Binance Expands Futures With U.S. Equity Perpetual Contracts

Binance has officially announced the launch of several USDⓈ-margined equity perpetual contracts, marking a further step in blending traditional equity price action with crypto-native derivatives infrastructure. Trading for the new contracts will begin on February 9, 2026, with a staggered rollout throughout the day.

The detail that changes how this announcement should be read isn’t the list of tickers, but the fact that these contracts will trade continuously while the underlying equities do not. That timing gap, introduced deliberately, reshapes how equity price discovery can occur outside U.S. market hours. Binance is not just adding products; it is extending when and where equity-linked risk can be expressed.

Launch Schedule and Available Contracts

According to the announced schedule, the rollout will proceed in ten-minute intervals:

• 14:30 UTC: MSTRUSDT – MicroStrategy (up to 10× leverage)
• 14:40 UTC: AMZNUSDT – Amazon (up to 10× leverage)
• 14:50 UTC: CRCLUSDT – Circle (up to 10× leverage)
• 15:00 UTC: COINUSDT – Coinbase (up to 10× leverage)
• 15:10 UTC: PLTRUSDT – Palantir (up to 10× leverage)

Each contract is designed to track the share price of its respective U.S.-listed company while remaining fully settled within Binance’s derivatives ecosystem.

Product Structure and Trading Mechanics

All of the newly listed equity perpetuals are USDT-settled, with funding fees exchanged every eight hours, following the standard perpetual futures model. Trading will be available 24/7, allowing participants to gain or hedge exposure to equity price movements even when U.S. stock exchanges are closed.

Binance confirmed that Multi-Asset Mode will be supported, meaning traders can post margin using assets such as BTC rather than USDT alone. The minimum trade size is set at 0.01 shares, with a minimum notional value of 5 USDT, lowering the barrier for smaller position sizing while still accommodating leveraged exposure.

Strategic Context Within Binance’s Futures Expansion

This rollout follows earlier February 2026 listings of other traditional-finance-linked perpetuals, including INTCUSDT (Intel) and HOODUSDT (Robinhood). Taken together, these additions point to a deliberate strategy: importing familiar equity tickers into a derivatives environment that operates continuously and without the constraints of traditional market hours.

Rather than replacing spot equity markets, these contracts introduce an alternative venue for expressing sentiment, managing risk, and reacting to information during periods when equities themselves cannot trade. The result is a parallel layer of price discovery that sits alongside traditional exchanges, but functions on crypto-native terms.

For now, the expansion underscores Binance’s broader objective of converging traditional financial assets with decentralized trading infrastructure, using perpetual futures as the bridge between the two systems.

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