{"id":77934,"date":"2026-03-26T19:31:44","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=77934"},"modified":"2026-03-26T19:31:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T19:31:44","slug":"cftc-chair-says-crypto-perpetuals-are-coming-to-the-us-in-the-next-few-weeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=77934","title":{"rendered":"CFTC Chair Says Crypto Perpetuals Are Coming To The US &#8216;In The Next Few Weeks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>CFTC Chairman <strong>Mike Selig<\/strong> expects to approve perpetual futures contracts for crypto trading in the U.S. within the next few weeks, ending years of offshore dominance by exchanges like <strong>Binance<\/strong> and bringing a popular trading product back to American markets.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Perpetual Problem<\/h3>\n<p>Crypto perpetual futures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Zjo1JR6IpxI\">exploded<\/a> offshore around 2017-2018 as U.S. regulators remained averse to the product despite its popularity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The main regulatory hurdle centers on how to characterize perpetuals under the Commodity Exchange Act, which originally only covered futures contracts and options before Dodd-Frank added swaps.<\/p>\n<p>The debate focuses on whether perpetuals qualify as \u201ccontracts for future delivery\u201d given their perpetual existence with no settlement date.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This uncertainty forced U.S. exchanges to launch workarounds like <strong>Coinbase\u2019s<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/COIN\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"COIN\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/COIN\">COIN<\/a>) 50-year futures contracts that mimic perpetuals without technically being perpetual.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to fix that,\u201d Selig said. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/03\/51493421\/cftc-chair-says-crypto-perpetuals-are-coming-to-the-us-in-the-next-few-weeks?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"CFTC\" chair says crypto perpetuals are coming to the us next few weeks>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CFTC Chairman Mike Selig expects to approve perpetual futures contracts for crypto trading in the U.S. within the next few weeks, ending years of offshore dominance by exchanges like Binance and bringing a popular trading product back to American markets. The Perpetual Problem Crypto perpetual futures exploded offshore around 2017-2018 as U.S. regulators remained averse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-77934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}