# Financial Derivatives

**URL:** <https://forums.counterparty.io/t/financial-derivatives/1499>\
**Category:** Contracts\
**Created:** [September 10, 2015, 6:29am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/financial-derivatives/1499 "2015-09-10T06:29:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Claudia](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/forums.counterparty.io/claudia/32/367_2.png) [@Claudia](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/Claudia)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 6:29am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/financial-derivatives/1499/1 "2015-09-10T06:29:29Z")

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I study finance. I wonder, can derivatives be issued with Counterparty? What are the benefits compared with traditional financial products?

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**Author:** ![something](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex004/user_avatar/forums.counterparty.io/something/32/240_2.png) [@something](https://forums.counterparty.io/u/something)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2015, 11:27am UTC](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/financial-derivatives/1499/2 "2015-09-10T11:27:33Z")

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Hi,

Early on derivatives were available in form of Contracts for Difference (CfD’s) but that was disabled with the idea that a variety of contracts would be possible once Ethereum-style Smart Contracts can be executed on Counterparty.  
Then because of delays with Ethereum, everything’s been delayed. So there are no derivative contracts available today.

Here’s a recent topic related to that:

> [@What Exactly Happened on Block 368,396?](https://forums.counterparty.io/t/what-exactly-happened-on-block-368-396/1391/2):
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> Adam’s [official statement](http://counterpartyfoundation.org/counterparty-community-update-july-30-spells-of-genesis-xcp-price-coindaddy-coinvend-getgems-julia-updates-more/) on July 30 “We’d like to give a quick update where things are at regarding offering the full Ethereum smart contracts functionality on Counterparty mainnet: Currently we’re in a bit of a holding pattern in finishing up the implementation, due to the fact that Ethereum itself is still under heavy testing and development, and its consensus system is still rather centralized. On top of this, the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM), which provides the execution environment …