1/ Today we’re excited to announce our $9.5M seed round, led by Yuri Sagalov (@yuris) of General Catalyst alongside Paul Graham (@paulg), @ycombinator , and a group of incredible partners and angels.
We're proud to restart our Research series, this time focussing on trading techniques to help our users.
Today, we release Regularization and Bagging: First Techniques in HFT Modeling
https://t.co/IAPJIZvrwd
The entire @QFEX team is long the @aleabitoreddit (Serenity) favorites on their PA, so we decided to list the last one: 😂
For the first time ever, trade the semiconductor $AEHR on @QFEX . 24/7, 10x leverage.
Alongside the rest:
$AXTI
$AAOI
$SIVE
$NBIS
Today, we list sector-based indices for the first time, along with a couple of highly user-requested names.
>XLF (financials)
>XLE (energy)
>CAT
>GS
24/7, 10x leverage.
Today, we deliver to our users again.
After stress testing our volatility assumptions and margin model for small caps, we are pleased to list:
$MITK ,
$RDCM,
$ADEA ,
Once again becoming the first perps exchange to do so.
AI. Space. Energy.
$BE
$CBRS
$RDW
$ASTS
$NVTS
This time, we listed products purely based on early user demand. If you would like to see something listed, dm us or @annanay
A few days ago, we removed KYC for ordinary retail users.
Now they can get exposure to global equities 24/7 with just three clicks:
> Sign up
> Deposit via @arbitrum
> Start trading
We are pleased to announce that our integration with @LorisTools is now complete.
Traders will now have the ability to access QFEX volume, OI and funding data, and compare this across the perps landscape!
Tl;dr starting yesterday, QFEX will not require document ID verification for its ordinary retail users. QFEX users have already been notified via email and Discord.
While we are all celebrating this as a MASSIVE UX improvement, the real reasons run deeper than that.
People don't talk about compliance because it's not sexy.
Everyone has a moral duty to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing. At QFEX, we take this duty seriously.
Long run, dexes whose main business model is facilitating crime will be shut down and their exec team sent to prison. Our commitment to compliance is the reason why we are able to attract the market makers and liquidity that we do.
For years, document KYC has been the standard method of enforcing compliance policies. In the age of AI, it has become painfully obvious to us (see the below video) that the bad guys will always be one step ahead of the compliance software providers. Like most illicit businesses, the economics are just in their favour.
A couple of months ago, we began looking for alternatives.
I'm delighted to announce the integration of a new, powerful AI-based tool that, for the first time, integrates user data across browser sessions, blockchain history and trade history across QFEX and all perp dexes to build a complete user profile and enforce compliance policies.
This mogs document KYC and allows us to rest in peace knowing that our users are genuine, without knowing their passport details.
How markets should be.
Today, we list $IREN and $NBIS to go along with $CRWV in our AI infrastructure collection.
The only venue in the world for perps on these symbols.
10x leverage, 24/7.
https://t.co/Yceo3hRjL0
We are delighted to be the first exchange to offer perps on photonics stocks!
$AAOI is already one of our most actively traded products, with $AXTI not far behind.
QFEX continues to expand the product set in which it is the primary venue for off-hours and weekend liquidity.