The line between cryptocurrency speculation and old-fashioned stock buying is blurring again. According to a June 2026 Medium piece by Austin Liu, headlined "Coming Soon: Buy Nvidia From the App Where You Short Oil Perps," a trading platform best known for crypto-style derivatives is preparing to let users buy shares of Nvidia.
The framing in Liu's title is the whole story in miniature. "Perps" is short for perpetual futures — leveraged contracts, common in crypto trading, that let users bet on the price of an asset (here, oil) without ever owning it and without a set expiration. These are fast-moving, speculative instruments aimed at active traders.
Now, per Liu, that same app is moving toward offering Nvidia, the chipmaker at the center of the artificial-intelligence boom and one of the most widely held stocks among retail investors. In other words, a venue built for high-octane commodity and crypto bets is adding access to a blue-chip equity.
Liu's article is positioned as a preview of a feature that is "coming soon" rather than a finished launch, and it does not, in the material provided, specify the platform's name, a launch date, fees, or whether Nvidia would be offered as a real share or a tokenized derivative.
Why it matters: when speculative crypto apps start offering household-name stocks like Nvidia alongside oil perps, investing and gambling-style trading increasingly live in the same place — a convenience for retail users, and a fresh question for regulators about where one ends and the other begins.