[Kalshi Announces Bitcoin Perpetual Contracts Officially Launched] Odaily Planet Daily News: Prediction market platform Kalshi announced on the X platform that Bitcoin perpetual contracts are now officially live. Reportedly, this is the first Bitcoin perpetual contract product in the United States to receive regulatory approval. The product is a perpetual contract based on Bitcoin spot price as the reference underlying asset and is classified as a futures contract. The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission previously stated that, after review, the BTCPERP contract complies with the Commodity Exchange Act and related regulatory requirements, including the core principles applicable to designated contract markets (DCM).