Hong Kong Set to Allow Crypto Derivatives Trading

The Securities and Futures Commission, Hong Kong’s securities regulator, is planning to allow professional investors to trade crypto derivatives, marking a significant expansion of the territory’s virtual asset market offerings, according to a report from China Daily.Crypto derivatives are a considerably larger market than spot trading. Data from TokenInsight shows that the crypto derivatives market pushed through $21 trillion in volume for the first quarter of the year, compared to $4.6 trillion in spot volume source: https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/06/05/hong-kong-set-to-allow-crypto-derivatives-trading