--- title: ISDA Prepares for Digital Asset Derivatives Contracts description: Derivatives market participants and the crypto-asset community will develop common legal standards. image: https://articles.marketsmedia.com/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/writing-hand-pattern-paper-brand-art-603024-pxhere_com_-1-May-12-2022-09-30-48-64-AM.jpg --- ![websites-group](https://articles.marketsmedia.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/MarketsMedia_August2021/images/new-MMG-01.svg) [![](https://articles.marketsmedia.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/MarketsMedia_August2021/images/dropdown-new-marketsmedia-logo.svg)](https://www.marketsmedia.com/) [![](https://articles.marketsmedia.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/MarketsMedia_August2021/images/dropdown-menu-traders-redlogo.svg)](https://www.tradersmagazine.com/) [![](https://articles.marketsmedia.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/MarketsMedia_August2021/images/dropdown-menu-bestexe-logo.svg)](https://www.bestexecution.net/) [![](https://articles.marketsmedia.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/MarketsMedia_August2021/images/dropdown-menu-fidesk-logo.svg)](https://www.fixglobal.com/) [![](https://articles.marketsmedia.com/hubfs/raw_assets/public/MarketsMedia_August2021/images/dropdown-fixglobal-new-logo.svg)](https://www.fixglobal.com/) - [*Facebook*](https://www.facebook.com/MarketsMedia/) - [*Twitter*](https://twitter.com/marketsmedia) - [*Linkedin*](https://www.linkedin.com/company/markets-media-llc) - [Newsletter](https://articles.marketsmedia.com/isda-identifies-issues-for-digital-asset-derivatives-contracts#popup-newsletter) #### Want the latest news on securities markets -- FREE? 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As has been the case with other markets, derivatives will play an important role in the digital asset market, facilitating price discovery, increasing liquidity and allowing market participants to hedge. https://twitter.com/ISDA/status/1470708627652718594 Contractual standards have been a cornerstone in the growth of safe, efficient and liquid global derivatives markets. Over the past 35 years, ISDA has worked with a broad and diverse range of market participants to establish contractual standards across many different asset classes. To this end, ISDA will bring together derivatives market participants, members of the crypto-asset community and other stakeholders to help develop common legal standards and definitions for digital asset derivatives, recognizing that crypto assets are a unique product class. [This paper](https://www.isda.org/2021/12/14/contractual-standards-for-digital-asset-derivatives/): - Identifies novel technology and market-driven events that could disrupt the operation of a digital asset derivatives transaction and provides a framework for dealing with these events; - Explores how digital assets (and the derivatives that reference them) can be valued and what happens when a valuation cannot be obtained; and - Analyzes how digital assets might interact with the existing ISDA documentation architecture, including the ISDA Master Agreement and industry standard collateral documentation. ISDA has also produced a [supplement to the paper](https://www.isda.org/2021/12/14/contractual-standards-for-digital-asset-derivatives/) that sets out a granular, technical analysis of different ISDA product definitions and their potential applicability to digital asset derivatives. 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