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Huobi Group has rebranded its cryptocurrency derivatives exchange platform Huobi DM to Huobi Futures.According to the announcement from spokesperson and head of Huobi global business Ciara Sun the new name of the exchange is to signify the growth of the nascent industry into one that is now garnering the interests
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On Friday, Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange FTX launched a hashrate futures tool that allows Bitcoin (BTC) miners to hedge against mining difficulty risk.Hashrate, the amount of processing power dedicated to a Bitcoin network at a given time, determines the strength and security of the network.FTX leverages mining difficulty, that is,
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A new derivative from Bitfinex allows investors to take a position on bitcoin's overall share of the cryptocurrency market. The Seychelles-based crypto exchange said Wednesday the BTCDOM contract would allow investors to bet on bitcoin's dominance rate – a metric for determining the market's bitcoin value versus the value of
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With less than a week to go before the expected May 12 halving event, bitcoin's price is swinging upward. The crypto derivatives market is helping to hedge the uncertainty on which way the bitcoin market will go when miners have less revenue after the halving. In early trading at 00:00 UTC,
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A study by TokenInsight indicates that the total futures trading volume in the crypto industry reached over $2.1 trillion in Q1 2020. This is an increase of 314% from the 2019 Q4 average.According to the “2020 Q1 Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange Industry Report”, except for a slight decline in Q4 2019,
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Bitnomial Exchange, a Chicago-based Bitcoin derivatives platform, recently gained approval from the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to offer traders physically-delivered bitcoin derivatives contracts and options trading. Bitnomial Set to Roll Out Bitcoin Derivatives The bitcoin derivatives exchange announced the approval via a press release on Monday (April 20, 2020). With
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The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has approved a new bitcoin derivatives trading platform. Bitnomial Exchange will list margined and physically delivered bitcoin futures and options. Besides Bitnomial, the CFTC has only approved a handful of other platforms to offer bitcoin derivatives trading, such as CME, Cboe, and Bakkt.CFTC
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It’s becoming a little more common for exchanges to have the government’s blessing to trade BTC derivatives.Bitnomial Exchange is the latest to join this mostly private party, having received a so-called “order of designation” from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), granting it the status of a designated contract market.
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Developers from the organization General Protocols have announced the launch of a synthetic derivatives platform built on Bitcoin Cash. The project Anyhedge
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Huobi’s derivatives trading platform, Huobi DM, has announced a new ‘partial liquidation’ feature that aims to limit trading losses.Sudden market swings can immediately liquidate highly leveraged positions and cause extensive user losses, as seen during the last week’s Bitcoin price crash. The platform’s new liquidation mechanism will jump into action
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