EDX Markets partners with VerifiedX to bring tokenized Bitcoin to institutional spot trading

EDX Markets, the institutional crypto exchange backed by Citadel Securities, Virtu Financial and Fidelity Digital Assets, is adding a new kind of Bitcoin to its menu. The firm announced a partnership with VerifiedX on October 8, 2026, to launch institutional spot trading of Verified Bitcoin, or vBTC, on its US trading platform. EDX isn’t simply listing the token. It’s also signing up to help run the network behind it, which makes this less of a listing and more of a working relationship. What EDX and VerifiedX are actually doing The core of the deal is straightforward. Institutional clients on EDX will be able to buy and sell vBTC in the spot market, meaning trades for immediate delivery rather than futures or other derivatives. vBTC is a tokenized form of Bitcoin built on VerifiedX’s layer-2 protocol. According to VerifiedX, each vBTC is backed one-to-one by actual Bitcoin. The company describes the asset as non-synthetic and programmable, with instant finality and on-chain verifiability. A key selling point is custody. VerifiedX says the underlying Bitcoin stays in self-custodial addresses, and the company has positioned its product around native redemption without relying on syn...