Kalshi CEO touts perpetual futures demand as SOL perps go live
Kalshi is expanding its perpetual futures lineup and signaling broader demand for the product category. The platform has launched SOL perpetual futures, now live for trading and available exclusively on Kalshi. Separately, Kalshi's CEO told CNBC that demand exists for perpetual futures trading, and a LinkedIn post from Prediction Markets Report noted firsthand demand for Kalshi's BTCPERP product, which the platform launched as what it called the first domestic perpetual futures product on a regulated exchange. The statements come as Kalshi builds out crypto derivatives beyond its initial bitcoin offering.
Kalshi must prove its standalone derivatives product can retain retail flow that Robinhood might otherwise route to its own competing perpetual futures or to its new Rothera exchange. The SOL launch tests whether Kalshi can build crypto perpetuals into a durable venue driver independent of its largest broker.
Kalshi's launch of first CFTC-approved bitcoin perpetual futures and the platform's rapid ramp to $1 billion in first-week volume as retail crypto derivatives competition with Robinhood intensifies.