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Phantom doubles down on perpetual futures with hire of Hyperliquid market builders
Key takeaways
- Crypto wallet Phantom said Tuesday it hired Alvin Hsia, Emily Hsia and Aris Samad, the creators of Ventuals, the project that shut down its OpenAI and Anthropic perpetual futures markets earlier this week.
- The trio will join Phantom's trading and data teams, according to Phantom CEO Brandon Millman.
- Perpetual futures have evolved from a crypto-native innovation into one of the industry's most important products.
Crypto wallet Phantom said Tuesday it hired Alvin Hsia, Emily Hsia and Aris Samad, the creators of Ventuals, the project that shut down its OpenAI and Anthropic perpetual futures markets earlier this week.
The trio will join Phantom's trading and data teams, according to Phantom CEO Brandon Millman.
The move comes after Ventuals announced earlier this month it was winding down and joining another project within the Hyperliquid ecosystem, ending one of the exchange's most prominent experiments in trading private-company valuations onchain.
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