perpetual futures

Stocks and commodities now drive 23% of crypto exchange volume

The line between crypto and traditional finance continues to blur as digital-asset exchanges emerge as major venues for trading contracts tied to stocks, indexes, and commodities, with hundreds of billions of dollars flowing into these new instruments in 2026.

SanDisk stock perpetuals become crypto’s largest equity derivative at $1.73B

A flash-memory chipmaker has become the unlikely leader of crypto's equity-linked derivatives market. Perpetual futures tied to SanDisk Western Digital Corporation shares reached $1.73 billion in open interest as of August 17, making SNDK the largest stock perpetual contract across…