BitMEX Finally Welcomes Ethereum as Spot Platform Nears; Launching APE Perpetual Futures Market
Major crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX is finally embracing ethereum (ETH), telling its customers that they can now make deposits, withdrawals, and trades using the coin, and that more coins will be added “over the com...
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Major crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX is finally embracing ethereum (ETH), telling its customers that they can now make deposits, withdrawals, and trades using the coin, and that more coins will be added “over the coming weeks.”
Up until today, BitMEX has only dealt with bitcoin (BTC) and the stablecoin tether (USDT), with all trading on the platform being based on derivatives of other cryptoassets rather than the underlying tokens themselves....
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