Phantom Hires Hyperliquid Market Builders to Expand Perpetual Futures Push

Phantom, a major cryptocurrency wallet, is expanding beyond asset custody and onchain interactions into trading services. The Ventuals team previously operated OpenAI- and Anthropic-related markets on decentralized perpetual futures platform Hyperliquid. Its move to Phantom reflects competition among wallet providers for derivatives trading volume and data capabilities.

Phantom recently announced that it had hired members of the Ventuals founding team for its trading and data group as it expands its perpetual futures products. As of July 20, 2026, Phantom had not disclosed how many people were joining, their start dates, compensation or a timeline for launching new features.