Traditional finance perpetual contracts grew 117-fold in six months, jumping from monthly volume of $3.3-3.5 billion to $387-393 billion by June 2026. These products now account for 98.5% of all TradFi trading activity on major exchanges. Binance captured over 58% of this market and particularly dominates the ETF perpetual segment with 74% market share and equity-linked perps with 76% in July 2026. The most active contract was SANDUSDT, tracking SanDisk, with daily volume of $6.87 billion. TradFi perps represented 37% of Binance’s total perpetual volume in August 2026, six percentage points above the industry average.
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