New DeFi futures to enable hedging against Bitcoin mining difficulty

New DeFi futures to enable hedging against Bitcoin mining difficulty

SynFutures’ decentralized Bitcoin Hash Rate Futures aim to let miners long or short Bitcoin mining difficulty. Decentralized derivatives exchange SynFutures announced a new product called Bitcoin (BTC) Hash Rate Futures that uses the biggest cryptocurrency’s ever-changing mining difficulty as a basis to open long or short positions. Touted as fully decentralized hash rate futures, SynFutures’ new offering would let users trade on Bitcoin mining difficulty with Wrapped BTC (wBTC). The hash rate and mining difficulty are two core mechanics of Bitcoin that have become even more popular with....


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