Hyperliquid Says Perpetuals Should Anchor the CFTC’s Innovation Agenda

TL;DR

• Hyperliquid Policy Center says perpetual contracts should anchor the CFTC’s innovation agenda as U.S. demand and traditional-asset activity expand.
• Perpetuals can help airlines, funds and AI developers hedge open-ended risks without repeatedly rolling dated futures, while funding payments keep prices aligned with references.
• The CFTC has approved a U.S.-listed perpetual future, sought comments on energy and compute products, and HPC argues onchain infrastructure can modernize regulated derivatives under existing law.

Hyperliquid Policy Center is pushing perpetual contracts to the center of the CFTC’s innovation agenda after the product surfaced during the regulator’s first Innovation Advisory Committee meeting on August 20. Although perpetuals were not listed alongside digital assets, artificial intelligence and prediction markets, members raised them in all three sessions. The policy case is that perpetuals have moved from a crypto-native instrument into a broader derivatives format with growing U.S. demand. HPC says third-party markets on Hyperliquid have already generated more than $500 billion in notional volume across over 80 traditional commodity and equity markets.

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