{"id":633651,"date":"2026-07-23T09:55:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=833304"},"modified":"2026-07-23T09:55:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T09:55:06","slug":"bitmex-closes-doors-as-the-perpetual-swap-it-invented-rules-rivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/23\/bitmex-closes-doors-as-the-perpetual-swap-it-invented-rules-rivals\/","title":{"rendered":"BitMEX Closes Doors as the Perpetual Swap It Invented Rules Rivals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/bitmex-guilty-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Crypto Exchange Bitmex\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>BitMEX, the exchange that invented the crypto perpetual swap, will shut down completely on September 23, 2026, at 04:00 UTC. HDR Global Trading Limited, the exchange&#8217;s parent company, announced the closure on July 23. New account registrations stopped the same day. The company cited a strategic review of its business and the broader crypto industry. [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BitMEX, the exchange that invented the crypto perpetual swap, will shut down completely on September 23, 2026, at 04:00 UTC. HDR Global Trading Limited, the exchange&#8217;s parent company, announced the closure on July 23. New account registrations stopped the same day. The company cited a strategic review of its business and the broader crypto industry. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":633652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-633651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}