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Bakkt has officially revealed the initial deposits its customers will have to make to margin trade its bitcoin futures products. In a new notice posted Tuesday, ICE Futures U.S. – the actual futures exchange Bakkt’s contracts are trading on –
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The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) has announced tentative margin requirements for Bakkt Bitcoin (BTC) futures trading contracts. The announcement appeared on ICE’s official website on Sept. 9.Bakkt futures margin requirementsPer the notice, the initial hedge requirement for daily and monthly futures contracts is $3,900. The speculative initial requirement for both contracts
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As Binance continues to expand its crypto product offering, it has officially launched the Binance Futures platform for users.On Monday, September 9, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao announced the official launch of Binance Futures. To get an early idea of the market before launch, Binance unveiled its crypto futures testnet last
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Bakkt seems to be finally approaching its ambitious goal of creating a marketplace for physically-settled Bitcoin futures, as now the company announces its Warehouse is active for futures contracts.Less than a month ago on the 16th of August, Bakkt announced that it had received “the green light from the CFTC”
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Bitcoin futures offerings from cryptocurrency exchange Binance have come in for criticism as a pre-release tester identifies major flaws.Rocky start for Binance PR moveIn a series of tweets on Sept. 6, the account known as doublejump said both the options currently under consideration by Binance lacked basic features, which
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The correlation with bitcoin price is becoming obvious. | Source: ShuttertockBitcoin (BTC) started this week off in good spirits, citing an impressive rise of around 8%. Interestingly, analysts are attributing some of this action to the close of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME).Bitcoin's 8% rise this week which left
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Binance has published an announcement on September 2nd, disclosing the acquisition of the little-known crypto derivatives platform JEX. One of the world’s largest crypto exchanges and trading platforms is planning to step into the derivative market and JEX might open the doors of crypto futures and options markets for Binance.Binance
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Cryptocurrency exchange Binance has launched not one, but two test platforms for its planned crypto futures products. Dubbed Futures A and Futures B, the new testnets are now open to users for testing, with new competitions to encourage traders to
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The upcoming CME futures expiration set for Friday is expected to have a significant effect on the next bitcoin price action as the biggest cryptocurrency threatens to plunge below the $10,000 mark.In the past nine weeks, the Bitcoin price rally has stalled. Analysts believe that the crypto may suffer a
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Changpeng Zhao, CEO of top crypto exchange Binance, announced that the platform will launch futures trading in September.Zhao voiced this statement on Twitter during an “ask me anything” session on Aug. 28.According to CryptoX Japan, the company also “announced its focus on the staking business.”As CryptoX reported on July 2,
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