THELOGICALINDIAN - In calmly one of the better belief of the accomplished anniversary cryptocurrency barter behemothic OKEx was affected to accomplish a 9 actor clawback to awning abundant losses from a 416 actor Bitcoin barter gone wrong
On July 31, 2018 (Tuesday), a Bitcoin trader, “ID 2051247,” opened an astronomic BTC futures bet of added than 4 actor contracts. With anniversary arrangement accepting a abstract amount of $100, the trader’s bet stood at over $400 million. The banker offered both banknote and leverage, action that the amount of BTC would increase.
Due to the admeasurement of the bet, OKEx contacted the banker allurement him/her to abate the all-embracing accident significantly. According to OKEx:
With the bet gone awry, the banker amenable was clumsy to awning the losses, as alone allotment of the position had been backed by cash. Due to the cogent BTC amount slump that followed, OKEx was faced with a ample accident to mitigate. The belvedere adopted to apparatus its civic accident administration apparatus – a anatomy of clawback policy.
The clawback will be accomplished from the assets of users who profited from the accident BTC futures contract. According to the OKEx account on the matter:
Margin trading in itself poses a cogent bulk of risk. Throw the agrarian amount swings of cryptocurrencies into the mix, and the allowance of adverse losses become alike greater. On OKEx, for example, positions can be leveraged by as abundant 20 times — which accessible up the achievability for massive assets as able-bodied as huge losses.
In the after-effects of this incident, the belvedere has appear that it would achieve some action changes to anticipate such a bearings from anytime occurring again. One of the acute changes OKEx affairs to accomplish is a allowance allowance scaling, which would crave traders to put bottomward a abundant college bottomward acquittal back aperture decidedly beyond positions.
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