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Please note that this channel is solely for BitMEX announcement purposes.
BitMEX will never ask for your password or for you to send funds to any address. Please be aware of any scammer accounts posing as BitMEX or representatives of BitMEX.
The full list of BitMEX official channels is listed here: https://bit.ly/bitmex-communication-channels
To contact BitMEX Support please use our support link here: https://www.bitmex.com/app/support
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Reduction in Base Maintenance Margin - XBT and ETH Series - 17 April 2020
BitMEX reduced its Base Maintenance Margin requirements for the XBT Series and ETH Series today, 17 April 2020, at 0100 UTC for a trial period. Base Initial Margin requirements remain unchanged.
Please note that the cap on the absolute Funding Rate (https://www.bitmex.com/app/perpetualContractsGuide#Funding-Rate-Caps) will change in line with its definition as 75% x (Initial Margin - Maintenance Margin) and the cap on Funding Rate changes between Funding Intervals (75% of Maintenance Margin) will also reduce.
Please see our blog post for further details: https://blog.bitmex.com/site_announcement/reduction-in-base-maintenance-margin-xbt-and-eth-series-17-april-2020/.
BitMEX reduced its Base Maintenance Margin requirements for the XBT Series and ETH Series today, 17 April 2020, at 0100 UTC for a trial period. Base Initial Margin requirements remain unchanged.
Please note that the cap on the absolute Funding Rate (https://www.bitmex.com/app/perpetualContractsGuide#Funding-Rate-Caps) will change in line with its definition as 75% x (Initial Margin - Maintenance Margin) and the cap on Funding Rate changes between Funding Intervals (75% of Maintenance Margin) will also reduce.
Please see our blog post for further details: https://blog.bitmex.com/site_announcement/reduction-in-base-maintenance-margin-xbt-and-eth-series-17-april-2020/.
HDR Global Trading Limited, operator of the BitMEX cryptocurrency trading platform, is proud to announce our COVID-19 Response Fund. We have granted US$2.5 million towards the global effort to respond to the pandemic.
COVID-19 is an unprecedented crisis which demands a global, coordinated response. Businesses have a vital role to play in efforts to slow the spread of the virus, mitigate its impact and save lives, and we’re keen to contribute however we can.
As a fintech company, the best way for us to contribute to these efforts is through philanthropy.
Philanthropy has unique potential in this crisis; strategically directed funds can fill gaps in the global response and rapidly empower well-equipped but under-resourced organisations. The four organisations we have chosen to support are leading efforts to tackle COVID-19 and are able to scale up their response given more funding.
As we all focus on this global crisis, we also need to consider how we can build capacity to better handle the next pandemic. To handle other novel outbreaks, we must prevent outbreaks before they occur, quickly detect outbreaks when they occur and develop rapid countermeasures that can be deployed at scale.
The HDR Global Trading COVID-19 Response Fund has confirmed grants of between US$300,000 and US$1,000,000, totalling $2.5million, to four organisations, as follows:
Gates Philanthropy Partners: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/philanthropypartners/funds/covid-19
Nuclear Threat Initiative (Biosecurity Program): https://www.nti.org/about/biosecurity/
OpenMined: https://www.openmined.org/
Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
Arthur Hayes, CEO and Co-Founder of HDR Global Trading Limited, commented, “We are committed to thoughtful grantmaking and ensuring that our actions during the COVID-19 crisis can make the biggest impact now and in the future. We have therefore decided to make grants totalling US$2.5 million to four organisations that are making a tangible difference in tackling COVID-19 as well as mitigating global catastrophic biological risks.”
We are grateful to the philanthropic advisory group Effective Giving U.K. who we consulted to understand how our donations could have the biggest impact now and in the future. Note that HDR Global Trading’s COVID-19 Response Fund is entirely separate from the personal philanthropy initiatives, including in support of COVID-19, undertaken by HDR Co-Founder Ben Delo, a signatory of the Giving Pledge.
More info is on our blog: https://blog.bitmex.com/how-we-are-responding-to-covid-19/
COVID-19 is an unprecedented crisis which demands a global, coordinated response. Businesses have a vital role to play in efforts to slow the spread of the virus, mitigate its impact and save lives, and we’re keen to contribute however we can.
As a fintech company, the best way for us to contribute to these efforts is through philanthropy.
Philanthropy has unique potential in this crisis; strategically directed funds can fill gaps in the global response and rapidly empower well-equipped but under-resourced organisations. The four organisations we have chosen to support are leading efforts to tackle COVID-19 and are able to scale up their response given more funding.
As we all focus on this global crisis, we also need to consider how we can build capacity to better handle the next pandemic. To handle other novel outbreaks, we must prevent outbreaks before they occur, quickly detect outbreaks when they occur and develop rapid countermeasures that can be deployed at scale.
The HDR Global Trading COVID-19 Response Fund has confirmed grants of between US$300,000 and US$1,000,000, totalling $2.5million, to four organisations, as follows:
Gates Philanthropy Partners: https://www.gatesfoundation.org/philanthropypartners/funds/covid-19
Nuclear Threat Initiative (Biosecurity Program): https://www.nti.org/about/biosecurity/
OpenMined: https://www.openmined.org/
Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
Arthur Hayes, CEO and Co-Founder of HDR Global Trading Limited, commented, “We are committed to thoughtful grantmaking and ensuring that our actions during the COVID-19 crisis can make the biggest impact now and in the future. We have therefore decided to make grants totalling US$2.5 million to four organisations that are making a tangible difference in tackling COVID-19 as well as mitigating global catastrophic biological risks.”
We are grateful to the philanthropic advisory group Effective Giving U.K. who we consulted to understand how our donations could have the biggest impact now and in the future. Note that HDR Global Trading’s COVID-19 Response Fund is entirely separate from the personal philanthropy initiatives, including in support of COVID-19, undertaken by HDR Co-Founder Ben Delo, a signatory of the Giving Pledge.
More info is on our blog: https://blog.bitmex.com/how-we-are-responding-to-covid-19/
[Testnet] Database system update
Scheduled for 22 April 2020, 2300 UTC - 23 April 2020, 0000 UTC
As part of a series of ongoing changes designed to improve our quality of service and scalability, please be advised that we will be performing a system update to our database service in Testnet starting Wednesday 22 April 2020, at 2300 UTC. The system update is expected to last approximately one hour. Trading, logins, and other key API features will remain operational, however, please note that the following features will be disabled during this scheduled maintenance period:
- Withdrawal
- Trollbox muting
- New account signup & email verification
- Password reset
- Preferences updates
- API Key creation/deletion/enabling/disabling
- Address creation/edition/deletion
- 2FA enabling/disabling
- Address Skip Confirm Email enabling
We will make a further announcement on this page to confirm completion of the system update.
Please feel free to contact Support with any concerns you may have about the scheduled update. You may reach us via our contact form: https://www.bitmex.com/app/support/contact.
Scheduled for 22 April 2020, 2300 UTC - 23 April 2020, 0000 UTC
As part of a series of ongoing changes designed to improve our quality of service and scalability, please be advised that we will be performing a system update to our database service in Testnet starting Wednesday 22 April 2020, at 2300 UTC. The system update is expected to last approximately one hour. Trading, logins, and other key API features will remain operational, however, please note that the following features will be disabled during this scheduled maintenance period:
- Withdrawal
- Trollbox muting
- New account signup & email verification
- Password reset
- Preferences updates
- API Key creation/deletion/enabling/disabling
- Address creation/edition/deletion
- 2FA enabling/disabling
- Address Skip Confirm Email enabling
We will make a further announcement on this page to confirm completion of the system update.
Please feel free to contact Support with any concerns you may have about the scheduled update. You may reach us via our contact form: https://www.bitmex.com/app/support/contact.
WebSocket Systems Upgrade Complete: Significant End-User Latency Improvements
We are proud to announce that the fourth generation of the BitMEX Feeds architecture went live 21 April 2020 between 17:00 and 19:30 UTC. All customers are now on our new architecture and will enjoy much-improved data latency. Please see our blog for more detailed information: https://blog.bitmex.com/websocket-systems-upgrade-complete-significant-end-user-latency-improvements/
We are proud to announce that the fourth generation of the BitMEX Feeds architecture went live 21 April 2020 between 17:00 and 19:30 UTC. All customers are now on our new architecture and will enjoy much-improved data latency. Please see our blog for more detailed information: https://blog.bitmex.com/websocket-systems-upgrade-complete-significant-end-user-latency-improvements/
[Testnet] Database System Update
Completed - as at 23 April 2020, 00:21 UTC
The scheduled system update has successfully concluded. The BitMEX Testnet platform is now back to full functionality, and no trading activity was affected during this period. We thank you for your patience.
Please see our blog for more detailed information: https://status.bitmex.com/incidents/mt8pgtrlgq4w
Completed - as at 23 April 2020, 00:21 UTC
The scheduled system update has successfully concluded. The BitMEX Testnet platform is now back to full functionality, and no trading activity was affected during this period. We thank you for your patience.
Please see our blog for more detailed information: https://status.bitmex.com/incidents/mt8pgtrlgq4w
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Announcing The ETHUSD Quanto Futures Contract
We are launching an ETHUSD quanto futures contract with up to 50x leverage on 5 May 2020 at 04:00 UTC.
The first contract (ETHUSDM20) will expire in June. This new product will be the only one of its kind available in the market, and represents significant new trading opportunities on BitMEX.
ETHUSD quanto futures have a fixed Bitcoin multiplier regardless of the USD Ethereum price. This allows traders to long or short the ETH/USD exchange rate without ever touching either ETH or USD! Traders post margin in XBT, and earn or lose Bitcoin as the ETH/USD rate changes.
This contract combines the quanto feature of our ETHUSD perpetual swap with the expiry and settlement found in traditional futures. As with every BitMEX altcoin future, it expires quarterly.
Please see our blog for more information: https://blog.bitmex.com/announcing-the-ethusd-quanto-futures-contract/
We are launching an ETHUSD quanto futures contract with up to 50x leverage on 5 May 2020 at 04:00 UTC.
The first contract (ETHUSDM20) will expire in June. This new product will be the only one of its kind available in the market, and represents significant new trading opportunities on BitMEX.
ETHUSD quanto futures have a fixed Bitcoin multiplier regardless of the USD Ethereum price. This allows traders to long or short the ETH/USD exchange rate without ever touching either ETH or USD! Traders post margin in XBT, and earn or lose Bitcoin as the ETH/USD rate changes.
This contract combines the quanto feature of our ETHUSD perpetual swap with the expiry and settlement found in traditional futures. As with every BitMEX altcoin future, it expires quarterly.
Please see our blog for more information: https://blog.bitmex.com/announcing-the-ethusd-quanto-futures-contract/