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Derivative contracts that track a crypto asset's price with no expiry, using periodic funding payments to keep contract and spot prices aligned.
Robinhood said eligible US customers will trade eight crypto perpetual futures in its app within months, with up to 10x leverage on bitcoin and ether. The product brings leverage US retail traders mostly found on offshore exchanges into a mainstream American brokerage.
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Ether rose 9.76% in the past month, heading for its best September since 2016 against an 8.57% average September loss. Leveraged longs on Hyperliquid pay funding to hold the gain, while the treasury-firm evidence is mostly coins already held.
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A cross-sectional reversal baseline on 15-minute Bybit perpetual bars won 67 of 76 out-of-sample windows before costs and none of them after. Charging the trading it requires puts breakeven near 2.5 bps per side.
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A dev.to trend-following writeup grades every test against thresholds entered in a journal beforehand, and those entries caught an asymmetric benchmark cut and a mislabelled column before the crypto prediction failed.
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A dev.to post publishes the decision payload for a 90-score NEARUSDT short that passes with position_scale 0.7 and a 10 percent tighter stop, while a log line from the same system shows the entry threshold sliding from 80 to 70.
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The contracts settle in tether and convey no stake, and their books hold tens of millions against an implied $2.12 trillion, so the first price anyone can actually transact at arrives with the prospectus.
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A USDT-settled contract on a Shanghai memory maker follows SK Hynix and Samsung onto Binance Futures. The stated motive is lost crypto volume.
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