The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) allows “equity perpetual futures” to trade on CFTC-registered exchanges, effectively extending a crypto-style perpetual futures model to traditional stocks.
CFTC Chair Michael Selig is quoted across coverage as describing the change as a regulated path for this type of instrument. Decrypt and CoinDesk both frame the development as expanding where such perpetual products can be traded in the United States, rather than relying on less regulated alternatives. CoinDesk specifically emphasizes the availability of a regulated alternative to “offshore, and often unregulated, venues,” while Decrypt focuses more on the approval itself—highlighting that the instrument is now permitted on registered exchanges for equity trading. Together, the reporting shows the policy shift and its intended market-structure implications.
