Cryptocurrency28 Jul 2026SEO 801 min read

Analysis: Wall Street veteran Don Wilson says regulators are getting perps all wrong

Perpetual futures have become one of crypto's defining financial products, but DRW CEO Don Wilson says much of what people think they know about them is w…

Perpetual futures have become one of crypto's defining financial products, but DRW CEO Don Wilson says much of what people think they know about them is wrong. In a series of posts on X, Wilson argued that perpetual futures — or "perps" — are simply futures contracts without an expiration date. The features often associated with crypto perpetuals, such as high leverage, auto-deleveraging (ADL) and around-the-clock trading, are characteristics of how some crypto exchanges chose to implement…

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