LMAX Group of London has launched perpetual futures tied to Bitcoin, Ether and aimed towards institutional clients.
Client demand for access to high leverage crypto markets drove the exchange’s decision. It averages more than $40 billion per day in spot volumes across FX, digital assets and FX. according Bloomberg published a report on Wednesday.
“Perpetual futures have dominated the crypto market for the last three or four years,” David Mercer, CEO of LMAX said. “Our institutional clients, including top proprietary trading firms and brokers, are looking for that kind of exposure,” Mercer also added.
Perpetuals are a type of financial derivative This is a futures contract that works like the traditional ones, but does not have an expiration. LMAX offers up to 100x in leverage. LMAX is a forex broker in UK and Europe. It also has offices in New Zealand and Mauritius.
Cointelegraph reached out to LMAX Group for comment, but had not received a response by publication.
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Perps dominate crypto trading volume
The majority of Bitcoin trading is done through perpetual futures, which account for 68%.BTCThe volume of the shipments so far this year is higher than last year’s 66%. according Kaiko.
Kaiko reports that Binance and Bybit, two leading exchanges, hold almost 70% of the open interest for these products. Daily perp volumes range between $10 and $30 billion with peak days exceeding $80 billion.
CoinMarketCap dataIn the past 24 hour, crypto derivatives were dominated by perpetuals with a volume of $1.39 trillion. This is far more than traditional futures which only saw $670.61 Million.
Then, per data DefiLlama decentralized perpetual platforms have collectively processed $20,5 billion in volume per day. The 30-day total is $683.5, which represents a 16-8% weekly growth. The Hyperliquid platform alone contributed more than $65 billion of volume in a seven-day period.
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The US is now home to perps
LMAX Group enters the crypto derivatives markets at the same time as US venues move to offer retail access to perpetual futures. Coinbase began CBOE and CBOE offer perps for US customers starting in July plans Launching its new version in November.
Europe’s One Trading Platform will be launching in April. launched Perpetuals compliant with MiFID II. The offering is restricted to institutional clients. The platform intends to expand its product to include eligible retail clients.
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Source: cointelegraph.com
