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Crypto Facilities Becomes First Licensed Crypto Futures Venue in Europe

Crypto Facilities, a subsidiary of Kraken, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in Europe by euro trading volumes, has become the first cryptocurrency company to obtain a Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF) license from the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). With this new license, Crypto Facilities will be able to expand its

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Launch of XBTUSD and ETHUSD Semiannnual contracts

On Friday, July 3rd we will be launching a new Semiannual fixed-maturity contract for our existing XBT/USD and ETH/USD pairs, expiring and settling on Friday, December 25, 2020 at 4PM London time: * FI_XBTUSD_201225 * FI_ETHUSD_201225 Note that we have made a change to our settlement

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Tier 1 Notice

Tier 1 notice Clients that are verified to Tier 1 only on Crypto Facilities will no longer be able to trade on the platform after 20th April 2020. Clients must upgrade their account to Tier 2 or close any open positions before then. Tier 2 requirements can be found here

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Revenue Share Update

Revenue Share Update We are applying a small change to the floor payouts for the Revenue Share Program (RSP). The minimum payout is currently $25,000 a week and split amongst the contract types as follows: * XBT:USD $9,000 * ETH:USD $6,000 * XRP:USD $3,000 * LTC:USD

itBit Added to Constituent Exchanges for CME CF Ether-Dollar Reference Rate and CME CF Ether-Dollar Real Time Index

The Administrator confirms the addition of itBit to the Constituent Exchanges that contribute input data to the CME CF Ether-Dollar Reference Rate and CME CF Ether-Dollar Real Time Index as of 1655 today.

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Revenue Share and Assignment Program

Revenue Share Program Update In March, we introduced our Revenue Share Program (RSP) to incentivise clients to provide liquidity and trade actively on Crypto Facilities. The program has proved a huge success, reaching a record weekly pay-out of $175,000 last Friday. We’ve also seen liquidity grow tremendously across

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BitcoinCash (BCH) 'Great Wall' Upgrade

09 MAY 2019 The BitcoinCash (BCH) community will be implementing the planned upgrade to their protocol dubbed Great Wall that is backwards incompatible. It is programmed to be activated at the time when the median of the past confirmed 11 blocks on the network has a timestamp greater than or

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Revenue Share Program and Market Parameters Update

Since the announcement of our Revenue Share Program (RSP) in late January, we have seen a vast growth in liquidity on the platform. For instance, liquidity in the XBT/USD Perpetual has improved around 6 times: The RSP will therefore be extended beyond the initial 10 week period. In order

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Kraken Acquires Crypto Derivatives Trading Platform and Index Provider, Crypto Facilities, in Nine-figure Deal

SAN FRANCISCO, February 4th, 2019 - Kraken, consistently rated the most secure digital asset exchange and leader in euro volume since 2013, today announced the acquisition of Crypto Facilities, a world-leading, regulated cryptocurrency trading platform and index provider. The combination creates a global leader in cryptocurrency spot and futures trading.

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Cessation of Temporary Suspension of itBit as a Constituent Exchange of the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate

1st February 2019, 1630 London Crypto Facilities, the Index Administrator of the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate announces the cessation of the temporary suspension of itBit as a constituent exchange of the CME CF Bitcoin Reference Rate that was instituted at 1400 LDN on January 25th 2019. This suspension cessation

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Announcing Revenue Share Program

On February 1, 2019, Crypto Facilities introduces a Revenue Share Program (RSP) to reward liquidity provision and general participation on the platform. The RSP pays out a total of 50,000 USD every week across all traders. Check your real-time revenue share estimate here. The RSP measures clients’ contribution to

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Announcing Change in Margin Parameters

To follow ESMA’s guidance on leveraged retail trading, we are implementing 2x leverage cap for Retail Clients trading cryptocurrency Futures on Crypto Facilities. The changes will be applied in three steps as follows: * 15x maximum leverage from 7th January 2019 * 5x maximum leverage from 28th January 2019 * 2x maximum

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Ethereum Constantinople Upgrade

UPDATED 22 February 2019 14:30 UTC The Ethereum community has set a new block height for its Constantinople upgrade dubbed Constantinople/St. Petersburg: 7,280,000, which at current rate should be Thursday, February 28, 2019. At Crypto Facilities Ltd (Kraken Futures) we will be following this upgrade on

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Announcing BCH Hard Fork Policy

UPDATED 6 DECEMBER 2018 18:30 UTC BCH transfers re-enabled and BSV distributed UPDATED 22 NOVEMBER 2018 11:40 UTC UPDATED 14 NOVEMBER 2018 12:30 UTC UPDATED 13 NOVEMBER 2018 18:20 UTC UPDATED 12 NOVEMBER 2018 11:45 UTC Technical Background The BitcoinCash (BCH) community has planned two

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Announcing New Affiliate/Referral Program

Today we are launching our new affiliate program to allow users to send referrals to Crypto Facilities and benefit from their activity. In order to benefit from this you must be at least Tier 1 verified. Once you have accepted the Affiliate Program Terms as seen below: Then you will

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Announcing Launch of BCH/USD Futures

CRYPTO FACILITIES TO LAUNCH BITCOINCASH-DOLLAR FUTURES FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LONDON, 17th August 2018 – Crypto Facilities, a world-leading cryptocurrency trading platform, today announced the launch of the first BitcoinCash-Dollar (BCH/USD) futures to be offered by a regulated firm. The new derivatives contract will start trading at 4pm UK time on

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Announcing Launch of LTC/USD Futures

CRYPTO FACILITIES TO LAUNCH FIRST REGULATED LITECOIN-DOLLAR FUTURES FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE LONDON, 20th June 2018 – Crypto Facilities, a world-leading cryptocurrency trading platform, today announced the launch of the first regulated Litecoin-Dollar futures. The new derivatives contract will start trading at 4pm UK time on Friday 22nd June. The Crypto Facilities

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Announcing the launch of ETH/USD Futures

UK TRADING PLATFORM CRYPTO FACILITIES LAUNCHES ETHEREUM FUTURES ETH futures contract to bring greater efficiency and liquidity to crypto markets LONDON, 11th May 2018 – Crypto Facilities, a world-leading cryptocurrency trading platform, today announced the launch of futures for Ethereum. The new derivatives contract will start trading at 4pm UK time

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Announcing Instant Margining System (IMS)

We’ve released our new Instant Margining System (IMS) which substantially improves the speed, stability and user friendliness of the trading platform. * Mark prices, margin and PnL recalculate several times per second * Indices calculate once per second based on the CME CF Methodology * Effective leverage and return on equity (ROE)

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Announcing New Maturity Schedule

As of 16th March 2018, we are making several changes to our Futures maturity schedule and contract specifications to improve the trading experience and pool liquidity. In summary: * Going forward, a weekly, monthly and quarterly Futures contract is listed at any time and for all currency pairs * Last Trading days

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Announcing Streaming WebSocket API

We’ve released our new lightning-fast Web Sockets! Streaming Live Trading and Market data: * Balances * Margins * Positions * Orders …and more over Web Sockets! Checkout Examples on Github * Dynamically subscribe to the information you want * Use real-time market updates to drive your trading decisions * For REST and web socket API documentation

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Announcing New Trading Platform

We are pleased to announce that our new trading platform is now live, featuring: Stand-alone web-application with everything just one click away All data served though real-time websocket feeds Fast and responsive order submissions and position management Sleek, modern design Many thanks to all beta testers who provided feedback prior

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Announcing Discontinuation of 3rd Quarter Futures

To concentrate order book liquidity, we will not re-list the 3rd quarter maturity for Bitcoin-Dollar, Ripple-Dollar and Ripple-Bitcoin futures. Listed maturities for all Futures are now 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 quarter and 2 quarters.

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Announcing New Trading Fee Schedule

We have revised our trading fee schedule, which now features reduced taker fees and a significant fee rebate for makers: Taker : 0.05% (5 basis points) of notional order value (previously 0.08%) Maker: -0.03% (-3 basis points) of notional order value (previously 0.00%) Date Effective: 28 November

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Announcing Segwit2x Hard Fork Policy

UPDATED 31 OCTOBER 2017, 12:00 UTC UPDATED 03 NOVEMBER 2017, 18:00 UTC UPDATED 08 NOVEMBER 2017, 18:00 UTC - SEGWIT2X FORK CALLED OFF This announcement refers to Futures traded on Crypto Facilities, NOT the BRR or products listed on CME Group. A project called Segwit2x, born out