Medium · Jun 2022
Community campaign announcement promoting a $10,000 GDT bounty and additional token/community engagement activities.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Overview
Globe is a crypto derivatives exchange (also branded GlobeDX / Globe Derivative Trading) for consumer and institutional traders. It offers spot, perpetual, and volatility markets with unified margin, low-latency execution, and API access.
Primary product
Crypto derivatives exchange with unified margin and volatility products
Founded
2018
Headquarters
Panama City, Panama
Team size
1-10
Industry
Financial Services
Sub-industry
Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange
Offices
Panama City, Panama (HQ)
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Business model
exchange trading fees
derivatives trading fees
spot trading fees
API / infrastructure access
token staking / fee-discount model
Funding
Stage
Seed
Total raised
$21.2M
Latest round
Seed · Apr 2021
Latest amount
$18M
People & investors
Work & culture
Lean, research-heavy, and performance-oriented; the company markets itself around speed, deep liquidity, capital efficiency, and a technically sophisticated trading experience.
Product & market
Pricing
Maker-taker trading fees with low/zero maker fees, taker fees, and fee discounts tied to staking GDT.
Differentiators
- —Unified Margin system lets multiple assets serve as collateral
- —Up to 100x leverage
- —Volatility products including Bitcoin VIX
- —Low-latency, high-throughput exchange architecture
- —Spot, perpetuals, and volatility markets in one venue
- —REST and WebSocket APIs for integrations
- —GDT staking-based fee discounts
Technology
HTTP REST API
WebSocket API
OAuth2
HMAC-SHA256 authentication
Python client libraries
JavaScript/TypeScript client libraries
JSON / application/json
Customers
institutional traders
retail crypto traders
market makers
algorithmic traders
API integrators
Competitors
BitMEX
Binance Futures
Bybit
OKX
Deribit
Coinbase Derivatives
dYdX
Scale & contact
Estimated revenue
$1M-$10M
Latest news
Medium · Jun 2021
Official launch announcement; Globe said it was launching trading and promotional competitions tied to DOGE perpetuals, and described the launch as the result of years of preparation.
CryptoSlate · Apr 2021
Press release on GlobeDX closing an $18M seed round with Y Combinator, Pantera Capital, Draper Dragon, Republic Crypto, OKEx, CMT Digital, and Wave Financial participating.
Medium · Dec 2020
Founder story and early funding chronology, including the March 2019 $150K Y Combinator round and the subsequent 2020 $3M round.
CoinDesk · Nov 2020
Globe announced a $3M funding round backed by Y Combinator, Pantera Capital, Tim Draper, and others as it prepared to launch.
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