CFTC allows equity perpetual futures to begin trading on registered US exchanges

CFTC Chairman Michael S. Selig announced that perpetual futures on individual equity securities can now trade for the first time on CFTC-registered exchanges, extending the instrument beyond digital commodities into traditional securities. The contracts were deemed approved under Regulation 40.3 as security futures products under the CFMA, subject to both CFTC and SEC oversight. Selig said the move builds on the first bitcoin perpetual futures approval (KalshiEX, May 2026) and a CFTC-SEC memorandum of understanding from March 2026, ending a regulatory "no man's land" for such products.

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