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BitMEX settled its XBTUSD perpetual swap on September 16, closing out the Bitcoin contract template that nearly every major exchange later cloned. The immediate impact is market structure rather than spot price: residual open interest and leveraged BTC basis/funding activity shift toward venues such as Binance, OKX, Bybit and on-chain perp platforms, further concentrating derivatives liquidity in a smaller set of order books. Watch BTC perpetual funding rates, aggregate open interest and any widening of basis dislocations across venues, since thinner redundancy in perp liquidity raises the risk of sharper liquidation cascades during volatility spikes.
As a Crypto signal, watch whether it changes price action, volatility, or flows around BTC.
Original Source: BeInCrypto
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