BitMEX Announcements

2021-07-30 09:58:57 Celebrating ETH’s Birthday with Fee Reductions on Our ETHUSD Products

Six years ago today, Vitalik Buterin and Dr. Gavin Wood introduced Ethereum to the world. With average daily transactions at more than one million and the second largest market cap, Ethereum has changed crypto forever.

While we have a soft spot for bitcoin, we also love ETH and appreciate the role it plays in the crypto space. In honour of Ethereum’s birthday, we are inviting traders to celebrate with us by updating our fee structure on all ETHUSD products from now until 29 August at 23:59 UTC!

Here’s what will change:

Taker Fee: Reduced to 5bps from 7.5bps (2.5bps decrease)
Maker Rebate: Reduced to 1bps from 2.5 bps (1.5 bps decrease)

This applies to all ETHUSD products - the ETHUSD perpetual swap plus the ETHUSDU21 and ETHU21 futures.

For more information, read our blog here: https://bit.ly/3rLKzhA Open / Comment

2021-07-29 10:35:38 Reminder - Scheduled Downtime for 12 August

Please be reminded that we will temporarily halt trading on the BitMEX platform on Thursday, 12 August at 02:15 UTC to facilitate a major upgrade to our system architecture. From this time, any order actions will be rejected. Deposits made will be queued for processing.

The system will be online again in cancel-only mode from approximately 03:10 UTC. Order cancel requests and deposits will be processed normally. Continuous trading will recommence from approximately 03:15 UTC.

From the halt of trading until continuous trading resumes, there will be no Mark Price updates and hence no liquidations.

For more information, please see our blog: https://bit.ly/2Wx2iO9 Open / Comment

2021-07-27 11:09:35 The BitMEX Partner Programme Expands into Phase Two With 17 New Additions

Earlier this year, we successfully launched our official BitMEX Partner Programme. Today, we are thrilled to announce phase two of the programme with the addition of 17 new firms into the BitMEX ecosystem.

Many of our users have benefited from the exclusive privileges made available to them as part of the programme so far. The good news is that we’re just getting started.

For more information, see our blog here: https://bit.ly/3l8dZF0 Open / Comment

2021-07-26 11:08:24 100x Ventures Announces Investment in Cryptense and its Flagship Crypto Trading Platform Kryll.io

100x Ventures, the ventures arm of BitMEX and 100x Group, is pleased to announce a significant investment in Cryptense, the company behind crypto trading automation platform Kryll.io.

Kryll.io is a growing, highly advanced platform that allows users to pursue automated trading strategies on a number of crypto exchanges.

The investment will entail increased collaboration between 100x Group and Kryll.io, including full integration with the BitMEX platform and other 100x portfolio companies for Kryll.io’s rapidly expanding user base.

Read more here: https://bit.ly/3735tio Open / Comment

2021-07-23 13:44:06 Important - Rescheduling of Platform Downtime

Please note that the previously announced platform downtime originally scheduled for 29 July has been rescheduled to 12 August at 02:15 UTC.

During this time, we will temporarily halt trading on the BitMEX platform to facilitate a major upgrade to our operating system. From this time, any order actions will be rejected. Deposits made will be queued for processing.

The system will be online again in cancel-only mode from approximately 03:10 UTC. Order cancel requests and deposits will be processed normally. Continuous trading will recommence from approximately 03:15 UTC.

From the halt of trading until continuous trading resumes, there will be no Mark Price updates and hence no liquidations.

For more information, please see our blog: https://bit.ly/3ycN4vq

For any questions, please get contact Support: www.bitmex.com/support Open / Comment

2021-07-23 02:05:33 Crypto Trader Digest - I’m All Shook Up

Singing the blues with the state of the crypto markets this summer?

Don’t be cruel to yourself, or get all shook up - Arthur gives us some perspective in the latest edition of the multiplatinum Crypto Trader Digest.

Read it here: https://bit.ly/36Vu2hm Open / Comment

2021-07-22 07:12:48 Important Reminder - Scheduled Downtime for 29 July

Please be reminded that we will temporarily halt trading on the BitMEX platform on Thursday, 29 July at 02:15 UTC to facilitate a major upgrade to our operating system. From this time, any order actions will be rejected. Deposits made will be queued for processing.

The system will be online again in cancel-only mode from approximately 03:10 UTC. Order cancel requests and deposits will be processed normally. Continuous trading will recommence from approximately 03:15 UTC.

From the halt of trading until continuous trading resumes, there will be no Mark Price updates and hence no liquidations.

For more information, please see our blog: https://bit.ly/3wQScUM Open / Comment

2021-07-21 07:08:56 SUSHIUSDT Quanto Perpetual Contract - Live Now on BitMEX

The listings continue with the introduction of the SUSHIUSDT Quanto Perpetual contract.

The SUSHIUSDT Perpetual Swap contract with up to 33x leverage went live at 04:00 UTC on 21 July 2021 and is available to trade on BitMEX now.

Please see our blog for more information: https://bit.ly/2TrXNTS Open / Comment

2021-07-20 09:03:56 Basket Indices Come to BitMEX: Introducing the ALTMEXUSD and DEFIMEXUSD Perpetual Swap Contracts on BitMEX

While we continue to bring multiple contracts to the market, we’re taking it one step further by listing the BitMEX Basket Indices - covering both the Altcoin (.BALTMEX) and DeFI (.BDEFIMEX) markets.

And we aren’t stopping there.

As of today, BitMEX users will also be able to trade the ALTMEXUSD and DEFIMEXUSD Quanto Perpetual Swap with a max leverage of 25x.

Trading started here at 04:00 UTC on 20 July 2021 -

ALTMEXUSD: https://www.bitmex.com/app/trade/ALTMEXUSD

DEFIMEXUSD:
https://www.bitmex.com/app/trade/DEFIMEXUSD

Please see here for more information: https://bit.ly/2UODQXL Open / Comment

2021-07-15 05:56:22 [Testnet] Scheduled Temporary Downtime Completed

The scheduled maintenance on Testnet has now been completed and trading has resumed. We thank you for your patience.

For any questions, please contact Support. Open / Comment