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Short Selling

Pro Traders can “borrow” shares to sell and hold a negative share balance for a small price per share. Borrowed shares cost a set amount per month, and users can extend the length of the borrowed share by paying the fee again, or they can “return” the share (from their inventory, which if at zero means they have to buy from the market). Creates adversarial dynamics where some shareholders actively root against him.

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Created 14 November 2025 by Mike Merrill

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  • 14 November 2025 Mike Merrill created this task

  • 16 December 2025 Mike Merrill edited this task

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    Austin

    Alternatively you could use perpetual futures.

    Traditional “short selling” is done with dated futures contracts (contracts that normally expire on X date with a flat fee charged)

    Perpetual futures are common place in Web 3 and operate independent of the underlying asset (No tokens/shares are actually involved). The reason this works has to do with the underlying infrastructure of the markets. Most market makers trade a delta neutral strategy and use the perp market in order to hedge spot trades (You buy 1 bitcoin from them for $1 on the spot market but they want to remain neutral and by selling you a coin are now effectively short 1 coin, so they go buy a long position of 1BTC for $0.995 for example.)

    Generally speaking however I am against implementation of any feature that splits the market or adds new sell pressure due to the low liquidity and trading volume present in the market. I think we need more people trading in general but for a feature like this to work well more active trading in particular is needed.

    Personally I would rather see a focus on increasing the number of shareholders and the value of said shares first and adding more complex trading features can take priority when a user base exists to support it.

    17 December 2025