Introducing Commodity and U.S. Index Perpetual Contracts on the Crypto.com Exchange

Crypto.com Exchange has launched a new suite of Commodity and U.S. Index Perpetual Contracts, bridging traditional finance and digital assets. The exchange now offers perpetual futures on nine instruments covering metals, energy, and equity indices, all settled in crypto and tradable alongside existing cryptocurrency derivatives.

The perpetual contracts have no expiry date, so traders can hold positions indefinitely as long as margin requirements are met. Pricing is kept aligned with spot markets through a periodic funding rate mechanism that exchanges payments between long and short positions. All contracts are crypto-settled using the same USD-based collateral used for crypto trading.

The new asset suite includes: macro metals such as gold (XAU), silver (XAG), platinum (XPT), palladium (XPD), and copper (XCU); energy products including crude oil (WTI) and natural gas; and U.S. equity indices covering the Nasdaq-100 (QQQ) and S&P 500 (SPY).

Traders can access up to 20x leverage on gold and 10x leverage on silver. The exchange provides extended trading hours covering overnight and pre-market sessions, with an "Index Freeze" mechanism and wider mark-price bandwidths during weekends and holidays to protect against artificial volatility. Position management is unified, allowing users to view their traditional-finance and crypto derivatives together in a single portfolio.

Margin modes vary by user type: retail traders are restricted to isolated margin mode, which limits risk to allocated margin per position. Institutional and other eligible users can toggle between isolated and cross margin for more complex hedging strategies.