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Ostium says $23.75M vault drain came from breached off-chain systems, not its contracts
Onchain perpetuals venue Ostium says its July 15 loss of 23.75 million USDC came from a breach of off-chain infrastructure used to feed fraudulent BTC-USD prices, not from its contracts.
CFTC buys itself another month on 24/7 futures and energy "perpetuals"
The CFTC pushed its public-comment deadline back 30 days to August 26, 2026, on whether to permit 24/7 trading of standard energy futures and to list perpetual contracts referencing physical or storable energy commodities.
Stock perps now make up nearly half of Hyperliquid's trading volume, The Block reports
Perpetual futures tracking stocks like Nvidia and Tesla have grown from roughly 2% to nearly 50% of Hyperliquid's daily perp volume this year, according to The Block, with builder-deployed HIP-3 markets driving the shift.
Ondo says traders can now post tokenized stocks as collateral on its perps platform
Ondo Finance opened pre-alpha access to a perpetual-futures platform that lets non-U.S. traders post tokenized stocks as collateral, a claim reported by The Block and sourced to Ondo's own announcement.
eToro leads $12.5M round in onchain perps exchange Extended
eToro said it led a $12.5 million strategic round in Extended, an onchain perpetuals exchange, alongside Jump Crypto, linking the deal to its recently acquired Zengo self-custody wallet.
CFTC Opens Comment Period on 24/7 Futures and Energy 'Perpetual' Contracts
The CFTC on June 22 opened a public comment period on letting standard futures trade around the clock and on introducing perpetual futures tied to physically delivered or storable energy commodities.