KuCoin Futures
Perpetual and fixed-expiry contracts listed on KuCoin Futures, with reported volume and open interest for each market.
- 24h volume
- 25,797 BTC
- Open interest
- 76,664 BTC
- Perpetual pairs
- 687
- Futures pairs
- 1
- Founded
- 2019
Contracts on KuCoin Futures
685 markets · sortable by volume and open interest
| # | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | XBTUSDTM | $76,580.50 | $305.66M | $1.63B | perpetual |
| 2 | ETHUSDTM | $2,413.04 | $355.3M | $837.76M | perpetual |
| 3 | SOLUSDTM | $93.328 | $200.59M | $255.64M | perpetual |
| 4 | XRPUSDM | $1.474 | $294.31K | $247.67M | perpetual |
| 5 | XRPUSDTM | $1.478 | $260.79M | $240.13M | perpetual |
| 6 | DOGEUSDTM | $0.091 | $48.86M | $139.39M | perpetual |
| 7 | ZECUSDTM | $801.95 | $105.25M | $128.01M | perpetual |
| 8 | PROMUSDTM | $2.715 | $307.59K | $110.17M | perpetual |
| 9 | XBTUSDM | $76,587.10 | $716.3K | $103.66M | perpetual |
| 10 | HYPEUSDTM | $79.195 | $25.68M | $87.92M | perpetual |
| 11 | SUIUSDTM | $0.802 | $29.19M | $80.21M | perpetual |
| 12 | ADAUSDTM | $0.221 | $21.57M | $54.34M | perpetual |
| 13 | XMRUSDTM | $439.04 | $8.77M | $54.21M | perpetual |
| 14 | ETHUSDM | $2,406.63 | $223.89K | $51.12M | perpetual |
| 15 | XAGUSDTM | $68.85 | $808.4K | $50M | perpetual |
| 16 | TAOUSDTM | $224.36 | $12.38M | $49.85M | perpetual |
| 17 | BNBUSDTM | $688.84 | $3.76M | $43.44M | perpetual |
| 18 | NEARUSDTM | $1.901 | $9.09M | $43M | perpetual |
| 19 | PAXGUSDTM | $4,590.84 | $806.57K | $36.59M | perpetual |
| 20 | ENAUSDTM | $0.176 | $23.54M | $36.29M | perpetual |
| 21 | LINKUSDTM | $11.402 | $12.82M | $33.35M | perpetual |
| 22 | XBTUSDCM | $76,506.80 | $720.9K | $32.68M | perpetual |
| 23 | PEPEUSDTM | $0.00 | $35.93M | $32.51M | perpetual |
| 24 | FOLKSUSDTM | $1.914 | $1.36M | $27.7M | perpetual |
| 25 | TUTUSDTM | $0.061 | $15.19M | $27.33M | perpetual |
What the numbers say about KuCoin Futures
KuCoin Futures is a derivatives venue established in 2019 and registered in Seychelles, where contracts track an asset's price instead of transferring the asset itself. It lists 687 perpetual contracts and 1 dated futures. The book is overwhelmingly perpetuals — contracts with no expiry, held in line with the spot price by a funding payment between longs and shorts.
Open interest stands at 76,664 BTC against 25,797 BTC of 24-hour volume, a turnover of 0.3× the open book per day. Volume below open interest means positions are being held rather than churned, which is more typical of hedging than of day trading. Open interest and volume measure different things and are easy to confuse — open interest is the size of the outstanding book at a moment in time, volume is what changed hands over the day.
Funding is positive on 641 of the 685 contracts with a published rate, averaging +0.0057%. Predominantly positive funding means longs are paying shorts to keep their positions open — the crowd is positioned for a rise, and leveraged longs are carrying a running cost to stay there.
Leverage is the reason these figures matter and the reason this market is dangerous. A position funded with borrowed money can be liquidated by a move that a spot holder would simply sit through, and cascading liquidations are what turns an ordinary decline into a sharp one. Nothing on this page is a suggestion to trade any of it.