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Russia's largest stock exchange, expanding its crypto derivatives lineup with planned BTC and ETH index perpetual futures.
Russia's central bank says its digital currency law bars transfers to non-custodial wallets and allows peer-to-peer crypto trades only until July 1, 2027. Licensed intermediaries, Sberbank among them, will handle everything after that.
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Sberbank, Russia's largest lender, won Bank of Russia approval to run crypto exchange services, with first products due Dec. 1. US Treasury sanctions rules cover crypto transactions with blocked Russian institutions as well as fiat transfers.
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Russia says a drone disrupted a data centre in eastern Moscow, after Ukrainian strikes on October 8 and 9 halted one Yandex site and hit another. The first of those losses exposed Yandex's choice to keep two of its three AI supercomputers at one site, the one that burned.
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MOEX plans Bitcoin and Ethereum perpetual futures timed to Russia's new digital currency law, restricted to qualified investors and cash-settled through central clearing.
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MOEX says its first two perpetual futures, on bitcoin and ethereum indices, arrive in September, days after the digital currency law takes effect and with the approved asset list down to three.
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