EQUOS launches Bitcoin Perpetual Futures Contracts Submitted 08/01/2021 - 9:22am EQUOS, the cryptocurrency exchange of digital assets financial services company Diginex Limited, has launched Bitcoin (BTC) Perpetual Futures Contracts. The successful launch of the BTC Perpetual is a major milestone in the roadmap of derivative products that are being introduced by EQUOS. Derivatives linked to traditional financial assets like equities, commodities or foreign exchange often eclipse the value traded in the underlying spot markets by hundreds of times.
Derivative products are nascent in the digital asset industry and are presently not offered by some of the major digital asset exchanges. From near nonexistence only a few years ago, the size of the virtual currency derivatives market has begun to show signs of its immense growth potential, growing at over four times the spot market during the third quarter of 2020 and reaching a volume peak of USD67 billion in a day at the end of November.