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Perpetual Platforms Extend Beyond Crypto Underlyings

Equities, government debt and pre-IPO references enter familiar trading interfaces with different exposures.

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VALR's direct integration with Hyperliquid, perpetual access in Base App and data distribution through TradingView expanded the channels reaching traders. Lighter introduced US10Y with leverage up to 20x and MRNA and SMIC up to 10x, with SPY, QQQ and XAUT spot assets planned as collateral.

Aster added USD1-denominated real-world-asset perpetuals and MRNA exposure, plus a competition involving UNITREE, ANTHROPIC and OPENAI pre-IPO contracts. Separately, Raydium reported Solana tokenized-stock supply near a weekly high of $465 million and cumulative trading above $4 billion. Outstanding supply and cumulative turnover are different quantities and cannot be added into an adoption total.

Continuous access changes when exposure can be traded, not the rights attached to it. A perpetual referencing an equity or pre-IPO company is not automatically ownership of its shares. Collateral price changes and liquidity can interact with leverage even when the underlying reference market is closed; a broader instrument menu increases the importance of those distinctions.

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