After more than one year into the Dukascoin staking program, Dukascopy Bank is appraising the results as a very good start. 325 staking deposits for the total value of 855,120 Dukascoins (0.72 deposits per day since the launch of the project) demonstrate that the first cryptocurrency by a Swiss bank has received careful attention from the clients. Moreover, many users have already renewed their stakings for the second year.

However, the project does not stand still. The Bank has prepared a number of great surprises for this year. The first of them is to be announced right now! Starting from June 1, the staking program will be extended to add 3-month staking deposits. New terms will work for both types of rewards – coin and fiat. The Bank believes that the shorter-term staking proposal will be particularly attractive for traders willing to have their free capital work while preserving the comfortable level of liquidity.

The Bank will pay as much as EUR 0.10 per coin as a reward for fiat staking deposits, which yields 7.3% return per quarter at the current DUK+ price of EUR 1.37. Coin reward for the coming quarter for a 3-month staking deposit of 10,000 DUK+ will be as high as 12.5%, or 1,250 DUK+.

Besides, new term deposits will also qualify for Big Fish - Referral Program Level 2.

More information can be found on www.dukascoin.com under the sections dedicated to Reward Deposits or by contacting our support via [email protected] e-mail or Support Chat.

Please beware of trading breaks for CFD's and Bullion on US Memorial day, Monday 25^th May. Detailed market closures can be found here.

Dukascopy Bank increases its eligible capital by CHF 9.48 million (up to CHF 46.09 million) with a profit for the first three months of 2020 (after review of interim financial statement as of 31 March 2020 performed by KPMG SA). The condensed interim balance sheet and condensed income statement is available via this link.

Dukascopy Bank continues to demonstrate effectiveness, reliability and high performance in the conditions of turbulence on financial markets and the COVID-19 pandemic. April's profit continues this growth trend, ending the month with 969 000 CHF.

Positions in LIGHT.CMD/USD are subject to adjustment today: Debit USD 136.00 for 1 LONG contract; Credit USD 134.00 for 1 SHORT contract.

To avoid adjustment rates traders should close opened positions in LIGHT.CMD/USD prior to 20:40 GMT.
Trading of LIGHT.CMD/USD will be stopped earlier at 20:40 GMT today.

Positive adjustments are made before market is opened; negative adjustments are processed shortly after market opening.

Please refer to corresponding website section for more information

Dukascopy Bank would like to remind current and potential participants of the Dukascoin reward programs that starting from 1^st of June, 2020 reward rates for new coin reward staking deposits will be reduced by 10% from current levels. The new income schedule will remain deposit size dependent and be represented as follows:

• 1 000 deposited Dukascoins - 20% coin reward;
• 2 000 - 30%;
• 3 000 - 40%;
• 4 000 - 50%;
• 5 000 - 60%;
• 7 500 - 70%;
• 10 000 - 80%.

The Bank guarantees that the following reduction will not affect deposits allocated before 1^st of June, 2020. For those who are considering joining the coin reward program with current lucrative rates there are 3 weeks left to decide!

Please be aware that Monthly Adjustment date on LIGHT.CMD/USD in May 2020 has been moved forward due to recommendations received from counterparties.

LIGHT.CMD/USD monthly adjustment date is set for tomorrow, the 8^th of May 2020.

Please refer to corresponding website section for more information.

Dukascopy Europe introduces new instruments on MT4 accounts. The list of products includes CFDs on indices, bonds, commodities and a number of new exotic FX pairs. With this update, the total number of instruments in MT4 is increased from 41 to 96. The full list with 500+ instruments including FX, Metals, CFDs on commodities, indices, single stocks and bonds are available in our professional JForex3 trading platform.

Dukascopy resumes trading on LIGHT.CMD and cancels the "close only" restriction put in place on 21 April.

As of Monday, 04 May at 10:00 GMT clients will once again be able to open new positions on LIGHT.CMD.
Maximum exposure is limited to 650 contracts, a leverage of 1:5 will be applied to all accounts, including clients that presently have existing positions.

The measures will remain in place until further notice. 
The above mentioned measures concern both Dukascopy Bank and Dukascopy Europe.