Perpetual Futures Expanding into Traditional Assets

Perpetual futures are expanding into traditional assets within the crypto market. Perpetual futures are derivative products that have no expiration or settlement date, and they are currently traded in gold, major currencies, stocks, and indices. The daily trading volume reaches up to $75 billion, showcasing a scale several times larger than the spot market. Recently, synthetic perpetual futures for individual stocks have been traded on on-chain platforms, and centralized exchanges are also expanding perpetual futures into commodities and index products. As of May 2026, the trading volume of physical asset-based perpetual futures reached $211 billion, marking an increase of about 16 times compared to the fourth quarter of 2025. Stock perpetual futures have surged by 121% in just one month, reaching $54 billion. Some analysts suggest that the stock perpetual futures market may surpass the scale of cryptocurrency perpetual futures. The perpetual futures market allows for 24-hour trading and has fewer restrictions on short selling, bringing significant changes to the existing market. Furthermore, the crypto market is infiltrating the IPO market, with SpaceX, which went public in June 2026, being traded in the form of pre-IPO perpetual futures. Major exchanges are building multi-asset markets that allow simultaneous trading of stocks, cryptocurrencies, and foreign exchange. The market anticipates that tokenization will transform about 10% of the global capital market in the future.

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