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What Is a DEX? Your Complete Guide to Decentralised Exchanges

If you’ve traded traditional stocks, you could only execute trades within market hours (e.g. 9:30 am to 4:30 pm). At the same time, your funds sit with a custodian or centralised entity that brokerages for you. What if you could trade permissionlessly without ever waiting for the market to open or dependant on a middle man to process your trades? Introducing Decentralised Exchanges, or DEX, built for 24/7 permissionless trading

29 January 2026

BitMEX Alpha

Three Trades to Watch: 30 January 2026

Gold enters price discovery while Meta and Tesla roar after

29 January 2026

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API Update: Introducing the 'pool' field to the order, execution, orderBookL2, orderBook10, quote, quoteBin, trade, tradeBin end points

From 3 February 2025, a new field, pool, will be added to the

29 January 2026

Trading Guides

What Are Prediction Markets? The Complete 2026 Guide

28 January 2026

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Taproot Quantum Spend Paths

25 January 2026

BitMEX Alpha

Three Trades to Watch This Week

23 January 2026

CRYPTO TRADER DIGEST

Get the latest insights from BitMEX Co-founder Arthur Hayes

Crypto Trader Digest

Woomph

Arthur Hayes explores the "Woomph" in Japan's markets: Why the Fed may print money to save the Yen and JGBs, and what this liquidity surge means for Bitcoin.

27 January 2026