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prediction market platform regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, has launched perpetual futures contracts on XRP, adding the token to a derivatives lineup that began with Bitcoin perpetual futures on June 3.
The Bitcoin product carried explicit CFTC approval; Kalshi says the XRP contract sits under the same regulatory framework.
Perpetual futures carry no expiration date and use a funding-rate mechanism to track the underlying spot price — a structure that has made them the dominant leveraged instrument on offshore crypto exchanges.
What Kalshi Is Building and Why It Matters Kalshi built its name on event-based prediction markets, not derivatives.
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