New listings in the cryptocurrency market continue to present exciting opportunities for investors. Binance Futures has expanded users’ trading options with new high-leverage contracts, while many platforms have announced new altcoin listings.
Binance announces AKT and BAN: Prices skyrocket
Binance Futures has announced that it will open BANUSDT and AKTUSDT Perpetual Contracts for trading on November 18, 2024 at 17:30 UTC with a maximum leverage of 75x in order to expand trading options and improve users’ trading experience. Binance has announced that it may change the features of the above Futures contracts (funding fee, tick size, maximum leverage, initial margin, and/or maintenance margin requirements) from time to time depending on market risk conditions. Multi-Asset Mode allows users to trade the above BANUSDT and AKTUSDT perpetual contracts across multiple collateral assets, subject to applicable deductions. For example, when Multi-Asset Mode is enabled, users can use BTC as collateral when trading the above perpetual contracts.

These new contracts will be traded in USDT and will operate with funding fees calculated every four hours. The maximum funding rate at launch is set at +2.00% / -2.00%. Users will be able to use different assets such as BTC as collateral by enabling Multi-Asset Mode. The BANUSDT Contract is based on the “Comedian” (BAN) token, while the AKTUSDT Contract will be traded on the “Akash Network” (AKT) token. Following the developments, Comedian (BAN) has increased its price by an impressive 90.84% in the last 24 hours, taking its price to $0.3273. Akash Network (AKT) has increased by 28.38%, setting its price at $4.20.
What were the other altcoin projects listed?
In addition to the Binance announcement, many altcoin projects have also entered the exchanges today. According to the cryptocurrencyalerting platform, today, November 18, the first day of the new week, 16 altcoins were added to various exchanges. The altcoins in question are as follows:
- SubQuery Network (SQT): Listed on MEXC.
- Ducky (DUCKY): Listed on Poloniex.
- Banano (BAN): Listed on Bybit Futures.
- SuiNS Token (NS): Listed on Phemex.
- TheHappyCoin (HAPPY): Listed on Phemex.
- Mister Miggles (MIGGLES): Listed on Phemex.
- Stader (SD): Listed on Phemex.
- Dollars (USDX): Listed on BitMart.
- Banano (BAN): Listed on Bybit.
- Shork (SHORK): Listed on AscendEX.
- Banano (BAN): Listed on KuCoin.
- Monkey Taken by Police (JORGIE): Listed on BitMart.
- Bertbit (BERT): Listed on Poloniex.
- Litecoin Mascot (LESTER): Listed on Poloniex.
- Urolithin A ($URO): Listed on BitMart.
- Hasbulla’s Cat (BARSIK): Listed on MEXC.
- Non-Playable Coin (NPC): Listed on KuCoin.
- Big Buck Breaking (BUCK): Listed on MEXC.
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