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ICE Goes Live With Futures Tied to CoinDesk Indices

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🗓️ 12 February 2026

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

ICE Futures US President Jennifer Ilkiw joins Sam Ewen and Dave LaValle at Consensus Hong Kong to launch new crypto futures and multi-token indices. Jennifer Ilkiw, President of ICE Futures US, joined Sam Ewen and Dave LaValle at Consensus Hong Kong 2026 to announce a major expansion into regulated crypto derivatives. ICE is returning to the digital asset market with futures for Bitcoin, Ether, Solana, XRP, and BNB, alongside the CoinDesk 5 and CoinDesk 20 multi-token indices. - This episode was hosted live by Sam Ewen and Dave LaValle at Consensus Hong Kong 2026, presented by Hex Trust.

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0:00.0

It's time now to bring in our next guest who just announced a partnership with CoinDisc

0:13.8

Indices and spoke yesterday here at Consensus Hong Kong.

0:16.8

Jennifer Liu Q is the president of Ice Futures.

0:19.5

You asked Jennifer, great to have you here.

0:21.0

Sam, really good to be here.

0:22.2

Dave, it's fantastic to be here.

0:23.8

I'm a little disappointed with all the social cuts that, you know,

0:27.4

Jen, our segment yesterday didn't make it, you know?

0:30.2

I was thinking about.

0:31.4

You know what?

0:32.2

I mean, we gotta find something around here.

0:33.8

Anyway, we spent a bunch of time yesterday together.

0:37.4

We were at a derivatives roundtable together.

0:39.7

We announced the partnership that we have together. We sat on a derivatives panel. All of those

0:45.8

were incredibly well attended. But what did we actually announce, Jen? Well, we announced that we

0:50.5

are launching a number of new futures contracts on Ice Futures U. US. It's our first foray back into the crypto markets.

0:56.8

We were in the crypto markets in 2018 first when we started with BACT, but we pulled back

1:03.1

because really didn't feel that the market was ready.

1:06.0

So we're launching some single token cryptocurrency future contracts.

1:11.1

So that's B&B, Solana, E, triple, and Bitcoin.

1:15.0

And that we're really excited about is two multi-token futures contracts,

1:20.1

and that's the CoinDest 5 and the CoinDest 20.

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