QFEX growth playbook

Server-render a short, factual header on every /trade/<market> page, above the unchanged trading app. It needs a unique title ("SK Hynix perpetual futures (SKHYNIX-KRW): trade 24/7 | QFEX"), a meta description, the underlying and its price source, hourly funding, the fee for that asset class, how the market behaves while the home exchange is closed, and current 24h volume and open interest from QFEX's own API. Add canonical and Open Graph tags, structured data, a four-question FAQ, and the risk and eligibility notice. Write the copy by asset class (US stocks, indices, commodities, Asian listings, pre-IPO) so the pages are not near-duplicates, and link them from a /markets hub grouped by region and asset class.

Each market is its own search ("trade KOSPI at night", "Brent price on Sunday", "Nasdaq 100 weekend"), and the content already exists in the docs and the market-data API. One template fixes 236 pages at once, and every shared link starts showing the market's name and price instead of the generic title.

Title: {Name} perpetual futures ({SYMBOL}): trade 24/7 | QFEX
Description: Trade {Name} perpetual futures around the clock on QFEX. Funding every hour, {fee} taker fee, price from {source}. 24h volume {vol}.
H1: {Name} ({SYMBOL}) perpetual
Facts: Underlying | Price source | Funding: hourly | Fee tier | When {home exchange} is closed: {rule}
Live: 24h volume | Open interest | Funding rate
FAQ: Can I trade {Name} at the weekend? / How is the price set when the market is closed? / What does it cost? / Who can trade?
Notice: risk warning and restricted locations

• 236 near-identical pages look thin

  Write copy per asset class and include live, market-specific numbers on every page.

• Promotional wording reaches restricted locations

  Compliance signs off the template once, and every page carries the eligibility notice.

• Your websiteMarket pages (fetched November 9, 2026, without running JavaScript): /trade/NVDA-USD, /trade/CL-USD and /trade/SKHYNIX-KRW, like /lossback and /press, return only the homepage title line "QFEX - The first 24/7 exchange only for global equities and commodities", with no market name, description or contract details.Source
• Your websiteSitemap (checked November 9, 2026): 246 URLs, of which 236 are /trade market pages (US stocks and ETFs; indices such as US100, US500, KOSPI, NIKKEI, HSI, TAIEX and NIFTY; commodities such as CL, BRENT, GOLD, COPPER and URANIUM; Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Swedish listings; pre-IPO markets). The other 10 are /, /login, /signup, /trade, /rewards, /affiliates, /strategies, /lossback, /daily-auction and /managed. No lastmod dates and no blog, comparison or non-English pages.Source
• CoinGeckoQFEX listing (checked November 9, 2026): 24h volume $386.0M and open interest $376.7M across 236 pairs; top volume US100, US500 and XLF; top open interest BRENT, US100 and AMD; the listing calls QFEX both a "Decentralized Exchange" and a "24/7 Perps CEX for RWAs requiring no KYC".Source
• Your docsPublic market-data API includes an earnings and economic calendar, settlement calendar, funding and open-interest history, underlier history, a public leaderboard and a DefiLlama metrics endpoint, plus OpenAPI and AsyncAPI specs.Source

Serve the hero as a modern, responsive image (AVIF or WebP at 2-3 sizes), preload it, lazy-load everything below the fold, and cut the 395 KB of unused JavaScript by splitting the trading app's code from the marketing page. Re-test with PageSpeed and watch the field data over the following 28 days.

Most of the weight is one avoidable asset, and faster first paint lifts signups, especially on mobile connections in Asia where many 24/7 traders browse.

• The hero looks worse

  Compare at quality 60-75 before shipping.

• Google PageSpeedHomepage, tested November 9, 2026: mobile performance 67 (desktop 77). Real visitors fail Core Web Vitals: LCP 4.36 s and INP 254 ms at the 75th percentile. Lab mobile LCP 23.0 s; the page weighs 6.8 MB, of which 5.4 MB is images (3.5 MB saveable), plus 395 KB of unused JavaScript; the LCP element is the hero image.Source
• Your websiteHomepage title "QFEX - The first 24/7 exchange only for global equities and commodities" (a year earlier: "The only 24/7 Exchange for US equities, commodities and FX"); meta description "QFEX is the first exchange that brings 24/7, high frequency direct trading to confident investors, without the need for a broker."Source

Rewrite the top of the fee page as one sentence and one table: who qualifies (deposit before or after which date, which products), the rate they get, and how it compares with the standard tiers. Add a "your fee" line to each market page and to the deposit screen. If the offer is closed to new depositors, say so and show the best rate a new trader can reach, including the invitation-code discount.

Perps traders shop on fees. A clear, believable lifetime rate is a reason to deposit now, and removing the ambiguity also cuts support questions.

• Committing to a lifetime rate for too many traders

  Name the products and a closing date explicitly.

• Your docsFees: maker-taker, set by trailing 30-day Effective Volume (2x commodities, 2x indices, 5x single stocks). The entry tier charges takers 0.05% on commodities and indices and 0.10% on single stocks. "From 00:01 UTC on 24 August 2026", existing depositors get the lowest tier for life on listed products including US100, NVDA, AAPL, TSLA and MSTR: 0 bps maker, 1.5 bps taker on equities and 0.6 bps on indices.Source
• Your docsFAQ: QFEX does not onboard new users from locations including the United States, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Syria, Iran, Russia, North Korea, Myanmar, Belarus, Venezuela and Sudan. Funding is "computed and paid every 1 hour, not 8 hours"; a 500 ms speed bump on non-ALO add orders protects market makers; invitation codes give a fee discount.Source

End every post with a two-line box: "Run this on live QFEX data", linking to the market-data API (no credentials needed) and the UAT sandbox, with a short code snippet from the post. Add the same box to the Substack about page and welcome email, and tag the links so research-sourced signups can be counted.

The reader has just learned a technique, so the most natural next step is to test it, and the sandbox removes the risk of real funds.

• Readers see the research as a sales pitch

  Keep the box at the end and make it about trying the technique.

• Research newsletterQFEX Research on Substack ("Frontier market microstructure research from the QFEX team"): 16 posts, latest "Desired Orders Are Not Live Orders" (October 28, 2026), including "Your First Hft Alpha from Flow Prediction" and "A Deep Dive Into Clob Microstructure"; the homepage's only call to action is Subscribe, with no link to trade or to the API.Source
• Your docsAgentic trading and builders: the QFEX CLI returns JSON for every command, "qfex agents init" sets up AI coding agents, and the UAT environment "uses the same interface as production but does not use real funds". Builder codes let integrators keep up to 50% of the trading fees of users who trade through their app via QFEX OAuth.Source

Publish one dated fact sheet (/facts or a docs page) covering markets by asset class, maximum leverage by asset class, KYC and eligibility, custody, fees and funding. Then ask CoinGecko, DefiLlama and YC to update their profiles to match, and link the sheet from the press page.

Consistent facts build trust for a young venue, and a wrong "no KYC" tag attracts exactly the users QFEX has to turn away, while putting off institutions.

• Listings are slow to update

  Link the fact sheet in every request and follow up.

• HiringResearch Engineer (London, $150K-$250K, 0.10%-0.50% equity): researches exchange design, microstructure, venue latency and exchange data and turns the findings into changes to the matching engine, margin system and fee model; builds risk and margin dashboards, liquidation simulators, market surveillance and reconciliation pipelines. The YC profile lists a team of 14 and US equities, commodities and FX "with (or without) leverages of up to 100x".Source
• PressFintech Global (March 5, 2026): QFEX launched with a $9.5m seed round at a $95m valuation led by General Catalyst, with Y Combinator and Paul Graham; it cites leverage of up to 50x and says expiry rollovers "reportedly cost traders an estimated $5bn each year".Source
• Industry researchFour Pillars (sponsored by QFEX, April 2, 2026): leverage of 10x on single stocks, 30x on gold and indices, 50x on FX; positions capped at 50% of normal overnight and 10% at weekends; funding set to zero while markets are closed; mandatory KYC; customer funds segregated at BitGo Bank & Trust; rivals named include Hyperliquid, trade.xyz (HIP-3), Binance, OKX and Bybit.Source
• CoinGeckoQFEX listing (checked November 9, 2026): 24h volume $386.0M and open interest $376.7M across 236 pairs; top volume US100, US500 and XLF; top open interest BRENT, US100 and AMD; the listing calls QFEX both a "Decentralized Exchange" and a "24/7 Perps CEX for RWAs requiring no KYC".Source

Give each page a server-rendered summary: what it is, who qualifies, how it works, the key terms and a link to the full rules in the docs. Use a specific title and description so link previews show the offer. Have compliance check the wording once.

Promotions spread by link sharing, and a clear preview plus readable terms turn shared links into signups while avoiding misunderstandings.

• Terms change and pages go stale

  Render the summary from the same source as the docs.

• Your websiteMarket pages (fetched November 9, 2026, without running JavaScript): /trade/NVDA-USD, /trade/CL-USD and /trade/SKHYNIX-KRW, like /lossback and /press, return only the homepage title line "QFEX - The first 24/7 exchange only for global equities and commodities", with no market name, description or contract details.Source
• Your websiteSitemap (checked November 9, 2026): 246 URLs, of which 236 are /trade market pages (US stocks and ETFs; indices such as US100, US500, KOSPI, NIKKEI, HSI, TAIEX and NIFTY; commodities such as CL, BRENT, GOLD, COPPER and URANIUM; Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Swedish listings; pre-IPO markets). The other 10 are /, /login, /signup, /trade, /rewards, /affiliates, /strategies, /lossback, /daily-auction and /managed. No lastmod dates and no blog, comparison or non-English pages.Source

Translate the homepage, fees, fact sheet and the Asian market pages into Simplified Chinese first, then Korean, reusing the docs' terminology. Add hreflang tags and a language switcher, and route traffic only where compliance confirms QFEX may serve, keeping the restricted-location notice on every page.

Translation is partly done already, the markets are local favourites, and 24/7 access matters most to traders whose home market keeps different hours.

• Marketing into locations QFEX cannot serve

  Compliance scope first; restricted-location notice on every page.

• #1 Give each of the 236 market pages its own title, description and contract summary, so a search for the market finds QFEX

• Your docsThe docs have a full Simplified Chinese edition (about 163 pages, from About and FAQ to API keys, the CLI and the Terms of Use), while qfex.com itself is English only.Source
• Your websiteSitemap (checked November 9, 2026): 246 URLs, of which 236 are /trade market pages (US stocks and ETFs; indices such as US100, US500, KOSPI, NIKKEI, HSI, TAIEX and NIFTY; commodities such as CL, BRENT, GOLD, COPPER and URANIUM; Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Swedish listings; pre-IPO markets). The other 10 are /, /login, /signup, /trade, /rewards, /affiliates, /strategies, /lossback, /daily-auction and /managed. No lastmod dates and no blog, comparison or non-English pages.Source
• Your docsFAQ: QFEX does not onboard new users from locations including the United States, United Kingdom, Ukraine, Syria, Iran, Russia, North Korea, Myanmar, Belarus, Venezuela and Sudan. Funding is "computed and paid every 1 hour, not 8 hours"; a 500 ms speed bump on non-ALO add orders protects market makers; invitation codes give a fee discount.Source

Every Monday, publish a short report and chart: QFEX's Sunday-night price for US100, US500, Brent, gold and the top stocks against Monday's actual open, with the gap and how well QFEX anticipated it. Keep a running accuracy record. Send it to financial journalists and post the chart on X and the research newsletter.

Journalists want to know what the weekend means for Monday. A dated, measurable record is quotable proof that the venue is open and its prices mean something.

• A bad week looks embarrassing

  Publish the running record, not single weeks; honesty builds credibility.

• Your docsContract specifications: equities track real-time US exchange feeds; the index price source is last close plus the change in the index future; when the index price is stale, the mark follows order-book impact prices with a 30-minute EMA; CL, COPPER and NATGAS roll across the final five CME business days.Source
• CoinGeckoQFEX listing (checked November 9, 2026): 24h volume $386.0M and open interest $376.7M across 236 pairs; top volume US100, US500 and XLF; top open interest BRENT, US100 and AMD; the listing calls QFEX both a "Decentralized Exchange" and a "24/7 Perps CEX for RWAs requiring no KYC".Source
• Your docsPublic market-data API includes an earnings and economic calendar, settlement calendar, funding and open-interest history, underlier history, a public leaderboard and a DefiLlama metrics endpoint, plus OpenAPI and AsyncAPI specs.Source

For each listed stock, generate a section on its market page during earnings week: the report date and time, what QFEX trading hours mean around the release, recent funding and open interest, and how the price behaved after the last report. Promote the week's list every Monday.

Earnings searches peak predictably, and the pages build themselves from data QFEX already publishes.

• Looks like encouraging event gambling

  Keep the block factual and show the risk notice.

• #1 Give each of the 236 market pages its own title, description and contract summary, so a search for the market finds QFEX

• Your docsPublic market-data API includes an earnings and economic calendar, settlement calendar, funding and open-interest history, underlier history, a public leaderboard and a DefiLlama metrics endpoint, plus OpenAPI and AsyncAPI specs.Source
• Your websiteSitemap (checked November 9, 2026): 246 URLs, of which 236 are /trade market pages (US stocks and ETFs; indices such as US100, US500, KOSPI, NIKKEI, HSI, TAIEX and NIFTY; commodities such as CL, BRENT, GOLD, COPPER and URANIUM; Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Swedish listings; pre-IPO markets). The other 10 are /, /login, /signup, /trade, /rewards, /affiliates, /strategies, /lossback, /daily-auction and /managed. No lastmod dates and no blog, comparison or non-English pages.Source

Pick the tools QFEX's target traders already use (trading terminals, Telegram trading bots, portfolio trackers, charting tools) and offer each a launch package: integration help, a shared announcement, and a listing on a new /integrations page with their fee share. Track volume by builder code.

Every integration brings an existing user base, and the builder is paid to keep promoting QFEX.

• Builders onboard users from restricted locations

  Eligibility stays enforced at QFEX onboarding; builder terms spell this out.

• Your docsAgentic trading and builders: the QFEX CLI returns JSON for every command, "qfex agents init" sets up AI coding agents, and the UAT environment "uses the same interface as production but does not use real funds". Builder codes let integrators keep up to 50% of the trading fees of users who trade through their app via QFEX OAuth.Source
• Your docsPublic market-data API includes an earnings and economic calendar, settlement calendar, funding and open-interest history, underlier history, a public leaderboard and a DefiLlama metrics endpoint, plus OpenAPI and AsyncAPI specs.Source
• Competitor researchOstium's homepage: "Prime-grade execution on Real World Asset perpetuals", 70+ markets across equities, indices, commodities, FX and crypto, "$53B+" cumulative volume and a published $26.45M gold trade with "0.018% slippage"; backers include General Catalyst. trade.xyz's homepage: "Trade anything, anytime.", "24/7 liquidity", "no gatekeepers".See the research Source

Publish a starter repository and a 10-minute guide that takes a developer from install to an agent trading US100 in UAT. Run a monthly sandbox competition with a public leaderboard (UAT only, no real money), and invite the best builders to the builder-code program.

Developers choose the venue their agent already works with, and a sandbox competition creates content and a pool of builders without anyone risking money.

• Agents misbehave once on real funds

  Starter repo ships with position and loss limits; production requires explicit opt-in.

• #4 Add a "try it in the sandbox" link to every research post, for the quants who already read you

• Your docsAgentic trading and builders: the QFEX CLI returns JSON for every command, "qfex agents init" sets up AI coding agents, and the UAT environment "uses the same interface as production but does not use real funds". Builder codes let integrators keep up to 50% of the trading fees of users who trade through their app via QFEX OAuth.Source
• Research newsletterQFEX Research on Substack ("Frontier market microstructure research from the QFEX team"): 16 posts, latest "Desired Orders Are Not Live Orders" (October 28, 2026), including "Your First Hft Alpha from Flow Prediction" and "A Deep Dive Into Clob Microstructure"; the homepage's only call to action is Subscribe, with no link to trade or to the API.Source

Build an affiliate kit: deep links to every market page with the affiliate code attached, a weekly pack of charts from the weekend gap report and the earnings calendar, compliant caption templates, and the eligibility notice. Review affiliates at the end of the 90-day trial using the kit's tracked links.

Affiliates promote what is easy to post, and timely, market-specific content converts better than a generic "sign up" link.

• Affiliates overstate returns or leverage

  Approved templates only; remove affiliates who break the rules.

• #1 Give each of the 236 market pages its own title, description and contract summary, so a search for the market finds QFEX
• #8 Publish a weekly "weekend gap" report: where QFEX priced the Nasdaq 100 on Sunday versus Monday's open

• Your docsReferral and affiliate program: invitees get a 10% fee discount; referrers earn 10% / 2% / 1% across three levels, rising to 20% / 4% / 2% at $30M+ referred 30-day volume; approved affiliates earn 30%, rising to 50% at $150M+, after a 90-day trial.Source
• Your websiteSitemap (checked November 9, 2026): 246 URLs, of which 236 are /trade market pages (US stocks and ETFs; indices such as US100, US500, KOSPI, NIKKEI, HSI, TAIEX and NIFTY; commodities such as CL, BRENT, GOLD, COPPER and URANIUM; Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Swedish listings; pre-IPO markets). The other 10 are /, /login, /signup, /trade, /rewards, /affiliates, /strategies, /lossback, /daily-auction and /managed. No lastmod dates and no blog, comparison or non-English pages.Source

Confirm the current rules, then show them where they matter: a countdown banner before each overnight and weekend window, a note in the order ticket when a new order would exceed the coming cap, and an optional email or push alert on Friday afternoon (US time) for affected positions. Explain the rules on each market page.

Rules that are expected feel fair; surprises cause churn and support tickets.

• Too many warnings

  Only warn traders whose positions are affected.

• Industry researchFour Pillars (sponsored by QFEX, April 2, 2026): leverage of 10x on single stocks, 30x on gold and indices, 50x on FX; positions capped at 50% of normal overnight and 10% at weekends; funding set to zero while markets are closed; mandatory KYC; customer funds segregated at BitGo Bank & Trust; rivals named include Hyperliquid, trade.xyz (HIP-3), Binance, OKX and Bybit.Source
• Your docsContract specifications: equities track real-time US exchange feeds; the index price source is last close plus the change in the index future; when the index price is stale, the mark follows order-book impact prices with a 30-minute EMA; CL, COPPER and NATGAS roll across the final five CME business days.Source

Build a calculator: the fund enters its typical position in index, oil or gold futures; the page estimates annual roll costs (spreads, slippage, roll days) and compares them with QFEX's fees at the lifetime rate plus historic funding from the API. Gate a detailed PDF behind a contact form for institutions.

Institutions buy on numbers, and a personalised estimate opens a conversation that a general claim cannot.

• Funding costs on perps can exceed roll costs

  Show both honestly, with historic funding ranges.

• #3 Lead the fee page with the lifetime 1.5 bps rate, and say plainly who gets it

• YC launchYC launch post: "the first API-native exchange"; perps "will save institutional traders billions of dollars in rolling costs"; "Futures haven't changed since the first standardized contract was made in 1865."Source
• PressFintech Global (March 5, 2026): QFEX launched with a $9.5m seed round at a $95m valuation led by General Catalyst, with Y Combinator and Paul Graham; it cites leverage of up to 50x and says expiry rollovers "reportedly cost traders an estimated $5bn each year".Source
• Your docsContract specifications: equities track real-time US exchange feeds; the index price source is last close plus the change in the index future; when the index price is stale, the mark follows order-book impact prices with a 30-minute EMA; CL, COPPER and NATGAS roll across the final five CME business days.Source

Each month, publish median spread, depth within 10 bps, slippage for $10k, $100k and $1M orders, uptime and matching latency for the top 20 markets, with a weekend/weekday split. Link it from the homepage and every market page, and send it to institutions and market makers.

Measured proof turns liquidity doubts into a comparison QFEX can win on its best markets, and the monthly cadence shows improvement over time.

• Thin markets look bad

  Report the top 20 and show the trend.

• HiringResearch Engineer (London, $150K-$250K, 0.10%-0.50% equity): researches exchange design, microstructure, venue latency and exchange data and turns the findings into changes to the matching engine, margin system and fee model; builds risk and margin dashboards, liquidation simulators, market surveillance and reconciliation pipelines. The YC profile lists a team of 14 and US equities, commodities and FX "with (or without) leverages of up to 100x".Source
• Competitor researchOstium's homepage: "Prime-grade execution on Real World Asset perpetuals", 70+ markets across equities, indices, commodities, FX and crypto, "$53B+" cumulative volume and a published $26.45M gold trade with "0.018% slippage"; backers include General Catalyst. trade.xyz's homepage: "Trade anything, anytime.", "24/7 liquidity", "no gatekeepers".See the research Source
• CoinGeckoQFEX listing (checked November 9, 2026): 24h volume $386.0M and open interest $376.7M across 236 pairs; top volume US100, US500 and XLF; top open interest BRENT, US100 and AMD; the listing calls QFEX both a "Decentralized Exchange" and a "24/7 Perps CEX for RWAs requiring no KYC".Source

Build one "Fund your account" page and an in-app checklist: each route (stablecoin, bank), the time to credit, minimums, fees in and out, and what to do if a deposit is slow. Follow up by email with signups who have not deposited within 48 hours, linking to this page and the fee offer.

The gap between signup and first deposit is where exchanges lose most new users, and clarity about time and cost removes the main hesitation.

• Routes vary by location

  Show only routes available to the signed-in user.

• #3 Lead the fee page with the lifetime 1.5 bps rate, and say plainly who gets it

• Your docsFunding: bank transfers are USD-only ACH, "Processing time: 1-3 business days"; withdrawals cost 0.1% + $1 (ACH) or 0.1% + $10 (wire); stablecoin deposits are documented on a separate page.Source
• Your docsFees: maker-taker, set by trailing 30-day Effective Volume (2x commodities, 2x indices, 5x single stocks). The entry tier charges takers 0.05% on commodities and indices and 0.10% on single stocks. "From 00:01 UTC on 24 August 2026", existing depositors get the lowest tier for life on listed products including US100, NVDA, AAPL, TSLA and MSTR: 0 bps maker, 1.5 bps taker on equities and 0.6 bps on indices.Source

Assign the top 50 accounts by volume a named contact. Each month, send a one-page review: volume, fee tier, fees paid against what other tiers would cost, fill quality and any issues. Use the review to invite eligible traders to referral tiers, subaccounts and, where they qualify, the managed account.

Large traders leave venues over silence and unresolved issues, and a personal review costs little next to the fees they generate.

• A small team gets stretched

  Automate the review; calls only for issues.

• Your docsManaged Account Strategy (launched August 1, 2026): invite-only, market-neutral, for high-volume traders who have deposited at least USD 50,000; 0 bps taker, 0% management and performance fees in the early phase; book closed daily by 16:00 ET.Source
• Your docsFees: maker-taker, set by trailing 30-day Effective Volume (2x commodities, 2x indices, 5x single stocks). The entry tier charges takers 0.05% on commodities and indices and 0.10% on single stocks. "From 00:01 UTC on 24 August 2026", existing depositors get the lowest tier for life on listed products including US100, NVDA, AAPL, TSLA and MSTR: 0 bps maker, 1.5 bps taker on equities and 0.6 bps on indices.Source
• Your docsReferral and affiliate program: invitees get a 10% fee discount; referrers earn 10% / 2% / 1% across three levels, rising to 20% / 4% / 2% at $30M+ referred 30-day volume; approved affiliates earn 30%, rising to 50% at $150M+, after a 90-day trial.Source

Build a public /pre-ipo board: each listed private company with its implied valuation, 24h and 30-day change, open interest, and a chart against its last reported funding round. Offer an embeddable widget and a free data feed for media with attribution, and show the risk notes (no ownership, oracle source, IPO may never happen) prominently.

Implied valuations are quotable news, and every citation and embed brings traders to QFEX's most distinctive markets.

• Prices depend on an outside oracle

  Name the price source and show it next to the QFEX mark.

• Thin markets produce noisy valuations

  Show open interest and hide markets below a liquidity floor.

• #1 Give each of the 236 market pages its own title, description and contract summary, so a search for the market finds QFEX

• Your docsPre-IPO stock perpetuals use a reference share count of 1,000,000,000, so a $200 price implies a $200 billion valuation; the price source is Binance's pre-IPO perpetual mark price; funding settles every 60 minutes, 24/7; the contract carries no ownership or shareholder rights.Source
• Your websiteSitemap (checked November 9, 2026): 246 URLs, of which 236 are /trade market pages (US stocks and ETFs; indices such as US100, US500, KOSPI, NIKKEI, HSI, TAIEX and NIFTY; commodities such as CL, BRENT, GOLD, COPPER and URANIUM; Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Swedish listings; pre-IPO markets). The other 10 are /, /login, /signup, /trade, /rewards, /affiliates, /strategies, /lossback, /daily-auction and /managed. No lastmod dates and no blog, comparison or non-English pages.Source

Package a partner offer for regulated or licensed regional apps: white-label market widgets, OAuth onboarding, a builder-code revenue share, a joint compliance checklist and a partner success contact. Start with two partners in different regions and measure volume per partner.

One partner can bring thousands of traders, and the builder-code share means partners earn more as they grow QFEX volume.

• Regulatory exposure through partners

  Partners only in cleared locations; QFEX keeps final onboarding control.

• #10 Recruit 10 trading-tool builders with the 50% builder-code share, and show them on an integrations page

• Your docsAgentic trading and builders: the QFEX CLI returns JSON for every command, "qfex agents init" sets up AI coding agents, and the UAT environment "uses the same interface as production but does not use real funds". Builder codes let integrators keep up to 50% of the trading fees of users who trade through their app via QFEX OAuth.Source
• YC launchYC launch post: "the first API-native exchange"; perps "will save institutional traders billions of dollars in rolling costs"; "Futures haven't changed since the first standardized contract was made in 1865."Source
• Your docsThe docs have a full Simplified Chinese edition (about 163 pages, from About and FAQ to API keys, the CLI and the Terms of Use), while qfex.com itself is English only.Source

Recruit three funds or prop firms in permitted locations for a 90-day pilot. They run a slice of their index or commodity futures exposure on QFEX perps, with a named engineer, tailored risk limits, and a shared cost report (rolls avoided, funding paid, slippage) at the end. Publish the anonymised result.

A measured institutional case study is the strongest sales asset an exchange can have, and pilot feedback shapes the margin and fee model.

• Regulatory frameworks for institutional perps are unsettled

  Pilot only where counsel confirms; keep sizes small.

• #14 A roll-cost calculator for funds: what a year of futures rolls costs versus hourly funding on QFEX
• #15 Publish a monthly execution-quality report: spreads, depth and slippage by market

• YC launchYC launch post: "the first API-native exchange"; perps "will save institutional traders billions of dollars in rolling costs"; "Futures haven't changed since the first standardized contract was made in 1865."Source
• PressFintech Global (March 5, 2026): QFEX launched with a $9.5m seed round at a $95m valuation led by General Catalyst, with Y Combinator and Paul Graham; it cites leverage of up to 50x and says expiry rollovers "reportedly cost traders an estimated $5bn each year".Source
• Industry researchFour Pillars (sponsored by QFEX, April 2, 2026): leverage of 10x on single stocks, 30x on gold and indices, 50x on FX; positions capped at 50% of normal overnight and 10% at weekends; funding set to zero while markets are closed; mandatory KYC; customer funds segregated at BitGo Bank & Trust; rivals named include Hyperliquid, trade.xyz (HIP-3), Binance, OKX and Bybit.Source
• HiringResearch Engineer (London, $150K-$250K, 0.10%-0.50% equity): researches exchange design, microstructure, venue latency and exchange data and turns the findings into changes to the matching engine, margin system and fee model; builds risk and margin dashboards, liquidation simulators, market surveillance and reconciliation pipelines. The YC profile lists a team of 14 and US equities, commodities and FX "with (or without) leverages of up to 100x".Source

Package a cleaned, delayed dataset (hourly weekend and overnight prices, volumes and funding for the top 30 markets, with the matching underlier closes) under a research licence that requires citation. Announce it with a research post, submit it to academic data portals, and invite researchers to share results in the newsletter.

Academic papers and data portals cite their sources for years, building authority and backlinks with the quantitative audience QFEX wants.

• Third-party data rights in the underlier prices

  Publish only QFEX's own trades and marks, plus public closes.

• #8 Publish a weekly "weekend gap" report: where QFEX priced the Nasdaq 100 on Sunday versus Monday's open

• Research newsletterQFEX Research on Substack ("Frontier market microstructure research from the QFEX team"): 16 posts, latest "Desired Orders Are Not Live Orders" (October 28, 2026), including "Your First Hft Alpha from Flow Prediction" and "A Deep Dive Into Clob Microstructure"; the homepage's only call to action is Subscribe, with no link to trade or to the API.Source
• Your docsPublic market-data API includes an earnings and economic calendar, settlement calendar, funding and open-interest history, underlier history, a public leaderboard and a DefiLlama metrics endpoint, plus OpenAPI and AsyncAPI specs.Source
• Your docsContract specifications: equities track real-time US exchange feeds; the index price source is last close plus the change in the index future; when the index price is stale, the mark follows order-book impact prices with a 30-minute EMA; CL, COPPER and NATGAS roll across the final five CME business days.Source

Prepare a weekend shock kit in advance: pre-written but unpublished explainer pages for oil, gold and index moves ("How QFEX prices Brent while ICE is closed"), a live market-move banner, post templates, a market-maker alert list to keep depth up, and a short internal on-call rota. After each event, publish the weekend-versus-Monday comparison (idea 8).

Demand for a 24/7 venue peaks at unpredictable moments, and being ready with clear information during those hours builds the reputation the product promises.

• Looks like profiting from crises

  Stick to factual market access information, no hype.

• #8 Publish a weekly "weekend gap" report: where QFEX priced the Nasdaq 100 on Sunday versus Monday's open

• CoinGeckoQFEX listing (checked November 9, 2026): 24h volume $386.0M and open interest $376.7M across 236 pairs; top volume US100, US500 and XLF; top open interest BRENT, US100 and AMD; the listing calls QFEX both a "Decentralized Exchange" and a "24/7 Perps CEX for RWAs requiring no KYC".Source
• Industry researchFour Pillars (sponsored by QFEX, April 2, 2026): leverage of 10x on single stocks, 30x on gold and indices, 50x on FX; positions capped at 50% of normal overnight and 10% at weekends; funding set to zero while markets are closed; mandatory KYC; customer funds segregated at BitGo Bank & Trust; rivals named include Hyperliquid, trade.xyz (HIP-3), Binance, OKX and Bybit.Source
• Your docsContract specifications: equities track real-time US exchange feeds; the index price source is last close plus the change in the index future; when the index price is stale, the mark follows order-book impact prices with a 30-minute EMA; CL, COPPER and NATGAS roll across the final five CME business days.Source