Binance has overtaken Huobi and OKEx to turn into the biggest crypto derivatives trade by quantity within the September figures with $164.eight bil
Binance has overtaken Huobi and OKEx to turn into the biggest crypto derivatives trade by quantity within the September figures with $164.eight billion throughout the month, based on the newest report printed by U.Okay.-based knowledge agency CryptoCompare,
CryptoCompare appeared on the buying and selling quantity of the top-tier exchanges and decided that Binance had seen round $eight billion extra quantity than its closest opponents, Huobi at $156.3B, and OKEx at $155.7B. BitMEX got here in fourth with $56.Four billion in month-to-month quantity for September.
The figures present that BitMEX was in bother even earlier than its leaders have been charged with failing to forestall cash laundering and compelled to resign. The trade noticed the biggest month-to-month lower, in share phrases, of 30.7%.
Huobi, OKEx and Binance accounted for about 90% of September’s derivatives quantity between them, at the same time as volumes eased month on month by 17.5% to $634.9 billion. CryptoCompare reported FTX was the one derivatives trade that skilled a rise in quantity, up 12% in September with $23.89 billion traded.
The report highlighted that each day volumes on derivatives exchanges reached a yearly excessive on Sept. 3, with $27.6 billion traded. The earlier excessive in 2020 was set on July 27 at $27.1 billion.
Institutional choices volumes on the regulated platform CME elevated by 79.4% from August’s figures to a month-to-month quantity of 4,872 contracts traded. CryptoCompare reported that CME Bitcoin (BTC) futures contract volumes remained regular, solely reducing by 1% in comparison with 203,867 contracts traded in August.