TREE NEWS update: Kalshi, a regulated exchange, has filed with the CFTC to offer perpetual futures on a 500-stock US index and spot copper, marking its first equity-linked products. The filing comes three months after regulators approved the country’s first bitcoin perpetual futures, signaling a broader trend of crypto-style derivatives entering traditional markets.
Kalshi Files for Perpetual Futures on US Stocks and Copper
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AI take
Kalshi's move matters less as a product launch than as a signal that the perpetual-futures structure is being ported into conventional asset classes under a regulated US venue. If approved, it would put crypto-native contract mechanics into direct competition with the listed futures complex for equity and copper exposure, a shift worth watching for how incumbents and the CFTC frame leverage and settlement rules. The open question is whether this becomes a template for other regulated exchanges or remains a one-off extension of the bitcoin perpetual precedent.
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