Kalshi ‘Perps’ Surpass $1 Billion In Trading Volume A Week After Launch

CryptoProwl

Wed, June 10, 2026 astatine 7:35 AM CDT 1 min read

Prediction marketplace level Kalshi says trading volumes successful its perpetual futures contracts has reached $1 cardinal U.S. a week aft launch.

The institution officially launched trading successful cryptocurrency perpetual futures, known arsenic “perps,” successful aboriginal June. 

The archetypal 24 hours saw much than $100 cardinal U.S. successful trading volumes, and those volumes person present reached $1 cardinal U.S. arsenic request remains beardown among investors.

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Perps are futures contracts with nary expiration day that let traders to speculate connected a terms without owning the existent asset, successful this lawsuit cryptocurrencies specified arsenic Bitcoin (CRYPTO: $BTC). 

So far, Kalshi is the lone level successful the U.S. that offers trading successful perps. 

Kalshi received regulatory support from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) connected May 29 of this twelvemonth to go the archetypal institution successful the U.S. to connection perp contracts. 

While Coinbase Global (NASDAQ: $COIN) has besides received support from regulators to connection U.S. traders entree to perp contracts, it has yet to motorboat the service. 

Demand to entree Kalshi’s perp trading has been strong. The institution says that the waitlist to entree perps connected its level had much than 1 cardinal radical astatine 1 point. 

Kalshi is privately held and its banal does not commercialized connected a nationalist exchange.