The Singapore Stock Exchange intends to launch the continuous bitcoin contracts this year

SGX SGX is preparing to launch the ongoing Bitcoin futures contracts during the second half of 2025.

This move shows that traditional stock exchanges have started to quickly support the growing market for digital assets in addition to being a commercial strategy.

And for those who do not know, the ongoing contracts are derived tools that enable traders to speculate the bitcoin price movements without the need to possess the actual asset.

Unlike regular futures, these tools do not contain an expiry date, allowing traders to maintain their positions as long as they have enough margin and capital.

For individual traders and institutions, she has long been adopted for cryptocurrencies such as Binance and Okex on this product as a way to attract them.

However, SGX takes a more conservative approach to opening only access to professional investors and founders, which means that individual investors will not be able to participate in trading these tools in SGX.

The booming blockchain scene in Singapore supports SGX’s SGX step, and due to the Blockchain system and encrypted currencies there it was not an unexpected SGX step with more than 1,600 Blockchain patents and 81 coded exchanged as from December 2024, Singapore was a world leader, according to CNF.

Singapore also got 85.4 in the global ranking of the blockchain system, in addition, there are more than 2,400 jobs in Singapore linked to blockchain technology, which enhances an environment that supports the expansion of this sector in several areas, and in these circumstances, SGX seeks naturally to be a pioneer among the traditional stock exchanges that began to adopt digital assets.

Although the organization and safety is one of the priorities of the Singaporean government, it remains cautious even in light of this optimism, and the increase in fraud in encrypted assets forces the authorities to tighten control, and recently warned a minister of Singapore people against the risks of investment in digital assets.

The country’s anti -fraud protection law has already been passed, enabling the authorities to stop transactions that are believed to include fraud victims.

This move achieves a balance between censorship and innovation, and the government wants to help the sector with prosperity, but also aims to protect investors from unjustified risks.

It appears that competition with Hong Kong in the encryption system has become exciting that the Singapore Stock Exchange move also coincides with the increasing competition from Hong Kong, and Singapore and Hong Kong are now advancing in initiatives led by Asian governments to make their regions main centers of the encryption industry, their success is inseparable from the global growth of the encryption sector, especially after the support of the US President Donald Trump for Industry.

Singapore distinguishes that they have a different approach by focusing more on strict laws and strict supervision of stock exchanges and investment -based investment products. While Hong Kong allows more friendly policies for encryption, allowing more projects and innovations to develop them more freely.