{"id":18591,"date":"2026-08-19T19:18:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/?p=18591"},"modified":"2026-08-19T19:18:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T19:18:50","slug":"kalshi-files-with-cftc-to-launch-copper-perpetual-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/2026\/08\/19\/kalshi-files-with-cftc-to-launch-copper-perpetual-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"Kalshi Files with CFTC to Launch Copper Perpetual Futures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prediction market operator <a href=\"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/2026\/08\/17\/washington-court-orders-kalshi-shutdown-across-major-event-markets\/\" class=\"auto-internal-link\" title=\"Washington Court Orders Kalshi Shutdown Across Major Event Markets\">Kalshi<\/a> has submitted a filing to the <a href=\"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/2026\/08\/17\/washington-court-orders-kalshi-shutdown-across-major-event-markets\/\" class=\"auto-internal-link\" title=\"Washington Court Orders Kalshi Shutdown Across Major Event Markets\">Commodity Futures Trading Commission<\/a> to list a <a href=\"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/2026\/08\/19\/coinbase-brings-50x-leveraged-perpetual-futures-to-base-app-via-hyperliquid\/\" class=\"auto-internal-link\" title=\"Coinbase Brings 50x Leveraged Perpetual Futures to Base App via Hyperliquid\">perpetual futures<\/a> contract tied to copper spot prices, expanding its financial derivatives suite following its earlier approval for Bitcoin perpetual contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Filed August 18, the proposed COPPERPERP contract would track the spot price of copper in U.S. dollars per pound using a price feed from Pyth Network, a blockchain-based market data provider that aggregates pricing from exchanges, market makers, and other financial firms.<\/p>\n<p>Pyth Network aggregates first-party market data across trading venues to deliver continuous pricing updates on-chain. By integrating this oracle system into a regulated exchange environment, Kalshi aims to support continuous contract pricing without relying on traditional daily settlement windows or physical delivery infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Kalshi filing, the Copper Perp contract would be settled in cash, with no physical copper changing hands. Periodic payments between long and short traders would help keep its price aligned with the underlying copper price.<\/p>\n<p>These periodic payments, structured as funding rates, require traders holding long positions to pay short holders when the perpetual derivative trades above the spot index, while short traders pay long holders when the price trades at a discount. Unlike standard futures contracts traded on major commodity exchanges like CME Group\u2019s COMEX or the London Metal Exchange, perpetual contracts carry no fixed expiration date or requirement to roll positions into next-month contracts.<\/p>\n<p>Kalshi operates as a Designated Contract Market regulated by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cftc.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Commodity Futures Trading Commission<\/a>, having received approval in May to offer Bitcoin perpetual futures. The platform has also filed for stock-index perpetuals, expanding its derivative offerings as copper demand rises across electric vehicles, power grid modernization, and artificial intelligence data center infrastructure.<\/p>\n<div class=\"related-news-box\">\n<h3 class=\"related-news-title\">Read also:<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"related_news_list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/2026\/08\/19\/maya-protocol-halts-network-after-six-software-bugs-lead-to-1-7m-exploit\/\">Maya Protocol Halts Network After Six Software Bugs Lead to $1.7M Exploit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/2026\/08\/19\/moderna-stock-soars-131-as-personalized-mrna-cancer-vaccine-hits-phase-3-melanoma-goals\/\">Moderna Stock Soars 131% as Personalized mRNA Cancer Vaccine Hits Phase 3 Melanoma Goals<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/2026\/08\/19\/coinbases-base-caps-batches-004-accelerator-at-10-startups-with-100k-funding-each\/\">Coinbase&#8217;s Base Caps Batches 004 Accelerator at 10 Startups With $100K Funding Each<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prediction market operator Kalshi has submitted a filing to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to list a perpetual futures contract tied to copper spot prices, expanding its financial derivatives suite following its earlier approval for Bitcoin perpetual contracts. Filed August 18, the proposed COPPERPERP contract would track the spot price of copper in U.S. dollars &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18593,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3051,20238,8226,5482,20239],"class_list":["post-18591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crypto","tag-commodity-futures-trading-commission","tag-copperperp","tag-kalshi","tag-perpetual-futures","tag-pyth-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18591"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18595,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18591\/revisions\/18595"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nile1.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}