It's that time of year again when pundits break out the crystal ball to predict the big new trends in DeFi for 2025.
High-leverage liquidity in bitcoin is concentrated at around $58,500, according to Hyblock Capital.
Options tied to bitcoin and ether show a bias for put options, according to QCP Capital.
Competition is mounting among DeFi derivatives protocols after Synthetix launched on Arbitrum in July.
Competition is mounting among DeFi derivatives protocols after Synthetix launched on Arbitrum in July.
Bitcoin price fell closer to $56,000, leading traders to question whether the bull market is coming to an end. US job market data could hold the answer.
One CFTC commissioner dissented, calling the action “regulation by enforcement.”
“Liquidation data from exchanges are bogus and a vast underrepresentation of actual liquidation volumes in the market,” according to K33 Research.
Each futures contract is sized at one-50th of one Bitcoin.
Synthetix faces fierce competition on the DeFi-oriented layer 2.
Synthetix faces fierce competition on the DeFi-oriented layer 2.
It’s part of the fallout from the industry-wide liquidity crunch triggered by FTX in 2022.
Brazil’s CVM issued a warning to the crypto exchange in 2020 that it was offering residents derivatives products without authorization.
CBOE has filed an updated 44-page rule change proposal “with more meat,” which could be good news for those hoping for options trading on spot Bitcoin ETFs.
The surging trading volumes helped the bank reach profitability for the first time.
Changes in futures and options open interest provide insight into market sentiment, liquidity, and potential price movements. Futures and options reveal how traders position themselves and show their expectations for future price action. Open interest measures the flow of money, showing whether new capital is entering or exiting the market. Looking at open interest, we […]
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While the usual volatility has been absent from the derivatives market, the slight fluctuations seen in the past few days still managed to reveal subtle market trends. Between June 12 and June 14, Bitcoin options open interest increased $20.85 billion on June 12 to $21.91 billion on June 13, before decreasing to $21.42 billion on […]
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The funding rate for perpetual futures serves as a proxy for market sentiment and shows the balance between long and short positions. Significant deviations from the average funding rate across exchanges can signal potential imbalances in positioning. A spike in the funding rate on a particular exchange shows a large number of long positions, which […]
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A trader bought $2 million worth of dogecoin {{DOGE}} call options at a strike price of $0.22 on Wednesday, according to PowerTrade's head of institutional sales, Bernd Sischka.
The new crypto derivatives product allows investors to speculate on future hashrates and hashprices.
RWA tokenization has become the latest trend in crypto, and early use cases indicate that DeFi protocols are using it for stable collaterals, yield products and more.
Bitcoin regained the $66,000 level in the night between May 15 and May 16, recovering some of the losses it incurred in the past week. This spike substantially impacted the derivatives market, significantly influencing both open interest and trading volume. Futures open interest, which indicates the total value of outstanding futures contracts yet to be settled, […]
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LRT holders can tokenize any yield-bearing strategy to generate an annualized percentage yield of 10% to 50%.
Representatives Mike Flood and Wiley Nickel urged the SEC's chair Gary Gensler to stop discriminating against Bitcoin funds in a letter.
The exchange is optimizing operations after acquiring ErisX on the eve of crypto winter and expects to save millions.
Perpetual futures are a type of derivatives contract unique to the crypto market. Unlike traditional futures, which have a set expiration date, perpetual futures never expire, allowing traders to hold their positions indefinitely. To make this type of contract financially viable, the market employs a mechanism called the funding rate. Funding rates are periodic payments […]
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Crypto traders expect the upcoming halving to send BTC price much higher, but what does the options market say about pro traders' expectations?
Record-long positive Bitcoin futures funding rates signal “strong bullish sentiment” which can often precede price corrections, says on-chain analytics firm CryptoQuant.
The bitcoin mining software and services company partnered with Bitnomial to offer cash-settled hashrate futures.
Bitcoin traders are having a relook at the $200,000 call option after a gap of nearly three years.