immediately in bitcoin and with out the necessity to use fiat currencies.
On this first stage, Roxom presents perpetual derivatives on the S&P 500 and Nasdaq-100 indices, in addition to commodities equivalent to gold and WTI oil. This enables buyers to take lengthy (purchase) or quick (promote) positions in these markets utilizing solely their bitcoin holdings.
“By introducing Bitcoin-denominated benchmarks, we’re making a impartial, clear and world normal,” said Borja Martel Seward, co-founder of the corporate.
The launch materializes the proposal that CriptoNoticias reported in July 2024, when the undertaking was offered with the help of buyers equivalent to Tim Draper and David Marcus. Roxom’s mission is to construct the monetary structure that connects bitcoin to conventional finance, in a 24/7 working market.
From the angle of its creators, the event of a capital market denominated in bitcoin is the following step within the evolution of the digital asset, going from a retailer of worth to an institutional unit of account.
The principle milestone of the platform is to facilitate the move of capital between completely different asset courses with out the friction and intermediation of government-issued currencies.
