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Coming Soon: LINKUSDT Perpetual Swap Listing

Later this week, a second LINK listing - LINKUSDT - will be available to trade on BitMEX, and with up to 33x leverage. 

September 2023 in Review

A look back at September, with the highlight being TOKEN2049 Singapore, a congregation of builders, true believers, and the resilient.
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Part of Our USDT and ETH Insurance Fund Will Be Reallocated 

Over the next few weeks, we will perform a reallocation of our Insurance Fund allocations, with Tether and ETH balances to be exchanged for USD.

Basis Trading in Crypto Part 1: Time Value of Money and Calculating Basis

This article is the first part to a series covering the basics of basis trading and how it works, with examples.

Now Live: GLMRUSDT Perpetual Swap Listing

As of 26 September at 12:00 UTC, users can trade Moonbeam with up to 5x leverage on BitMEX via a new listing - GLMRUSDT.

The Lagged Impact Of Higher Rates

Abstract: Official inflation numbers have declined towards the 2% target and remarkably, interest rates have moved to historically more “normal” levels, above 5%. However, we predicted for years that...

Hot or Not? Our Team’s Take on TOKEN2049 Singapore

BitMEX's TOKEN2049 Singapore recap, split into what was hot and what - in our team’s humble opinion - was most certainly not.

Bitcoin’s Culture War – Discussion With Udi Wertheimer

Abstract: We look at the recent apparent cultural schism in Bitcoin, in particular the so-called laser eyed Bitcoin maximalists and the accusation from “anti-maxis”, that this section of the...
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Announcement on Index Weights for Q4 2023

On 19 September 2023 at 04:00:00 UTC, we will update our index weights at BitMEX.

Now Live: Bitcoin- and Tether – Margined FIL Listings

From 15 September at 04:00 UTC, BitMEX users will be able to long or short FIL via two new listings - FILUSD and FILUSDT.

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