Insurance Fund

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The insurance fund is the fundamental to the cryptocurrency derivatives exchanges and protocols. It performs as a defense against the contract loss in leveraged trading. It is used to pay the traders in the event of liquidations who fail to adopt the measures in time for preventing their open positions from going bankrupt. Typically, they are funded by making use of the exchange fees, the liquidation penalties  or other means.

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