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Product Listing Summary

Kraken Futures provide access to trading various futures contracts:

Category

UI Availability

Contract SpecificationsTypeCollateralPnL/Funding Payout/SettlementMaturitiesVenue
Multi-Collateral Linear Multi-Collateral perpetual futures contract specificationsLinear

Default:

US Dollar (USD)

Optional:

PerpetualPayward Global Trading Pte Ltd
Single-CollateralLegacy UI - futures.kraken.com InverseBase currency

Base currency

Perpetual, Monthly, Quarterly , Semiannual*Crypto Facilities MTF

*Semiannual maturity is available for single collateral Bitcoin-Dollar and Ether-Dollar contracts only

 

Single-Collateral

For inverse futures margin must be deposited in the base currency.

For example, Bitcoin must be deposited to trade Bitcoin-Dollar futures and Ether must be deposited to trade Ether-Dollar futures.

 

Multi-Collateral

For linear Multi-Collateral futures, multiple collateral currencies can be deposited as margin. See Futures Collateral Currencies for list of supported collateral.

Multi-Collateral futures allow for flexible profit payout in any one of the support collateral currencies.

For example, Cardano-Dollar futures could be traded using Euros and Bitcoin as collateral and realise profit in Ethereum.