What are perpetual futures? Perpetual swaps (also known as perpetual futures or perps) are the most widely used derivative product in crypto. Perps are futures contracts with no expiration or settlement. Instead of expiring on a given day, a funding rate mechanism is used to tie the price to an index of the price…

Leading Panama based cryptocurrency trading platform Deribit recently extended its services for customers with a private, direct access solution from Amazon Web Services. Until recently Deribit customers that are hosting their trading applications on AWS had to access the Deribit platform through the internet, with subtoptimal latencies. …

Getting tokens into the right hands in a fair, efficient and targeted way should be a top priority for founders in crypto. …

Simple exposure to pure implied volatility. This comes in the form of tradable futures on a volatility index — a common instrument in the traditional markets. Deribit is making the first step towards this with the launch of its very own Bitcoin Volatility Index, DVOL, with the purpose to launch…

The DeFi trend has turned into a frenzy followed by the user-focused trends like NFTs. While we speculate on cryptopunks and chase astronomic yields, Ethereum is hitting its scaling limits and alternative chains are trying to catch up. …

The year is 1944. A proposal by economist John Maynard Keynes would eventually fail to pass at the Bretton Woods Conference, setting the stage for the US-centric international system of money as we know it today. …

Goal of the analysis Establish lower, middle and upper bounds for how much miner revenue will be burned Analysis We believe that the impact of EIP-1559 on both miner revenue and ETH holders has not been well explored. …