Ethereum's Evolving Role in the Crypto Perpetual Futures Market
For years, Ethereum has been at the forefront of decentralized finance, pioneering on-chain financial tools such as lending protocols and tokenized assets. However, the rapid growth of perpetual futures, also known as 'perps,' has largely occurred 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…