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Perpetual futures and Hyperliquid’s blockchain infrastructure are expanding into traditional asset classes with around-the-clock trading, according to Pantera Capital. Perpetual futures are on track to become one of the dominant trading instruments in global finance, with decentralized exchange Hyperliquid demonstrating how blockchain-based infrastructure could challenge traditional markets, according to Pantera Capital. The blockchain-focused asset manager said in a Wednesday X post that perpetual futures offer structural advantages over traditional derivatives, including 24/7 trading, no contract expiries, simpler position management and continuous price discovery, making them increasingly attractive beyond crypto markets. Pantera, an investor in the Hyperliquid ecosystem, said Hyperliquid has become the leading example of that shift by expanding perpetual futures beyond cryptocurrencies into equities, commodities and stock indices as part of founder Jeff Yan's vision of “housing all of finance.” Read more

Sentient launched Arena, a production-style platform to test AI agents on enterprise tasks, with Pantera and Franklin Templeton joining the initial cohort. Pantera Capital and Franklin Templeton’s digital assets units have joined the first cohort of Arena, a new testing environment from open-source AI lab Sentient that is designed to evaluate how AI agents perform in enterprise-style workflows. In a Friday announcement shared with Cointelegraph, Sentient positioned Arena as a production-style benchmarking platform rather than a static model test. Instead of scoring agents on fixed datasets alone, it runs them through standardized tasks modeled on enterprise conditions, including long documents, incomplete information and conflicting sources.  “In this initial phase, participation refers to supporting the Arena program and developer cohort,” Oleg Golev, product lead at Sentient Labs, told Cointelegraph. Read more

Pantera’s Dan Morehead nailed his prediction for Bitcoin’s Aug. 11, 2025 price, made in November 2022 as BTC was nearing its bottom. Pantera Capital’s adherence to the Bitcoin halving cycle enabled it to predict Bitcoin’s price with striking accuracy in 2022, underscoring how the asset’s supply schedule can influence valuations, even as skepticism about the cycles grows. In November of that year, Pantera published a price chart mapping Bitcoin’s (BTC) halving rallies and showing diminishing returns after each four-year epoch. Factoring in the typical timing between market bottoms and post-halving rallies, the firm projected Bitcoin would hit $117,482 by Aug. 11, 2025. On Aug. 11, Bitcoin closed above $119,000, according to Coin Metrics data cited by CNBC. Read more

Ondo Finance and Pantera Capital have launched a $250 million fund to accelerate investments in tokenized real-world assets (RWAs), Axios reported on July 3. According to the report, the fund, named Ondo Catalyst, will invest in equity stakes and tokens of projects developing tokenized versions of traditional financial assets. Ian De Bode, chief strategy officer […] The post Pantera, Ondo launch $250M fund to drive RWA tokenization appeared first on CryptoSlate.