Over the last week, we’ve been talking a lot about Liquid as the next great retail trading platform, but that’s only part of the story. Our founder was the former Head of AI Research at Two Sigma and also worked at Citadel and D. E. Shaw. He left after seeing firsthand how Quant firms extract from retail through payment for order flow, opaque options pricing, adverse execution, and leveraged ETFs whose daily resets and fees can quietly erode returns. The idea behind Liquid came directly out of that experience: if retail traders are going to compete, they need market infrastructure that is more transparent, easier to understand, and built around their interests rather than hidden layers of intermediation. We built Liquid as a decentralized, non-custodial venue on perpetual futures because we think that levels the playing field. Perps give traders a more direct way to express a view, with clear exposure, no expiry, no options-style time decay, and access to markets that traditional brokers often make difficult or impossible to trade. The goal isn’t to encourage people to take more risk. It’s to give them a cleaner instrument, better access, and more control over how they trade. Why perps: > No expiry, no theta decay, no IV crush. With options, being right on direction isn’t always enough. You’re also paying for time and implied volatility, which often gets especially expensive around events like earnings. That means you can get the stock right and still lose money if the move isn’t big enough or implied volatility collapses after the print. With a perpetual future, your exposure is much more direct: if the underlying moves, your position moves with it. There’s no expiration clock and no IV premium to get crushed after the event. > Access. Oracle-based pricing allows perpetuals to track markets that are difficult or impossible to access through a traditional U.S. brokerage account. That’s how Liquid can offer exposure to private companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, as well as international names like $SKHY and $CXMT before they become available on platforms like IBKR or Robinhood. > Cost. Options embed market maker hedge costs into the premium. Perpetuals keep you near the underlying and charge a small, transparent funding rate on the position instead of an opaque options package. Directional risk without buying a volatility product. But better market infrastructure is only half the equation. Retail traders also need better tools to understand what they’re trading. That’s why we built @coinvestai our free AI trading companion that helps users research markets, understand positioning and risk, and pressure-test a trade before they put capital behind it. The goal isn’t to have AI make decisions for you. It’s to give retail access to the kind of research and analytical support that has historically been reserved for institutions. > Better markets. > Better information. > Better tools. Retail deserves markets that don’t hide the bill and tools that help them compete. That’s what Liquid is for.

starting to see sub-cent spreads on @liquidtrading prediction markets

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JUST IN: Anthropic is currently trading up 2.9% in the last 24 hours on Liquid as it looks to reclaim implied market cap of $2 trillion

What’s the best time of day to trade? History offers a surprising answer: over long periods, most stock market gains have come overnight, while traditional exchanges were closed. Liquid gives retail traders access 24/7, including nights and weekends. This Saturday, traders bought the dip on Liquid and traded the recovery. Those waiting for the traditional market to reopen couldn’t act on that weekend move. By the opening bell, the opportunity already passed. Markets don’t wait for the opening bell. Neither should you.

Happy Black Monday!

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It has been an extraordinary weekend in the world of 24/7 perpetual markets. Let's recap. A sudden burst of selling tore through contracts tied to memory chips and AI infrastructure Saturday evening, turning a relatively quiet session into a sudden scramble. Contracts tied to $MU, $SNDK and $WDC perps sank as leveraged positions were forced out, before buyers stepped in and erased a substantial part of the decline. The action began around 5:22 PM ET. An order-flow analysis traced the first large Micron and Sandisk sell orders to Binance. Selling reached Hyperliquid less than a second later, with roughly ten addresses opening short positions across six chip-related contracts within 1.8 seconds. The initial pressure was followed by a liquidation cascade. Approximately $51.6 million in positions were force-closed between 5:22 and 5:32 PM ET, including about $38 million in longs, according to CoinGlass figures reported by CoinDesk. Traders made millions buying the flash crash as prices snapped back. By 6:15 PM ET, $MU had rebounded 4.4% from its low, $WDC had recovered 5.3% and $IREN had bounced 8.8%, turning a wave of forced selling into a lucrative reversal for dip buyers. The immediate catalyst for Saturday’s initial sell orders remains unconfirmed. The timing, concentrated selling and rapid recovery point to a market-liquidity event amplified by forced closures. These were moves in stock-linked perpetual contracts while the underlying shares were closed for the weekend. By Sunday, a meaningful gap remained between several contracts and Friday’s cash closes. The next test is whether returning equity-market trading validates those weekend prices or narrows the gap further. Markets keep moving. Trade them 24/7 at liquid.trade.

$DRAM and $MU recovering as Liquid traders are buying up the dip on memory

As an additional update Crude Oil is trading just below $100. Do you think it goes above $100 by monday?

$MU falls to as low as $820 on Liquid before recovering some losses

JUST IN: OpenAI implied valuation slides to below $1.5 trillion amid broader selloff on stocks over the weekend on Liquid

Stocks are getting hammered as selling pressure continues on Liquid this weekend, now spreading across memory, storage and AI infrastructure. $WDC and $STX are leading the slide, while $MU and $SNDK are now down more than 3% versus Friday’s close. The pressure extends through the AI buildout: power supplier $BE, networking names $AAOI and $LITE, and cloud providers $CRWV and $IREN are all moving lower. Earlier pockets of strength are fading too. $NBIS has slipped into the red, and 85 of the 96 stocks and ETFs we tracked are now below Friday’s close. Markets keep moving. Trade them 24/7 at liquid.trade

A famous entrepreneur asked his grandfather: “is it a good idea to buy the dip with your friends?” The grandfather said: “Who else are you going to buy the dip with? Your enemies?”

$MU down as well. Are we getting a front run to the anniversary of black Monday?

JUST IN: $DRAM just fell from $46.5 to ~$44 in the last thirty minutes Are you buying the dip?