BitMEX is in its final hours after 11 years, with trading already shut down and exchange services ending on Sep. 23. Once a giant in crypto leverage, it’s now a tiny player weighed down by fading volume and a long legal mess.
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After a brutal crypto liquidation, traders rotated into RWA futures tied to oil, chips, equities and private valuations, sending volume up from $760 million to $107.6 billion. It’s a sign crypto venues are widening fast — but leverage is still leverage, and it can blow up just as fast.
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CXMT perpetual futures are turning a hot Chinese pre-IPO name into a crypto tradable, giving offshore traders synthetic exposure without actual shares. It’s a flashy example of crypto rails expanding market access — and a reminder that leverage, gray zones, and regulators come bundled too.
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Open interest shows how many crypto derivative contracts are still open, making it a useful gauge of leverage and liquidation risk. Learn how to read it alongside price and volume — and why it’s a clue, not a crystal ball.
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OKX says it has secured a MiFID-linked authorization path in Europe, giving it a regulated footing for crypto derivatives as it launches X-Perps with up to 10x leverage. It’s a sign that in Europe, compliance is becoming the real moat.
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Nearly 1,700 UK investors are taking Binance and Changpeng Zhao to High Court, seeking at least £150 million over claims the exchange sold crypto derivatives without proper UK authorization. The case could test whether those contracts are unenforceable under UK law.
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SEC and CFTC are pressing for clearer rules on crypto derivatives, margining, and perpetual futures, aiming to cut regulatory fog without loosening risk controls. The push could boost U.S. market efficiency — or just trigger more turf wars over who gets to regulate what.
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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says broken, expensive finance is pushing people toward crypto — and Coinbase is betting big on that shift with a push into derivatives, stablecoin rewards, and other products beyond spot trading. The upside is huge; the execution and regulatory risks are just as real.
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Kalshi is getting a reminder that fast growth in finance comes with boring little things like disclosure rules, and regulators do not treat “oops, the influencer forgot the ad label” as a charming personality quirk. NAD referral: Kalshi refused a voluntary review of influencer ads Disclosure issue: Paid ties may not have been clearly revealed […]
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CME Group has pushed crypto derivatives into 24/7 trading, and the first weekend brought in about $50 million in notional volume. For a market built around assets that never sleep, that’s a pretty obvious fix to a very old TradFi problem. 24/7 crypto futures and options launched on May 29 About $50 million in notional […]
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