1) We've removed the high-leverage fees from BTC-PERP and ETH-PERP on FTX!
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Extra high-leverage fees no longer apply to BTC-PERP and ETH-PERP on FTX!
help.ftx.com/hc/en-us/artic
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3) These extra fees go straight to the insurance fund, to protect against the fact that there is a much higher risk of insurance fund losses from highly leveraged positions.
However, BTC-PERP and ETH-PERP are more liquid, and so can handle the higher leverage.
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4) In addition, FTX has been around for a year and a half and the insurance fund has been steadily growing.
ftx.com/status
We'll continue to revisit this in the future. Note that the high-leverage fees still apply to other markets.
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