Bitnomial, Inc. (“Bitnomial”), a derivatives exchange firm based in the United States that runs a designated contract market (DCM) that is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), has published an announcement on the debut of its Tezos (XTZ) US Dollar futures on Bitnomial Exchange, LLC on February 4, 2026. These futures are the first-ever XTZ futures on a U.S. exchange. As a result of the new contract, both retail and institutional traders now have access to a regulated environment for the discovery of XTZ prices and the management of risks. Traders have the option of using either cryptocurrency or USD as margin to trade.
“Tezos is resilient, institutional-grade infrastructure, and now U.S. traders have a regulated derivatives market to match,” said Michael Dunn, President of Bitnomial Exchange, LLC. “Crypto-settled contracts give traders real price discovery with portfolio margining across their digital asset positions, and a CFTC-regulated futures market with six months of trading history checks a key box under the SEC’s generic listing standards for spot ETFs.”
“U.S.-regulated futures are the backbone of commodity markets. Their arrival for tez (XTZ) reflects the growing maturity of Tezos and enables mature price discovery and risk transfer, supporting broader institutional participation,” said Arthur Breitman, co-founder of Tezos.
Tezos is a blockchain that will survive forever since it is open-source and self-upgrading. Because of its on-chain governance, stakeholders are able to offer protocol improvements without causing disruptive hard forks. This ensures that applications continue to function normally while the network continues to get more powerful and quicker. Tezos, the first proof-of-stake protocol, now provides a native data availability layer, rollups to scale serious applications, and an EVM layer with a latency of less than fifty milliseconds. Since 2018, Tezos has been responsible for the processing of hundreds of millions of transactions, which have a value of billions of dollars. These transactions have enabled tokenized finance, gaming, and digital ownership for a community that spans the whole world.
Bitnomial’s Crypto Complex®, which provides the most comprehensive exposure to digital asset derivatives in the United States in terms of the number of underlying assets that are accessible, has been expanded with the debut of XTZ futures. Delivery-settled contracts that are published on Bitnomial Exchange have the ability to be margined using digital assets, which brings about increased capital efficiency for traders in comparison to the conventional method of margining, which solely involves cash.
Bitnomial’s retail trading platform, Botanical, is already accepting orders for XTZ futures, making them available for trading today for both retail and institutional traders. The introduction of XTZ perpetual futures and options is something that Bitnomial intends to do in the future.
Each and every Bitnomial futures contract is made available by Bitnomial Exchange, LLC, and is governed by the terms that it establishes.
Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC)-regulated exchange (DCM), clearinghouse (DCO), and clearing brokerage (FCM) subsidiaries in the United States are owned and operated by Bitnomial, Inc., a derivatives exchange corporation with its headquarters in Chicago. Bitnomial is the first company to provide perpetuals, physical futures, and options on the Bitcoin Complex®, which includes Bitcoin and Hashrate, as well as the Crypto Complex®, which includes the first ever US futures for XRP, ADA, and USDC, among other assets.
