Coinbase is launching a new perpetual futures trading feature on one of its applications. Eligible investors will now have access to quite a lot of leverage to trade those contracts, if they want it.

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Coinbase is extending its "everything exchange" strategy into precious metals, using crypto-style derivatives infrastructure ...

Coinbase is offering eligible Canadian traders perpetual and dated futures with up to 10x leverage as major US trading platforms expand their crypto presence in Canada. Coinbase has launched crypto ...

Coinbase said the upgraded system will eventually allow users to trade nearly 10,000 stocks and ETFs, crypto assets, prediction markets, and derivatives from a single account. Getty Images Coinbase ...

A perpetual future (or "perp" for short) is a type of financial derivative contract that tracks an asset's price and never expires. Because they are nearly always traded using leverage, they're a ...

Image source: The Motley Fool. Those two events are connected. In fact, Coinbase's rollout of perpetuals guarantees that the market will see even more volatility than before -- here's what you should ...