Nasdaq and VanEck, an investment management firm, have entered into partnership to launch crypto 2.0 futures contracts. The futures contracts is a host of new cryptocurrency financial products. These futures contracts are cash-settled.

According to Gabor Gurbacs, VanEck’s director of digital asset strategy, the company has plans to introduce more such products in the future. He added that these futures products will be an upgrade to current regulatory standards for bitcoin futures products. He added that the partners aim to motivate regulators and institutions that are trying to enter into the crypto markets.

MVIS, the price indexing arm of VanEck, will utilize AMERTS to set the pricing benchmark for Crypto 2.0 products. AMERTS is Nasdaq’s stock markets surveillance software.