Deribit and OKX attract significant traffic from China despite a blanket ban:...
Recent geographical traffic data highlights that Chinese traders continue to access centralized exchanges despite a regulatory risk. Data from website traffic metric provider Similarweb shows that Deribit and OKX continue to attract significant traffic sources from China despite a blanket ban on crypto transactions and foreign exchanges last year.China has banned the use of cryptocurrencies more than a dozen times in the last decade, however, the one imposed in September last year was considered the harshest one. Several crypto exchanges including Huobi and Binance had shut doors for the....
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Bitcoin derivatives markets have been seeing significant demand in recent months at the same time bitcoin spot markets climbed to all-time price highs and surged 149% during the last three months. Just recently the leading bitcoin options exchange Deribit announced the launch of both $120k and $140k strikes, and data from skew.com shows some June futures are swapping for $30k. Crypto derivatives have been hot in 2020, as demand has skyrocketed on various trading platforms this year. At the end of November, CME Group outpaced the competition and became the world’s largest bitcoin....