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According to the latest stock derivatives exchange ranking released by RootData, the top three exchanges are Binance, Hyperliquid, and Gate.Among them, Binance has a score of 75.9, a 24h trading volume of 25.762 billion USD, and a market share of 39.10%; Hyperliquid has a score of 74.2, a 24h trading volume of 4.373 billion USD, and a market share of 6.64%; Gate has a score of 73.8, a 24h trading volume of 1.105 billion USD, and a market share of 1.68%.

Liquid Capital founder Yi Lihua stated that the global financial markets have been quite volatile recently, and one cannot expect to make money every moment in investments and trading. He mentioned that even Duan Yongping has to endure significant unrealized losses, with some stock investors previously making ten times their investment now facing an 80% retracement, and the situation for ordinary stock and cryptocurrency investors is even worse. The overall environment is still in a rate hike cycle, and Bitcoin has become a relatively well-performing asset.Yi Lihua reiterated that the upward trend is not a straight line, nor is the pullback; he still sees a bullish market trend and continues to wait for the right pullback. With the midterm elections approaching, market volatility and trading opportunities are increasing. He also mentioned that Coinbase has launched a global derivatives trading competition with a maximum prize pool of 2 million USDC, believing that this event provides a platform for communication and testing trading strategies, and he himself will participate and learn.

According to Bloomberg, during the intense fluctuations in international oil prices in early March, a trader allegedly influenced prices on the decentralized derivatives platform Hyperliquid through two accounts, using oil-related crypto derivatives.According to an analysis provided to Bloomberg by blockchain monitoring company Solidus Labs, the trader placed over $170 million in abnormal orders, and Solidus believes their behavior is suspected to be a form of spoofing price manipulation.

According to Decrypt, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) will hold a public roundtable on December 15 to discuss transitioning the derivatives market to 24/7 trading, with topics including overnight trading and tokenization. CFTC Chairman Mike Selig stated that the agency "will not take a one-size-fits-all approach."

Crypto.com and its derivatives partner OG.com began offering crypto perpetual contracts to eligible U.S. traders on Tuesday. The contract offers up to 5x leverage, allowing traders to bet on the price movements of crypto assets without an expiration date, and provides take-profit and stop-loss orders as well as isolated margin features.Crypto.com stated that it has recently registered as an introducing broker with the National Futures Association in the U.S. to offer the aforementioned perpetual contract products. These products operate through OG.com on exchanges, clearinghouses, and futures commission merchants regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. This launch follows the Commodity Futures Trading Commission's decision in May to open the U.S. market to crypto perpetual contracts.Previously, the agency approved Kalshi's Bitcoin perpetual contracts and provided Coinbase with no-action relief to offer digital commodity derivatives; Kraken launched U.S. perpetual contracts on Kraken Pro in June after acquiring Bitnomial. Crypto.com is also advancing its stock derivatives business, with OG.com’s exchange Nadex registering last month with the Securities and Exchange Commission to trade securities futures. CEO Kris Marszalek stated at that time that the company is working with the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to offer individual stock perpetual futures.

Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX and CEO of Flop Labs, proposed in the article "The Trifecta" a plan to establish a spot and derivatives market for AI computing power based on the Flop Network. He believes that there is currently a lack of a unified price benchmark for computing power globally. The Flop Network can form a computing power reference price (FRCR) by recording the amount of computation, time taken, and FLOP payment fees for AI inference tasks.On this basis, users can pre-order computing power for up to 30 days in advance and trade corresponding computing power contracts (FCU), thereby supporting quarterly futures and perpetual contracts settled in USD. Hayes stated that following the concepts of perpetual contracts and synthetic USD stablecoins, he hopes that AI computing power derivatives will become the third innovation widely adopted by financial markets.

a16z recently submitted a public comment letter to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) in response to the CFTC's request for comments on the listing of computing power derivative contracts, expressing support for establishing a regulated computing power derivatives market in the United States. The related derivatives would help AI startups and cloud service providers hedge against computing power price, utilization, and duration risks, and reduce the financing costs of AI infrastructure.a16z stated that the CFTC does not need new statutory authority, as the Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), Part 38 core principles, and Part 40 self-certification process are sufficient, and no new rules are needed prior to listing. The letter suggested that the CFTC rely on the existing regulatory framework to support the adoption of computing power price benchmarks that comply with the principles of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), and allow exchanges to launch cash-settled computing power futures, including fixed-term futures and perpetual contracts.a16z crypto is an investor in Ornn, and ICE announced in May plans to launch GPU computing power futures based on the Ornn Computing Power Price Index (OCPI).

According to the latest stock derivatives exchange rankings released by RootData, the three exchanges with the largest spreads among the listed exchanges are HTX, Crypto.com, and BingX, with spreads of 0.44%, 0.315%, and 0.297%, respectively.It is reported that this spread is the weighted spread based on the 24-hour trading volume, and a higher value typically indicates higher trading costs.

The official announcement from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange reported that the business data for the third quarter of 2026 showed revenue reaching 1.737 billion USD, a year-on-year increase of approximately 13%, setting a new record for the third quarter; net profit was about 1 billion USD.During the same period, the average daily trading volume of all CME products reached 29.4 million contracts, with the average daily trading volume of cryptocurrency derivatives at approximately 196,000 contracts, and the nominal trading volume for the quarter was about 469.5 billion USD. Among them, the nominal trading volume for Bitcoin and Ethereum derivatives was 326.7 billion USD and 118.8 billion USD, respectively.

According to CoinDesk, data shows that the share of Bitcoin options in the cryptocurrency derivatives market continues to rise. The Bitcoin Volatility Index BVIV issuer Volmex stated that last week, the open interest of Bitcoin options accounted for slightly less than 60% of all Bitcoin derivatives open interest, up from about 50% at the beginning of the year, reflecting a market shift from purely betting on price direction to a greater focus on risk management.As of last Friday, the total open interest in the Bitcoin derivatives market was approximately $129 billion, of which U.S. Bitcoin ETF-related options accounted for about $36 billion, and BlackRock's IBIT options accounted for about $35 billion. Including options on native crypto platforms, the Bitcoin options market size is approximately $76 billion. ETF options currently account for about 47% of the Bitcoin options market, while the open interest of IBIT options has increased from about $11 billion in January 2025 to nearly $35 billion now.

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced the agenda for its inaugural "Frontier Forum." The forum, hosted by the CFTC Innovation Working Group, is scheduled for October 28 and will invite leaders in the field of artificial intelligence to discuss how AI may change the operation of the U.S. derivatives market.CFTC Chairman Mike Selig stated in a statement that super intelligence will transform our financial markets. This forum will focus on how the derivatives market can respond to the influx of machine intelligence and the potential impact of this technology on price discovery and risk management. The forum agenda adopts the term "super intelligence," preferred by U.S. President Trump.The Innovation Working Group indicated that the event will hear insights from leaders of companies such as Ornn, Architect, and Liquid Compute. Additionally, the forum will explore how traders' own AI agents might operate under the CFTC regulatory framework. This is the first event in the "Frontier Forum" series launched by the CFTC Innovation Working Group.

According to CoinGecko data, the top three platforms in the global derivatives exchanges by 24-hour open interest are: Binance ($33.252 billion), Hyperliquid ($14.988 billion), and Gate ($13.276 billion).

According to the latest stock derivatives exchange ranking released by RootData, the top three exchanges are Hyperliquid, Binance, and Gate.Among them, Hyperliquid scored 95.7, with a 24h trading volume of 1.581 billion USD, an increase of 103.18%; Binance scored 95.4, with a 24h trading volume of 5.788 billion USD, an increase of 82.66%; Gate scored 93.6, with a 24h trading volume of 433 million USD, an increase of 36.44%.It is worth noting that the 24h trading volumes of the listed exchanges generally increased, while HTX experienced the largest decline in the past 24h, dropping over 22% to 1.9054 million USD.

According to data from RootData Stock Derivatives Exchange, with the official release of Tesla's new generation Roadster in Texas on October 15 local time, trading in TSLA-related stock derivatives has become active, with TSLA contract prices across exchanges generally rising by about 4% in 24 hours.The platform recorded 12 TSLA stock derivatives trading markets, with a total trading volume of approximately $531 million in the past 24 hours and an open interest (OI) value of approximately $241 million. Among them, the top three exchanges by trading volume in 24 hours are Binance, Hyperliquid, and Bitget, with trading volumes of $246 million, $153 million, and $38.927 million respectively; the top three exchanges by open interest (OI) are Hyperliquid, Binance, and Gate, with OI values of $96.124 million, $71.400 million, and $22.046 million respectively.

The co-founder of the decentralized perpetual contract platform Hyperliquid, Jeff Yan, stated in an interview with Bloomberg's "Odd Lots" podcast on October 15 that regulatory obligations should be imposed on financial service providers operating markets on the Hyperliquid blockchain, rather than on the blockchain network itself, to reduce the compliance burden for the platform entering the U.S. market.Yan likened this idea to internet infrastructure, believing that the blockchain, as the underlying liquidity and trading infrastructure, should not bear all the regulatory responsibilities of traditional trading platforms directly, but rather the service providers that actually operate the markets and hold relevant control should fulfill compliance obligations. He stated that Hyperliquid does not aim to replace traditional financial institutions on Wall Street, but hopes to provide them with underlying trading technology, similar to how Amazon Web Services provides computing infrastructure to businesses.Yan mentioned that the team is seriously advancing the development of Hyperliquid into an infrastructure covering various financial markets. Currently, Hyperliquid is still not open to U.S. users, but Kraken's parent company Payward has planned to offer derivative services to U.S. investors through a regulated trading platform, utilizing its technology.

According to the latest stock derivatives exchange ranking released by RootData, the top three exchanges are Binance, Bitget, and Gate.Among them, Binance scored 95.4, with a 24h trading volume of approximately 25.341 billion USD and a market share of 45.57%; Bitget scored 93, with a 24h trading volume of approximately 3.073 billion USD and a market share of 5.53%; Gate scored 92.6, with a 24h trading volume of approximately 964 million USD and a market share of 1.74%.

According to the latest ranking of stock derivatives exchanges released by RootData, the top three exchanges are Binance, Hyperliquid, and Gate.Among them, Binance scored 95.4, with a 24h trading volume of approximately 16.86 billion USD and a market share of 43.23%; Hyperliquid scored 94, with a 24h trading volume of approximately 2.618 billion USD and a market share of 6.72%; Gate scored 93, with a 24h trading volume of approximately 746 million USD and a market share of 1.91%.

According to the latest ranking of stock derivatives exchanges published by RootData, the three exchanges with the largest spreads among the listed exchanges are HTX, OrangeX, and BingX, with spreads of 0.836%, 0.233%, and 0.197% respectively.It is reported that this spread is the weighted spread based on the 24-hour trading volume, and a higher value typically indicates higher trading costs.