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Bitmex and Identity as an Attack Vector
However, the Bitmex charges last week show us the other side of the identity tradeoff: in certain verticals...The success of Bitmex and more recently of DeFi shows that, despite how early we are in the industry’...Even before Bitmex, we’d already seen the beginnings of this process as IDEX was forced to implement...
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Asset Management
Oct 2020
The Ripple Effects of the BitMEX Takedown
Yesterday, the Department of Justice and CFTC filed joint charges against BitMEX and its owners and operators...BitMEX started to turn away U.S. users in 2015 though even a cursory analysis (or twitter search) would...These reasons created a perfect storm for BitMEX....What is not unique to BitMEX is that they were unregistered and offered trading services to a pool of...
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Spot Exchange
Oct 2020
Coinbase: From Sleeping Giant To Industry Leader
This marked the beginning of BitMEX’s downfall. ...As a result, BitMEX’s market share began to decline precipitously....So where did BitMEX users go?...Prior to BitMEX’s fall, FTX’s contribution to BTC’s global OI hovered around 4-6%....FTX’s sudden rise shares many similarities with that of BitMEX.
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Financial Market Themes
Sep 2023
GBTC Discount Reaches Highest Mark Ever
BitMEX is launching an exchange token, Grayscale’s GBTC discount hits a record high, while our Research...BitMEX expects to launch an exchange token in 2022.
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Macro & Markets
Oct 2022
Does History Suggest Price Volatility for BTC Ahead?
The BitMEX 30-day Historical Volatility Index, also known as the BVOL Index, measures the rolling 30-...
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Macro & Markets
Oct 2022
Fraxlend Attracts $10M in Collateral as a Whale Deposits CRV
Alexander Hoeptner, CEO of BitMEX, has left the firm.
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Money Markets
Oct 2022
Charting Crypto Cycles
Exchanges like BitMex became popular, capitalizing on the void left by the 2014 bear market....In addition to the tried-and-true BTC spot trading markets and ICOs like Ethereum, BitMex also popularized...
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Macro & Markets
Mar 2024
The Evolution of Crypto Price Discovery
The first and most obvious inference from the chart below is BitMEX’s sharp decline in market share....When Binance launched support for derivatives, BitMEX’s dominance began to shrink....Rising activity on Chinese exchanges like OKEx and Huobi further exacerbated the situation for BitMEX...
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Macro & Markets
Aug 2021
Real World Crypto Loans? ByBit Shorts, Intro to Danksharding
Let’s begin 🧵 — QCP Capital (@QCPCapital) May 29, 2022 New ETH-Margined Contracts on BitMEX ⌛24 hours...to go⌛ Three new ETH-margined contracts are coming to BitMEX: 🔹 ETHUSD_ETH 🔹 ETHUSDM22_ETH 🔹 ETHUSDU22...Deets here: — BitMEX (@BitMEX) May 30, 2022...
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Money Markets
May 2022
The Arbitrum Airdrop Is Finally Here
Derivatives contracts for ARB June futures are currently trading at $1.39 on BitMEX.
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Layer 2 / L2
Mar 2023
NFT Volumes Thrive, YFI Revamps, & GBTC Remains a Tough Sell
Notable Tweets BitMEX Launches its Token We’re thrilled to announce the minting of our token, BMEX...Learn how to be eligible for our #BMEX #airdrop here: https://bit.ly/3mn11Dc —BitMEX (@BitMEX...
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NFTs
Dec 2021
The Delphi Chartbook - August 2021
The shift from coin-margin to cash-margin has also spelled trouble at BitMEX....The exchange doesn’t support stablecoins, and the “hyperstablecoinization” of derivative margin means BitMEX...
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Macro & Markets
Sep 2021
MIM's Inflection Point & A Glimpse Into Real NFT Activity
...headlines in 2019 following the controversial demise of its CEO who was alleged to have been funding his BitMEX...
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DeFi
Jan 2022
L1s Take Off, Can ETH Catch Up?
Funding for ETH perpetuals on BitMEX has been out of whack compared to the rest of the market.
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Infrastructure
Aug 2021
Stay The Course
Binance continues to take hit after hit, many have speculated that it too might face a similar fate to BitMEX...
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Macro & Markets
Feb 2024
A Post Mortem of Last Week's Flash Crash
...this occasion, spreads for a $5M order momentarily rose as high as 2% on Binance, 4.2% on FTX, 4% on BitMEX...
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DeFi
Dec 2021
KeeperDAO: A Cooperation Black Hole
In today’s ecosystem, you’ll see Bitmex with a centralized liquidation engine and its insurance fund...There’s a room for keeper bots to play the role of Bitmex but in a decentralized context, where you are...
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Lending / Borrowing
Aug 2020
Do You Bull-ieve?
...muh convexity, tho, Binance handled these liquidation horribly imo bitmex handle liquidations via limit...
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DeFi
Jul 2021
Decentralized Perps Are Here
Pioneered by Bitmex in 2016, Bitcoin perpetual contracts are now traded on every centralized derivatives...Coming off the recent mishap with BitMEX in March, the timing couldn’t be better....BitMEX received a lot of pressure from users for the lack of transparency within their liquidation process...
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Derivatives
Apr 2020
Monthly Chartbook - Too Early to Call It a Comeback [January 2022]
...you recall, Quadriga made headlines back in 2019 following allegations that the CEO was funding his BitMEX...
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Macro & Markets
Feb 2022