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Application US20200074547
Published 2020-03-05
Blockchain-enabled Electronic Futures Trading System With Optional Computerized Delivery Of Cryptocurrency
A blockchain enabled electronic futures trading system and method provided which allows for optional computerized delivery of cryptocurrency. A trade determination system allows a buyer and seller computer system to trade a future on a cryptocurrency such as bitcoin. Additionally, the trade determination system communicates with a central clearing computer system that allows the seller to provide, using the block chain, an amount of bitcoin equal to or greater than the underlying future by transferring the bitcoin from a seller bitcoin wallet associated with the seller computer system to a central clearing bitcoin wallet associated with the central clearing computer system. Upon the expiration date of the future, the seller may optionally select to provide to the buyer the bitcoin that was previously transferred to the central clearing bitcoin wallet instead of fiat currency.
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- 1. A blockchain enabled electronic futures trading system including:
a trade determination system receiving and matching a buy instruction from a buyer computer system and receiving a sell instruction from a seller computer system for a futures instrument represented by futures instrument data stored in a futures instrument database, wherein said futures instrument is a future on the value of a bitcoin; and a central clearing computer system, wherein once said trade determination system matches said buy instruction and said sell instruction, said central clearing computer system sends notification data to said seller computer to indicate said central computer system is enabled to accept the electronic transfer of bitcoin from a seller bit coin wallet associated with said seller computer system to a central clearing bitcoin wallet associated with said central clearing computer system, wherein said transfer takes place using the bitcoin blockchain; wherein said central clearing computer system accepts, through the central clearing bitcoin wallet from said seller bitcoin wallet, an amount of bitcoin equal to the amount of bitcoin represented by said futures instrument data, wherein when said futures instrument expires, said amount of bitcoin represented by said futures instrument data is transferred from said central clearing bitcoin wallet to a buyer bitcoin wallet associated with said buyer computer.
