COINDESK · 2026-11-03 15:02 UTC

CFTC clears perpetual futures on stocks, bringing crypto trading model to Wall Street

CFTC approved perpetual futures on individual stocks to trade on regulated U.S. exchanges for the first time, subject to oversight by both CFTC and SEC. Perpetual futures, popular in crypto trading with over $630 billion monthly volume, allow traders to bet on asset prices without owning them and use leverage. Trump administration prioritized bringing perps markets under U.S. oversight; ICE recently invested in tradeXYZ, a perpetual futures platform on Hyperliquid.

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