Mochatrade Raises $5.5 Million to Offer US Stock Perpetuals to Indian Traders

WHY IT MATTERS

This story sits at the intersection of crypto trading tools and traditional stock markets. A "perpetual contract" is a type of bet on the price of an asset — in this case, US stocks — that never expires. Think of it like a wager on whether a stock's price will go up or down, without actually owning the stock and without a deadline to close the bet. These instruments are very popular in crypto markets but are now being applied to stocks. For someone new to crypto, this illustrates how financial tools invented in the crypto world are starting to influence how people trade traditional assets like stocks, and how startups are trying to use these tools to give people in one country access to markets in another.