Goldman Sachs, Citadel and Google alumni unveil DeepSigma for real-world asset perpetuals

DeepSigma, a new decentralized exchange for real-world asset (RWA) derivatives, has launched a demo that lets users paper-trade perpetual futures on 77 markets, from US equities and indexes to commodities and Treasury yields. Powered by the Cypherium blockchain, DeepSigma aims to address gaps in existing markets: traditional brokers may restrict trading outside market hours or by jurisdiction, while crypto-native perpetual exchanges often lack the liquidity, tools and user experience needed to support traditional financial assets. “Crypto has already demonstrated the demand for perpetual markets, but you cannot simply take the same model and put a stock or commodity ticker on it,” said Sky Guo, CEO of DeepSigma and founder of Cypherium. “Real-world markets have different trading hours, liquidity conditions, pricing sources and regulatory considerations. We started DeepSigma with those differences in mind.” The platform is designed to extend crypto’s perpetual futures model to traditional financial markets without tokenizing or taking custody of the underlying assets, the project notes. Its contracts use external price data to track real-world markets, enabling traders to gain long ...