Wall Street adopts the rules of the crypto game: perpetual stock futures are coming to the U.S. $MSFTB
If you’ve been trading cryptocurrencies for a while, you’re probably familiar with perpetual contracts: you trade with leverage, speculate on the price going up or down, and don’t worry about expiration dates.
Well, traditional finance has just taken a historic step: the CFTC has opened the door for regulated U.S. exchanges to offer perpetual futures on individual stocks.
Why is this such important news?
- Crypto setting the pace: For years, this type of contract was exclusive to the crypto ecosystem and decentralized platforms like Hyperliquid. Now Wall Street is realizing the huge demand and deciding to bring that same model to shares of traditional companies.
- Regulation instead of prohibition: Washington wants traders to stop using foreign exchanges or platforms outside its control for leveraged trading, offering them a regulated framework jointly supervised by the CFTC and the SEC.
-Wall Street investing in DeFi: The interest is so real that giants like ICE (the owners of the New York Stock Exchange) are already putting money into onchain perpetual market developers.
The line separating traditional finance (TradFi) from the crypto world is becoming blurrier every day. What began in our industry as an experimental invention is now redefining how the world’s largest stock market will operate.
Do you think this step will attract more traditional investors to the crypto ecosystem, or will Wall Street end up absorbing the volume from DeFi platforms?
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$AAPLB
If you’ve been trading cryptocurrencies for a while, you’re probably familiar with perpetual contracts: you trade with leverage, speculate on the price going up or down, and don’t worry about expiration dates.
Well, traditional finance has just taken a historic step: the CFTC has opened the door for regulated U.S. exchanges to offer perpetual futures on individual stocks.
Why is this such important news?
- Crypto setting the pace: For years, this type of contract was exclusive to the crypto ecosystem and decentralized platforms like Hyperliquid. Now Wall Street is realizing the huge demand and deciding to bring that same model to shares of traditional companies.
- Regulation instead of prohibition: Washington wants traders to stop using foreign exchanges or platforms outside its control for leveraged trading, offering them a regulated framework jointly supervised by the CFTC and the SEC.
-Wall Street investing in DeFi: The interest is so real that giants like ICE (the owners of the New York Stock Exchange) are already putting money into onchain perpetual market developers.
The line separating traditional finance (TradFi) from the crypto world is becoming blurrier every day. What began in our industry as an experimental invention is now redefining how the world’s largest stock market will operate.
Do you think this step will attract more traditional investors to the crypto ecosystem, or will Wall Street end up absorbing the volume from DeFi platforms?
$NVDAB
$AAPLB