Kraken to Launch Perpetual Contracts Following CFTC Approval

By Katherine Hamilton

Kraken plans to launch its first perpetual futures in the U.S. after regulators approved the derivative class.

The cryptocurrency platform said Friday it would launch futures regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for U.S. traders on Kraken Pro.

Perpetual contracts allow traders to speculate on asset prices with no fixed expiration date.

The contracts will be listed on Bitnomial, a CFTC-regulated exchange recently acquired by Kraken's parent company Payward.

Kraken launched support in July 2025 for cryptocurrency futures alongside its spot markets. It launched CFTC-regulated spot margin trading earlier this month.

The CFTC issued a policy statement Friday describing its stance on perpetual contracts. It permitted the listing of perpetual contracts as a futures contract, and said it would review perpetual contract listing applications on a case-by-case basis.

Earlier on Friday, the prediction markets platform Kalshi launched perpetual futures contracts on its own platform.

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