25 Apr Consequences of Bitcoin (BTC) and Crypto’s ‘Black Thursday’ Becoming Clear, According to Coin Metrics
There’s been a shakeup in the crypto futures marketplace in the month and a half since Bitcoin and the rest of the digital asset industry crashed on March 12th.
After “Black Thursday,” BitMEX has lost a portion of its futures marketplace to Binance, reports the crypto intelligence firm Coin Metrics.
BitMEX says it suffered two distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in the midst of Bitcoin’s March crash, which caused 156 accounts to sustain losses as a result of late processing of market orders. The cryptocurrency exchange and derivatives platform has since lost market share both in volume and open interest.
That’s been a boon for Binance, which now powers around 25% of all futures volume in the crypto marketplace. Says Coin Metrics,
“This may have an on-going impact across crypto markets, especially considering BitMEX’s outsized influence on price discovery. Only time will tell if BitMEX is able to recover the lost market share,…