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Kalshi wants 24/7 Tesla and Nvidia perps as Wall Street fights over who regulates them

The prediction-market operator plans to seek U.S. approval for about 60 stock and ETF perps, taking one of crypto's biggest trading products into equities.

Crypto meets Wall Street using perps

Everything under one loginRound-the-clock trading is one part of the plans exchanges have for traditional assets. Coinbase and Binance want customers to trade crypto,...

Everyone has the perps convergence backwards

The obvious objection is that this is leveraged speculation in new language, and that traditional markets keep their frictions for good reasons. Both points...

The good and the bad of perps, according to crypto traders

Talk about crypto trading with any savvy trader, and the first thing that comes up these days is perpetual futures, or “perps” — derivatives...

What are perps, anyway? Everything you need to know about crypto’s hottest trading instrument

Perpetual swaps, also called perpetual futures or “perps” for short, are the dominant trading instrument in the crypto market, processing an estimated $40 to...

Phantom Hires Ventuals Founders After Hyperliquid Perps Venue Winds Down

The Solana wallet is bringing on the three-person team behind a pre-IPO perpetuals platform, deepening its push into derivatives.Phantom, the largest Solana wallet by...

Crypto wallet Phantom pushes deeper into perps hiring team behind Hyperliquid’s OpenAI, Anthropic markets

The race is also spreading beyond crypto. Last month, prediction market operator Kalshi launched its own perpetual futures business after regulatory approval, joining exchanges...

Are perps swaps? A quick look at that CME suit: State of Crypto

CME is arguing that perps are harmful to its long-dated futures products. The lawsuit alleges that the CFTC did not consider the ramifications of...

Kraken and Coinbase Bring Perps Onshore as US Derivatives Markets Shift

Kraken and Coinbase each launched perpetual futures products Monday, with Kraken going live on CFTC-regulated crypto contracts via Bitnomial and Coinbase introducing four thematic...

CME CEO Terry Duffy Calls US Crypto Perps ‘a Disaster Waiting to Happen’

CME Group CEO Terry Duffy warned that newly approved US-regulated perpetual futures are "a disaster waiting to happen," citing excessive leverage and retail risk...

Builder-Deployed Perp Markets Push Hyperliquid to Record Share of Global Perps Volume

Hyperliquid's HIP-3 framework — which lets anyone deploy a perpetual futures market on the protocol's settlement layer — cleared $62 billion in May volume,...

Binance launches SpaceX pre-IPO perps amid $2 trillion valuation bets

Binance has launched perpetual futures that allow users to trade the anticipated valuations of private companies before they go public. The first contract to...