Rapid growth shows strong demand for a new trading model where users can make market predictions without risking their own capital

Perpetuals.com Ltd (NASDAQ:PDC), today announced that UpsideOnly, its risk-free trading and market prediction platform, has seen a surge in new user sign-ups, surpassing the important milestone of 100,000 traders within weeks of its launch on May 19.

UpsideOnly lets users make predictions about where global equity, commodity, forex, and crypto markets are heading without ever placing a real trade themselves. Perpetuals uses its own capital to trade on the strongest signals identified by its proprietary AI. If those trades win, Perpetuals shares the profits with the users who helped generate the signal. If the trade doesn’t make money, users lose nothing.

Reaching 100,000 users so quickly after launching is a reflection of the enormous demand for a platform that flips the traditional retail trading model on its head, with early platform data showing strong engagement across asset classes, geographies and user activity:

Users from more than 180 different countries
$38.4 billion in cumulative platform volume
1,110,385 fills across 25 instruments
US Crude Oil Futures (WTI) was the most-traded asset, ahead of Bitcoin (BTC)

These 100,000 groundbreaking users do more than trade; they generate the signals that power the business. Perpetuals's patent-pending BayesShield AI filters their collective predictions for genuine, repeatable skill, and the company trades its own capital on the strongest signals, sharing the upside with the users who produced them, a proprietary-trading model designed to monetize crowd intelligence rather than user losses.

"Reaching 100,000 users this quickly is more than a growth milestone. It is proof that the current model is broken and traders are looking for a better approach," said Patrick Gruhn, CEO of Perpetuals. "Prediction markets have become some of the most extractive products in finance, using powerful technology to keep users engaged while most of them lose. UpsideOnly shows that the same forces – AI, market prediction and crowd intelligence – can be used in a way that rewards users instead of exploiting them."

The unique nature of UpsideOnly means users also avoid the financial losses they would have incurred if they had been trading with their own money. To-date, UpsideOnly has saved users a total of $28.6 million in potential losses, averaging $1,429 in avoided loss per losing users. One UpsideOnly user would have lost a staggering $235,666 if trading with their own money.

About Perpetuals.com Ltd

Perpetuals.com Ltd (NASDAQ:PDC) is a fintech company developing AI-powered trading products and prediction markets, with a global footprint across the United States, Europe, and Asia. Its mission is to reduce risk through empowering retail users with intuitive, secure, and efficient trading experiences that span the world’s capital markets. UpsideOnly, the company's flagship consumer product, is the first risk-free trading platform, pairing human market insight with proprietary BayesShield AI so users can share in trading profits without ever risking their own money.

Perpetuals’s technology is used by the EU-licensed Perpetual Markets Multilateral Trading Facility (MTF), PM MTF Ltd, an affiliate of Perpetuals.com Ltd, which operates under full MiFID II, MiCA, DORA, and EMIR compliance.

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Forward-Looking Statements: This press release contains forward-looking statements as defined within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including, but not limited to, statements regarding the anticipated profitability to the company and users of UpsideOnly. Words such as "expect," "will," "positions," "advancing," "projected," "anticipated," and other similar expressions indicate forward-looking statements, though not all forward-looking statements contain such words. These statements reflect the company’s current view with respect to future events, are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially, including the efficacy and accuracy of BayesShield AI, regulatory scrutiny, continued user participation in the UpsideOnly platform, market conditions, the ability to realize anticipated benefits of UpsideOnly, the characterization of UpsideOnly under applicable gaming, sweepstakes, securities, and commodity-derivatives laws, patent issuance and enforceability of the BayesShield AI methodology, the company’s ability to raise capital to support the operation of the UpsideOnly platform, and risks detailed in the company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and are necessarily based upon a number of estimates and assumptions that, while considered reasonable by the company, are inherently subject to significant business, economic, competitive, political and social uncertainties, and contingencies. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should the assumptions set out by the company underlying those forward-looking statements prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those described herein. Individuals are cautioned that forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and accordingly investors are cautioned not to put undue reliance on forward-looking statements due to the inherent uncertainty therein. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release and the company does not undertake any obligation to update these forward-looking statements, except as required by law. Perpetuals.com Ltd has an option agreement to acquire the affiliate company PM MTF Ltd, which will require a change of control approval by CySEC if exercised. Risk-free trading means that no losses from trading losses can occur to users, but does not include risks from other sources, including, but not limited to, the operational risks of the company.

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