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Odaily News, Dubai-based cryptocurrency exchange Bybit has launched USDT-settled forex perpetual contracts covering three major currency pairs: EUR/USD, GBP/USD, and USD/JPY. The contracts support 24/7 trading with up to 100x leverage available.These contracts have no expiry date, with all profits and losses settled in USDT. Traders simply track the price movements of the underlying currency pairs without taking ownership of the corresponding currencies. The product has been added to Bybit's TradFi Perpetuals lineup launched in April, which currently covers over 200 assets including stocks, commodities, ETFs, and pre-IPO companies. (Cointelegraph)
Odaily News According to the latest report "RWA Perpetuals: State of the Market — August 2026" released by CoinMarketCap, the cumulative trading volume in the RWA perpetual futures market has reached $3.16 trillion, with August alone recording $799.5 billion in monthly trading volume, setting a new all-time high. Gate has emerged as the most prominent trading platform in this growth phase: from June to August, its trading volume surged approximately 5.3 times, making it the fastest-growing exchange among platforms with monthly trading volumes exceeding $5 billion during the same period.In August, Gate's RWA perpetual futures trading volume reached $64.8 billion, 2.6 times its record-breaking July volume, ranking third globally among centralized trading platforms and accounting for 9.3% of total CEX trading volume. The report specifically noted that Gate's highest weekly trading volume hit $20.65 billion during the week of August 17, coinciding with the period of sharp volatility in memory chip stocks, also marking a new all-time weekly high for Gate.CMC emphasized that Gate has maintained strong growth despite heightened market volatility and rapidly shifting trading dynamics. Notably, its peak trading week did not occur at market highs but during a market correction period, indicating a trend where trading flow further concentrates toward Gate during periods of intensified volatility.
Odaily News: Greek.live Research Institute's Adam stated on the X platform that Deribit has been continuously rolling out updates more than once a week recently. Spot liquidity has now been merged into Coinbase, and the majority of reserve assets have been custodied with Coinbase. These arrangements are aimed at preparing for the merger on September 9.Adam stated that Coinbase may deserve more attention than many expect, as this merger is not a simple brand integration. Coinbase's spot trading, global user base, and institutional framework will be integrated with Deribit's options, derivatives liquidity, and trading infrastructure.For traders, spot, perpetual, and options trading were previously spread across different platforms. After the merger, Coinbase will consolidate spot, perpetuals, options, and futures into a single trading system. The derivatives layer will leverage a new-generation matching engine and further consolidate previously fragmented liquidity.
Odaily News, Blockworks analyst Shaunda Devens stated on the X platform that Kraken may be testing Hyperliquid's HIP-3 (Builder-Deployed Perpetuals) new compliant deployment feature, potentially becoming one of the first centralized exchanges to explore this mechanism. BlockworksData shows that a deployer named "Kraken HIP-3 test DEX" has enabled permission management functionality (Star gating) on the Hyperliquid testnet and went live for testing on August 19. Currently, this test DEX has completed whitelist settings for 10 wallets, tested 3 of the 5 compliance control features, and registered a "Kraken Exchange Validator."Shaunda Devens noted that Hyperliquid has been continuously adding testnet features to support regulatory-compliant HIP-3 deployments, including whitelist management, canceling user orders, closing positions via reduce-only orders, and moving collateral. These capabilities are similar to the risk control mechanisms required by traditional financial institutions' compliant trading platforms.Although this is still in the testing phase, and any user could deploy a test DEX with a similar name, making it impossible to confirm it definitively belongs to Kraken, combined with Hyperliquid's recent expansion of xStocks functionality and Kraken's parent company Payward's involvement in related business initiatives, analysts believe Kraken may be testing HyperCore's new infrastructure targeting institutional and compliant markets.HIP-3 is a third-party deployed perpetual contract market framework introduced by Hyperliquid, allowing eligible developers to create independent perpetual trading markets on HyperCore's order book infrastructure. It is considered a key upgrade direction for Hyperliquid to expand into traditional assets and institutional trading scenarios. If large compliant exchanges like Kraken enter the HIP-3 ecosystem, it could further drive the integration of on-chain derivatives markets with traditional financial trading systems.
AI Financial (formerly Alt5 Sigma, stock ticker: AIFC), a cryptocurrency company backed by the Trump family, is in discussions with blockchain technology firm Perpetuals.com to sell its core business, with a potential price of up to $15 million.This news marks a significant strategic reversal for the company—just one year ago, AI Financial acquired a small payment company for $750 million, but since then, the deal has resulted in losses for nearly everyone except the Trump family. The terms of the transaction have not yet been finalized, negotiations are still ongoing, and the situation remains subject to change or the possibility of collapse. (WSJ)
According to Fortune, Theodore Gillibrand, son of U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York State, has raised $30 million in funding, valuing his company at approximately $300 million. The company plans to launch a derivatives trading platform named American Perpetuals Exchange Corp. (APEC). The platform intends to apply for a license from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and will list perpetual futures on equities and equity indices—not cryptocurrency perpetual contracts.
Barron's reporter Nick Devor posted on X, stating that Kalshi revealed new developments regarding its "perpetual contract" product at today's Kalshi Perpetuals event. Perpetual contracts are now open to the public (currently supporting 11 tokens), and its proprietary trading terminal, Kalshi Pro, will be launched later this summer.