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Crypto derivatives provide traders with the opportunity to engage in trading cryptocurrency prices without necessarily owning the underlying digital asset. The ...

Portions of this article were drafted using an in-house natural language generation platform. The article was reviewed, fact-checked and edited by our editorial staff. Derivatives are a kind of ...

Crypto derivatives were not built for just speculation. In traditional finance, derivatives exist to hedge risk. Farmers lock in crop prices. Corporations manage exposure to commodities or currencies.

Perpetual futures (also known as "perps") are a type of derivative contract that allows investors to gain exposure to the price movements of a reference asset without owning the asset itself. Like ...