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Perpetual Protocol — “Decentralized Perpetual Contracts for Every Asset”

The perpetual futures market is by far the largest in crypto, and centralized exchanges like FTX, Binance, and BitMEX currently dominate it.

Alpha Trades
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13 min readAug 21, 2021

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With regulatory stresses compounding, many are looking to decentralized exchanges (DEXs) as an alternative.

However, bringing perpetual and futures markets to DeFi has been tricky. Perpetual Protocol may be part of the answer.

With an annualized trading volume of $33.93B on the Perp Exchange, the market is validating the protocol as a genuine contender:

Perpetual Swaps Trading Volume; Source: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/data/decentralized-finance/derivatives
Source: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/data/decentralized-finance/derivatives

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