XBT/USD Index Change Announcement

As a market leader in the crypto trading space, we are constantly looking at ways to improve and innovate new and existing products.To further strengthen the trading of our XBT/USD products, BitMEX is proud to announce an introduction of Kraken’s XBT/USD price feed into the BitMEX .BXBT Index.This change will take place on16 September 2018 at 12:00 UTCon the XBTUSD Perpetual Swap product, new Futures products and on our Option products. Existing XBT/USD futures products that have not settled will remain under the existing index.New Index Change.BXBT will change from (0.5 * Bitstamp + 0.5 * Coinbase Pro) to (⅓ * Bitstamp + ⅓ * Coinbase Pro + ⅓ * Kraken).Products Affected:- XBTUSD - XBT7D_D95 - XBT7D_U105 - XBTH19Old Index ChangeA new index, .XBT will be created that will be based on the old .BXBT index: (0.5 * Bitstamp + 0.5 * Coinbase Pro).This new index will be phased out after the settlement of the affected products (28 Dec 2018 12:00 UTC).Products Affected:- XBTU18 - XBTZ18