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Ben Delo is a true patriot.
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The scheming and dishonest Keir Starmer will not stop us. In fact, his actions have only made brave people like Ben Delo even more determined to beat Labour at the next election. telegraph.co.uk/politics/202…
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An historic day for British science! Today we announce a pledge of £20m from @bendelo as the lead gift in our 'Exceptional Campaign'—a bid to raise a £60m endowment to support in perpetuity the UK's only independent physics and mathematics institute. lims.ac.uk/e6/
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Three years ago, I sat down with BitMEX's Ben Delo to find out how he came up with the idea for the perpetual future. That gave rise to a Bloomberg column where I argued that perps were one of the most important inventions to come out of crypto. A lot has happened since then, not least the shift to a much tighter dollar liquidity environment and the legitimization of stablecoins. My hunch was always that the perp would become an important tool in pricing marginal dollar liquidity, especially at the intersection of on and offshore markets. With the normalization of stablecoins in the core dollar economy, that pricing signal is only going to become more critical. That's caused me to revisit my notes, and dive even deeper into that origin story and why it matters for dollar funding markets today (all the more so given talk of dollar coalitions of the willing guarding against potential dollar swapline cut-offs by the Fed). The conclusion is that perps could be the pathway to a shadow-dollar interest rate that competes with the Fed's own rate. Check out the full story here 👇 thepeg.co/p/long-read-the-un… x.com/cashequivalence/status…
Three years in the writing, this is the untold story of how crypto's hottest derivative came to be. TLDR: A derivative sketched in the back of a Shanghai taxi may now be one of the most important dollar-liquidity benchmarks central bankers aren’t watching. Perpetual futures, originally designed to solve a crypto-market plumbing issue, now dominate leveraged trading. They’re collateralized in BTC, crypto, or stablecoins — but it’s the stablecoin leg that anchors the entire system to real-world dollar liquidity. That’s why perp funding rates increasingly behave like a market-driven measure of offshore dollar scarcity. As unsecured funding channels shrink and stablecoins evolve into the new eurodollars, perps now process trillions in trading flows, forming a parallel benchmark that emerged organically — not by committee — and pricing liquidity at the margin, outside the Fed’s control. The creation story is fascinating. The implications for monetary transmission and global liquidity are far larger. Full story below. thepeg.co/p/long-read-the-un…
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Expelled from three primary schools, pardoned by Trump, and now bankrolling Britain’s free speech wars James Titcomb meets Ben Delo, the British crypto billionaire funding legal battles against police and universities 👇 telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
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3 Dec 2025
Today, we’re launching SPEAK. Every year, thousands of people in the UK are arrested for what they say online. We’re going to change that. 🎥
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LET BATTLE COMMENCE! #BattleFest kicks off for a weekend of unmissable debate. @Fox_Claire @bendelo and @MaximumCities make the case for why we need free and unconstrained debate as a precondition for settling our challenges.
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🌍 Calling all Commonwealth civil servants! CWEIC is pleased to support a fantastic opportunity to invest in skills that will shape the future of the Commonwealth. The Ben Delo Commonwealth Leadership Programme at King’s College London has been extended through 2025 and 2026. Funded by British philanthropist Ben Delo, the programme offers scholarships for civil servants from across the Commonwealth, British Overseas Territories, and Hong Kong SAR to study flexible, online postgraduate-level short courses in governance, leadership, and public policy. Since its launch in 2023, the programme has already supported 117 participants from 20 Commonwealth countries, helping to strengthen institutions and build the next generation of public service leaders. 🔗 Full details on eligibility and the scholarship process can be found at: kcl.ac.uk/sfg/scholarships
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Riveting, exclusive interview for @Perspective_tw by @TWHodgkinson with @bendelo founder of BitMEX, a man who was made in Britain, expelled from three primary schools and pardoned by Donald Trump. perspectivemedia.com/ben-del…

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Read our exclusive interview by @TWHodgkinson with @bendelo, UK BitMEX billionaire, maths whizz, philanthropist and provocateur, recently pardoned by @realDonaldTrump shorturl.at/uiYlH
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British billionaire @bendelo is giving away more than half his wealth to worthy causes. He explains why a chunk of that is going to maths. lims.ac.uk/perspectives/why-…
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28 Mar 2025
Well deserved. BitMEX was the single most important exchange for American Financial innovation. It was an unfair and unjust process that got them felonies. This wrong as been righted. BitMEX changed my life and was the start of my entire career. @CryptoHayes @STRML_ @bendelo
BREAKING: President Donald Trump just granted pardons to three co-founders of the BitMEX cryptocurrency exchange. The co-founders, Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo and Samuel Reed, previously pled guilty to a range of federal criminal charges related to money laundering
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📌 London, Thursday, 13 February 2025. I had the pleasure to attend the Event held at the @KingsCollegeLon by the @kcl_sfg to announce the continuation of the Ben Delo @bendelo Commonwealth Leadership Programme, a scholarship for civil servants of Commonwealth member states, as well as officials of British overseas territories and Hong Kong SAR. Find out more➡️ kcl.ac.uk/news/scholarsh… Grateful for the opportunity to meet the British entrepreneur, mathematician and philanthropist Ben Delo who has supported the funding of the programme. I look forward to see applicants from the Maldives. @MDVinUK @MoFAmv @MNUedu
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24 Nov 2024
Today, BitMEX turns 10. That’s 10 years of setting trends in crypto. With zero coins lost. All while BTC moons to $100k🤙 This milestone is as much yours as it is ours. To our OG traders – thanks for being here. We wouldn’t be where we are without y’all. Here’s to another decade of sending BTC to the moon – the race to $1m starts now🚀 #BitMEX10Years A message for our community👇 blog.bitmex.com/decade-of-bi…
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Today we publish a report on the state of EDI with an article in Sunday Times Business (thetimes.com/article/2e3dc29…) " Flying Flags and Ticking Boxes – What Went Wrong With EDI And How Leaders Can Fix It". 🧵 diversitybydesign.co.uk/flyi… #FlyingFlags
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