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Gate.io is a centralized cryptocurrency exchange offering spot and derivatives trading for digital assets.
Boros launched spread markets on October 15 that let traders hold one position on the Hyperliquid-Gate funding gap for ETH and BTC. Cryptobriefing's 25-35% APR figure comes from older four-leg setups, so returns on the new market are unmeasured.
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Gate will roll out a Visa card that converts crypto to fiat at checkout in more than 40 countries and territories. Until Gate names those markets the figure is a target, and the card looks built to keep customer balances inside the exchange's app.
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Gate launched Gate Money, letting its more than 60 million users hold, convert and spend cash, crypto, stocks and gold from one account. Founder Lin Han promises conversions at any hour but has not explained how a stock sold after the market shuts would be priced.
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Spot trading on centralized crypto exchanges rose 20% to $973 billion in September, a gain of about $162 billion. That beat exchange perpetuals on both dollars and growth rate, though the quarterly record still points traders toward perps and DEXs.
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Cboe is exploring a never-expiring VIX future, a design Robert Shiller proposed in 1993, though it has no contract specs or filing yet, Bloomberg reported. Holders would swap roll losses for funding payments, priced against an index that market makers cannot buy to hedge.
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A USDT-settled contract on a Shanghai memory maker follows SK Hynix and Samsung onto Binance Futures. The stated motive is lost crypto volume.
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HIP-3 open interest is past $4 billion, and roughly a fifth of it sits in two contracts on one South Korean memory maker. Concentration, not tokenization, is the story.
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NEST routes half of any revenue above a $40M annual baseline into buying LDO, capped at $10M a year. DefiLlama puts Lido's annualised revenue near $38M.
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