Kraken Unleashes 24/7 Perpetual Futures - Retail Traders Now Ride Crypto Waves Nonstop
Kraken shatters trading hour barriers—launches perpetual futures contracts granting retail investors round-the-clock crypto exposure.
No more waiting for sunup in traditional markets. This move opens floodgates for speculative positions, day or night, weekends included.
Leverage meets liquidity in a volatile playground. Traders amplify bets without expiry dates—classic crypto innovation meets Wall Street’s worst FOMO nightmares.
One more step toward democratizing high-risk, high-reward instruments—because what’s finance without a little reckless abandon?
Kraken expands derivatives as IPO looms
Kraken Perps is launching at an important time for the platform, as reports suggest that it is readying for a public listing in early 2026, which may even make it one of the largest crypto companies to go public since Coinbase in 2021. The time marks strong growth in the market for perpetual contracts.
August 2025 was the busiest month ever, with around US$515 billion in trading volume. The spike is a lesson in how many more people have been trading perps because traders have taken advantage of short-term price spikes in a world where futures contracts have expired, and will not allow them to have futures. Meanwhile, Kraken is expanding its ecosystem further.
As earlier reported by Cryptopolitan, the company recently introduced a tokenized stock product, xStocks, to the European Union. It is behind the completion of a deal to acquire Breakout, a custom trading platform, and has been incubating INK, an ethereum Layer 2 network, which is on track to release a token of its own.
Those efforts are part of Kraken’s strategy of pushing beyond spot trading. The exchange establishes itself as a full-service trading hub for retail and institutional clients with derivatives, tokenized equities, and blockchain infrastructure.
Kraken balances opportunity and risk
Kraken has designed Perps as a fresh entry point for crypto-market retail traders. The exchange says the product provides more options for users to voice their views on prices, diversification strategies, and handle portfolio risks. As many people can’t have a stake in an underlying asset, the long or short positions provide some trading opportunities and aren’t always for the professional.
However, within these opportunities are also distinct threats. Perps are very Leveraged products, and leverage can amplify ups and downs. In a turbulent crypto market, sudden price surges wipe out positions swiftly.
In severe scenarios, losses exceeding that initial deposit leave no one SAFE when trading. Kraken has accepted this fact and notes that “perps are not for every investor.” The exchange has introduced some safeguards to mitigate these risks.
Stop-loss orders, margin alerts, and easy mobile integration are all intended to protect retail users if markets swing in their opposite direction. Kraken suggests risk management tools can only get you so far, and a trader must understand how perps work before jumping on board. It won’t be the same for access to Kraken Perps on launch.
Regulatory environments are disparate across nations, and the exchange is rolling the product out in stages, with early releases in several jurisdictions where the legal landscape becomes more conducive.
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