The Bitcoin Futures Contract (BIT) has already exceeded R$2 trillion in financial volume traded after one year of the cryptocurrency derivative’s launch on the Brazilian stock exchange.
According to data from the DataWise+ platform, the number of futures traded between April 2024 and April 2025 totaled more than 41 million contracts. In the month of April 2025 alone, more than 4 million contracts were traded, an increase of 4,189% compared to the month of April 2024, when 102,160 contracts were traded.
“The launch of the Bitcoin Futures Contract was a milestone. We developed this product listening to the market so that investors could access a cryptocurrency product in a regulated market. The significant volume of trading confirms that investors are increasingly sophisticated and seeking diversification for their investment strategies,” says Luiz Masagão.
Bitcoin Futures Investor Profile
According to data from the DataWise+ platform, between April 2024 and April 2025, Non-Resident investors lead the trading ranking of Bitcoin Futures on the Brazilian stock exchange in the period. They represent 53% of the total, while Individuals have the second largest participation in the analyzed period, with 39% of the total volume.
Funds appear in third place in the ranking with approximately 7% of the total traded in the period.
“Access to data and technologies allows us to have greater visibility of the progress of financial products like this. Analytical intelligence is an important ally of financial institutions, which can consider a vast diversification of products and offer their clients the options that best suit each profile,” said Diego Araujo, head of Capital Markets at Neoway.
Bitcoin Future
Launched on April 17, 2024, the Bitcoin Futures Contract allows investors to hedge against future price fluctuations of the cryptocurrency.
The Bitcoin Futures Contract uses the Nasdaq Bitcoin Reference Price Index as a reference and has a monthly expiration.
Currently, the value of the contract is equivalent to 0.1 bitcoin, that is, 10% of the value of the cryptocurrency in reais. However, the CVM (Securities and Exchange Commission) recently approved the reduction of the contract by ten times. The change will take effect from June 16 and the value of the contract will be worth 0.01 Bitcoin.
In this type of contract, settlement is exclusively financial, that is, there is no buying and selling of cryptocurrencies. The financial results of the negotiations occur on the price variation of Bitcoin.
Portfolio expansion
The Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM) also approved, earlier this month, the launch of Ethereum (ETR) and Solana (SOL) Futures contracts. The expectation is that the products will be available to the market on June 16.
Ethereum and Solana Futures contracts will be quoted in US dollars and referenced by the Nasdaq Ether Reference Price and Nasdaq Solana Reference Price indices, respectively.
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