How Perpetual Futures Work and Why They Matter

Chapters

1. 00:00 Why perps
2. 00:19 A brief history of perps
3. 01:15 Robert Shiller’s proposal three decades ago
4. 01:25 How BitMEX first popularized crypto perps
5. 01:42 What is a perpetual future?
6. 02:21 How funding rates affect prices
7. 02:33 Why perps are moving onchain
8. 03:41 Could traditional finance institutions adopt perps?
9. 03:56 Perps for 24/7 markets and price discovery

Chapters come from the timestamps in the video description.