Moscow Stock Exchange, the biggest Russian exchange, declared in a press conference that they started to work on the infrastructure to trade crypto assets:
"We are already working on creating an infrastructure for such [cryptocurrency] trades, in particular, a platform for post-trading services for crypto assets."
"We are ready to organize trading in financial products for which there is a demand from bidders and their clients and which provide sufficient legal protection…On the stock exchange, it is possible to trade both the cryptocurrencies themselves and derivatives on them, as well as trading stock exchange funds on cryptocurrencies."
St. Pettersburg, the third most-active stock Russian exchange by volume announced it also considering to trade cryptocurrencies.
This is one of the best news for blockchain investors. The step of trading cryptocurrencies on traditional stock exchanges is just a step to mass adoption of blockchain technologies.