Market Focus - The industry identifies Starknet as a promising platform for perpetual futures (Perps) trading [1] - Two new Perp DEXs on Starknet are considered early-stage opportunities [1] Project Updates & Features - Paradex on Starknet Appchain offers up to 100x leverage on approximately 100 crypto pairs [3] - Paradex vaults yield around 30% in USDC on approximately $50 million TVL [3] - Paradex is developing unique features like Perps option trading, spot trading, pre-Market, multi-Collateral Support, paradigm integration, privacy trading, and a native yield-bearing synthetic dollar [3] - Extended, an app on public Starknet, offers up to 100x leverage on over 50 pairs, including crypto, Gold, EUR/USD, Oil, and S&P500 [4] - Extended vaults yield around 26% in USDC [3][4] - Extended provides smooth EVM onboarding and integrated lending [4] Marketing & Incentives - A trading contest offers $100 thousand USDC + 400 thousand XP rewards over 4 weeks [2] - Money Badgers campaign is underway [2]

RT Tyler Tarsi (@ttarsi_)perps 101perps are 90%+ of crypto volume today, they run the market. critical to understand, but most people working in crypto don't actually understand how they work.did a few sessions this week internally breaking them down. here's the tldr - not a guide, just my stream of consciousness notes.start with order books - they're universal, not specific to perps. bids = buy orders, asks = sell orders. difference between best ask and best bid is the "spread"there is no true singular "pr ...

Industry Perspective - Perps, coins, and prediction markets convey the same message through different mediums [1]