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OKX will officially launch the DRAM/USDT perpetual contract on May 8, 2026, at 17:00, the LITE/USDT contract will go live at 17:15, and the GME/USDT contract will launch at 17:30. Contract trading will support 24/7 trading, with USDT as the settlement currency.

The trading platform Aster announced that at 18:00 Beijing time today (10:00 UTC), it will launch the U-based perpetual contract (AGTUSDT) for Alaya AI (AGT).It is reported that to coincide with the launch of the new contract, Aster will simultaneously open a trading reward event from May 7 to May 14. During the event, AGTUSDT contract trading will enjoy a 1.2 times bonus, and participating users will share a total prize pool of $50,000 in ASTER based on their proportion of generated transaction fees. The participation condition is that the transaction fee must be greater than $5, and the individual reward cap is 3% of the total prize pool.According to reports, Alaya AI is an open Web3 data sampling and automatic labeling AI infrastructure driven by a decentralized community, aimed at transforming data into on-chain user-owned assets.

According to the official announcement, Binance will launch the BILLUSDT perpetual contract on May 7, 2026, at 16:15, with a maximum leverage of up to 20 times. This contract will support a multi-asset model, allowing users to use assets other than USDT as margin for trading.

OKX will launch pre-market trading for SPACEX/USDT on May 7, 2026, at 17:00, for OPENAI/USDT at 17:15, and for ANTHROPIC/USDT at 17:30. Users can trade using USDT for settlement, with the contract type being perpetual contracts, and trading hours are 7 × 24 hours.

According to the official announcement, Coinbase has announced the launch of perpetual contracts for gold and silver, open for trading to eligible non-U.S. users. Among them, GOLD-PERP corresponds to 1 troy ounce of spot gold, and SILVER-PERP corresponds to 1 troy ounce of spot silver, both settled in USDC, supporting 24/7 trading, with a maximum leverage of 25 times. Institutional users can trade through Coinbase International Exchange, while retail users can participate via the Coinbase website and app.Coinbase stated that this move is part of its "traditional financial assets on-chain" strategy, aiming to build an "Everything Exchange" that covers crypto assets, traditional assets, and new products.In addition, Coinbase mentioned that it is working with the CFTC to plan the expansion of gold and silver futures trading in the U.S. market to operate 24/7. The company believes this will support weekend hedging, continuous price discovery, and cross-asset strategy trading.

The cryptocurrency trading platform SuperEx announced that it will launch the AMDUSDT, QCOMUSDT, and USARUSDT U-based perpetual contract trading pairs today at 22:00 Beijing time (14:00 UTC).It is reported that the newly launched contract trading pairs support full margin, cross margin, and isolated margin modes, and users can experience trading through SuperEx's web and app platforms.

OKX will officially launch the BILLUSDT perpetual contract on May 6, 2026, at 16:00. Users can trade on the web, App, and API. The contract trading will support leverage from 0.01 to 20 times, and trading hours will be 7×24.

According to the official announcement, Binance has released an important update regarding the price index calculation model for commodity-type TradFi perpetual contracts. Starting from May 9, 2026, at 05:00 (UTC+8), Binance will adopt the order book EWMA price index calculation model to replace the fixed model for calculating the price index of commodity-type TradFi perpetual contracts during daily maintenance, holidays, and weekends.The order book EWMA price index calculation model will be applied to all commodity-type TradFi perpetual contracts, including XAUUSDT, XAGUSDT, XPTUSDT, XPDUSDT, COPPERUSDT, CLUSDT, BZUSDT, NATGASUSDT, and future commodity-type TradFi perpetual contracts that will be listed on Binance.Equity-type TradFi perpetual contracts will continue to use the fixed model during daily maintenance, holidays, and weekends until further notice. If Binance adopts the order book EWMA price index calculation model, a separate announcement will be made.

OKX will delist the following USDⓈ UM perpetual contracts on May 7, 2026, at 16:00: BTC-USDⓈ UM, ETH-USDⓈ UM, SOL-USDⓈ UM, and XAU-USDⓈ UM. When the contracts are delisted, trading of these contracts will cease, all user orders will be canceled, and the delivery price will be set as the arithmetic average of the OKX index one hour before delisting. After the contracts are delisted, users with a position value greater than $10,000 will be restricted from transferring all assets in their trading accounts, with normal operations resuming after 30 minutes.

The Binance futures platform will launch the AMDUSDT perpetual contract on May 6, 2026, at 21:30, with a maximum leverage of up to 10 times; the QCOMUSDT perpetual contract will launch at 21:35, with a maximum leverage of up to 10 times; the USARUSDT perpetual contract will launch at 21:40, with a maximum leverage of up to 10 times.

OKX will officially launch USD-based perpetual contracts (X-Perp) on May 4, 2026, at 16:00, supporting trading pairs XAGUSD UM (X-Perp), CLUSD UM (X-Perp), and BZUSD UM (X-Perp).

According to the official documentation from Tradexyz, the decentralized trading platform Tradexyz has officially added a Pre-IPO perpetual contract market in its product documentation. This product is a cash-settled perpetual derivative that references the expected public equity of the issuer planning to go public, used for price discovery before the IPO.XYZ emphasizes that the Pre-IPO perpetual contracts are not stocks, IPO allocations, tokenized equity, or securities rights, and holding positions does not confer ownership, voting rights, dividend rights, or any claims against the issuer. After the IPO, the relevant market is expected to transition to standard external pricing perpetual contracts once sufficient external data is available; if the IPO is delayed, fails, or undergoes significant changes, the market will settle according to the established Outside Launch Date, Settlement Period, and TWAP mechanisms.

According to the official announcement, Coinbase exchange will launch MegaETH (MEGA) related trading products on April 30. Among them, the MEGA perpetual contract (MEGA-PERP) will start trading under conditions of sufficient liquidity, open to retail and institutional investors in compliant regions; the MEGA spot trading pair MEGA-USD is also planned to open later today in supported trading areas.

OKX will officially launch the MEGA (MEGA) USDT perpetual contract on April 30, 2026, at 20:00. The contract trading will support leverage from 0.01 to 20 times, and trading hours will be 7×24.

According to the official announcement, Bitget has launched U-based AIGENSYN and PROS perpetual contracts, with a maximum leverage of 20 times. The contract trading BOT will also be opened simultaneously.

According to the official announcement, Binance will launch the AIGENSYNUSDT perpetual contract on April 29, 2026, at 14:15 (UTC), with a maximum leverage of 20 times.The contract is settled in USDT, with a minimum trading unit of 1 AIGENSYN, a minimum nominal value of 5 USDT, and the funding rate is settled every 4 hours. Futures copy trading will also be available within 24 hours of the launch.

The Binance futures platform will launch the AIGENSYNUSDT perpetual contract on April 29, 2026, at 22:15, with a maximum leverage of up to 20 times. This contract will support a multi-asset model, allowing users to use assets other than USDT as margin for trading.

According to the official announcement, Coinbase will launch perpetual contract trading for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), ARM (ARM), Intel (INTC), Micron (MU), and SanDisk (SNDK) on April 29, 2026.The AMD-PERP, ARM-PERP, INTC-PERP, MU-PERP, and SNDK-PERP markets will open after meeting liquidity conditions.

OKX will officially launch the AIUSDT perpetual contract on April 29, 2026, at 20:00. The contract underlying is AI/USDT, with a leverage range of 0.01 to 20 times, and trading will be available 24/7. Users can participate in trading through the web, app, and API.