RWA Perps Volume Hits Record $2.57T in Q3 2026
Trading more than doubled from the previous quarter, but centralized exchanges captured over 80% of the activity.
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Trading more than doubled from the previous quarter, but centralized exchanges captured over 80% of the activity.
A contract without expiry would remove the need to roll VIX futures, but funding payments and the difficulty of hedging an index remain unresolved.
The sponsored walkthrough focuses on how order settings affect execution, fees and risk, rather than making a market forecast.
The proposal would use existing rules while seeking to preserve European access to global liquidity and avoid duplicate reporting of onchain data.
The shift to targeted promotions comes as Kalshi posts record volume and pursues a reported $40B valuation, raising questions about how much activity incentives sustain.
Cooling futures leverage and looming PCE data meet a sharp rise in Treasury yields, leaving crypto traders with a macro catalyst in view.
The expansion combines leveraged crypto derivatives with round-the-clock stock access and in-app AI agents, pushing Robinhood toward a broader, always-on trading model.
Weekend access and perpetual futures broaden Robinhood's offering, while raising the importance of understanding how always-on markets differ from traditional trading hours.
The move brings perpetual futures across both crypto and equities to Robinhood, expanding the trading products available to its retail users.
The expansion brings crypto-style always-on access and leveraged products deeper into retail brokerage, while AI agents introduce new questions about oversight and trading risk.
A US launch is not confirmed, but the debate is moving toward how perps can fit domestic rules, including changes to settlement and clearing.
The move brings a product global traders only knew on offshore crypto venues into a regulated national exchange, opening leveraged BTC, ETH, SOL, XRP and TRON exposure to Russian institutional…
Volume is the first metric traders read to judge liquidity, and one automated-looking trade size drove over half of it on both markets, raising hard questions about what the activity actually…
The dispute centers on roughly $539M in 24-hour ETH-PERP volume against $3.1M in open interest, while Kalshi defends its market-making incentives.
The filing would bring cash-settled contracts tied to U.S.-listed stocks and ETFs into a regulated market jointly overseen by the CFTC and SEC.
The move extends crypto-native derivatives into currency markets, while 100x leverage makes risk controls as important as round-the-clock access.
Russia's largest exchange brings USD-quoted, ruble-settled perps to 72,000+ qualified investors already active in its crypto-linked futures market, with cumulative volume topping RUB 600 billion.
Federal prosecutors say the pair traded perps on confidential listing intel, a test of whether commodities-fraud law reaches decentralized venues where the information source and the trading platform…
If approved, Payward would become the first CFTC-registered US exchange to deploy perp markets on Hyperliquid, pulling an $85 trillion offshore product into regulated US territory.
Payward opening Hyperliquid perpetual futures to American traders marks one of the first times a major US-licensed exchange has given onshore clients direct access to the fastest-growing perp DEX's…