Architect Shatters Barriers: First Regulated Perpetuals Exchange for Traditional Finance Assets Goes Live

Wall Street meets crypto in landmark regulatory breakthrough

The Institutional Bridge

Architect just flipped the script on traditional finance—launching the first fully regulated exchange for perpetual futures on TradFi assets. No more dancing around compliance hurdles or pretending synthetic assets are the real deal.

Regulation-First Framework

While crypto natives were busy arguing about decentralization, Architect went and got the paperwork sorted. Full regulatory approval means institutions can finally dive into perps without losing sleep over legal nightmares. Because nothing says 'serious' like government stamps of approval.

Traditional Assets, Crypto Leverage

Think stocks, commodities, and bonds—but with that sweet 20x leverage only crypto can provide. Finally, your pension fund manager can experience the thrill of liquidation while maintaining regulatory compliance. It's like giving a Ferrari to someone who's only driven minivans—with airbags and seatbelts installed, of course.

Institutional Gateway Opens

This isn't another DeFi experiment—it's the on-ramp TradFi desperately needed. Major funds get exposure to traditional assets with crypto efficiency, while regulators get to pretend they understand perpetual futures. Everybody wins, except maybe the traditional brokers watching their lunch get eaten.

Because sometimes the most revolutionary move isn't breaking rules—it's writing new ones that actually work.

Architect Financial Technologies Inc. announces the launch of AX, the first regulated exchange for trading perpetual futures on traditional underlying asset classes. AX offers novel perpetual contracts on foreign currencies, interest rates, single stocks, stock indexes, metals, energy, and other commodities.

AX is operated by the Company’s Bermuda-based affiliate Architect Bermuda Ltd., regulated by the Bermuda Monetary Authority (“BMA”). Architect Bermuda holds dual licenses under the BMA’s Investment Business Act and Digital Asset Business Act, providing AX customers the security of transacting under a robust and comprehensive regulatory regime.

AX’s perpetual futures contracts are standardized, centrally cleared, and matched on anonymous central limit order books. Backed by first-in-class matching engine technology built by Connamara Technologies, the exchange offers an advanced web-based user interface and low-latency APIs, with open source SDKs available in multiple programming languages. AX customers will be able to use both traditional fiat currency and digital asset stablecoins as collateral to meet margin requirements.

AX’s launch under Architect Bermuda’s regulatory licensure is a critical step forward for global derivatives trading, bringing key innovations in digital asset products to vast, comprehensively-regulated traditional financial markets. AX combines the security, transparency, and regulatory supervision of traditional futures markets with the capital efficiency, operational simplicity, and flexibility of digital asset non-expiring perpetual contracts. Offering instruments optimized for twenty-first-century market structure, AX aims to catalyze a new era in futures trading across the currencies, equities, credit, commodities, and insurance sectors.

AX is currently available to institutions — including hedge funds, market makers, family offices, asset managers, insurance and reinsurance companies, and lenders — in eligible jurisdictions.

To learn more about AX and onboard to the exchange, visit https://architect.exchange or contact [email protected]. Sophisticated individual traders interested in trading on AX can access the waitlist at https://architect.exchange.

Source: Architect