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Latest Perpetual Futures stories
- Binance’s BABAUSDT Perpetual Futures Contract Was Quoted at $100.99 on Oct. 28
Binance’s BABAUSDT is a separate perpetual futures contract that tracks Alibaba’s U.S.-listed ADR. The contract settles in Tether (USDT).
· Investing
- Plus500 Offers Kalshi Perpetual Futures Through U.S. Brokerage
Plus500’s U.S. futures unit has been a clearing member of Kalshi Klear LLC since April 2025.
· Business
- Crypto.com, OG.com Roll Out 5x Perpetual Futures to Eligible U.S. Traders
The contracts cover six crypto assets, and only U.S. dollar cash can be used as collateral. At 5x leverage, $200 in margin supports a $1,000 position.
· Investing
- Pyth Amplifies $218 Million Turnover Claim Tied to BlackRock’s Brazil ETF
The figure describes derivatives trading activity, not purchases of ETF shares or new money entering the fund.
· Investing
- Binance’s BABAUSDT Contract Trades Below Five Moving Averages
Oct. 27 technical readings put the contract about $1.81 above its lower Bollinger Band and linked it to Alibaba’s NYSE-listed ADR.
· Investing
- Dogecoin Snapshot Shows Opposing Funding Readings at Oct. 26 Cutoff
The listed settlement rate was 0.006682%, while the 24-hour total through the same cutoff was -0.000482%.
· Investing
- OKX Bitcoin Perpetual Book Shows $18.92 Million Sell-Side Lead
About $19.6 million in sell orders sat at $79,850, roughly 0.05% above the quoted midpoint.
· Investing
- META Short Position Is Valued at $6.85 Million Amid Meta’s $35 Billion Offering
The share sale includes $22.5 billion in common stock and $12.5 billion in mandatory convertible preferred stock; a separate $60 billion at-the-market program would bring potential financing to $95 billion.
· Investing
- Three Estimates Put August RWA Perp Trading Above $700 Billion
The three counts range from $701 billion to $799.5 billion and disagree on whether trading rose or fell from July.
· Investing
- Robinhood Shareholders Face Oct. 26 Deadline for Earnings Questions
Robinhood plans to release third-quarter 2026 results after Tuesday’s U.S. market close and hold an earnings call at 5 p.m. ET (21:00 UTC).
· Business
- Solana (SOL) Open Interest Leads Five Major Markets With 3.64% Gain
Ether had the highest long-account share at 77.2%, while Solana and XRP tied for the highest funding rate at 0.0100% every eight hours.
· Investing
- Binance Futures Opens Predict.fun’s PREDICT Contract With Up to 5x Leverage
The USDT-settled perpetual began trading Oct. 25 while Predict.fun’s public token generation event remained incomplete and no spot market existed.
· Investing
- Binance Records $3.48 Million Ether Long Liquidation at $2,312
The liquidation occurred at 9:38 p.m. ET on Oct. 25 (01:38 UTC Oct. 26).
· Investing
- Binance Liquidates $6.97 Million Ether Long Position at $2,322
The liquidation was recorded at 7:27 p.m. ET Oct. 25 (23:27 UTC), or 8:27 a.m. KST Oct. 26.
· Investing
- Bitcoin Futures Open Interest Builds on Both Sides Since Oct. 14
Murphy said Saturday’s decline did not reduce open interest, while entity-based realized losses on Bitcoin fell.
· Investing
- Binance Ether (ETH) Perpetual Book Shows $2.68 Million Sell Surplus
Sell orders totaled $59.4484 million, against $56.7652 million in buys. Binance’s spot order book also showed greater sell-side depth, though the book was smaller in scale.
· Investing
- DeGods Founder Frank Says His Main Perpetual Futures Wallet Has Yet to Profit
He said most of his earnings came from on-chain trading across past market cycles. His cumulative PnL ranking on fomo briefly passed Bonk Guy before Bonk Guy retook the lead.
· Investing
- Ether Liquidations Reach $184 Million as $44 Billion in Futures Stay Open
Long positions made up 90.4% of liquidations. Ether traded near $2,337 on Saturday, down about 2.5% over 24 hours.
· Investing
- Ether Perpetual Funding Rates Track Payments Between Traders
On OKX, positive rates mean long holders pay short holders; negative rates reverse the payment. Funding helps align perpetual contract mark prices with spot indexes.
· Investing
- Binance Logs a $3.01 Million Ether Short Liquidation in One Event
The liquidation price was $2,348 at 4:01 p.m. ET Saturday (20:01 UTC).
· Investing
- Binance Liquidates $3.12 Million Bitcoin Long in Single Futures Event
The position’s liquidation price was $80,419, recorded at 10:15 a.m. ET (14:15 UTC) Oct. 24.
· Investing
- Bitcoin and Ether Fell as Funding Rates Stayed in Neutral Range
Both assets fell over 24 hours, while four weighted funding-rate readings remained between 0.005% and 0.01%; some platforms showed bearish rates.
· Investing
- XRP Tops Five-Asset Funding Snapshot at 0.0100% as Open Interest Falls
Open interest dropped across all five assets over 24 hours, with Bitcoin recording the steepest decline at 3.90%.
· Investing
- Binance's Alibaba-Linked Contract Trades Below Its Lower Bollinger Band
An Oct. 24 technical-analysis update put the 14-period daily RSI at 29.44. A derivatives snapshot at 6 a.m. ET (10:00 UTC) showed a taker buy/sell ratio of 0.4743.
· Investing
- Lighter Adds weETH as Perpetuals Collateral With a 1,000-weETH Cap
Lighter counts 70% of weETH’s index price toward account margin, with an 85% liquidation threshold and an 800-weETH limit per user.
· Business
- SpaceX-Linked Perpetual Futures Trade $5.6 Billion Around Earnings
Volume topped the prior day by more than eightfold. Binance’s SPCX contract rose 8.5% by the next U.S. market open.
· Investing
- Traditional-Asset Perpetuals Exceed 80% of Hyperliquid's Bitcoin Perpetual Volume
The contracts first surpassed Hyperliquid’s Bitcoin perpetual in April, while crypto trading volumes and volatility fell to cycle lows.
· Investing
- NEAR Adds Cross Margin to Hyperliquid Perps, Tying Positions to One Balance
Positions can draw on shared collateral. NEAR says deposits and withdrawals to and from dedicated accounts are confidential, while Hyperliquid trading activity is recorded onchain.
· Investing
- Kalshi Files 100-Barrel WTI Perpetual Contract With CFTC
The proposed contract would settle in cash and require no physical delivery. Its CFTC listing shows “Approval Pending (45),” an initial review period that may be extended.
· Regulation
- OKX Ether Perpetual Market Shows a $5.14 Million Bid at $2,400
The 2,140.22 ETH order sat about 0.17% below a $2,404.06 midpoint. Near-term buy orders exceeded sell orders by roughly $542,400.
· Investing
- Arthur Hayes Says Hyperliquid’s HYPE Token May Trail Ether (ETH) and Zcash (ZEC)
Hayes sees real demand for on-chain perpetual futures but says similar rival offerings have weakened HYPE’s investment appeal.
· Insights & Views
- Commodity Markets Council Urges CFTC to Block Kalshi's WTI Perpetuals
The group also called for common standards and cooperation with foreign regulators to stop U.S. traders from using VPNs to reach offshore platforms.
· Regulation
- Webull Plans November Bitcoin Perpetual Futures Access for Eligible U.S. Customers
KalshiEX LLC will list the contracts and Kalshi Klear LLC will clear them. Webull expects to widen access before the end of 2026.
· Business
- Bitcoin Open Interest Falls 5.82%, Leading Five-Asset Declines
Open interest fell across all five assets in the Oct. 22 snapshot. Dogecoin had the group’s most negative funding rate.
· Investing
- Binance Records $2.4 Million Ether Long Liquidation at $2,400
The single liquidation was recorded Oct. 22 at 2:12 p.m. ET (18:12 UTC) in Binance's ETH perpetual futures market.
· Investing
- Binance Bitcoin Perpetual Book Shows $13.54 Million Buy-Side Lead
Bitcoin was priced at $82,170, while Coinbase, OKX and Hyperliquid also showed greater buy-side depth than sell-side depth.
· Investing
- Trade Tech Solutions Launches Perpetual Futures Tools for Prop Firms
The white-label package includes Hyperliquid integration and evaluation tools for contracts on simulated accounts.
· Technology
- Mizuho Keeps $140 Robinhood Target as Survey Finds Perpetuals Interest
In a survey of more than 600 active Robinhood users, 84% said they would use mostly or entirely new funds to trade the contracts.
· Business
- Coinbase Expects Nine-Hour Futures Trading Pause During Oct. 24 Maintenance
Users will retain account access while futures and perpetual futures trading on Coinbase Financial Markets is suspended.
· Investing
- Coinbase Uses Pyth to Price Tesla Perpetuals on a 24/5 Schedule
Pyth Pro X provides real-time pricing for the contracts.
· Investing