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why Extended won’t cut deals every week I get proposals for “special arrangements”. extra points pools, special trading budgets, requests to be placed in the highest league without trading. sometimes the numbers are big enough that saying no in the moment feels painful, especially when you’re responsible for growth and naturally think about how much faster things could move if you just agreed. but over time I've only become more convinced that saying no is the only correct decision. the first problem with deals like this is ethical. if a project publicly claims fairness while quietly making exceptions behind the scenes, it will eventually come out. it always does. when that happens, the reputational damage is much larger than whatever benefit the deal produced. the second problem is economic. most deals look attractive in isolation but stop making sense once you consider the system as a whole. take special points allocations. if you give someone an additional points pool, they are probably not the only one receiving it. a few more people get similar arrangements and suddenly no one is actually privileged - everyone just dilutes the overall distribution without even realizing it. or traders asking for budgets. when someone says: “give me $100k to trade or I won’t trade on your exchange.” my answer is usually simple: thank you for your time. a few days later I will probably see them trading on a competitor. that doesn’t make me sad that we lost them - it makes me sad that another exchange accepted the deal. traders who only show up because they are being paid to do so don’t care about your product, your token, or the long-term success of what you’re building. once the incentives disappear, they disappear too. another common request is to change the rules of the system. for example, people asking to be placed in the highest league to earn the extra APR without actually trading. besides being unfair, it breaks the economics. league rewards exist because active traders generate fees on the platform. if the people receiving that yield are not trading, there is no source of yield in the first place. the main cost of refusing deals is slower growth. it would definitely be easier to inflate metrics in the short term by making exceptions and distributing budgets. but if the goal is to build something that lasts, the rules have to be the same for everyone. Extended is not trying to grow as fast as possible. we are trying to build an exchange that traders continue using once incentives disappear, and that only happens if the system is fair and the economics actually make sense.

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Extended was among the first perp DEXs to launch commodities and index perps in Spring 2025. The next step is equities. Extended is launching its first six equity perpetual pairs. Equity perps have not yet truly scaled onchain for one reason: liquidity. Extended is building to solve it - with further updates to follow.