What Is a Perpetual DEX? On-Chain Perps Explained
A perpetual DEX lets you trade leveraged contracts on-chain with no central custodian. The matching engine, custody, and pricing all work very differently from Binance or Bybit.
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A perpetual DEX lets you trade leveraged contracts on-chain with no central custodian. The matching engine, custody, and pricing all work very differently from Binance or Bybit.
A perpetual DEX lets users trade leveraged futures on crypto without an expiry, directly from a wallet. Here is how the on-chain versions work and the trade-offs.
Wall Street's biggest dealer is telling clients the perps market is a retail and momentum-trader venue, not an institutional hedging primitive, and that concentration in offshore books makes depth…
Hyperliquid ran SpaceX at launch, CME shrank oil contracts for 24/7 retail access, and the CFTC opened a 67-question docket on perpetual crude.
The legacy NFT marketplace is borrowing Hyperliquid's onchain order book to enter perps — a category pivot that puts OpenSea back on the front page of active traders' workflows, not just collectors'.
Trading activity across the spot BTC ETF complex is holding its range rather than breaking out, a signal that the institutional bid remains engaged without chasing price.
SPCX/USDT perpetuals on Binance logged $3.385 billion in trading volume over 24 hours, according to Coinglass data —…
CME Group CEO Terry Duffy has issued a stark warning about the push to introduce perpetual futures contracts in US…
Perpetual futures let you bet on crypto price with leverage and no expiry, but funding fees and liquidation risk make them far more dangerous than spot trading.
The early launch puts a crypto-native contract structure at the front of an emerging market for trading AI compute exposure.
Ondo Finance CEO Ian De Bode has confirmed that Ondo Perps — billed as the first perpetuals trading platform built…
Kraken is weeks away from launching regulated perpetual futures on Kraken Pro, after securing CFTC-regulated futures…
Kalshi's launch of crypto perpetual contracts under CFTC oversight has triggered a public fight between derivatives…
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Perp DEXs remove some exchange exposure but add oracle, contract, and wallet risks. Compare liquidation engines, funding, custody, and stress events.
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