ChainCatcher news shows that stock-related index contracts are particularly active in the crypto derivatives market, driving a significant increase in the open interest of several mainstream index contracts, indicating that capital participation in index market fluctuations continues to heat up.
According to CoinGlass data, mainstream stock index contracts have been active in the past 4 hours. The Hang Seng Index (HK50), Dow Jones Industrial Average (US30), S&P 500 Index (SPX500), and Nasdaq 100 Index (NAS100) top the list with open interest increases of 1831.54%, 502.20%, 211.87%, and 143.03%, respectively, all from the Gate platform.
Gate has pioneered the world’s first perpetual index contracts, based on major global indices and volatility indices, integrating market sentiment indicators into the crypto derivatives trading system. It supports USDT settlement and 24/7 trading, providing users with trading options that are more aligned with global macro markets.
At the same time, Gate has fully expanded into traditional financial trading zones including stocks, metals, forex, indices, and commodities, continuously building a multi-asset contract system covering mainstream TradFi assets, and creating the most comprehensive industry coverage of index and traditional financial asset contract trading zones.
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