The exchange is scaling back trading services in response to China’s crackdown on crypto.
LedgerPrime's crypto quant fund is up 78% thanks to price discrepancies in the spot and derivatives markets.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX will allow users to trade tokenized stocks of companies such as Facebook, Google, Netflix, Nvidia, PayPal and Tesla.
BitMEX said the appointment forms part of the firm's "beyond derivatives" strategy.
Bybit, Wintermute, CMS, Kronos and IOSG Ventures also kicked in.
Open interest rose to $13.1 billion after being in the $10.5 billion to $13 billion range.
Bitcoin option's smile shows persistent fears of deeper drop and low expectations for a quick rally.
Binance led competitors in May with a monthly trading volume of $2.46 trillion, up 49% from April levels.
Open interest in the CME's standard bitcoin futures contract has hit the lowest since mid-December.
"Max pain" for the May expiry is $50,000.
The price of bitcoin is now down more than 30% so far in May, on track for its worst month since November 2018.
Su Zhu’s Three Arrows co-led the funding round for dTrade. The project looks to decentralize crypto derivatives trading.
The derivatives market suggests ICP could begin trading on Coinbase for a price of at least $300.
Record futures liquidations show leverage was excessively skewed bullish.
"Launching a bitcoin ETF in the U.S. will be the key to normalizing the pricing of bitcoin futures," according to JPMorgan.