PROOF LAUNCHES CONDITIONALS EXCHANGE: EVENT-CONTINGENT CRYPTO DERIVATIVES

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Proof is building a derivatives exchange around a new instrument class called Conditionals, which price assets contingent on specific events and settle to the underlying position if the condition is met or revert to zero PnL if not. The design addresses a gap between prediction markets and spot/perp trading: existing event markets tell traders whether something happens but do not reveal what an asset is worth if that event occurs. US equities generated over 60% of their excess returns on roughly 13% of trading days tied to scheduled macro announcements, a figure Proof cites to frame the scale of event-conditional demand that current instruments leave unmet. The protocol runs on testnet after a June v0 Challenge with 500+ paper-trading participants, with a capped real-money Mainnet Private Alpha rolling out shortly.