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Singapore Exchange to Launch Bitcoin and Ether Perpetual Futures
SGX aims to enhance institutional crypto trading with perpetual futures offering improved price discovery and capital efficiency, referencing widely used iEdge CoinDesk Crypto/Indices.
- On Monday, Singapore Exchange Derivatives announced bitcoin and ether perpetual futures will go live on Nov. 24, bringing global derivatives structure to crypto perpetuals.
- Amid growing demand for regionally anchored benchmarks, SGX said it has taken the next step—applying the same institutional discipline that underpins global markets to crypto’s most traded payoff, referencing the iEdge CoinDesk Crypto/Indices.
- Perpetual futures have no expiry and use a funding-rate mechanism with periodic payments between buyers and sellers, trading around the clock on mostly offshore trading venues with more than $187 billion daily volumes.
- Institutional traders gain exposure without owning cryptocurrencies, improving portfolio precision and capital efficiency, while CoinDesk/Indices will support the benchmark rate with traditional margining and clearing.
- Reference rates publish at 4 p.m. SGT daily and real-time indices run every second, 24/7, underpinning continuous price references amid an institutional trend toward regionally anchored benchmarks.
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SGX Launches Bitcoin and Ether Perpetual Futures Tied to iEdge CoinDesk Indexes
The Singapore Exchange’s (SGX) derivatives arm announced it will begin trading perpetual futures for Bitcoin and Ether on 24 November 2025, offering institutional and accredited investors regulated, exchange-cleared access to two of the market’s most traded digital assets. Perpetual futures are open-ended contracts with no settlement date; they use a periodic funding mechanism to keep the contract price close to spot. By listing these instrument…
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