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Beijing's restrictions on foreign access to China's equity market have driven investors toward an unlikely instrument.
Perpetual futures on crypto exchanges are now being used to sidestep those controls and gain exposure to Chinese AI stocks. The mechanism is indirect; the intent is precise.
How perpetual futures fill the gap The case for this workaround starts with settlement architecture. They settle continuously against an index price, funded through periodic payments between long and short holders.
That means no delivery and no clearing through a regulated broker chain, so a transaction never formally touches the host market's settlement infrastructure.
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