Ethereum’s Derivatives Market Thrives As Layer-2s Lower Costs, Whales Unload Large Holdings

Ethereum’s derivatives market has seen significant growth, thanks to the rise of Layer-2 solutions, which have drastically reduced transaction fees that once held back the sector. This cost reduction has paved the way for a surge in derivatives protocols, driving impressive gains in the market since the beginning of the […]

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Coinbase is Coming for the Sizable and Lucrative Futures and Derivatives Market in the US

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is now venturing into cryptocurrency derivatives. The biggest crypto trading platform in the US has filed an application with the National Futures Association on Wednesday to register as a futures commission merchant.

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Open Interest For Ethereum Sees Sharp Resurgence, Hits New All-Time Highs

Ethereum has registered a new all-time high of $7. 8 billion on open interest in perpetual futures contracts as the entire crypto market continues to witness an increased interest in crypto derivatives.

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Bitcoin From Major Addresses Started Moving to Exchanges: Here's What Might Happen to Market

Major Bitcoin addresses are moving their funds from the spot market to derivatives exchanges

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Judge Dismisses Racketeering and Market Manipulation Case Against BitMEX

Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange and trading platform BitMEX has scored a significant win in a racketeering and market manipulation case following a ruling from a federal judge. Earlier this week, Judge William Orrick of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California dismissed claims from traders against the company.

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$4 Billion Bitcoin Futures Wiped Out from Market

Bitcoin derivatives market suffers more than anything after latest market drop

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FTX sets sight on the US crypto derivatives market

The US subsidiary of cryptocurrency exchange FTX has announced it is working on an…

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Binance vs FTX: Fees, Features, Limits, Payment Methods

As crypto adoption continues to explode, there’s an increased number of crypto exchanges hitting the market. That said, there’s rising demand for derivatives crypto exchanges as traders seek a variety of trading options.

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With the ecological outbreak of DeFi derivatives in 2021, what is the potential of SheepDex?

There are two major trends in the encrypted currency market in 2020. One is the outbreak of derivatives trading on centralized exchanges at the beginning of the year, with positions in bitcoin futures contracts rising 248.

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Bitget CEO Sandra: Decentralized Derivatives Exchanges are not Likely to Disrupt Their Centralized Counterparts in the Short to Medium Term

— By Bitget CEO Sandra Derivatives products have been playing a significant role in the global finance market. As the concept of decentralization experienced rapid development and gradually gained wider recognition among users in recent years, decentralized derivatives trading has naturally become one of the most promising markets.

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Bitcoin: This would be the best time to enter the derivatives market

Bitcoin investments always show some great figures when the prices are high. Spot trading keeps fluctuating to give us some new targets and expectations. But it is the derivatives market that shows usThe post Bitcoin: This would be the best time to enter the derivatives market appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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DeFi Deep Dive — UMA, Cutting Middlemen Out of Derivatives Markets

UMA represents the latest evolution of the DeFi space, creating tools to participate in the derivatives market worth over $540 trillion. The post DeFi Deep Dive — UMA, Cutting Middlemen Out of Derivatives Markets appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Spot Volume Fell to Lowest Level of 2021; Derivatives Continue to Gain Market Share with NFTs

The decline in volatility in July with the price of Bitcoin remaining subdued between $35k to $40k, reflected in the on-chain metrics. Total adjusted on-chain volume, as expected, took a significant drop over 29% to a seven-month low of $405 billion.

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Bitget Launches its Russian Version: Another Leap Towards Globalization

The derivatives exchange Bitget announced a new Russian version to provide both trade services and customer support in the Russian language — another crucial globalization initiative following its entry into Japan, South Korea, and the Southeast Asia market last year.

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SheepDex tell you what is blockchain derivatives

What are blockchain derivatives? As the price of cryptocurrencies soared from the trough at the beginning of the year to the summer, and then gradually declined in volatility recently, the market volatility that experienced “strong winds and waves” was stronger than other investment objects of the same period.

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Bears scattered as Bitcoin hit $40K, but pro traders remain cautious

Bitcoin's rally to $40,000 alleviated some of the bearish sentiment in the market, but data shows derivatives traders still walking on eggshells.

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Bitcoin: This has led to a higher probability of market dumps

Bitcoin futures market has largely evolved over the past three years, and there have been key developments surrounding the derivatives space. While trading volumes and adoption have consistently increThe post Bitcoin: This has led to a higher probability of market dumps appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Is this the right time to enter Bitcoin derivatives market

Bitcoin had a strong 26.7% rally (as of press time) that made spot trading very profitable for investors, but the interesting fact is that this rally benefited the derivatives markets as well. ObserviThe post Is this the right time to enter Bitcoin derivatives market appeared first on AMBCrypto.

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Examining Structural Changes To The Bitcoin Derivatives Market

Taking a look at some of the structural changes in the bitcoin derivatives market over the course of 2021 and what they mean.

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Derivatives Now Dominate Crypto Volume, Gaining Nearly 54% Market Share in June: Report CryptoCompare

Open interest on Bitcoin futures products dropped 31. 8%, more than across ETH future's 28. 3% drop, according to CryptoCompare data. As for exchanges, Binance, which had the highest OI across all derivatives products, saw the biggest 38.

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Incoming Squeeze? Bitcoin Shorts on Bitfinex Spike, BTC Long Positions Tap Fresh New Highs

The entire market capitalization of all 10,800 cryptocurrencies in existence is down 2. 8% on Monday as bitcoin has lost over 2. 4% during the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, bitcoin shorts are rising again after bitcoin shorts tapped a two-year high on the derivatives exchange Bitfinex on June 25.

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Bitcoin Derivatives Market Structure Makes a Shift as OKEx and Huobi’s Supremacy Declines

Liquidity getting concentrated to Binance and FTX will be “much healthier” for the market while in the short term, Grayscale, which is “designed as a black hole that sucks in BTC” and never leaves it, is bullish for spot BTC price.

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Perpetual Protocol v2 offers leveraged and concentrated liquidity from market makers

Perpetual Protocol, a decentralized cryptocurrency derivatives protocol that offers a range of perpetual contracts, has unveiled Curie, version 2 of the protocol. This upgrade enables Perpetual Protocol to further drive greater trading volume through a more efficient distribution of liquidity.

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CME Micro Bitcoin futures surpass 1M contracts as institutional speculation grows

The Chicago-based derivatives market launched its Micro Bitcoin futures product in early May, providing investors with smaller positioning opportunities.

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The Best Decentralized Derivatives Experience — the Octopus Protocol Vision

Less than six months into 2021 and we’ve witnessed unprecedented growth in the market cap of the crypto market. With premier coin Bitcoin reaching new all-time highs and currently struggling to stay up, the crypto market has been blessed with a ton of trends and sub-trends that have managed to rake in billions of dollars, […]

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DeFi Shouldn’t be Permitted to Become an Unregulated Shadow Financial Market, says Top Commodities Regulator

Unlicensed decentralized finance (DeFi) markets may be illegal in the US, said the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Commissioner Dan Berkovitz in a speech to the Asset Management Derivatives Forum.

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Crypto Derivatives Market Now Represents 53.3% of Total Cryptocurrency Space: CryptoCompare Report

Total spot volume in May surged 26. 5% to $4. 8tn, and $5. 5tn was recorded in the derivatives market, an increase of 40. 4%, with CME paving the way for the institutionalization. DEXs also had a record month with $172.

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Crypto derivatives market down but not out as $3B expiry sours the mood

The spot price crash reveals a high correlation with the derivatives markets as nearly $3 billion worth of options stand to expire in May.

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Historically accurate Bitcoin metric suggests BTC price has bottomed out

Bitcoin bulls may get some respite from a derivatives market indicator that hints at a price bottom.

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Goldman Sachs to Begin Offering Bitcoin Derivatives to Investors 

The red-hot crypto market has shown little to no signs of slowing down, and banks are starting to take notice. As Bitcoin and other major cryptos such as Ethereum rallied to record highs, institutional demand has also been on the rise.

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Phemex Lists 8 New Coins, Reintroduces Ripple

Phemex, one of the fastest crypto exchanges and futures trading platforms in the industry, has further bolstered its offering by announcing the inclusion of 8 new cryptocurrencies available in both their crypto spot market and derivatives market.

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Derivatives Market Heats Up as GlobeDX Closes $18M Private Round

Competition between derivatives exchanges, which was already fierce, has gotten hotter with the arrival of GlobeDX onto the scene. The exchange, which specializes in derivatives, is set to hold its public token sale on April 30 after completing an $18 million private round.

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JPMorgan Eyeing Bitcoin’s Contango, Releases Bullish Report

JPMorgan has released a report on the futures and derivatives market around bitcoin, providing insight and bullish sentiment.

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Opium Network Unveils Optimistic Oracles for DeFi

In a March 30 announcement, the synthetic derivatives Opium Network platform unveiled plans to introduce what it calls optimistic oracles. Working with Gnosis and the Universal Market Access (UMA) platform, Opium is seeking safer oracles for DeFi use-cases that require off-chain data.

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CBOE Plans to Re-Enter Crypto Market with New Products Amidst Increased Demand

World’s leading options trading platform CBOE Global Markets is planning to re-enter the cryptocurrency derivatives market after a few failed attempts in the past, according to a report by Bloomberg.

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FTX Review 2021 – Fees, Pros & Cons Covered

As the cryptocurrency market becomes one of the most coveted new instruments of the financial world, new trading platforms are popping up like mushrooms.   FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange is a new player on the market of cryptocurrency margin platforms, with some new features to offer.

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Decentralized derivatives trading protocol Vega closes $5M fundraise

CryptoNinjas » Decentralized derivatives trading protocol Vega closes $5M fundraise Vega, a decentralized derivatives trading protocol, today announced it has closed a $5 million raise with investment from Arrington Capital, Cumberland DRW, and Coinbase Ventures The rounds, led by Arrington Capital and Cumberland DRW, support Vega’s mission to democratize markets by enabling anyone to create and launch a derivatives market while tackling some of the […] CryptoNinjas » Decentralized derivatives trading protocol Vega closes $5M fundraise

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Crypto Market Forecast: Week of March 15th 2021

A curated weekly summary of forward-focused crypto news that matters. This week, the bitcoin price hits new all-time highs and crosses USD60k for the first time ever, MicroStrategy continues to show unwavering faith in BTC and the digital asset derivatives space has a big week.

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OKEx Promises Exciting Promotions To Support Launch Of Algorand Stablecoins

As demand has spiked all across the cryptocurrency board, especially stablecoins, leading spot and derivatives trading platform OKEx has announced support for two of the most market’s most popular stablecoins on the Algorand protocol.

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DLT-Based Synthetic Derivatives: What They Are and How They Work

‘Tis the season, alt season specifically. Led by the industry’s number two cryptocurrency, ethereum (ETH), the altcoin market is posting all-time highs on a regular basis.  Several relative new-comers to the cryptocurrency scene, such as aave (AAVE), SushiSwap (SUSHI) and Alpha Finance Lab (ALPHA), saw rapid growth last month — both in terms of development … Continued The post DLT-Based Synthetic Derivatives: What They Are and How They Work appeared first on BeInCrypto.

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Rising Bitcoin and Ether derivatives markets are shooting for the spot

The impact of crypto derivatives on the spot market deepens as CME lists Ether futures on its platform.

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ETH price surge could cause ‘gamma squeeze’ as bull market heats up: Delta Exchange exec

Delta Exchange, a crypto derivatives platform, says many options traders didn’t expect Ether’s price to rise so quickly. Now, they’re sitting on huge unrealized losses.

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Leading Crypto Derivatives Exchange Bit.com Set to Launch Bitcoin Cash Options

On January 21, the derivatives exchange by Matrixport, Bit. com, announced the launch of the first bitcoin cash perpetual swaps and options. The exchange says before the product launch there was no options market for bitcoin cash and the firm believes there’s room for improvement in this arena of crypto derivatives.

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Lightspeed, Pantera Join $20M Raise for Crypto Market Maker Wintermute

The Series B will fund a push into Asia and the launch of a derivatives business.

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Crypto Derivatives Surge, Bitcoin Options Open Interest Climbs to $9.6 Billion

Bitcoin options open interest has reached $9. 6 billion according to derivatives market data as the metric is nearing the high captured on January 7, 2021. Moreover, the aggregate open interest in bitcoin futures is steadily nearing all-time highs.

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MVIS Launches First of Its Kind Diamond Benchmark Index with Diamond Data Derivatives

MV Index Solutions has launched the Universal Standard Diamonds Evaluation 100 Index (USDE) in collaboration with Diamond Data Derivatives Ltd. (“DDD”) and with the calculation agent CryptoCompare. An investable benchmark index to quantify physical diamonds, the USDE captures the global market for cut and polished wholesale diamonds based on the sales volume of the topRead More

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Crypto Market Is Not Interested in Owning Bakkt Stock; Coinbase Is the Real Deal Making Money

Crypto derivatives platform FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried says Coinbase is no Bakkt 2. 0; it “makes real money” by charging hefty fees. He also estimated FTX valuation at $5bln based on ratios of revenue, userbase, and profit.

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How Bitcoin Futures Trading Platforms Adjust Their Instruments Amidst Bullish Market: Case of Huobi

In 2020, crypto derivatives trading replaced spot trading as the most popular digital assets exchange segment. To meet the increased requirements of sophisticated and retail traders, Huobi Futures – the derivatives arm of Huobi Global crypto exchange ecosystem – introduces new instruments.

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Bitcoin at $300,000 Options Contract Added on Deribit for EOY

Forget 100k, $150k, or even $200k; the market now wants to bet on $300,000 per BTC by the end of this year. On Friday, cryptocurrency derivatives platform Deribit announced the addition of the latest Bitcoin options contracts at a $300k strike price with an expiry of December 2021.

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