Futures

Recently, there appears allegation upon the trading volume of OKEx, a world-leading digital asset exchange. However, the allegation itself is invalid for the difficulty to collect the accurate data of trading volume as a person or even media outlets, let alone exchanges like OKEx with futures trading and API transaction.

Derivatives trading isn't new at all,  but it has been enjoying a revival of late. As the crypto market has traded askance, many traders have northed the leverage and hurried to swap Bitcoin derivatives that halsen big risk and reward. While platforms such as Deribit and Bitmex have highly profited from a gain in synthetic assets, a lot of traders have been left stranded.

Day to day buying and selling of Bitcoin futures contracts in the second quarter of this year was 93 percent above than the last quarter.  That is exactly the claim that has been raised by the giant CME Group, one of the globe's top online platforms futures and options trading.

Cryptocurrency traders who are in need of a loan, but don't want to sell their cryptocurrency holdings are set to benefit from Deribit blockchain powered loan solutions. The Amsterdam based Derivatives company, who started its first forays into cryptocurrency by offering Bitcoin Futures and Options trading services, will now enable borrowers to post crypto assets as loan collaterals without the fear of a margin call.

A big financial analyst famously known for his optimistic position on bitcoin has floated the contingency that bitcoin futures contracts could be highly damaging the cryptocurrency's price.

Risk hedging tools are important in investment to stabilize the market from irrational fluctuations in the current turbulent world of finance. Financial derivatives like insurance, futures, options and forecast services, with an annual size of $50 trillion, have become quite significant in global risk management.

Rostin Behnam, an employee at the United States Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), claimed that cryptocurrency was a “modern miracle” and it would become an essential part of the financial market of any country.

The Futures Exchange Supervisory Board (Bappebti), a commodities market regulator that falls under Indonesia's Ministry of Trade has disclosed that cryptocurrencies are viable commodities that are fit to be traded on the futures exchanges of their country.

Eight digital currency exchanges, operating on the Singaporean crypto market, were warned not to deal with the trading of securities or futures contracts that have not obtained authorisation from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), according to a statement published by the financial market regulator on May 24.