Crypto Leverage Trading In The US May Become More Accessible: Here’s Why
Perpetual futures contracts, a dominant force in global cryptocurrency trading, may soon become available to U.S. investors as the regulatory landscape evolves under President Donald Trump‘s administration.
What Happened: These high-risk instruments, central to offshore crypto activity, have long been inaccessible to US retail investors due to regulatory constraints.
However, legal and structural changes under the current administration have raised expectations that this could change. “We are definitely moving in the direction of crypto-based derivatives being made available in the U.S.,” Bloomberg reported, quoting Gabe Rosenberg, partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell. “It’s really just a matter of time.”
Perpetual contracts—or “perps”—allow traders to bet on cryptocurrency prices with leverage as high as 100x, without needing to own the underlying asset.
Unlike traditional futures, …
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