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title: "Nasdaq CEO: We’ll ‘Certainly Consider’ Becoming a Cryptocurrency Exchange"
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# Nasdaq CEO: We’ll ‘Certainly Consider’ Becoming a Cryptocurrency Exchange

**Published:** April 25, 2018
**Author:** sharetalk
**Categories:** Fintech
**Tags:** cryptocurrency exchange, NASDAQ
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Nasdaq, the world’s second-largest stock exchange with a $9 trillion market cap, is open to becoming a cryptocurrency exchange in a regulated market.

In a televised interview with CNBC’s [Squawk Box](https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/25/nasdaq-is-open-to-becoming-cryptocurrency-exchange-ceo-says.html?__source=twitter%7Cmain), Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman was asked of the position taken by Nasdaq’s board and herself on cryptocurrencies, specifically as a service provider.

“A lot of people are frustrated that even if they go into [the cryptocurrency] market, they have no liquidity [at an] exchange,” host and ‘Shark Tank’ shark Kevin O’Leary said, quipping: “Nasdaq would be a natural place for that, would it not?”

‘It’s an unregulated space today, so it’s not something that we’ve decided to go into becoming a [crypto] exchange but we are providing our technology now to other crypto exchanges,” she replied, pointing to Nasdaq’s surveillance technology that will be put to use by Gemini to [monitor its cryptocurrency trading pairs](https://www.ccn.com/gemini-will-monitor-cryptocurrency-markets-using-nasdaq-tech/) in bitcoin and Ethereum.

Notably, she added:

> Over time though, if we do look at it and say people are ready for a more regulated market for something that provides a fair experience for investors, certainly Nasdaq would consider becoming a crypto exchange, over time.

Asked if she was a believer in cryptocurrencies, she bullishly stated:

> I would definitely say that – I believe that digital currencies will continue to persist. It’s just a matter of how long it will take for that space to mature. Once you look at it and say, ‘ do we want to provide a regulated market for this?’, certainly, Nasdaq would consider it.’

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