Crypto Perps
About Crypto Perps
Crypto perps let you go long or short on digital assets like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana with leverage and no expiration date. Rather than buying and custodying the coin, you take a directional position against a reference price drawn from deep spot markets, and a funding rate periodically transfers payments between longs and shorts to keep the perp anchored to that price. Positions stay open as long as your margin holds - and you can go short just as easily as long.
On Polymarket you can trade crypto perps today, including BTC, ETH, SOL, and HYPE. Each card shows the live mark price and 24-hour change - click Long to bet the price rises or Short to bet it falls, directly from the grid above.
FAQs
Polymarket currently lists 40 crypto perps: ETH, NEAR, SOL, BTC, SUI, HYPE, DOGE, ZEC, VVV, TAO, ZRO, UNI, AAVE, ADA, ENA, CASHCAT, PUMP, PONS, KSHIB, BNB, VIRTUAL, XPL, ARB, ETHFI, MORPHO, AVAX, USELESS, XRP, PENDLE, FARTCOIN, XMR, LINK, LIT, ONDO, LDO, JUP, KAITO, WLD, KPEPE, and LTC. You can go long or short on each one directly from the grid above.
Find the ETH perp card in the grid. Click Long to bet Ethereum will rise, or Short to bet it will fall. The card shows the live mark price and the 24-hour change, and your position stays open until you close it or your margin is liquidated.
Open the NEAR perp card and choose Long or Short. The perp tracks the NEAR Protocol spot reference price and lets you take a leveraged directional view without holding the coin.
No. Perpetual futures have no expiration date. A funding rate periodically transfers payments between longs and shorts to keep the perp anchored to spot, and your position stays open until you close it or your margin is liquidated.
A crypto perp lets you go long or short with leverage against a spot reference price, rather than owning the asset. There's no wallet or custody to manage, and you can bet on a price falling just as easily as rising.