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BitMEX Altcoin / Bitcoin Indices Update, May 2019

19 May 2019

Effective22 May 2019 at 04:00 UTC, Kraken will be reintroduced into several of BitMEX’s Altcoin and Bitcoin Indices.

This update is a reflection of a change in our Kraken market data feed handler from using Kraken’s REST API to their new Websocket API.

The following indices and respective contracts will be affected by the above change:

Index	Constituents	Contracts
.BBCHXBT	(⅓ * Binance + ⅓ * Poloniex + ⅓ * Kraken)	BCHM19
.BEOSXBT	(⅓ * Binance + ⅓ * Poloniex + ⅓ * Kraken)	EOSM19
.BETH	(⅓ * Bitstamp + ⅓ * Coinbase Pro + ⅓ * Kraken)	ETHUSD
.BETHXBT	(⅓ * Binance + ⅓ * Poloniex + ⅓ * Kraken)	ETHM19
.BLTCXBT	(⅓ * Binance + ⅓ * Poloniex + ⅓ * Kraken)	LTCM19
.BXBT	(⅓ * Bitstamp + ⅓ * Coinbase Pro + ⅓ * Kraken)	XBTUSD, XBTM19, XBTU19, XBT7D_U105, XBT7D_D95
.BXRPXBT	(⅓ * Binance + ⅓ * Poloniex + ⅓ * Kraken)	XRPM19

WRITTEN BY

Greg Dwyer