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By Ian Allison|Edited by Parikshit Mishra
Aug 18, 2025, 11:27 a.m.
- Bybit EU has introduced spot margin trading for European users at up to 10x leverage, compliant with the region’s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regime.
- The new service has built-in safeguards such as liquidation controls to prevent losses piling up and real-time interest rates, margin requirements, and collateral ratios.
Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume, has introduced spot margin trading for European users of the platform at up to 10x leverage, compliant with the region’s Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) regime.
The service, announced on Monday, allows users of Austria-based Bybit EU, to borrow funds against their existing crypto holdings, using them as collateral to buy or sell more assets than their wallet balance would otherwise allow.
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For example, a user with $100 can borrow additional funds to execute a $1,000 trade using 10× leverage, amplifying both potential gains and losses from small market movements, Bybit said in a press release.
The bedding in of Europe’s MiCA regime has seen regulated firms explore a wider range of crypto products. For instance, Bitpanda, which is also regulated by the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA), introduced 10x spot margin trading, at the end of last month.
Bybit EU’s spot margin has built-in safeguards such as liquidation controls to prevent losses piling up and real-time interest rates, margin requirements, and collateral ratios, asset by asset, the exchange said.
“Spot Margin Trading is a powerful tool — but only when paired with transparency, risk education, and user control,” said Mazurka Zeng, CEO of Bybit EU in a statement.
Ian Allison is a senior reporter at CoinDesk, focused on institutional and enterprise adoption of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. Prior to that, he covered fintech for the International Business Times in London and Newsweek online. He won the State Street Data and Innovation journalist of the year award in 2017, and was runner up the following year. He also earned CoinDesk an honourable mention in the 2020 SABEW Best in Business awards. His November 2022 FTX scoop, which brought down the exchange and its boss Sam Bankman-Fried, won a Polk award, Loeb award and New York Press Club award. Ian graduated from the University of Edinburgh. He holds ETH.
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