This is the most unique perps exchange design I've seen in a while. Particularly because of the $PAPER mechanism. Here's how it works: > @papertrade_xyz is a synthetic perps protocol on HyperEVM without fees, funding, or slippage. > If you lose a trade, your full margin goes to the LP. If you win, you get paid but the protocol takes a fee on your gain - the fee is smaller for big moves, bigger for tiny moves. That haircut is the protocol's only revenue. > The LP starts at $0. It fills purely from trader losses. If the LP can't pay a winner immediately, the payout enters an onchain FIFO debt queue and gets paid as the LP refills. > Losing traders receive PAPER tokens. The lower the LP balance, the more PAPER you mint per dollar lost. > PAPER can be staked to earn USDC dividends - a continuous cut of LP revenue. Once the LP exceeds $5M, all surplus gains go entirely to stakers. > When the LP is low, emissions are high, so this is theoretically the time to accumulate PAPER cheap (also the riskiest period - if volume dries up, the LP doesn't earn any revenue and the whole flywheel breaks). > When the LP is high ($5M), dividends are high, so this is theoretically best time to be staking. > With sufficient volume, both states create buying/holding pressure on the token. ----- Holding/staking $PAPER is essentially betting that traders will lose against the house, which is arguably one of the most reliable bets you can make (and a good hedge if you're a degen perps trader).

@0xCryptoSam @papertrade_xyz but what if traders on the platform win more than they lose ? Does this protocol broke if users beat the market ??