Futures


Finance

BitMEX Starts Spot Exchange on Eve of Co-Founder Hayes's Sentencing

Arthur Hayes will be sentenced for violation of the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act on Friday.

BitMEX founder and former CEO Arthur Hayes pleaded guilty to an identical charge as the exchange, a few years earlier. (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Ether Futures Lead $1.2B in Liquidations, Crypto Market Cap Drops 16% Overnight

The past 24 hours were among of the biggest crypto market drops in recent months.

Los mercados cripto registraron más de US$700 millones en liquidaciones de operaciones en corto. (Pixabay)

Markets

UST Falls to 35 Cents, Terra Futures See $106M in Liquidations

Some 58% of LUNA traders were betting on higher prices even as the tokens fell yesterday.

Inflation will be in focus this week. (Jeffrey Coolidge/Getty Images)

Finance

Direxion Refiles With SEC for Short Bitcoin Futures ETF

The exchange-traded fund issuer had withdrawn its application late last year.

(bankrx/Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Finance

Brazilian Asset Manager Hashdex to Launch Web 3 ETF on Local Stock Exchange

The exchange-traded fund will start trading on March 30 under the ticker WEB311.

Brazilian flag (Mateus Campos Felipe/Unsplash)

Markets

Crypto Sees $242M in Liquidations Within Hours Amid Russia-Ukraine Crisis

Global markets faltered as Russia started a "special military operation" in Ukraine, causing a drastic drop in crypto markets.

Crypto-tracked futures saw nearly $192 million in liquidations in the past few hours. (Coinglass)

Markets

Crypto Options Trading Volume Surged in January as Prices Fell

The drop in prices kicked off certain trading strategies.

Chart from Deribit shows monthly options-trading volumes for ether. (Deribit)

Markets

Paradigm Offering 'Futures Spread Orderbooks' on Deribit and Bybit

Futures spread trading is considered less risky compared with futures contracts but there are still risks.

(Unsplash)

Markets

Bitcoin May Soon Wake From Slumber, Derivatives Data Indicates

Futures markets remain a powder keg for short-term volatility, one observer said.

Bitcoin traders may get busy again, as high futures open interest points to renewed price volatility (Source: Pixabay)

Markets

CME Trades 100K Contracts of Micro Ether Futures in First Two Weeks

The micro ether contracts are off to a slow start compared with early activity in micro bitcoin futures launched on May 3.

CME trading floor (Joseph Sohm/Shutterstock)