{"id":"tp-21142","type":"article-newspaper","title":"[Interview] 'Everyone Should Be Trading Perps': A Conversation With Variational Founder Lucas Schuermann","author":"Sonny Kwon","publisher":"TOKENPOST Inc.","url":"https://www.tokenpost.com/news/insights/21142","datePublished":"2026-06-07T13:08:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-06-07T13:08:18.000Z","language":"en","abstract":"Fresh off a $50 million raise led by Dragonfly, the Goldman Sachs and Google alum explains why his platform is built like a brokerage instead of an exchange — and why the real demand for on-chain markets hasn't been d…","section":"Insights & Views","references":[]}