{"id":30587,"date":"2020-10-23T12:26:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T09:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=30587"},"modified":"2025-08-27T23:02:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:02:44","slug":"bitmex-announces-listing-of-quanto-futures-on-binance-coin-polkadot-and-yearn-finance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/bitmex-announces-listing-of-quanto-futures-on-binance-coin-polkadot-and-yearn-finance\/","title":{"rendered":"BitMEX Announces Listing of Quanto Futures on Binance Coin, Polkadot and yEarn Finance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cryptocurrency derivatives exchange BitMEX will expand its list of supported trading instruments with three quanto futures contracts denominated in the stablecoin Tether (USDT).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">We\u2019re launching Binance Coin (BNB), Polkadot (DOT), and <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/swQI5md3eu\">https:\/\/t.co\/swQI5md3eu<\/a> (YFI) underlying quanto futures contracts on 30 October 2020. Further details here:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/URTCaG2VgX\">https:\/\/t.co\/URTCaG2VgX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BitMEX (@BitMEX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BitMEX\/status\/1319462253033291778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 23, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On 30 October, the exchange will launch quanto futures on Binance Coin (BNB), Polkadot (DOT) and yEarn Finance (YFI). The leverage limit for the first asset is 33x, and for the other two \u2014 25x.<\/p>\n<p>BitMEX explained that adding the YFI token to its product line would broaden DeFi-linked contracts. In September the platform <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/bitmex-to-launch-quanto-futures-for-chainlink-tezos-eos-and-cardano\">launched<\/a> quanto futures on Chainlink (LINK).<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cBy the end of the year we plan to add several more altcoin-based products,\u201d the exchange said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Earlier, Chainalysis <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/chainalysis-classifies-bitmex-as-a-high-risk-exchange\">flagged<\/a> BitMEX as a high-risk exchange amid its regulatory troubles in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on October 1, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/cftc-sues-bitmex-and-its-founders\">filed<\/a> a lawsuit against BitMEX and its owners. They are accused of operating an unregistered trading platform and violating CFTC rules concerning KYC\/AML procedures.<\/p>\n<p>Separately, the U.S. Department of Justice charged the exchange&#8217;s leadership with violations of the Bank Secrecy Act.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog news on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ForkLog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BitMEX to expand its range of trading instruments with three quanto futures contracts denominated in Tether (USDT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30588,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[788,1307,1168,1461,1869],"class_list":["post-30587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bitmex","tag-bnb-chain","tag-crypto-derivatives","tag-polkadot-dot","tag-yearn-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30587"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30589,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30587\/revisions\/30589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}