BitMEX Shuts September 23. Its Futures Were Due to Settle the 25th.
BitMEX settles four September futures 46 days early on August 10. Three adjustment rates came back at 1.00, one at 1.03, and 18 contracts go Tuesday.
BitMEX settles four September futures 46 days early on August 10. Three adjustment rates came back at 1.00, one at 1.03, and 18 contracts go Tuesday.
Kraken is force-selling seven delisted tokens this week. Its own notices show 56 more assets queued for automatic liquidation by November.
One pre-market trade at a 29.96% discount dragged Hyperliquid's SK Hynix perp to $927, an hour before Seoul opened and crashed harder.
BitMart says withdrawals stay open as it winds down. On-chain data shows only 58 wallets and $805K left in 24 hours, with funds moving to rival exchanges.
Poolin filed Chapter 11 owing 11,700 wallet users 163.7 million dollars. The opening bid on its Texas sites is 52 million, before costs.
BitMEX invented the perpetual swap and once held 57% of crypto derivatives. It shuts down on 23 September while trading $138 million a day.
Crypto opened the week green after its worst week since 2024. Strategy resumed buying Bitcoin, SBF filed for a pardon, and MetaMask armed AI agents, with Wednesday's CPI the real test.
HIP-4 went live on mainnet with zero fees to open and a 1 million HYPE staking requirement for builders. Polymarket charges up to 2% on winners. That gap is the entire pitch.
A pre-signed transaction feature designed for convenience became the entry point for the largest DeFi hack of 2026. Elliptic has flagged North Korean state actors. Circle faces fresh scrutiny.
BitMEX is the derivatives exchange that popularized the crypto perpetual swap, co-founded by Arthur Hayes. This tag tracks BitMEX’s derivatives volume and funding rates, its history with US Bank Secrecy Act enforcement, and its efforts to rebuild relevance against larger rivals. Coinliva covers the platform news, the regulatory legacy, and BitMEX’s place in the leverage market.