Coinbase to list BRC-20 token ORDI and Worldcoin perpetual futures

Institutional clients on the Coinbase International Exchange will soon have access to BRC-20 token Ordinals (ORDI) and Worldcoin perpetual futures.

In an April 5 post to X, Coinbase International Exchange announced it would list perpetual futures products for the Ordinals (ORDI) and Worldcoin (WLD) as soon as April 11 — making them available to institutional investors on both Coinbase International 

ORDI and WLD have witnessed significant price action and trading volumes in recent months.

ORDI soared 1,640% from a price of $5 on Nov. 1, 2023, to a high of $87 on March 5 as a frenzy for Ordinals-related assets took off late last year.

Ordinals (ORDI) token is not officially affiliated with the Bitcoin Ordinals deployer nor any of the Ordinals team. It is a separate BRC-20 token that merely derives its namesake from the Ordinals protocol.

Meanwhile, Worldcoin rapidly became one of the top tokens for crypto investors looking to gain exposure to the AI industry — surging from a price of $2.20 on Feb. 7 to as high as $11.70 on March 10, per CoinGecko data.

WLD is the native token of Worldcoin, a digital identity project that offers cryptocurrency in exchange for users minting their biometric data for a digital ID.

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Friday’s announcement adds to a slew of new perpetual futures contracts being added to the international arm of the Coinbase institutional-targeted exchange.

Perpetual futures, also known as perpetual swaps or perpetuals, are a type of derivative contract that allows traders to speculate on the future price of an asset without an expiration date. The regulatory approval process for perptetuals futures depends on the product benign offered.

On April 4, Coinbase International Exchange added futures contracts for Wormhole’s native (W) token, which was launched alongside an $850 million airdrop to early users of the cross-chain bridge.

Meanwhile, on March 21, Coinbase also quietly made plans to list futures contracts for Litecoin (LTC) as well as the meme token Dogecoin (DOGE), saying that it had “transcended its origins” as an online joke and had established itself as a legitimate digital asset.

Notably, Coinbase explained that it would invoke the “self-certification” method to launch the futures contracts before receiving any official approval from the CFTC — so long as they followed the regulatory guidelines laid out by the agency.

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