Perpetual Futures Expand Beyond Crypto

Perpetual futures have been around in the crypto space for some time now. These financial instruments allow traders to take long or short exposure in a market that never closes, without constantly rolling an expiring contract.

The solution was a derivative with no expiration date, anchored to an index through funding payments. This structure is now moving beyond crypto and into traditional markets.

Equities, commodities, foreign exchange, indices, and pre-IPO references are becoming available on the same onchain market infrastructure that traders use for Bitcoin and other digital assets.

CoinGecko found that the market for actively traded crypto representations of traditional assets expanded from $1.41 billion to $6.59 billion over the last year and a half.