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The permission battle is over. The liquidity battle is just beginning. And the leverage numbers are already telling the story.
Kalshi's US regulated crypto perpetual futures are now live, the first of their kind after the CFTC's May 29 approval. The product page lists Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, XRP, and HYPE. It looks like a broad market. The leverage limits say otherwise. Bitcoin at 5.9x. Ethereum at 4.5x. Solana at 2.7x. XRP at 2.8x. HYPE at 2.2x. The market is not setting those numbers by regulatory preference. It is setting them by liquidity reality. You cannot offer aggressive leverage on an asset without the spot depth to absorb liquidations. Bitcoin has the deepest spot footprint and the most trusted benchmark infrastructure. The altcoins are listed. That is a listing, not a market.
The offshore comparison makes the gap obvious. Hyperliquid alone offers more than 100 perpetual assets at 3x to 40x leverage. Crypto native traders are not migrating to a US regulated venue for fewer assets and lower leverage. They will migrate when the spreads are tighter, the funding is more orderly, and the execution quality holds during volatile sessions. Bitcoin is the only asset where Kalshi can realistically compete on those terms from day one.
The same pattern we have tracked since the ETF approvals. The regulatory door opens. Bitcoin walks through first. The altcoins have to earn it one order book at a time. The perps market is no different. The permission is universal. The market depth is not.
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2026-06-27 01:52:13 UTCEvent JSON
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