When Small-Cap Tokens Can “Leverage Major Market Moves”:SuperEx Launches Index Futures Trading, Expanding the Value Ceiling of Small-Cap Assets

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Over the past two days, a piece of news has swept through the crypto community. On January 7, reports showed that a recent market rebound allowed a whale — who had previously opened positions totaling USD 230 million and was once sitting on an unrealized loss of USD 74 million — to fully recover. The whale is now holding an unrealized profit of USD 26.82 million, with rebound gains exceeding USD 100 million.

Do not be intimidated by the numbers. What is truly astonishing about this news is not the amount itself, but the fact that within just eight hours, under the scale of a market like BTC, a rebound return of nearly 50% was achieved. It can be said that among all crypto products, derivatives are the most emotionally charged and the most capable of creating wealth legends.

However, for a long time, the derivatives market has been dominated almost entirely by major assets such as BTC and USDT. Small-cap tokens have largely been confined to spot trading or long-term holding, with limited capital efficiency and little ability to directly participate in major market fluctuations.

Now, that structure may finally be changing.

A Global First: SuperEx Index Futures Trading Launches on January 10, 2026

As a global first, SuperEx Index Futures Trading will officially launch on the app on January 10, 2026. It allows users to use small-cap tokens as margin and settlement assets to directly trade the index prices of major assets such as BTC and ETH — without the need for frequent token conversions.

Small-cap tokens can now participate directly in major market volatility, delivering a brand-new derivatives experience where “small caps leverage major market moves.”

This product adopts multi-exchange index pricing combined with a perpetual futures mechanism. While enhancing pricing fairness and trading stability, it enables users to deploy their existing assets more flexibly, improving both trading experience and capital efficiency.

In other words, small-cap tokens no longer just “sit idle in a position.” They finally become active settlement tools for participating in major market movements. Within the crypto derivatives space, this represents a structural-level innovation.

You can download the app in advance via the App Store or Google Play and click to participate quickly.

Unlocking Small-Cap Asset Value: From Passive Holding to Active Growth

Previously, if users wanted to participate in mainstream futures markets, there was one unavoidable prerequisite: first convert small-cap tokens into USDT or major assets, and only then enter the derivatives trading environment.

This process not only introduced exchange losses and slippage risk, but also added extra decision-making costs. For many long-term holders, small-cap tokens themselves are strategic assets, and selling them passively just to trade is far from ideal.

SuperEx Index Futures Trading fundamentally changes this process:

Small-cap tokens can be used directly as margin
Profits and losses are settled in the same small-cap token
The trading underlying remains major index prices such as BTC/USDT and ETH/USDT
Asset utilization and trading frequency are significantly improved

Simply put, users can use the small-cap tokens they already hold as futures margin, with profits and losses settled in the same token, while trading the index prices of major assets like BTC and ETH. As a result, small-cap tokens are no longer just “positions,” but true value carriers capable of participating in market competition.

This means that long-term holding and volatility participation are connected for the first time in a natural way. Compared with traditional futures models, this not only unlocks the trading potential of idle assets, but also provides users with far more flexible capital allocation options.

Lowering the Barrier to Major Futures Markets — No USDT Required

No need to convert small-cap tokens into USDT or BTC
Reduced conversion friction and potential slippage losses
More flexible capital management

In simple terms, users can enter major market trading scenarios without converting small-cap tokens into USDT or other assets. This avoids conversion costs and reduces the psychological and decision-making pressure caused by asset restructuring.

For many users, small-cap tokens are long-term strategic holdings, while major-asset price movements represent short-term trading opportunities. This product combines both — balancing long-term investment with flexible trading needs.

Index Pricing + Perpetual Futures: Bringing Trading Closer to the Real Market

This product is priced using weighted multi-exchange index prices and designed around a perpetual futures mechanism, making its structure closer to derivatives in mature financial markets:

Index prices are formed through multi-platform weighted averages
Noise and abnormal price spikes are effectively filtered
Liquidation and settlement are based on mark prices
Fairness and stability are both prioritized

This significantly reduces price distortion caused by insufficient depth on a single exchange. In particular, when small-cap tokens suffer from limited liquidity and thin order books, prices can easily be impacted instantly, creating “wick spikes” or extreme anomalies that lead to accidental liquidations.

Under an index pricing mechanism, trades reference aggregated market data from multiple major exchanges, preventing price action from being driven by a single weak trading pair. Users are therefore participating in real and stable major-market trends, rather than bearing additional risk caused by small-cap liquidity constraints.

More Realistic, and More Free

Notably, the greatest value of this product is not merely lower barriers or higher efficiency, but the fact that it offers market participants an entirely new choice:

You can continue to hold small-cap tokens long term
You can participate in major market volatility along the way
You no longer need to choose between the two

This aligns with the evolving structure of the market and directly responds to users’ increasing demands for asset efficiency, flexibility, and overall experience.

The core significance of Index Futures Trading lies in eliminating the contradiction between “long-term holding” and “participating in volatility.” You can continue to hold the small-cap ecosystems you believe in, while naturally integrating into the broader trends of the mainstream market — allowing your assets to maintain higher efficiency and potential across different market cycles.

This is not only a tool-level innovation, but also an upgrade in investment methodology.