{"id":220341,"date":"2026-04-17T13:48:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=220341"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:48:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T13:48:37","slug":"how-perpetual-futures-actually-work-and-why-they-dont-expire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=220341","title":{"rendered":"How Perpetual Futures Actually Work (And Why They Don\u2019t Expire)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perpetual futures have become one of the most widely used derivatives in crypto markets, yet they are often misunderstood. On the surface, they look similar to standard futures contracts. Underneath, they behave very differently \u2014 especially when leverage and holding costs come into play. Unlike traditional futures&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/coincentral.com\/how-perpetual-futures-actually-work-and-why-they-dont-expire\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perpetual futures have become one of the most widely used derivatives in crypto markets, yet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lse-mrkt"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220341-how-perpetual-futures-actually-work-and-why-they-dont-expire.jpg",1280,853,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220341-how-perpetual-futures-actually-work-and-why-they-dont-expire-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220341-how-perpetual-futures-actually-work-and-why-they-dont-expire-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220341-how-perpetual-futures-actually-work-and-why-they-dont-expire-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220341-how-perpetual-futures-actually-work-and-why-they-dont-expire-1024x682.jpg",640,426,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220341-how-perpetual-futures-actually-work-and-why-they-dont-expire.jpg",1280,853,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220341-how-perpetual-futures-actually-work-and-why-they-dont-expire.jpg",1280,853,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220341-how-perpetual-futures-actually-work-and-why-they-dont-expire-1024x682.jpg",1024,682,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220341-how-perpetual-futures-actually-work-and-why-they-dont-expire-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/220341-how-perpetual-futures-actually-work-and-why-they-dont-expire-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=26\" rel=\"category\">London Market<\/a>","tag_info":"London Market","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/220342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}