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  • Introduction
    • About B3X
  • World Market
    • Introduction
    • Problems with Current Markets
      • DeFi's Never-Ending Cold Start Problem
      • Limited Utility for Existing Assets
      • CeFi Dominates with 100x Volume
      • Outdated DeFi Perps Offerings
      • Consistent Battle for Liquidity
      • Stablecoins with No Use-case
      • Unfair LP Treatment
      • No Settlement Venue is Best
  • Introducing: The World Market
    • Solving the Crypto UX Nightmare
    • Purposeful Stablecoins
    • Unlimited Open Interest
    • Enabling Deep Liquidity
    • LPs as 1st Class Citizens
    • First-Principle Orderbook Design
  • World Modules
    • Delta-Neutral Stablecoin
    • Yield-Bearing Stablecoin
    • Long-Only Vault
    • Short-Only Vault
    • Long vs Short Vault
    • Lending
    • Funding Rate Collector
  • Future: Supercharged DeFi
    • User-Centric Intent, Action, and Execution Marketplace
    • Yield Trading
    • Simplified Market Experience
    • LPs as First-Class Citizens: Mini DAOs
    • Building Distribution for all — Chains, Protocols and Users
    • Resolving Cold-start Problem
    • Launching New Markets
    • Building Solutions with Derivatives as a First Principle
    • Bootstrapping TVL Growth: Unlocking DeFi’s True Potential
    • Boosting Token Utility
    • Meaningful Second-order Incentives
    • Boosting Economical Security of DeFi protocols
  • Our Call to Action
  • Technical Specs
    • Architectural Design
    • Pricing Mechanism
    • Risk Management
      • Risk Factors
      • Price Protection
      • Auto Deleverage
      • Liquidation
    • Settlement Design
    • Asset Management
    • Market Management
  • Fees
  • Testnet
    • World Market (Rise)
  • World Fund
    • Introduction
    • The Problem
    • Architecture
      • User Layer
      • Human-driven Application Layer
      • AI-driven Application Layer
      • Infrastructure Layer
    • Core Components
      • Fund Builder
      • Quant Agent
      • Strategy Framework
    • Decentralized Architecture
    • Execution Layer
    • Conclusion
    • References
    • Original Whitepaper PDF
  • Economics
    • World Market
    • World Fund
  • External Links
    • Website
    • Twitter
    • Discord
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  1. World Market
  2. Problems with Current Markets

DeFi's Never-Ending Cold Start Problem

Huge Liquidity Potential, Yet the Never-Ending Cold Start Problem

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Crypto is now a $3.5T asset class, but we still face liquidity challenges and cold-start issues at perpetual futures market launches. With just 1% of the market cap ($35B), we should be able to create efficient on-chain perpetual future markets, yet we’re still struggling.

The problem is clear: Spot DEXes and lending markets have 10x the liquidity of derivatives. Why? Because we’re limiting perpetual futures to blue-chip assets and mainly USDC onchain. Even after more than 3 years of innovation, perpetual futures still lag behind other DeFi primitives.

By neglecting a wider range of assets, we’re missing huge liquidity potential and holding back the growth of on-chain derivatives. It’s time to rethink and expand these markets.