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Jurisdictional consistency and the equivalent treatment of centralized and decentralized digital asset providers should remain essential to upcoming regulatory frameworks.
Crypto derivatives firm Bitnomial has received approval from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to register as a derivatives clearing organization in the U.S., enabling it to settle margined futures and options contracts. The approval, secured by a four-to-one vote at…
Crypto.com has launched Strike Options, a new derivatives trading feature in its app. It lets U.S. users speculate on crypto prices with short-term, binary options. Crypto.com has recently unveiled its new derivatives product, Strike Options, marking a significant addition to…
Coinbase recently explored the acquisition of FTX Europe, highlighting the growing significance of crypto derivatives in global trading strategies.
The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has issued orders against three defi protocols for failing to register derivative trading offerings. The regulatory body has acted against the three decentralized finance (defi) protocols: Opyn, ZeroEx, and Deridex. The regulator…
Bitcoin (BTC) recently broke above the $28,000 mark after 12 days. CryptoQuant attributes this upsurge to the derivatives market rather than the traditional spot exchanges.
The crypto exchange Gemini has introduced a platform for non-US derivatives to service clients in 29 countries and territories. The decision by Gemini to take its company outside of the US market continues a trend among cryptocurrency companies to seek…
UMA, an innovative protocol for the Ethereum blockchain, enables users to create their self-enforcing contracts that may provide respective financial and economic incentives, thus contributing to mutually beneficial outcomes for all parties involved.
Coinbase cryptocurrency exchange has announced that its bitcoin derivatives product will be available on June 27, 2022, via its derivatives exchange. Dubbed Nano Bitcoin futures contract (BIT), each contract is sized at 1/100th of a bitcoin (BTC), making it capital-efficient…
Both BTC and ETH derivatives continue being affected by the high levels of market uncertainty, indicating the high likelihood of the continuous market recession that may last about 3-6 months, according to investors’ dominant expectations.
The idea of the blockchain was created by Satoshi Nakamoto to be a tool of decentralization, where all users are equal and do not have to deal with intermediaries or third parties. Many of the exchanges that offer clients the…
Crypto derivatives volumes high record levels last month as Bitcoin rose to $12,000 and the broader crypto market saw massive gains, according to a report cited by Coindesk. Derivatives Hit Record Volume Data compiled by on-chain analytics firm CryptoCompare showed…
Crypto derivatives platform Deribit has announced a position building tool that helps traders simulate positions across a variety of the exchange’s products. The tool comes with portfolio analytics and dynamic positional P&L tracking. This tool will prove useful for traders…
By now it is well established that market speculators dominate the cryptocurrency sphere. Hedging and actual purchase/sales volume are a tiny blip relative to the massive allocation of capital under the theme of speculation. This isn’t necessarily bad, as it…
The UK government says the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is firmly within its right to regulate the crypto space, amid reports of a potential ban on cryptocurrency derivatives. Per a report from Finance Feeds, the government highlighted the FCA’s independence,…
A relatively new cryptocurrency futures exchange, CoinFLEX, has announced they are launching a product for traders to speculate on whether Libra will launch in 2020 or not. As per Bloomberg, the product is designed so that it gives a payout…