(Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions.) The majority of my essays in 2021 have focused on the fundamental building blocks of my bullish opinion on...Read More
Another week, another partner to add to our robust and burgeoning BitMEX ecosystem. Today we are excited to welcome Wunderbit Trading to our Partner Programme. Regulated and licensed in Estonia, the Wunderbit platform not only allows its users to buy and sell cryptocurrencies in a simple, safe, and secure way, but they also provide tools...Read More
Chapter 12 of the book The Blocksize War is published below. The full book is available on Amazon. As a reminder, 50% of any profits from physical book sales will be donated to Médecins Sans Frontières, a charity that provides medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare.* * Note:...Read More
It’s difficult to overstate the importance of information security for a platform like BitMEX. Traders trust us because of our track record on security – we have never lost a single Satoshi through intrusion or hacking. But security is never a static process and in order to continue to set the bar as high as...Read More
One Dogecoin protagonist / EV car innovator / space enthusiast recently laid down the gauntlet in saying he plans to send Doge to the Moon. We’ve nothing against Dog Money, we felt it was only right to help bitcoin get there first. We’re immensely proud to be supporting leading space robotics company Astrobotic Technology, Inc....Read More
On 16 June 2021 at 08:00 UTC, we will list new quarterly Futures on BitMEX. The new contracts will be visible on the platform from 15 June at 08:00 UTC as Unlisted, 24 hours before the start of trading. As previously announced, we will not be listing a new LINKUSDT Quanto Futures contract upon its...Read More
On 25 June 2021 12:00:05 UTC BitMEX will update its index weights. From today, the hypothetical values of the indices with the new weights will be published as the “NEXT” index family (Eg .BXBT_NEXT). As of 25 June 2021 at 12:00:05 UTC, assuming no constituent exchanges have been excluded due to Index Protection Rules, BitMEX...Read More
We’re now well into our Summer of Listings with two new contracts (SOLUSDT and FILUSDT) already announced over the last two weeks. We’re delighted to be bringing something special to BitMEX by listing two new products not currently available on any other major platform: XBTEUR Perpetual Swap and Futures Contracts. From 16 June 2021, BitMEX...Read More
Today we are excited to announce the growth of our ecosystem through our collaboration with Napoleon Group. Napoleon Group has been a pioneer in crypto investments since 2017, and combines quantitative asset management and blockchain expertise to offer new and innovative ways to invest in digital assets, while complying with the highest regulatory standards to...Read More
With the recent launch of the SOLUSDT Perpetual Swap, the BitMEX Summer of Listings continues with the addition of Filecoin (FIL). The FILUSDT Perpetual Swap contract with up to 33x leverage goes live at 04:00 UTC on 9 June 2021 and is visible on Testnet now. We are unveiling a total of 10 new products...Read More
100x Group is the holding structure behind BitMEX, one of the largest crypto derivatives platforms in the world. The story of BitMEX is the story of crypto itself – the optimistic, visionary beginning, the explosion in popularity, the challenges, and ultimately, evolution as crypto is increasingly adopted by institutions and individuals alike. We’re seeking the...Read More
Chapter 11 of the book The Blocksize War is published below. The full book is available on Amazon. As a reminder, 50% of any profits from physical book sales will be donated to Médecins Sans Frontières, a charity that provides medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. The Blocksize...Read More
(Any views expressed in the below are the personal views of the author and should not form the basis for making investment decisions, nor be construed as a recommendation or advice to engage in investment transactions.) For those of you who have a Bloomberg terminal, run FARBAST Index <GO>. This is the index that outputs...Read More
The Lot Size change for the XBTUSD Swap and XBT Futures we announced last week will be released on Testnet on 31 May 2021 at 04:30 UTC, prior to going into production at 04:30 UTC on 8 June 2021. We ask that traders take the opportunity to adjust their positions, strategies, and systems before and...Read More
Today, we mark the first anniversary of our partnership with the Shadowserver Foundation, the leading non-profit provider of cybersecurity data and services. We are a strong advocate of internet security and we are proud to continue to support Shadowserver in its efforts to stop cybercrime. For 15 years, Shadowserver has protected internet users from malicious activity...Read More
Our mission is to provide markets for the products that command liquidity and matter the most to our users. That’s why we’re listing 10 new products on BitMEX this summer, starting with a community favourite – Solana (SOL). The SOLUSDT Perpetual Swap contract with up to 33x leverage goes live at 04:00 UTC on 1...Read More
Today we are excited to announce the addition of Stacked into the growing BitMEX Partner Programme. Stacked is a smart automated crypto investing platform and portfolio management tool that allows users to instantly access vetted trading strategies and investment portfolios.Stacked tech helps to simplify the automated crypto trading process with a clean user interface and...Read More
It’s our duty to provide markets that command liquidity for our users – and at times, that means we need to allow some contracts to expire and not be renewed. We call this ‘sunsetting’, and in the coming Q3 Futures listing, we will sunset the LINKUSDT Quanto Futures after its regular June expiry at 12:00...Read More
Chapter 10 of the book The Blocksize War is published below. The full book is available on Amazon. As a reminder, 50% of any profits from physical book sales will be donated to Médecins Sans Frontières, a charity that provides medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. The Blocksize...Read More
As the perpetual swap turns five, we’re introducing five exciting reward programs for our new and existing users. Over the next 10 days, we’re giving away more than a quarter of a million US dollars to celebrate the fifth anniversary of BitMEX’s invention of the Perpetual Swap. Details below, but here’s the TL;DR version –...Read More
There has been huge scrutiny on cryptocurrencies and energy consumption recently – with wildly divergent views and accuracy of information. We don’t pretend to have the answers but we know that it’s our responsibility to take some positive action. Credit to SBF for doing the maths on this, and we have no shame in copy...Read More
Today, we announced that we are changing the Lot Size, or minimum trading unit, on our popular XBTUSD Swap and XBT futures (XBTM21 and XBTU21) from 1 contract to 100 contracts, effective 04:30 UTC on 8 June 2021. We expect a 10-second pause in trading starting at 04:30 UTC on 8 June 2021 to apply...Read More
We are making it easier and more intuitive to trade on BitMEX by changing the Lot Size, or minimum trading unit, on our popular XBTUSD Swap and XBT futures (XBTM21 and XBTU21) from 1 contract to 100 contracts, effective 04:30 UTC on 8 June 2021. We ask that traders adjust their positions, strategies, and...Read More
Abstract: In this piece, BitMEX grantee Calvin Kim explains why the order in which blocks are validated does not matter under Utreexo. This is because the disk space savings make UTXO snapshots practical, which in turn allows for the parallelisation of the validation of the Bitcoin Blockchain. Calvin goes on to explain that one can...Read More
We’re not saying that our engineering team relies solely on Crypto Twitter for guidance on prioritising platform development work, but it’s been impossible to ignore the ‘BitMEX Order Submission Error’ meme that has been posted pretty much every time we’ve put our heads above the parapet over the last few years. Being the first to...Read More
Abstract: In this piece, 100x Group grantee Calvin Kim announces the success in speeding up Bitcoin’s Initial Block Download (IBD) using the Utreexo client. While the speed improvement can vary depending on one’s local hardware and bottlenecks, the initial download and verification can be up to 62% faster compared to Bitcoin Core. Since many optimisations...Read More
Today we are excited to welcome Coinigy into the BitMEX Partners Programme. A veteran of the crypto industry, Coinigy has thrived through several market cycles and remained a true leader in their category. Since 2014, they have operated the ultimate cryptocurrency portfolio management suite which has come to be trusted by hundreds of thousands of...Read More
Chapter 9 of the book The Blocksize War is published below. The full book is available on Amazon. As a reminder, 50% of any profits from physical book sales will be donated to Médecins Sans Frontières, a charity that provides medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. The Blocksize...Read More
We’re driven to provide markets for products that command liquidity and matter the most for our users, so, we’re launching the BNBUSDT Perpetual Swap contract with up to 50x leverage at 04:00 UTC on 20 May 2021. The BNBUSDT Swap adds to our ever-growing product offering. Just this year, we’ve added 7 Altcoin Perps, including...Read More
Five years ago, BitMEX introduced the perpetual swap to the world, changing crypto trading forever. Today, we’re celebrating this milestone by updating our margin requirements and increasing available leverage on our ETHUSD Swap to 100x. We’ve always been committed to innovating responsibly, and for us that means putting in robust controls for all our contracts...Read More
