Roughly 247 days ago, the total bitcoin futures open interest across 12 different cryptocurrency derivatives trading platforms was $26.73 billion and over the last eight months, bitcoin futures open interest has dropped 60% down to $10.69 billion. Further, the bitcoin exchange-traded funds BITO and BTF have followed bitcoin’s spot market losses, as the bitcoin ETFs have shed between 70% and more than 73% in value since last year’s price highs.
During the past eight months, data shows bitcoin futures markets and BTC-centric exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have taken deep losses during this year’s crypto bear market. Last year, when U.S.-based bitcoin ETFs were approved, the funds traded for much higher prices and have followed BTC’s spot market downturn.
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