Protocol Overview & Architecture
Pre-IPO market-cap perpetuals alongside global equity and index markets, all margined in USDC.
Entropy (ticker io) is a HIP-3 market deployer on Hyperliquid offering perpetual futures across three product lines: global equities, indices, and its distinguishing product, long-dated pre-IPO equities. USDC is the sole collateral asset across every position and market type.
Its pre-IPO contracts reference private companies before any public listing, enabling continuous price discovery on an issuer's implied valuation without private-share inventory or secondary-market access. Because share counts in private financing rounds are uncertain, these contracts are denominated in market capitalization rather than share price — each $1 of a pre-IPO perpetual represents $1B of the underlying company's market cap. A pre-IPO perpetual is not equity: it conveys no ownership, voting rights, dividends, information rights, or IPO allocation.
