The inside story of how a hike in Hong Kong changed crypto trading forever

AI Summary "We were a scrappy startup," Delo said of BitMEX back in 2016, when it launched the first perpetual future. "We thought, ‘Just get it out there. If it was any good, the market would show us.’" fulltext: 192 chars | fulltext source: rss-fallback | summary method: extractive Original: https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/07/29/the-inside-story-of-how-a-hike-in-hong-kong-changed-crypto-trading-forever Source: CoinDesk