Kraken has switched on perpetual futures trading for eligible U.S. clients on Kraken Pro, bringing the most-traded crypto derivatives product under domestic regulatory oversight for the first time at scale.

The contracts are listed on Bitnomial, a CFTC-licensed exchange, clearinghouse, and brokerage that Kraken’s parent company, Payward, acquired earlier this year. The launch gives U.S. traders access to perpetual futures — a product that generated more than $60 trillion in global trading volume in 2025 — within the CFTC’s regulatory perimeter, on a platform they can use alongside spot, margin, and CME-listed futures.

Perpetual futures track the price of an underlying…

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