US SEC Approves CBOE Binary Options Tied to Coinbase, Robinhood, and MARA

UNCLASSIFIEDUS SEC Approves CBOE BinaryOptions Tied to Coinbase,Robinhood, and MARA42IMPORTANCEQUIET2NEWS MEDIA2PIECESOct 16, 2026 11:16blockboard.net

The SEC approved the listing of binary options linked to performance metrics for 23 U.S.-listed companies, including Coinbase, Robinhood, and MARA Holdings. The contracts cover measures such as Coinbase trading volume, Robinhood customer count and revenue, and MARA’s bitcoin production and mining metrics. [52600] [51657]

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MARA-related contracts also cover holdings, blocks, and hashrate.
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MARA Holdings stock closed at $8.23 on October 14, down 9.66%.
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The SEC approved the listing of binary options tied to KPI measures for 23 U.S.-listed companies.
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The approved contracts include metrics for Coinbase trading volume, Robinhood customer count and revenue, and MARA bitcoin production.

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Traders who follow Coinbase, Robinhood, and MARA now have a new set of exchange-listed contracts tied to those companies’ operating metrics. That changes what can be traded tomorrow morning: instead of only watching the stocks or broader crypto prices, the listed measures include trading volume, customer count, revenue, and mining figures.

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