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Economy => Trading Discussion => Topic started by: laza89laza on August 07, 2018, 09:19:08 PM



Title: How the OKEx fiasco could have been prevented
Post by: laza89laza on August 07, 2018, 09:19:08 PM
Now seems to be a great time to discuss some major topics and issues surrounding the OKEx Bitcoin Future saga. OKEx force-liquidated a very large (~$400m notional) bitcoin futures position. The size of this position triggered a socialized loss on the OKEx platform to be split proportionally by all profited traders’ realized + unrealized gains. The loss to investors is almost $9m. The ending of this story is still TBD.

MARKET Protocol was designed and implemented to address a number of these issues providing a decentralized solution to prevent exactly what happened on OKEx. Their CEO, who's been a derivatives trader since 2005, shares his 2 cents on how all could have been prevented!

https://medium.com/market-protocol/how-we-could-have-prevented-the-okex-bitcoin-futures-fail-55cc63c1a39a