Derivatives


Markets

FTX.US Aiming to Offer Crypto Derivatives Trading in Less Than a Year: Report

FTX's U.S. affiliate has limited offerings, compared with its international counterpart.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried

Markets

Delta Exchange to Simplify Bitcoin Options Trading With Automated Product

Delta said its "Enhanced Yield Product" allows users to avoid high-risk scenarios without the need to learn complex options strategies.

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Markets

Changing Crypto Trading Patterns Reveal the Market's Power Shift to the West

Blockchain data firm Kaiko analyzed trading activity on centralized exchanges from different days and time zones.

Trading patterns show how the crypto market center has shifted to the U.S. and Europe.

Markets

Ether Options Activity Increases as London Hard Fork Goes Live, $50K Call Most Popular

"There was a flurry of call buying and put selling after the London fork," one trading firm said.

The London hard fork is influencing trades in the ether options market.

Markets

Bullish Flows Push Bitcoin's Put-Call Ratio to 2021 Low

Put-call open interest ratio measures the number of open positions in put options relative to calls.

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US Derivatives Traders Are Easily Bypassing Blocks on Offshore Exchanges: Report

U.S.-based traders are able to use virtual private networks designed to mask the country where they are based. Or they simply lie about where they are from.

U.S. investors are finding ways to access offshore exchanges.

Policy

Binance to Wind Down Derivatives in Europe; Malaysia Orders Closure

Users in some European countries will be unable to open new derivative positions, effective immediately.

Binance CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao

Markets

Bitcoin, Ether Options Markets Pare Bearish Bias

The short-term put-call skews have pulled back due to a flurry of call buying.

The put-call skew on the bitcoin options market has become less bearish.

Markets

Bitcoin Perpetual Futures Hit $48K on Binance

The gap over the spot market price widened to more than $8,000.

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Markets

Binance Says It's Cutting Leverage Limit to 20x, a Day After FTX Announces the Same

"We didn't want to make this a thingy," Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao posted Monday on Twitter, a week after making the change.

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao