Crypto traders are expected to benefit from the direct leveraged trading of silver through the expansion of derivatives products by the leading cryptocurrency exchange, Binance. Binance Futures has announced that silver perpetual contracts will go live on Wednesday.
The new contract will go live at 10:00 UTC and allow traders to take positions with up to 50x leverage on silver priced in U.S. dollars per troy ounce. With this structure, traders can control positions up to 50 times larger than their initial margin, significantly magnifying both potential profits and losses.
How the silver perpetual contract works
“Perps,” or perpetual futures contracts simply known as “perpetuals,” enable traders to bet on the price action without needing the asset itself or caring about the expiration dates of the contracts. This is achieved by a process of exchanging funding rates between the long and short contracts for a certain number of hours. This has made perps among the most liquid crypto assets.
Binance said the silver contract will be margined and settled in Tether (USDT), with a minimum notional value of 5 USDT, making it accessible to a broad range of traders. The funding fee will apply every four hours and will be capped at ±2%, according to the exchange.
Within 24 hours of launch, Binance will also enable futures copy trading for the silver contract, allowing users to mirror the strategies of experienced traders automatically. In addition, the platform’s multi-assets mode will let users post collateral in cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, rather than only USDT, with volatility haircuts applied.
Crypto traders diversify into precious metals
The silver offering comes after Binance launched gold-perpetual contracts recently. This emerging trend shows that traders are expressing interest in crypto investments that give them access to mainstream safe-haven assets. The value of precious metals in 2025 outperformed that of cryptocurrencies by a wide margin.
It gave a performance that saw silver jump by 147% in 2025, touching a record high of $83.75 per ounce before cooling down to $79.84. Gold was also on a high, appreciating by over 64% to $4,317. However, Bitcoin closed the year down by over 5%, underperforming silver and gold.
Investors drove precious metals higher amid persistent inflation concerns, fiscal uncertainty, and demand for hard assets. For silver, support was added from industrial use, mainly in solar panels and other electronics, where demand continued strong.
A first for major crypto exchanges
Binance now become the first major crypto exchange to offer silver perpetual futures at scale. Smaller platforms such as MEXC and BTCC previously experimented with commodity-linked contracts, but Binance’s move brings significantly more liquidity and visibility to the product.
By adding silver perps, Binance continues to blur the line between crypto-native derivatives and traditional financial markets. This offering gives traders access 24/7, with high leverage and flexible collateral options-features that few traditional commodities’ trading arrangements have thus far offered.
In fact, as more crypto platforms have started offering metals, indices, and instruments linked to macro, traders increasingly use exchanges such as Binance like multi-asset trading hubs rather than crypto-only venues.
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