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The Real Liquidity Test for Equity Perps
Equity perpetuals face an execution quality problem: thin order books force leveraged positions through multiple price levels, degrading average fill price relative to the displayed quote. Ondo Perps currently carries $23.5M in open interest across 26 pairs at a 0.07% average bid-ask spread, with OI up ~20x in the past month, positioning it as the tightest execution venue in the equity perps space. Its structural differentiator is using tokenized stocks as margin collateral rather than USDC, which improves capital efficiency but introduces compounding drawdown risk: a 20% haircut on $10k of NVDA collateral leaves $8k counting toward margin, and a simultaneous price drop erodes that buffer faster than a stablecoin position would. Backed by Ondo Global Markets' $18B in cumulative trading volume, 260+ tokenized US equities and ETFs, and ~50% tokenized stock market share by value ($858M per RWA.xyz), the platform is converting tokenization from a narrative into functioning derivatives infrastructure.
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