$580M open interest makes Cardano (ADA) the third largest futures market
The open interest for ADA futures rose to $580 million, flipping Litecoin to become the third-largest derivatives market. On Feb. 3, Cardano conducted a hard fork and successfully integrated the Mary upgrade to the testnet, transforming the blockchain into a multiasset network similar to Ethereum.This event seems to be one of the reasons for the impressive 475% year-to-date rally of ADA, and the altcoin is now causing unexpected ripples in the derivatives markets. Since the end of December 2020, ADA's $81-million aggregate futures open interest hiked to the current $580 million, becoming....
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