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View More NewsBinance’s Android app is unavailable on Google Play in some EU markets amid scrutiny over MiCA compliance. Read the full article here
Perpetual swaps, also called perpetual futures or “perps” for short, are the dominant trading instrument in the crypto market, processing an estimated $40 to 50 trillion a year in volume. They dwarf spot trading, and they are the product that professional traders, hedge funds and retail speculators reach for when they want leveraged exposure to the price of bitcoin or tther without owning the underlying asset. Despite their ubiquity, the mechanics that make them work are not widely understood.To understand perps, it helps to understand what came before them. In traditional finance, leveraged exposure to an asset typically comes through…
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Disclosure: The author of this story owns shares in Strategy (MSTR).Strategy (MSTR), the world’s largest corporate holder of bitcoin BTC$77,166.67, repurchased $1.5 billion of…
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