— CFTC, Derivatives
Did insiders short oil before Trump backed down on Iran?
As bewildered commodity bulls try to explain the relatively moderate price of oil, skeptics point to a Donald Trump-linked CFTC intervention.
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There’s a 500% penalty on Hyperliquid oil short-selling
Hyperliquid is paying traders 500% a year to hold long oil derivatives. Payouts are hourly as an additional reward.
Hyperliquid has some growing to do before it can take on Binance
Marketers broadcasting metrics about Hyperliquid have used clever ways to manipulate the figures to make it seem like a Binance competitor.
Hyperliquid growth driven by leveraged degeneracy, trade sharing
Hyperliquid, a leveraged crypto exchange, has popularized copytrading and leaderboard-based trading contests to gain market share.
Pro-Tether Trump nominee Howard Lutnick to divest Deribit trading broker
Deribit, Europe’s largest crypto options exchange, has revealed details of brokers that facilitate trades against customers on its platform.
Is a Gamestop-style gamma squeeze fueling bitcoin’s rally?
As bitcoin rallied on Tuesday toward all-time high prices, Gamestop traders started asking if a gamma squeeze was in play.
— Derivatives, dYdX
dYdX claimed ‘no vulnerabilities,’ was compromised two weeks later
Decentralized derivatives exchange dYdX announced that its v3 website was compromised. It claims, however, that this does not affect the v4.