Jeff Yan, founder of Layer-1 financial network Hyperliquid, is asked when perpetual contracts on commodities and U.S. equities will be launched on the platform.
“There are already some perps on, so there are gold perps tokenized gold and there, I think the answer to when is probably in the next year, because HIP three I think is unlocking a lot of this. So basically letting, it lets anyone kind of come and deploy their own.”
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Disclosure
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Opinion
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AssertionSupported
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