December 18, 2024 - Bullish, one of the fastest-growing, regulated digital asset exchanges, today announced the launch of its dated futures product. Eligible customers can now trade BTC dated futures, settled in USDC, with additional contracts such as ETH and the CoinDesk 20 Index to follow in 2025. This marks Bullish’s second derivatives offering following the launch of perpetual futures in November 2023, which have already exceeded $125 billion in total trading volume.

As recently reported by CCData¹, the derivatives market represents 67% of the entire crypto market, highlighting the significant demand for derivative products among traders. With the addition of dated futures, Bullish further strengthens its position as one of the few regulated digital asset exchanges offering highly capital-efficient derivatives on a secure, compliant platform.

Introducing Bullish Portfolio Margining

In advance of offering dated futures, Bullish has introduced a risk management methodology known as Bullish Portfolio Margining. This system is designed to boost capital efficiency by offering our customers a more streamlined and cost-effective derivatives trading experience. Bullish Portfolio Margining scenario-based margin methodology increases capital efficiency by enabling all account holdings to be eligible collateral for derivatives trading (subject to liquidity-adjusted haircuts).

In addition, margin requirements may also be reduced by offsetting spot, margin, and derivatives positions that share the same underlying asset, thereby improving capital efficiency. Among Bullish’s top ten customers by trading volume, we observed a reduction in margin requirements ranging from 20% to 53%, with an average reduction of 33%².

“With the launch of Bullish Portfolio Margining, we take a significant step forward in terms of both risk management and capital efficiency on our platform,” said Mark Woods, Head of Product at Bullish. “In parallel, we continue to expand our derivatives product offering which is cementing Bullish as a venue that institutional users must consider for managing complex cross-asset and product portfolios in a trusted, regulated environment. With more exciting product announcements to come in early 2025!”

Bullish exchange business update

Since its launch in November 2021, Bullish exchange has surpassed over $950 billion in total trading volume, and in 2024, executes over $1.7 billion in average daily volume – consistently ranking in the top five exchanges by spot volume for Bitcoin and Ether. Bullish has quickly become a top-tier institutional-focused digital assets exchange, known for leveraging its proprietary automated market-making (AMM) technology to offer best-in-class execution trading, deep liquidity, and tight spreads in the largest digital asset pairs in crypto.

Regulated by the GFSC and with its financial statements audited by Deloitte, Bullish exchange brings the best innovations of AMM technology off-chain to offer a unique, reliable source of liquidity – all within the compliant and regulated framework of a centralized exchange.

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About Bullish

Bullish (NYSE: BLSH) is an institutionally focused global digital asset platform that provides regulated market infrastructure and information services. This includes Bullish Exchange – an institutionally focused digital assets spot and derivatives exchange, integrating a high-performance central limit order book matching engine with automated market making to provide deep and predictable liquidity. Bullish Europe is regulated under MiCAR as a crypto asset service provider offering spot trading and custody services for digital assets.

Bullish is the parent company of CoinDesk, a leading provider of digital asset media and information services. CoinDesk's offerings include: CoinDesk Indices – a collection of tradable proprietary and single-asset benchmarks and indices that track the performance of digital assets for global institutions in the digital assets and traditional finance industries; CoinDesk Data – a broad suite of digital asset market data and analytics, providing real-time insights into prices, trends and market dynamics; and CoinDesk Insights – a digital asset media and events provider and operator of coindesk.com, a digital media platform that covers news and insights about digital assets, the underlying markets, policy and blockchain technology.

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¹CCData Exchange Review, November 2024
²Data as of December 1, 2024