According to reports from crypto.news, Coinbase has launched more than 170 derivatives contracts for professional investors in the UK, offering perpetuals with up to 50x leverage alongside dated futures and crypto options. The perpetual futures will feature 24/7 trading with more than 170 supported assets, allowing investors to take long or short positions and use the contracts for delta-neutral hedges. Dated futures will offer up to 20x leverage across commodity and financial contracts with fixed settlement dates, while crypto options will enable professional clients to trade calls and puts through single-leg or multi-leg strategies. The latest rollout extends Coinbase's "Everything Exchange" strategy by adding multi-asset hedging tools across crypto, stocks, commodities and foreign exchange under a MiFID framework.
As reported by crypto.news, access to the new contracts is restricted to investors who satisfy Coinbase's eligibility requirements and qualify as professional clients. The rollout follows the exchange's recently announced MiFID license, which Coinbase said changed the range of investment products it can provide to UK clients and enabled the derivatives launch. In July, Coinbase had secured UK investment services authorization that cleared the company to add traditional financial products alongside crypto through its platform, allowing retail customers to gain access to equities while institutional clients could be offered derivatives tied to crypto, equities and commodities. The latest announcement comes after Coinbase previously opened 24/5 U.S. stock trading to all UK users, demonstrating the platform's expanding accessibility across asset classes.
According to crypto.news, the derivatives offering forms part of Coinbase's "Everything Exchange" strategy, under which the company has been adding financial products outside its core crypto spot business. Coinbase described the model as an alternative to financial platforms where assets remain split across different accounts and trading is limited by traditional market hours. The company pointed to the size of the crypto derivatives market, saying global derivatives trading volume routinely reaches about 4.4 times crypto spot market volume. Coinbase said professional traders across key international hubs have often lacked access to a single, regulated platform for these tools. The latest expansion into multi-asset derivatives could deepen institutional engagement by providing comprehensive hedging solutions under a unified regulatory framework.
As reported by crypto.news, the UK launch follows other derivatives expansions by Coinbase in regulated markets. In May, the exchange opened derivatives access for eligible U.S. institutions through Coinbase Financial Markets, initially giving clients access to Deribit crypto options. Coinbase secured an Australian financial services license in April and has introduced pre-IPO perpetual futures tied to private companies, beginning with SpaceX and outlining plans for contracts linked to OpenAI and Anthropic. The company launched crypto-backed loans for UK customers in April, allowing eligible users to borrow as much as $5 million in USDC against bitcoin, ethereum and cbETH through Morpho on Coinbase's Base network.
According to crypto.news, Coinbase shares closed down 3.2% at $148.68 on Monday before rising 0.4% in Tuesday premarket trading. The stock movement reflects broader market sentiment around cryptocurrency derivatives expansion. Bitcoin rebounded to $64,134, with trading volume jumping 45%, showing positive momentum following the derivatives announcement. The company's expansion into multi-asset derivatives comes as Coinbase has been generating more of its business outside bitcoin spot transactions, with 88% of net revenue coming from sources other than bitcoin spot trading in its second-quarter report. The company describes itself as "the most comprehensively regulated crypto player" in the UK market, with CB Payments Ltd authorized and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority for investment services.
