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Finance

Crypto Data Provider Skew Raises $5M, Launches Trade Execution Platform

The $5 million round, led by Octopus Ventures, adds to a $2 million seed round raised in September of last year.

Skew's founding team, Emmanuel Goh and Tim Noat. (Credit: Skew)

Markets

What's Next for Bitcoin After March's Crash – CoinDesk Quarterly Review

Will bitcoin move beyond "digital gold"? Is ether viable as money? In 24 charts, CoinDesk Research looks at what happened to crypto assets in the first quarter and what may emerge in the future.

Quarterly crypto analysis: bitcoin hodlwaves show long-held assets stayed put

Markets

Crypto Derivatives Platform Gets Nod From London Stock Exchange’s Software Tester

ZUBR, which only opened for trading in early March, said its trading software had been successfully stress-tested by Exactpro

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Markets

Bybit Enables Two-Way Margin Trading With Perpetual Contracts Quoted in Tether

The Singapore exchange is adding tether (USDT) perpetual contracts to simplify account management and allow two-way trades.

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Markets

Customized Crypto Options Seeing Record Demand From Funds, Miners, Says GSR

The Hong Kong-based firm is seeing soaring interest in its customizable options contracts amid high price volatility.

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Markets

Huobi Adds Crypto 'Circuit Breaker' After Last Week's Mass Liquidations

The new liquidation mechanism would pull the plug on futures trading should prices become too volatile.

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Markets

Investors Can Hedge Long-Term Risk With New 2-Year Bitcoin Derivatives

Quedex's new bitcoin derivatives contracts, which expire in December 2021, saw more than $5 million in volume last weekend.

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Markets

Bitcoin's Crash Triggers Over $700M in Liquidations on BitMEX

Bitcoin’s flash crash on Thursday triggered the most long-short liquidations on crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX in 16 months.

Arthur Hayes, former CEO of BitMEX (CoinDesk)

Markets

Here's Another, Surprising Reason Why Crypto Prices Fell – Derivatives

The traditional markets' recent sell-off drove cryptocurrency prices down, but the way it did so was more complicated than even many of the most sophisticated players in crypto were able to grasp.

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Finance

India's Appetite for Crypto Derivatives Is Growing, Exchanges Say

India is developing an appetite for crypto derivatives, even as the country's Supreme Court continues to deliberate over the future of the exchange industry.

Three Delta Exchange co-founders, including CEO Pankaj Balani (center). (Photo courtesy of Delta Exchange)