Crypto Long Liquidations Top $115M in One Hour
The rapid unwind highlights how leverage can amplify downside pressure, putting derivatives positioning at the center of the market's bearish read.
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The rapid unwind highlights how leverage can amplify downside pressure, putting derivatives positioning at the center of the market's bearish read.
The milestone highlights a CFTC-cleared route for U.S. traders into perpetual futures, a notable shift in access to crypto derivatives.
Most of the damage landed on leveraged bullish positions, making derivatives exposure the key risk signal beyond Bitcoin's round-number break.
Eleven years after Arthur Hayes helped popularize the 100x leverage perpetual swap, the exchange that defined an era of crypto derivatives is closing for good, with assets left past the deadline…
The 11-year-old derivatives pioneer exits as offshore perp venues lose their edge and regulated competitors absorb the flow.
The expanded scope adds perpetual futures on crypto’s two largest assets to a VARA-regulated product set in a major regional financial hub.
The $90 trillion annual perps market has been entirely offshore and unregulated until now — Kalshi's CFTC-regulated launch gives US traders legal protections and federal oversight for the first time.
SpaceX shares extended their post-IPO rally to $222.52 on Tuesday, up 27.6% in 24 hours and more than 50% above the…
The launch comes just weeks after the CFTC greenlit onshore perpetual futures — Kraken's Bitnomial chassis and NinjaTrader rails put it in pole position as US perps volume finally has a regulated…
Kraken is weeks away from launching regulated perpetual futures on Kraken Pro, after securing CFTC-regulated futures…
Kalshi's launch of crypto perpetual contracts under CFTC oversight has triggered a public fight between derivatives…
A 7% drop in BTC took out leveraged long positioning across the market in a four-hour window — the kind of cascade that resets funding rates and forces a reset on positioning into the next session.
Coinbase is rolling out perpetual futures contracts tied to pre-IPO companies, with SpaceX as the first underlying…
The CFTC-approved BTCPERP, tracking spot BTC, lands as Polymarket races toward a public perp launch — turning prediction-market venues into a credible alternative rail for leveraged Bitcoin exposure.
CME Group's newly launched 24/7 crypto derivatives market recorded $50 million in trading volume over its opening…
A CFTC staff advisory and parallel approvals for KalshiEX and Coinbase Financial Markets mark the first time retail-accessible BTC perps can be traded onshore — pulling roughly 80% of global crypto…
The exchange is branding the milestone, but the headline number is open interest, not spot flows — and that distinction is exactly why derivatives data rarely moves the underlying token on its own.
Sentiment among Hyperliquid's elite Bitcoin traders has swung decisively bullish: nearly all of the platform's…
The convergence isn't theoretical — perps already cover ~70% of crypto trading volume, and the rails are built. The next leg is volume: equity perps, cross-margining, and on-chain IPOs.