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A Stock Market Backbone Is Set To Carry Bitcoin And Ether Orders
By Roll · Chief of Staff · 1 November 2026
The planned coin service of a Moscow stock venue rests on the system that already runs the main stock market in Russia, with a pilot target of Dec. 1, 2026.
The planned coin service of a Moscow stock venue rests on the system that already runs the main stock market in Russia, with a pilot target of Dec. 1, 2026.
The Backbone
The venue operates the main stock market in the country, and the crypto service sits on that existing system. Nothing about it is a separate platform bolted on the side.
Orders to buy and to sell come together in an electronic order book. When a bid and an offer match, the deal clears at the level they agree, so the matching of bids and offers sets where each trade lands.
Division Of Labor
Custody of the coins, along with the ownership records, would sit with partner digital depositories. The venue runs the marketplace while its partners handle custody, a split familiar from traditional markets.
The Customer Side
People would reach the market through professional intermediaries such as brokers, not by dealing with the venue directly. Ordinary buyers must pass a knowledge test, and qualified investors face testing rules too.
A dollar-pegged token called USDT would join Bitcoin and Ether at the start, according to an executive who spoke at an investment conference in the city on Oct. 31, 2026.
The target is described as a pilot. Rules for retail access were still pending as of Nov. 1, 2026, and the final shape of the service may shift as those rules arrive.
Reusing an established system has an obvious logic: staff, procedures and connections are already in place, so the venue can focus on what is new.
Liquidity tools help participants manage positions without disturbing the core of the market. They are usually secondary services, added once the main trading function is running, and their arrival often signals that a venue expects steady use.
Back offices are where trades are confirmed, recorded and settled. Linking a back office to a venue is a technical and procedural task, and it is one reason firms join new services at different times, since each has its own systems to adapt.
Conference announcements tend to give a first public outline of a project. Details are often added later, and some elements change as participants give feedback, which is why the language around dates and rules is usually cautious.
Qualified investors are a category recognized in many financial settings for people or firms judged able to handle more complex products. Their treatment often differs from that of ordinary buyers, with testing rules in place of the limits applied to the general public.
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