Bitcoin is riding high as short sellers in the crypto derivatives market get squeezed out, triggering automatic buy orders.
The derivatives desk will expand the company’s suite of products as it aims to attract more institutional clients to its newly acquired prime brokerage arm.
Open interest in bitcoin options listed on the Panama-based exchange jumped to a record $1 billion Tuesday, according to data from Skew.
Noelle Acheson picks apart trends in global interest and trust in crypto asset technology, and revisits the growing financialization of bitcoin mining.
Andreessen Horowitz-backed dYdX released its Bitcoin Perpetual Contract out of private alpha on Wednesday, bringing a key BTC derivatives product to DeFi.
The anemic price action surrounding bitcoin's third halving has led to head-scratching over why the cryptocurrency didn't moon. One possibility: Derivatives are bringing more price discovery.
A surge in bitcoin derivatives suggests institutional investors are getting bitcoin exposure ahead of the halving, the Chicago exchange says.
Bitfinex says the perpetual swap provides investors with a less volatile form of exposure compared to a plain-vanilla bitcoin futures contract.
The crypto derivatives market is helping to hedge the uncertainty on which way the bitcoin market will go when miners have less revenue post-halving.
Binance.US and the soon-to-launch U.S. unit of FTX aim to offer cryptocurrency margin trading in the American market, but won't be able to provide leverage to the degree offered by overseas competitors.
The $5 million round, led by Octopus Ventures, adds to a $2 million seed round raised in September of last year.
ZUBR, which only opened for trading in early March, said its trading software had been successfully stress-tested by Exactpro
The Singapore exchange is adding tether (USDT) perpetual contracts to simplify account management and allow two-way trades.
The Hong Kong-based firm is seeing soaring interest in its customizable options contracts amid high price volatility.
The new liquidation mechanism would pull the plug on futures trading should prices become too volatile.