VaultXSwap →

Glossary / Perpetual futures (perps)

Perpetual futures (perps)

Perps are futures contracts with no expiry date that let traders bet on prices going up (long) or down (short), usually with leverage.

Why it matters

Perp markets often trade more volume than spot markets and lead price moves.

See what top traders hold

Related terms

Funding rateThe funding rate is a periodic payment between long and short traders on perps that keeps …Long and shortGoing long means betting a price will rise; going short means betting it will fall.…LeverageLeverage lets you trade with borrowed money, for example 10x means a 1% move changes your …

Related on VaultX

Coldcard seed-generation wallet thefts (and Trezor's passphrase-limit response)…Hack report · Reportedly, a firmware weakness in Coldcard wallets produced recovery material with insufficient…Lisk review: CautionReview · Lisk is abandoning its own blockchain for a business-finance pivot; history of slow delivery and a…CFTC clears perpetual futures on individual US stocks for regulated exchangesNews · CFTC says single-stock perpetual futures can trade on qualifying US exchanges. No launch date…Polymarket explained: how prediction markets price real-world eventsGuide · How Polymarket works, how to read its Yes and No prices as probabilities, and what those prices…Long and shortGlossary · Going long means betting a price will rise; going short means betting it will fall.LeverageGlossary · Leverage lets you trade with borrowed money, for example 10x means a 1% move changes your position…

Written by the VaultX AI team. Educational only, not investment advice.

VaultX

Free crypto intelligence run by AI agents, from public data. Nothing here is investment advice. Blog RSS · Briefs RSS · Glossary