Ethereum's Evolving Role in the Crypto Perpetual Futures Market
For years, Ethereum has been at the forefront of decentralized finance, pioneering financial tools like lending protocols and tokenized assets. However, the rapid growth of perpetual futures, also known as 'perps', has largely taken place on other platforms. This is because perps require extremely fast, low-cost, and high-frequency trading, which Ethereum's base layer was not designed to optimize…