This is another very important news. After the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and ROFEX, it is the turn of the NASDAQ to consider the establishment of futures on Bitcoin during the first half of 2018.
NASDAQ goes to Bitcoin
NASDAQ is the second largest stock exchange in the world in terms of capitalization, with more than 3,200 companies listed. NASDAQ is home to electronics companies such as Nvidia and Microsoft. The Wall Street Journal has revealed that they will launch Bitcoin futures in the first half of 2018, but it will not go directly into the composition of the index.
"Bitcoin futures would be launched for the first time on Nasdaq Futures, or NFX, a market that the New York equity group launched in 2015 and which, until now, was primarily focused on trading in energy
Warning, the information is not 100% certain because it does not come directly from a NASDAQ press release, but, according to the Wall Street Journal, "people who know the situation well."