Aptos-backed perpetuals DEX Decibel Trade has launched WTI crude oil perpetual contracts, extending its onchain commodity suite beyond gold and silver and bringing one of the world’s most traded commodities into a 24/7, fully onchain market structure. Decibel, which runs a fully onchain order book on the Aptos blockchain and is incubated by Aptos Labs, now offers perpetuals on gold, silver, and WTI crude oil, with the WTI market going live in early May 2026. WTI crude oil is the benchmark underlying for a large share of global oil derivatives, and its addition follows Decibel’s earlier rollout of gold and silver perps in April 2026. According to coverage of the launch cycle, commodity perpetuals on-chain have rapidly become a significant segment of the crypto derivatives market, with weekly volume in commodity perps reportedly jumping from tens of millions to around $25 billion in one quarter, driven in part by geopolitical events that pushed crude oil trading on onchain venues when traditional markets were closed. By listing WTI perps in a fully onchain, order-book-based system, Decibel aims to provide continuous, globally accessible exposure to oil prices without traditional intermediaries or market hours constraints, while using Aptos’ high-throughput infrastructure to approximate centralized-exchange performance with onchain transparency.

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