Highlighting Risk: These Crypto Coins Carry The Most Leverage

Highlighting Risk: These Crypto Coins Carry The Most Leverage

Crypto leverage has been high across some particular digital assets in the space. Global open Interest in the space still sits at a reasonable point currently, but some assets boast significantly higher open interest to market cap ratios than others. Thus, this report will be examining the leverage for these assets to see which ones carry elevated leverage. Altcoins Lead In Leverage Bitcoin and ethereum no doubt still command the largest share of the global crypto open interest but when it comes to the percentage of their market cap which their open interest commands, it falls short when....


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