From our conversations with TradFi brokers, it’s clear that moving to 24/7 is quickly becoming table stakes. To get there, most are looking at two routes: launching perps (either in-house or via partners) or extending CFDs to 24/7 and hedging the exposure externally. When discussing the second approach, hedging CFD exposure with perps (instead of futures, leveraged spot, etc.), two structural differences stand out: 1. Deterministic liquidation vs operational margining. In TradFi, margining is rule-based but involves operational processes and potential grace periods, while in perps liquidation is fully deterministic and continuous, ensuring individual account and system-wide solvency without credit assumptions. 2. Managing funding vs rollover / borrow costs. Perp funding is realized more frequently (hourly / 8-hour), and can be significantly more volatile as it reacts in real time to positioning imbalances, compared to the smoother, benchmark-driven cost of carry in futures and financing markets. None of those are blockers to a wider institutional adoption of perps, but rather observations on how traditional players are already adapting their ways of working to benefit from perps and DeFi.