The Ether funding rates for ether futures hit their all-time highs because of a popular trade. Nearly a week after the Merge, when traders had to pay high fees to stay in their positions during a popular trade, funding rates on ether (ETH) futures have gone back to normal. Because of these trades, there were […] The post Ether Funding Rates Normalizes...
Stakers have always been and will continue to be natural sellers of Ether Futures and perpetual futures, and the amount of hedging will increase as yields from staking go up. The Ethereum Merge, which happened on Thursday, made some changes to the way the blockchain is built. These changes will make the blockchain more environmentally […] The post...
Stakers have always been and will continue to be natural sellers of Ether Futures and perpetual futures, and the amount of hedging will increase as yields from staking go up. The Ethereum Merge, which happened on Thursday, made some changes to the way the blockchain is built. These changes will make the blockchain more environmentally […] The post...
After the Merge, the negative spread between futures and spot prices has gone from $20 to almost $0. The month-long oddity on the ether futures market, which was mostly caused by traders who wanted to make money from Ethereum's technological change, the Merge, has gone away. Ether futures are almost at the same price as […] The post...
After the Merge, the negative spread between futures and spot prices has gone from $20 to almost $0. The month-long oddity on the ether futures market, which was mostly caused by traders who wanted to make money from Ethereum's technological change, the Merge, has gone away. Ether futures are almost at the same price as […] The post...
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Ethereum's futures trading volume has exceeded bitcoin’s. Currently, the ETH volume is at $11 billion and the BTC volume is at $10 billion. Ethereum may be due for many more milestones as the Proof-of-Stake transition edges closer. Ethereum’s futures trading volume has crossed that of bitcoin’s for the first time in about a year, according to information from Coinalyze. The switch first on...
Spot and futures trading volumes on KuCoin, a Seychelles-headquartered cryptocurrency exchange, peaked at over $2 trillion dollars in the first half of 2022.This represents a 180% year-on-year growth for the crypto exchange. KuCoin's European market operations led the total half-year turnover with $481 billion. The cryptocurrency exchange disclosed these figures on Thursday in...
Coin Futures Lending Exchange (CoinFLEX) on Tuesday issued a new token called Recovery Value USD (rvUSD). The token, whose issuance will be halted on July 1, 2022, is targeted at covering the shortfall in the trading platform’s books. According to CoinFLEX, the issuance price for the token is 1 USD Coin for 1 rvUSD. With the maximum amount to be issued pegged at 47...
CoinFLeX will issue recovery tokens to help fund customers’ withdrawals. The exchange had run into trouble after one individual’s accounts went into negative equity, resulting in the halting of withdrawals. It will issue $47 million worth of the Recovery Value USD (rvUSD) tokens. Futures crypto exchange CoinFLEX will issue recovery tokens called Recovery Value USD (rvUSD) as a solution to enable withdrawals again....
We have yet to see deeper levels of negative funding over sustained periods of time, so this may tell us the worst of the bear market is yet to come....
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It’s possible that equities volatility has yet to peak this year and further volatility spikes could have a negative impact on the bitcoin price.The below is an excerpt from a recent edition of Bitcoin Magazine Pro, Bitcoin Magazine's premium markets newsletter. To be among the first to receive these insights and other on-chain bitcoin market analysis straight to your inbox,...
The crypto market is highly volatile where ups and downs could be as high as 30% to 50% of the asset value. Meaning, if an asset is $100 today, it can go as high as $150 to even $200 the next day or come down crashing to even $20 or $30. Such sharp volatility makes the crypto market a perfect hub for margin...
The futures market has been a hot topic of late, but it can only have so much impact on the price of bitcoin.The ProblemEnemies with unlimited cash (The Federal Reserve Board or the International Monetary Fund, for example), can suppress the price of bitcoin; here, I demonstrate why their suppression can have only temporary effects. Exactly what price suppression can achieve,...
Chicago Mercantile Exchange CME Group has announced a strategic partnership with Google as part of its access expansion efforts. According to CEO and chair of CME Group Terry Duffy, the collaboration and investment will improve the company company's chances of transforming derivatives markets through technology, while also creating efficiencies for all market participants. Google Invests The post Google Strikes 10-Year Cloud Deal, Pumps...
Last week, we saw the launches of two highly anticipated Bitcoin futures products traded on America's largest exchanges. This coincided with Bitcoin's all-time high price of USD 67,000. The ProShares Bitcoin ETF fund broke its records, reaching a billion dollars in volume on its first day. The following day it reached $1 billion in assets under...
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