Binance Futures, the derivatives arm of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, will launch silver perpetual contracts on Wednesday, allowing cryptocurrency traders to place leveraged bets on the prominent precious metal in 2025.
Perpetual futures contracts, or “delinquents,” are derivative instruments that allow traders to bet on the price of an asset without owning it and without expiration dates, using funding rates, typically every few hours, to keep prices aligned with spot markets. Their infinite duration, high leverage options, and 24/7 access have made them very popular in the cryptocurrency space, generating billions in daily trading volume across all exchanges.
The contract, which launches at 10:00 UTC, offers up to 50x leverage on US dollar-priced silver per troy ounce, allowing traders to control positions 50x their deposited margin and amplify both profits and losses.
He is marginalized and seated in bondage. the world’s largest dollar-pegged stablecoin, with a minimum face value of 5 USDT, the exchange said in an official announcement. Trading these perpetual futures will incur a funding fee, capped at ±2%, every four hours.
The impending launch comes weeks after the exchange unveiled gold-linked perpetual securities and shows that cryptocurrency traders are increasingly diversifying into precious metals, which outperformed the cryptocurrency market by leaps and bounds last year.
Silver recorded a staggering 147% rally in 2025, at one point reaching a record price per ounce of $83.75. At the time of writing, it changed hands at $79.84. Gold rose more than 64% to $4,317, while bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency by market value, ended the year down more than 5%.
Both precious metals strengthened thanks to fiscal and inflation concerns, and silver gained additional momentum thanks to rising demand for solar panels and electronics.
The silver contract will be available for futures copy trading within 24 hours of launch, Binance said in the announcement. Multi-asset mode will also allow traders to use cryptocurrencies such as BTC as margin collateral, rather than just USDT, with haircuts applied to account for price volatility.
Binance is the first major exchange to offer silver-pegged perpetual securities, building on the trend started by relatively smaller venues like MEXC and BTCC.
