# Why Now? The Value of Ondo Perps

Published: 2026-07-17T10:47:00.000Z
Author: Ondo Perps
URL: https://ondoperps.xyz/blog/rwa-perps-why-now

Perp markets are maturing, and traders are looking for ways to use their capital more efficiently. Ondo Perps approaches this by letting tokenized stocks serve as collateral to unlock best-in-class capital efficiency, enabling hedging with deep liquidity, while also simplifying access to more advanc…

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Perp markets are maturing, and traders are looking for ways to use their capital more efficiently. Ondo Perps approaches this by letting tokenized stocks serve as collateral to unlock best-in-class capital efficiency, enabling hedging with deep liquidity, while also simplifying access to more advanced strategies.
Efficiency
As crypto markets continue to mature, traders need to maximize every dollar they put in the market. Today, traders can get buying power extended by depositing stablecoins and in some cases, select crypto assets. This is good, but still leaves a lot of opportunity on the table to improve capital efficiency. 

For example, when a trader is looking to stay neutral and cannot collateralize the perps leg with the underlying asset, they will need to make two separate deposits (either on the same platform via sub-accounts, or on a different platform altogether) requiring a drawdown on the overall pool of that trader’s available capital.

Ondo Perps pushes the industry forward in this regard by tapping the market leader in tokenized equities, Ondo Global Markets, and allowing the underlying Ondo tokenized stock to be deployed and used for buying power on the perps side of a trade. 

By being the first perps platform to unlock the power of tokenized stocks as collateral, Ondo Perps will be the most efficient place to deploy spot assets for buying power on Perps. Capital efficiency is always in style.
Hedging
The “Perpification” of everything is real. Traditional markets are moving onto crypto rails to access liquidity on a 24/7 basis. Total volume on RWA perps is skyrocketing to over $130B year-to-date and Open Interest is hovering around $2B on a daily basis. 
We expect this trend will continue, if not accelerate, and we expect the overall size of the perps volume pie will significantly increase over the next 3-5 years. Traders need more than one extremely liquid market to efficiently hedge and manage their risk, especially over weekends. Ondo Perps will be a major player here.
Access to Sophisticated Strategies
If you agree with us that the overall pie is going to grow, it stands to reason that traders will need to level up their game as more participants enter the market. 
Ondo Perps is uniquely positioned (see reason #1) to open up easy, one-click sophisticated trading strategies to the average trader. As our platform scales; basis trades, mean reversion value capture, momentum strategies (among others) will all eventually be available to traders with a single click.
Markets are evolving right before our eyes and market participants need platforms that are custom built to keep up with the speed of innovation. By leveraging the largest market of tokenized spot stocks and ETFs as collateral, and enabling deep liquidity for hedging, sophisticated trading strategies become available to everyone.