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The Rise of NFT Perpetual Futures
There are many derivatives that exist today, but in this report, we will focus on perpetual futures,...In fact, during the peak of the last bull market in Q3 2021, perpetual futures saw over $13T in volume...NFT Perpetuals Traction and State of the Market NFTPerp and Tribe3 are two NFT perpetuals futures protocols...
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NFTs
May 2023
PancakeSwap : A Perpetual Vampire?
It’s important to note that the reason for keeping CAKE inflationary is to retain the ability to perpetually...
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Infrastructure
Mar 2021
Tracer (Mycelium) Brings Perpetual Pools to Arbitrum
Perpetual Pools Perpetual Pools are the main product launched by Tracer....Leveraged Tokens Leveraged tokens are the ERC-20 representation of perpetual pool ownership....The perpetual pool design is immune to slippage, transaction costs, and removes the need for funding....Below is a valuation analysis of decentralized derivative protocols offering perpetuals.
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Perpetual Futures
Mar 2022
Perpetual Protocol Private Markets - Part II
Over the past few months we’ve been working closely with Perpetual Protocol to design a framework for...If you’d like to get involved in the discussion on the Perpetual Protocol governance forum you can do...In this piece, we cover the second part of our recent proposal for Perpetual Protocol, where we explore...
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DAO
Sep 2021
Perpetual Protocol Private Markets - Part I
Over the past few months we’ve been working closely with Perpetual Protocol to design a framework for...For the context of this piece, we’ll refer to Private Markets as perpetuals markets that can be deployed...on the Perpetual Protocol in a permissionless way....These markets would coexist and complement the current markets deployed on Perpetual Protocol (which...
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Perpetual Futures
Aug 2021
Polygon Shines, Perpetual Protocol's Growth, and Uniswap Capital Efficiency
...continues to grow as BSC stagnates DeFi coins led relief rally Uniswap v2 vs v3 capital efficiency Perpetual...Key Takeaways Since our DeFi derivatives deep dive, Perpetual Protocol’s volume has boomed to over $300...
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DeFi
May 2021
Perpetual Protocol (Strike) - $PERP Listing Soon
Perpetual Protocol, previously Strike Protocol, has plans to list their $PERP token soon....Since writing about Perpetual Protocol in May, its name isn’t the only thing that has changed....offered are 20x leveraged perpetual swaps (ETH/USDT, BTC/USDT, LINK/USDT) Perpetual Protocol utilizes...Perpetual Protocol uses Uniswap’s x*y=k formula.
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DeFi
Aug 2020
Yuga Labs: From PFPs to Games - Where Does It Go From Here?
At some point, however, Yuga Labs understood that it could not perpetually release additional NFTs or...increased sell-side pressure following the launch, and reports showed how the token was heavily shorted in perpetual...At some point, Yuga Labs understood that it could not perpetually release additional NFTs or minor perks...
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Gaming
Aug 2023
GMX AUM Grows, Opensea on SOL, Designs for Liquidation Mechanisms
Chart of The Day: GMX’s AUM Grows GMX is a spot and perpetuals exchange on Arbitrum and Avalanche....Chart of The Day: GMX’s AUM Grows GMX is a spot and perpetuals exchange on Arbitrum and Avalanche.
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Money Markets
Apr 2022
Ribbon Expands to Options DEX With Aevo
While we can point to the success of dYdX as a blueprint for perpetuals, or GMX for synthetic margin...Aevo will initially focus on offering options trading and will expand to include perpetual swaps in the...
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Options
Feb 2023
An Update on DeFi Perps
Perpetual futures continue to be crypto’s most popular financial instrument....Earlier this year, we published a deep dive into DeFi perpetuals....Perpetual Protocol, as the name suggests, is a perpetual futures product that runs on the xDAI sidechain...On the other hand, Perpetual Markets is an AMM, so every trader is a taker by default.
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Perpetual Futures
Jul 2021
Futures Catch a Bid, CME Traders Go Ham, Punk Ownership Decentralizes
Perpetual Protocol’s Path to PMF Perpetual Protocol uses an internal arbitrageur to balance the market...price of perpetuals on its exchange....But the impact of the bot has reduced significantly over time as Perpetual Protocol attracted a massive...Further, Perpetual Protocol’s v2 will no longer necessitate the bot — marking a major improvement to...
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DeFi
Jul 2021
Market Note: LTC Shows Relative Strength Amid Market Chaos
Market Dynamics The aggregated open interest (OI) on LTC’s perpetuals rose from a low of $120M to a...CVD on the perpetuals shows a less aggressive divergence....Of the two, perpetuals have been more aggressive than spot when it comes to bidding....For LTC, both the spot and perpetuals markets boast a bid-dominated order book, suggesting a greater...
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Macro & Markets
Jan 2023
Are Infinity Pools the Next Big Speculation Primitive?
Infinity Pools is best classified as a perpetual options protocol with a UX geared towards perpetual...Infinity Pools is not entirely options or perps, it has aspects of both and can be loosely classified as perpetual...Perpetual options are being implemented by several interesting projects in different ways.
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AMM
Mar 2023
Contango: A Forward-looking Approach to Leverage
Perpetual Futures Perpetual futures have been crypto’s speculation tool of choice....believe money markets rife with issues of their own, can deliver an adequate or superior experience to perpetual...ratio is a healthy sign of organic usage, it also suggests users have not yet embraced contango as a perpetual...
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DeFi
Jun 2024
Is Solana NFT Summer Here? Part II: NFT Finance & Claynosaurz
As for derivatives, no NFT perpetual platforms are currently live on Solana as far as we know....These include: Perpetual loans are unique to FRAKT and resemble peer-to-pool loans on BendDAO, with...Flip loans are like perpetual loans but have a fixed duration of 7 or 14 days and a lower LTV (20-50%...
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NFTs
Apr 2023
Market Musings - April Showers Bring May Flowers
Idex Testnet Competition June 3rd (Alpha Feed) Idex is a decentralized perpetual exchange combining an...The protocol is deployed on its own L2 (XChain), like other perpetual exchanges, such as Hyperliquid...
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Macro & Markets
Jun 2024
Get Ready to BLAST Off
...is actively engaged in DeFi protocols, covering a diverse range, including money markets, spot and perpetual...Wasabi Protocol Wasabi protocol is another perpetuals future DEX for NFTs....The platform’s perpetual contracts are underpinned by fractional NFTs, enhancing market stability and...
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NFTs & Gaming
Mar 2024
DYDX Valuation Analysis & DEX Perps Comparison
Despite that, perpetual DEXs remain one of the products that have shown great product-market fit and...Outside of spot swaps, perpetual DEXs are also one of the easiest ways to eat into CeFi dominance....The graphic above shows that in six months, perpetual DEX volume share went from 2% to 2.1%, with total...
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Derivatives
Jul 2023
Ethereum Futures Funding Rates Decline as Traders Turn Bearish
📊 Ethereum Futures Funding Rates Decline as Traders Turn Bearish Funding rates for perpetual futures...Funding rates are periodic payments made to/by long or short traders based on the difference between perpetual...Perpetual futures open interest is also rising since the June capitulation, peaking at $6.8 billion on...
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Layer 1 / L1
Aug 2022