Coinbase and Kalshi introduce perpetual crypto futures, marking the first time the contracts will be available to US investors via domestic, regulated exchanges

Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN.O) and prediction markets platform Kalshi said on Friday they are introducing perpetual crypto futures …

Reuters 2026-05-29 Pritam Biswas

@luanalopeslara Luana Lopes Lara on x
I started working on perps in December 2024 with some of my favorite people at Kalshi. A year and a half later, and with some more amazing people joining the company and helping make this a reality, we're finally launching the first perpetual futures product in the US. Kalshi is
@aleximm Alex Immerman on x
Views don't always have an end date. Perpetual futures are finally coming to America. Traditional futures force one through expirations and rollovers. Perps let you hold a view for as long as the view exists. Perps already trade over $100B in daily global volume. America is
@adamscochran Adam Cochran on x
Let me tell you why this is cool and a *really* important financial product for retail. In finance, if you want to take on a risky position, you hedge it. That normally happens via options, futures and swaps that are time dated - at the end of that time frame, they resolve to
@alfred_lin Alfred Lin on x
$90T in annual volume. One of the fastest-growing financial products in the world. All of it offshore, inaccessible to U.S. institutions in a regulated environment. Until today. @Kalshi is now the first U.S. exchange with CFTC approval to offer perpetual futures. The best
@mansourtarek_ Tarek Mansour on x
The First American Perpetual Future. Kalshi. [image]

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