Papertrade Sets 1000x Perps Launch With $85 Million Deposited
Papertrade scheduled its perpetual futures launch for Oct. 10 at 10 a.m. ET, with deposits set to pause shortly before trading starts. The venue also said its house-side pool starts at zero, while pre-launch deposits had reached about $85.3 million.
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Users who already funded accounts are the ones most immediately affected, because trading is set to start at 10 a.m. ET and deposits are scheduled to stop 15 minutes earlier. Anyone waiting until the launch window will have to have funds in place before trading begins, while the venue’s house-side pool starts from zero.
In practice, the launch changes the timing of access more than the structure of the venue: frontend trading opens at a set hour, and deposits pause shortly before that. The separate house-side pool remains a distinct pool rather than being mixed with user deposits, and it begins at zero.
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