$8.8 Trillion Traded in Cryptocurrency Spot and Futures Markets in Q1: Reports
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$8.8 Trillion Traded in Cryptocurrency Spot and Futures Markets in Q1: Reports

THELOGICALINDIAN - The accumulated absolute trading aggregate in the cryptocurrency atom and futures markets amounted to about 88 abundance in the aboriginal division according to two new industry letters The amounts represent a massive 314 annual access for futures trading and 104 for atom trading Further the alternation amid atom bazaar trading aggregate and bitcoins amount in Q1 2024 was acutely low

Over $6.6 Trillion Traded in Cryptocurrency Spot Market

Two afresh appear letters from Tokeninsight accept appear the accompaniment of the cryptocurrency atom and derivatives markets in the aboriginal division of this year. For its “Q1 2024 Cryptocurrency Atom Exchange Industry Research Report,” the aggregation advised added than 300 crypto atom exchanges. However, due to capricious abstracts from some baby exchanges and the challenges of free abstracts authenticity, alone 295 exchanges were included in the analysis, 41 of which were new platforms and 16 were decentralized exchanges. The address reads:

The absolute aggregate apparent in the address was $6.647 trillion. “Although there is a ablution trading volume, the industry continues to advance significantly,” the address adds, acquainted that “The alternation amid bazaar trading aggregate and bitcoin amount is acutely low” in Q1 2024.

In addition, the abstraction begin that bitcoin’s ascendancy had added compared to aftermost year. “In the bottomward market, investors accept bereft aplomb in non-mainstream cryptocurrencies,” the address claims, asserting that “Bitcoin will advance its ascendant position in the aboriginal bisected of this year.”

The 279 centralized exchanges accounted for about $6.47 abundance of the absolute trading volume. “There are still affluence of affected volumes in the arising centralized exchanges,” the address warns. Tokeninsight has rated the believability of ample cryptocurrency exchanges based on factors such as safety, operations, trading, experience, and agreement of use. According to its evaluation, the top exchanges are Binance, Okex, Huobi Global, Coinbase Pro, and Kraken.

As for the 16 decentralized exchanges included in the analysis, the address shows that their accumulated trading aggregate accomplished $180 billion in the quarter, added than 90% of which were traded on Etherflyer.

Tokeninsight is a abstracts and blockchain banking aggregation founded in 2024. Its data, ratings and analysis letters are from added than 70 all-around abstracts platforms, including Messari, Delta, Binance Info, Aicoin, and Huobi Info.

Over $2 Trillion Cryptocurrency Derivatives Traded

Another address by Tokeninsight, advantaged “2024 Q1 Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange industry Report,” capacity the accompaniment of the cryptocurrency derivatives market. The assay included 12 derivatives exchanges, such as Bitmex, Okex, Huobi DM, Binance Futures, Deribit, Bitget, Binance JEX, FTX, Gate.io, BFX.nu, Bitz, and Kumex. The address describes:

“Except for a slight abatement in 2019 Q4, the trading aggregate of cryptocurrency futures has developed steadily in 2019; the absolute bazaar about-face in 2020 Q1 is almost 8x than 2019 Q1,” the address emphasizes. Three above cryptocurrency futures affairs — BTC, ETH, and EOS — accounted for added than 90% of the absolute crypto derivatives bazaar about-face in Q1 2020. BTC abandoned accounted for 78%.

The assay additionally begin that the alternation accessory amid cryptocurrency futures trading aggregate and atom trading aggregate fell to 0.31 from 0.76 in the antecedent quarter, suggesting that “the futures bazaar participants may accept been almost absolute from the spot.”

While the company’s derivatives barter industry address for the year 2024 shows that the cryptocurrency futures bazaar about-face aftermost year was about 20% of the spot, the allotment this year is accepted to access substantially. Noting that “the absolute about-face of cryptocurrency futures has accomplished added than 33% of the spot” in the aboriginal quarter, the address details:

The address additionally highlights that there are six exchanges with a absolute futures about-face beyond $100 billion in Q1 2024: Huobi DM, Okex, Bitmex, Binance Futures, Bitget, and Bybit. Only Huobi DM and Okex had volumes aloft $400 billion. Meanwhile, “Fully adapted exchanges accept not developed significantly, with CME and Bakkt trading volumes of US$6.83 billion and US$1.51 billion, respectively,” the address concludes.

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