Polymarket Opens 67 Perpetual-Futures Markets With Leverage Up to 20x

Polymarket is no longer just a place to trade on elections, economic releases and other events.

The company has opened a full perpetual-futures venue with 67 live markets across crypto, stocks, commodities and major indexes. The product offers leverage as high as 20x on some contracts, putting Polymarket in more direct competition with crypto-native derivatives platforms.

The Defiant counted 36 stock contracts, 24 crypto contracts, four commodities and three indexes on the opening roster, with Bitcoin and Ether joined by XRP, Solana, BNB, Dogecoin and smaller tokens while the non-crypto side ranges from Tesla and Nvidia to gold, oil, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100. Its launch-day review found roughly $73 million in displayed volume across the whole book, far below Hyperliquid’s billions in daily perpetual volume, and confirmed that order placement was blocked from the United States, Canada and several other jurisdictions even though the product appeared prominently in Polymarket’s main navigation.

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A much bigger product than event betting

A perpetual future has no fixed expiration date, allowing traders to remain long or short while funding payments help keep the contract close to its reference price. Leverage magnifies both sides of that trade: a small move can create a large gain, but it can also erase margin quickly.

Polymarket’s own live market directory shows a 67-contract venue built around perpetual positions rather than event outcomes, with mark and oracle prices, funding, volume, open interest, cross or isolated margin, and long-or-short controls shown for each market. The directory lists 24 crypto contracts led by Bitcoin and Ether but also including XRP, Solana, BNB, Dogecoin, Cardano, Sui and DeFi tokens, then extends the same structure to major stocks, equity indexes, precious metals and oil—making this a broad multi-asset exchange expansion rather than a small crypto add-on.

The opening book also provides an early reality check: the 67 markets totaled roughly $73 million in displayed volume on day one, while Hyperliquid was handling billions of dollars in perpetual volume over the same general period. Polymarket has entered the arena, but it has not instantly displaced the specialists.

Fees are aggressive, risk is real

Polymarket’s published fee schedule starts at 0.04% for takers and 0.0125% for makers, steps down as trailing 30-day volume rises, and can turn into a maker rebate at the highest tier; funding settles hourly, with the premium index sampled repeatedly from the order book to keep contract prices tethered to their reference markets. Those numbers help explain the low-fee pitch, but the documentation also makes clear that traders must account for funding, slippage, maintenance margin and liquidation, especially when a position uses the maximum leverage and has little room to absorb an adverse move.

The platform’s maximum leverage does not mean every trader receives or should use 20x, because at that level there is very little room for an adverse move before margin comes under pressure. Perpetuals can be useful for hedging, but the same mechanics make them unforgiving when used as a shortcut to oversized exposure.

Honest post: the Polymarket DeFi CLOB is full of tech debt. It grew fast, got hacked together, and most of the team inherited it that way. Since joining and building out the team, we have scaled it 10x and made it 3x faster, but it’s not enough; the core foundations of how it’s…

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That engineering disclosure matters because leveraged markets place a premium on reliable order matching, price feeds and liquidation systems. Polymarket says it is rebuilding core exchange infrastructure in Rust and targeting a faster order book, but traders are being asked to evaluate a live product while that larger technical overhaul continues.

U.S. traders are not part of this launch

Order placement is blocked from the United States and several other jurisdictions. That distinction is important: Polymarket may be a familiar name to American prediction-market users, but this international perps product is not a U.S. retail launch.

The larger signal is strategic: Polymarket built attention around event probabilities and is now trying to turn that audience into a multi-asset trading base. If the company can bring liquidity and dependable execution to the new venue, perpetuals could become a second major business line; if it cannot, 20x leverage will expose the weaknesses quickly.

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