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Coinbase Snaps Up Deribit in Power Move—Crypto’s Derivatives Arms Race Heats Up
Coinbase Snaps Up Deribit in Power Move—Crypto’s Derivatives Arms Race Heats Up
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Wall Street’s playing catch-up while crypto exchanges rewrite the rulebook—again. Coinbase just fired the latest salvo in the derivatives gold rush, acquiring Deribit to dominate the casino... sorry, ’sophisticated risk management’ sector.
Why it matters: Derivatives now drive 75% of crypto’s daily volume. The big boys want in, and they’re buying rather than building.
The subtext: When traditional finance finally gets crypto ETFs approved, they’ll find the real action moved to leveraged perpetual swaps months ago. The house always wins—especially when it owns the trading platform and the vault.
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