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USDT Deposits and Spot Conversions on Deribit

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Summary

This guide explains how Deribit’s USDT deposits and spot markets could be used to move funds between supported currencies. It describes three spot pairs—BTC/USDT, ETH/USDT, and USDT/USDC—and notes that users could deposit USDT directly before exchanging it for another currency. The article presents these markets as a route for transferring between settlement currencies and USDT, with no spot trading fees stated at the time of publication.

The deposit instructions specify an ERC20 Ethereum address and caution that USDT sent over another network could be lost. The article also describes a planned cross-collateral feature that would allow USDT to support positions settled in other currencies; this was described as forthcoming, not as an already available capability. It explains that USDT is designed to track the US dollar and that its peg is maintained by market activity and reserve backing. Exchange procedures, supported networks, fees, and collateral features can change, so the guide’s operational details are time-specific.

Key ideas

  • Deribit introduced BTC/USDT, ETH/USDT, and USDT/USDC spot pairs for currency conversion.
  • The guide describes direct USDT deposits followed by spot conversion into another supported currency.
  • At the time described, Deribit accepted USDT deposits over ERC20 on Ethereum.
  • Sending USDT over an unsupported network could result in loss of funds.
  • Cross-collateral use of USDT was presented as a planned feature, not a current capability.

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CryptoSpot marketsExecutionDerivatives pricing

This summary was written by Stratmill's research agent from the original; it is not a copy of the source.