rf.extended(@rf_extended):Extended end of Q1 update [TLDR] - Multi-asset collateral launching soon - TradFi expansion accelerating (>25 markets live, partnership coming, focused on distribution via TradFi brokers) - Becoming more institutional-ready (pricing methodology, trading workflows) - Building decentralised, high-throughput sequencing [Product] The team has completed development of multi-asset collateral margin. It is now in the testing phase on testnet and undergoing smart contract audits. We expect to launch at the end of April or early May, with support for wBTC, ETH, USDT and potentially EURC as collateral, subject to underlying liquidity. In Q1, we also doubled down on our TradFi offering, expanding to 25+ equities, indices, FX markets and commodities with competitive liquidity. We are currently finalising an agreement with a major TradFi broker, which will both broaden our offering and help bring in flow. The other priority for the team is making Extended more institutional-friendly across both product and trading: - Improving the definition and transparency of fair reference pricing for TradFi markets, with a consistent and clear methodology: spot-based references for equities and FX, and futures-derived pricing for commodities and energy - Introducing and better communicating institutional-grade features such as MPC wallet workflows, API key-only trading, and our sub-account architecture In addition: - With multi-asset collateral, we have built native spot markets (required to process liquidations of non-USDC balances). These will be released shortly after the cross-asset rollout. - The team is progressing towards decentralising sequencing via an application-specific chain built on a high-throughput implementation of full BFT consensus (targeting ~50ms block times and hundreds of thousands of transactions per second). This architecture introduces an app-chain layered on top of our existing zk-enabled stack, enabling decentralised matching and related services while preserving existing security guarantees. More details and timelines will be shared soon. Importantly, this design enables Extended tokenomics and revenue accrual to the token. [Growth and community] Our strategy remains consistent: - Stay open to feedback - Continuously iterate on the product - Encourage organic usage - Do not do paid marketing or paid deals - Focus on long-term sustainability and value creation Over the past quarter, we have gained stronger conviction that demand for perpetuals is increasing among traditional players, driven by 24/7 trading, higher leverage and deeper liquidity. As a result, we are doubling down on business development with TradFi brokers (fintechs and trading platforms). This is a long-term effort, but we believe it will be a key driver of sustainable growth. We also have several important integrations with trading terminals coming up, both retail and institutional. [Team] Over the past quarter, we hired 3 new team members and are now a team of 14. As we move towards decentralising sequencing, we expect to grow to 18-20 people in the coming months. [Market and exchange metrics] Nothing unexpected: January saw all-time highs across key metrics, followed by a broader market slowdown in February and March. All Extended metrics are public: https://t.co/ApTdGaTEOM From our perspective, short-term market conditions are less important than long-term trends. What matters is that the market we are building in continues to grow and there is room for new players. We strongly believe this is the case: - price discovery for TradFi assets is likely to increasingly shift towards perpetuals. More on this here: https://t.co/PyefvylBIJ - DeFi continues to gain share versus CeFi - Regulatory clarity is improving across both the US and Europe

2026.04.01 16:27

Extended end of Q1 update [TLDR] - Multi-asset collateral launching soon - TradFi expansion accelerating (>25 markets live, partnership coming, focused on distribution via TradFi brokers) - Becoming more institutional-ready (pricing methodology, trading workflows) - Building decentralised, high-throughput sequencing [Product] The team has completed development of multi-asset collateral margin. It is now in the testing phase on testnet and undergoing smart contract audits. We expect to launch at the end of April or early May, with support for wBTC, ETH, USDT and potentially EURC as collateral, subject to underlying liquidity. In Q1, we also doubled down on our TradFi offering, expanding to 25+ equities, indices, FX markets and commodities with competitive liquidity. We are currently finalising an agreement with a major TradFi broker, which will both broaden our offering and help bring in flow. The other priority for the team is making Extended more institutional-friendly across both product and trading: - Improving the definition and transparency of fair reference pricing for TradFi markets, with a consistent and clear methodology: spot-based references for equities and FX, and futures-derived pricing for commodities and energy - Introducing and better communicating institutional-grade features such as MPC wallet workflows, API key-only trading, and our sub-account architecture In addition: - With multi-asset collateral, we have built native spot markets (required to process liquidations of non-USDC balances). These will be released shortly after the cross-asset rollout. - The team is progressing towards decentralising sequencing via an application-specific chain built on a high-throughput implementation of full BFT consensus (targeting ~50ms block times and hundreds of thousands of transactions per second). This architecture introduces an app-chain layered on top of our existing zk-enabled stack, enabling decentralised matching and related services while preserving existing security guarantees. More details and timelines will be shared soon. Importantly, this design enables Extended tokenomics and revenue accrual to the token. [Growth and community] Our strategy remains consistent: - Stay open to feedback - Continuously iterate on the product - Encourage organic usage - Do not do paid marketing or paid deals - Focus on long-term sustainability and value creation Over the past quarter, we have gained stronger conviction that demand for perpetuals is increasing among traditional players, driven by 24/7 trading, higher leverage and deeper liquidity. As a result, we are doubling down on business development with TradFi brokers (fintechs and trading platforms). This is a long-term effort, but we believe it will be a key driver of sustainable growth. We also have several important integrations with trading terminals coming up, both retail and institutional. [Team] Over the past quarter, we hired 3 new team members and are now a team of 14. As we move towards decentralising sequencing, we expect to grow to 18-20 people in the coming months. [Market and exchange metrics] Nothing unexpected: January saw all-time highs across key metrics, followed by a broader market slowdown in February and March. All Extended metrics are public: From our perspective, short-term market conditions are less important than long-term trends. What matters is that the market we are building in continues to grow and there is room for new players. We strongly believe this is the case: - price discovery for TradFi assets is likely to increasingly shift towards perpetuals. More on this here: - DeFi continues to gain share versus CeFi - Regulatory clarity is improving across both the US and Europe

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2026.03.26 13:30

Perpetual futures will become a primary venue for price discovery in TradFi markets, but they will not replace dated futures and options. Today, price discovery happens across different instruments. Equities and FX primarily trade on spot markets, while commodities and energy rely on dated futures. USDC-settled perpetuals offer structural advantages that make them a strong alternative for trading and liquidity concentration: 1. They trade 24/7 2. They aggregate liquidity into a single order book and are structurally standardized 3. They enable higher capital efficiency through continuous margining Importantly, many of these advantages are structural. Traditional financial markets are not 24/7 not only due to historical inertia, but because risk management and settlement operate in discrete cycles. Margining is not continuous, and collateral transfers and custody updates occur in batches, requiring system-wide coordination. At the same time, traditional derivatives markets fragment liquidity. Dated futures split liquidity across expiries, while options spread it further across expiries and strikes. As a result, liquidity is distributed across many instruments. Perpetuals reverse this dynamic by consolidating liquidity into a single instrument per asset and providing a standardized structure across markets, with no rolling and simpler basis management. This makes them easier to hedge and trade. Perpetuals also allow for more capital-efficient use of margin through continuous risk management and liquidation mechanisms, although this comes with different risk trade-offs compared to the more conservative, discrete systems used in TradFi. Given these dynamics, USDC-settled perpetuals will become a primary venue for trading and price discovery in TradFi assets over time. However, several challenges remain: 1. Trust and inertia: Institutions will need time to build confidence in crypto-native infrastructure and adapt their internal processes and risk frameworks, for example moving from futures term structure to perp funding dynamics. 2. Index definition: Perpetual markets depend on a clear and reliable reference price. For TradFi assets, this requires consistent and widely accepted methodologies. This means spot-based references for equities and FX, and derived spot prices from futures for commodities and energy. In practice, areas like futures roll and non-trading hours are not yet fully standardised across the industry. We also recognise that the current approach used by Extended is not yet ideal, and we are actively working to improve the definition of a fair and robust reference price. Even if perps become dominant for trading, they will not replace dated futures and options, as these serve different purposes: 1. Dated futures provide time-specific hedging and a strong link to the real economy through physical delivery and convergence to spot at expiry. 2. Options provide convex payoffs and enable trading and hedging of volatility. In summary, perpetuals are structurally better suited for liquidity aggregation and continuous trading, and will play a leading role in price discovery. However, they will coexist with dated futures and options, which remain essential for time-specific hedging and non-linear risk management. Bridging perps and TradFi represents one of the largest and most durable opportunities in financial markets and is a core focus for Extended.

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