The Perpetual Wrapper | Always On Leverage is Becoming the Default Venue for Global Price Discovery

Perpetual futures began as a crypto-native workaround to avoid contract rollover. In the space of roughly nine months they have crossed three thresholds at once — in the assets they wrap, the venues that list them, and the jurisdictions that police them. The product is no longer a sidecar to spot crypto; it is becoming the always-on layer where price is discovered first and the cash market reacts second.

The standing question. If the perpetual becomes the venue where global macro price is discovered first — across the weekend gap, across asset classes, across jurisdictions — then the value of the dated-futures complex and the exchange oligopoly that owns it is being quietly repriced. The equity market has already started. CME’s lawsuit is what it looks like when an incumbent recognises that the moat is the thing being competed away.

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