The Commodity Futures Trading Commission approved Kalshi's Bitcoin BTCPERP contract on May 29, 2026, marking the first approval of perpetual futures on a regulated U.S. exchange

The first and largest cryptocurrency, spanning its price and adoption, mining, protocol politics, and its contested role as digital money and inflation hedge.

Futures, options, and perpetual swaps tied to digital-asset prices, letting traders hedge or lever positions and often dwarfing spot volumes.