Regulators just opened crypto's biggest trading product to US investors — Coinbase wins first
US regulators just gave the green light for crypto perpetual futures contracts to trade on American exchanges. Coinbase is one of the first platforms approved to offer them — a brand-new revenue stream that didn't exist yesterday.
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Perpetual futures are the most popular crypto trading product globally, but they've never been legally available on US platforms until now. Coinbase — already the largest US crypto exchange — gets first-mover advantage to capture what could be billions in new trading fees. This isn't speculative hype; it's a concrete new product approval with a named beneficiary. The stock may pull back briefly on profit-taking after the initial pop, but the revenue story only gets stronger as these products launch and attract US traders who previously used offshore exchanges.