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Perpetual Futures
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Latest Perpetual Futures stories
- Funding Rates Signal Bearish Conditions as Bitcoin Weakens Again
Perpetual futures funding payments pass between traders holding long and short positions, helping keep contract prices near the underlying asset.
· Investing
- Bitcoin Holds in Low $83,000s as Leverage Is Largely Cleared
Open interest in bitcoin perpetual futures fell below $55 billion after a Sept. 23 liquidation event, leaving the market’s next sustained move dependent on spot demand.
· Investing
- Lighter Falls Below $4 as Robinhood Rolls Out Perpetual Futures
LIT touched $3.648 and closed at $3.770 on Sept. 30, down 4.48%. Robinhood offers eligible users perpetual futures with leverage of up to 10X.
· Investing
- Gate Logs 92 Liquidations After Scheduled BEN Adjustment
A same-name asset error affected about 200 accounts, and balance displays were being restored.
· Technology
- SOON Plans AI Agent Perpetuals Platform With Token Buyback
The platform could launch Sept. 30, support high-leverage trading through MCP connections and use part of its revenue to buy back and burn SOON tokens.
· Technology
- OKX Opens XDP Spot Trading and Perpetual Futures With 20x Leverage
Spot trading began Sept. 28 after a one-hour call auction, followed by a USDT-settled perpetual contract available around the clock.
· Investing
- LIT Drops More Than 14% in Minutes, Triggering Broad Liquidations
The sharp decline set off a large liquidation chain. Robinhood is moving toward offering perpetual futures in the United States through Bitstamp.
· Investing
- Robinhood Begins U.S. Crypto Perps Rollout With Up to 10x Leverage
The initial offering covers eight perpetual futures contracts through Robinhood Derivatives and Bitstamp, with broader access planned in the coming months.
· Business
- Robinhood Expands Perpetual Futures Beyond Crypto in Europe
The rollout covers commodities, ETFs and foreign-exchange pairs, with leverage varying by contract and access limited to eligible European customers.
· Investing
- Binance Liquidates $2.91 Million Ether Long Position at $2,679
The single liquidation occurred at 11:24 a.m. ET (15:24 UTC) on Sept. 29 on Binance’s perpetual futures market.
· Investing
- Blockchain Markets Stayed Open as Traditional Gold and Oil Trading Paused
Tokenized gold volumes topped $1.8 billion on centralized exchanges, while Hyperliquid’s HIP-3 markets surpassed $95 billion in cumulative volume.
· Investing
- Active Profit-Taking Replaces Forced Liquidations in Bitcoin Deleveraging
Bitcoin open interest across CME and perpetual futures fell by 49,000 BTC in seven days, its largest weekly decline since October 2025.
· Investing
- Bitcoin Rebound Leaves Perpetual Funding Rates Neutral to Bearish
Funding rates across major centralized and decentralized exchanges remained below the 0.01% baseline after Bitcoin’s modest Sept. 29 rebound.
· Investing
- Anthropic Plans $518 Billion in AI Infrastructure Obligations
Anthropic-linked pre-IPO perpetual futures traded around $1,998, down roughly 2% over 24 hours, despite the scale of the planned spending.
· Technology
- Binance Liquidates $2.68 Million Ether Long in Single Event
The liquidation occurred at $2,683 on Binance’s ETH perpetual futures market at 3:10 p.m. ET Sept. 28 (19:10 UTC).
· Investing
- Binance Records $2.94 Million Bitcoin Short Liquidation
The short position was liquidated at $83,828 on Binance’s BTC perpetual futures market at 1:23 a.m. ET on Sept. 29.
· Investing
- Binance Records $2.42 Million Bitcoin Long Liquidation at $82,653
A single Bitcoin perpetual-futures long position was liquidated on Sept. 28 at 11:53 p.m. ET (03:53 UTC).
· Investing
- Binance Liquidates $11.82 Million Ether Long Position at $2,657
The single liquidation occurred in Binance ETH perpetual futures at 10:47 a.m. ET (14:47 UTC) on Sept. 28.
· Investing
- Binance Liquidates $6.54 Million Bitcoin Long Position
The liquidation occurred at $83,095 at 1:23 a.m. ET (05:23 UTC) on Sept. 28.
· Investing
- Bitcoin Weakness Deepens as Funding Rates Turn More Bearish Across Exchanges
Funding rates across mainstream centralized and decentralized exchanges show bearish sentiment strengthening as Bitcoin weakened on Sept. 28.
· Investing
- OG.com Markets Seeks CFTC Approval for Single-Stock Perpetual Futures
The proposed cash-settled contracts would have no expiration date and trade 24 hours a day, five days a week.
· Regulation
- Worldcoin Falls 11% as $4.36 Million in Positions Are Liquidated
Long liquidations accounted for approximately $4.32 million, while perpetual-market net flow turned negative $41.45 million.
· Investing
- Ark Invest Chief Questions Hyperliquid’s Path Into U.S. Markets
Lorenzo Valente said separating U.S. liquidity from Hyperliquid’s permissionless markets could weaken the product as real-world-asset perpetuals expand.
· Business
- CFTC Moves to Accelerate Crypto Rules as Perpetual Futures Take Focus
Chairman Mike Selig said the agency will use existing authority to advance two proposed crypto market rules after the Senate rejected the CLARITY Act.
· Regulation
- CFTC Establishes U.S. Path as Trump Says Selig Is Working to Bring Hyperliquid to U.S.
The agency approved KalshiEX’s Bitcoin-linked BTCPERP contract and will review other perpetual products case by case.
· Regulation
- Binance Records $11.49 Million Single Ether Long Liquidation
The position was liquidated at $2,628 on Sept. 24 at 5:35 a.m. ET (09:35 UTC).
· Investing
- RWA Perpetual DEX Volume Reaches $365 Billion in Q3 2026
Trading rose 32% from the previous quarter, while public-equity perpetuals accounted for about $175 billion, or nearly 48% of total activity.
· Investing
- RWA Perpetual Futures Reach $117.3 Billion in August Trading
Volume reached 44 times its year-earlier level, while on-chain venues handled 86% of activity tied to stocks, commodities and indexes.
· Investing
- Kalshi Ether Perpetual Trades Clustered Around $5,499 Size
Trades near $5,499 made up 57% of a $13.5 million Ether sample from Sept. 17-20, while Kalshi attributed the pattern to fixed-size liquidity orders.
· Investing
- Real-World-Asset Perpetuals Hit $18.8 Billion in Daily Volume
RWA perpetuals rose from below $1 billion per day in January, while wallet data show limited movement between RWA and other markets on Hyperliquid.
· Investing
- Binance Schedules 24/7 USD/BRL Perpetual Contract on Futures
The USDT-settled contract tracks the dollar against the Brazilian real, with leverage of up to 100x and pricing methods for closed FX markets.
· Investing
- Perpetual Futures Expand Beyond Crypto Into Equities, Commodities, Raising Risk Questions
Perpetual futures are expanding beyond crypto into equities and commodities, with Coinbase and other platforms driving adoption while analysts warn of rising leverage and liquidation risks.
· Insights & Views
- Crypto Exchanges Offer China Stock Perpetuals, Raising Regulatory Questions
Crypto exchanges including Gate and TradeXYZ list CXMT-linked perpetual futures to give offshore investors synthetic access to Chinese equities, highlighting growing regulatory uncertainty.
· Regulation
- Dango to Shut Down Perpetual Futures DEX After Liquidity Struggles
Layer 1 project Dango will shut down its perpetual futures DEX and network after liquidity decline, legal hurdles, and market consolidation pressures.
· Business
- BitMEX to Shut Down After Over a Decade as On-Chain Perpetuals Gain Ground
BitMEX will shut down operations in September 2026 following a strategic review as trading activity shifts from centralized exchanges to decentralized perpetuals platforms.
· Business
- RWA Perpetuals Open Interest Hits $4.3 Billion as 24/7 Trading Demand Grows
Alea Research reports RWA perpetuals open interest has reached $4.3 billion, driven by demand for round-the-clock trading access and exposure to private markets.
· Insights & Views
- RWA Perpetual Futures Expand Beyond Crypto, Blurring Lines With Traditional Markets
Korbit Research Center reports rapid growth of RWA-linked perpetual futures across centralized and decentralized exchanges, raising market structure and regulatory concerns.
· Insights & Views
- Tokenized TradFi Perpetuals Top $1.32 Trillion as Exchanges Expand RWA Offerings
CoinGecko reports crypto exchanges rapidly expanding tokenized TradFi and RWA products, with perpetual futures volume surpassing $1.32 trillion in 2026 and reshaping market structure.
· Insights & Views
- Tokenized Equity Perpetuals Gain Traction as 24/7 Price Discovery Tools
Tiger Research finds tokenized equity perpetuals are emerging as 24/7 price discovery tools as crypto markets decline and global equities outperform.
· Insights & Views
- Variational Raises $50 Million, Bets on Low-Cost Model to Unlock Onchain Perps Demand
Variational raised $50 million led by Dragonfly as founder Lucas Schuermann positions its low-cost broker model to unlock latent demand in onchain perpetuals and expand into RWA markets.
· Business