Blockchain.com Adds Perpetual Futures to Self-custody Wallet

Blockchain.com on Tuesday added perpetual futures trading to its non-custodial wallet, routing orders through decentralized derivatives exchange Hyperliquid. The feature lets wallet users open, manage and close leveraged positions while keeping control of their private keys.

The product provides access to more than 190 markets with leverage up to 40x. Accounts can be funded directly from a user’s Bitcoin wallet in a single on-chain transaction, avoiding conversions or transfers to a custodial trading account. Trades execute while assets remain in the user’s wallet.

Perpetual futures are derivative contracts that give traders leveraged exposure to an asset’s price without an expiration date. Michael Selig, chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, indicated last month the regulator plans to allow such contracts in the coming weeks.

Hyperliquid lists crypto and multi-asset perpetuals, with commodity- and index-linked contracts such as oil, the S&P 500 and silver trading alongside bitcoin and ether. Exchanges have expanded perpetual offerings this year: Kraken launched tokenized equity perpetuals for non-U.S. clients in February, and Coinbase introduced stock-based perpetuals for non-U.S. users in March.

Blockchain.com, founded in 2011 and based in Malta, operates wallets, trading and infrastructure products for retail and institutional customers. The company announced it intends to extend the wallet-based perpetual feature to foreign exchange, stocks and commodities.