Your Bitcoin trade can now get liquidated because a stock crashed

Monthly volume on real-world-asset perpetual futures grew from $85 billion in January to an August record of $799.5 billion, with stocks accounting for 62.3% of that total on both DeFi and centralized venues, according to CoinMarketCap. Trading venues are moving away from single-asset margin toward unified portfolio accounts, where a trader's entire holdings back every […] The post Your Bitcoin trade can now get liquidated because a stock crashed appeared first on CryptoSlate.
Key Takeaways
- Monthly volume on real-world-asset perpetual futures grew from $85 billion in January to an August record of $799.5 billion, with stocks accounting for 62.3% of that total on both DeFi and centralized venues, according to CoinMarketCap.
- Trading venues are moving away from single-asset margin toward unified portfolio accounts, where a trader's entire holdings back every […] The post Your Bitcoin trade can now get liquidated because a stock crashed appeared first on CryptoSlate.
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