Foresight News reported live that Jennifer Ilkiw, President of ICE Futures US, a subsidiary of Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), announced at Consensus 2026 that they have partnered with CoinDesk Indices to launch cash-settled futures for seven cryptocurrencies on the ICE market, including Ethereum, Solana, XRP, BNB, and the multi-token indices CoinDesk 5 and CoinDesk 20 futures. Notably, the ICE CoinDesk BNB futures are the first BNB futures contract launched on a regulated US exchange. ProShares already lists the CoinDesk 20 ETF in New York, and Arc Investments plans to launch a similar product within the next two to three months.
In addition, the two parties plan to launch a USDC contract based on CoinDesk's overnight rate (CDOR) in April, aiming to provide the cryptocurrency market with an interest rate risk management tool similar to SOFR. This contract will monitor lending network interest rates, with CoinDesk calculating the relevant index.
