Equilateral dimension of the planar Banach--Mazur compactum

We prove that there are arbitrarily large equilateral sets of planar and symmetric convex bodies in the Banach–Mazur distance. The order of the size of these $d$-equilateral sets asymptotically matches the bounds of the size of maximum-size $d$-separated sets (determined by Bronstein in 1978), showing that our construction is essentially optimal.