For several reasons, it’s not always convenient to deal with an asset directly but to trade with a “synthetic version” of it. That’s how stablecoins came to life: they represent underlying assets, often with the same value, but they’re not that asset itself. Futures and perpetual futures contracts in the finance world are very similar, but looking for speculative earnings or hedging risks...
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