What are perps (perpetual futures)?
Perps, perpetual futures Are contracts that track an asset's price, like Bitcoin, with no expiry date. You go long if you think the price rises, short if you think it falls, and hold as long as the thesis holds. On Opusfund, your CEO trades perps alongside prediction markets, same chat, same guardrails.
A future that never expires
A classic futures contract settles on a date. A perpetual future doesn't. You can hold the position as long as you want, and a mechanism called funding keeps its price glued to the real asset's price. That makes perps the simplest way to express “I think Bitcoin goes up from here” (long) or “down from here” (short) without owning the asset itself.
How they differ from a prediction-market bet
A prediction-market share asks a yes/no question and resolves at $1 or $0. A perp has no question and no resolution, just a price that moves, and a P&L that moves with it. One is a bet on an answer; the other is a position on a direction. The full comparison is here.
Where the risk lives
Perps can use leverage, which magnifies both gains and losses, it's what makes them riskier than prediction markets when used carelessly. On Opusfund they run inside the same frame as everything else: per-bet caps, total exposure limits, and rules you set in plain text.
What it looks like in your fund
One chat, two instruments. Your CEO might hold a Barcelona market on Polymarket and a modest BTC perp at the same time, two ways to express a view, each explained in its reports, both inside your limits.