SINGAPORE, August 22, 2026 Stock and ETF perpetuals on ApeX Omni: $13.8B traded in under a year, 24/5 access to Tesla, NVIDIA, SPY and more, with Chainlink pricing and self-custody. Nine mont
SINGAPORE, August 22, 2026
Stock and ETF perpetuals on ApeX Omni: $13.8B traded in under a year, 24/5 access to Tesla, NVIDIA, SPY and more, with Chainlink pricing and self-custody.
Nine months ago, trading a Tesla position on ApeX Omni was not possible. Today, stock and ETF perpetuals are the platform's fastest-growing product, with more than $13.8 billion in trading volume since launch, per platform data. In a year when tokenized equities have become one of crypto's defining narratives, ApeX Omni's TradFi Perpetuals show what the demand actually looks like when traditional markets meet perpetual futures mechanics.
ApeX Omni launched Stock Perpetuals on November 4, 2025 with a deliberately narrow slate: Tesla, Meta, and NVIDIA, plus the SPY and QQQ index ETFs, trading during US market hours. What followed was the platform's steepest product ramp to date.
The lineup now spans nearly 50 TradFi markets: more than 20 individual US equities including Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Coinbase, and Palantir, international semiconductor names Samsung and SK hynix, a dedicated DRAM memory-sector basket index, ETFs ranging from SPY and QQQ to 3x leveraged funds, six commodities including gold, silver, and crude oil, and even exposure to companies that haven't reached public markets yet. Trading hours have expanded just as fast: most pairs now trade 24 hours a day, five days a week, and selected pairs run around the clock, seven days a week.
That expansion met real demand. The 13.8 billion traded in under a year makes TradFi perpetuals a meaningful share of activity on a platform that, per platform data, has processed over 1.2 trillion in cumulative perpetual volume.
On-chain equities are having their breakout year. Tokenized stocks tracked by RWA.xyz reached 2.37 billion in value as of August 2026, with holder count up 117% in a single month and monthly transfer volume of nearly 21 billion. Interest is compounding fast, but most of that market is about holding tokenized shares.
Perpetual futures answer a different question: not "how do I hold Apple on-chain" but "how do I trade it". Stock perpetuals on ApeX Omni are USDT-settled derivatives, so there is no tokenized share to custody, no corporate action to process, and no long-only constraint. Traders can go long or short with up to 50x leverage, using the same margin, order types, and interface as crypto perpetuals. Only a handful of venues anywhere, centralized or decentralized, currently offer perpetual futures on individual US stocks, and fewer still pair them with self-custody.
Bringing equities on-chain is an oracle problem before it is anything else. ApeX Omni prices every TradFi market using Chainlink's decentralized RWA price feeds, which aggregate data from multiple premium data providers to generate a trusted mid-price. That gives mark prices and funding calculations an institutional-grade reference resistant to manipulation on any single venue.
Risk management is deliberately compartmentalized. TradFi positions live in a dedicated account with its own margin pool: a liquidation in stock perps can never touch a trader's crypto positions, and vice versa. Funding is charged hourly, exactly like crypto perps, but suspended entirely during market closures, so nobody pays funding on a market that isn't moving. Fees match the crypto side too, at 0.02% maker and 0.05% taker with up to 0% if you are part of the VIP program, and during closures open positions stay fully margined but cannot be opened, closed, or modified until the market reopens.
A PR-clean product description is not the same as a risk-free trade, and stock perpetuals carry structure worth understanding. Markets that close can gap: earnings released after hours or weekend news can move a reopening price sharply, which is exactly when stop-losses and sensible position sizing matter most. The 3x leveraged ETFs in the lineup deserve extra care, since their daily-reset mechanics already amplify index moves, and a leveraged perpetual position on top of a leveraged fund compounds exposure to the underlying far beyond the headline number. Leverage amplifies losses as effectively as gains, on stocks just as on crypto.
Those caveats are also why the product's design choices matter: isolated margin accounts, funding suspension during closures, and oracle prices aggregated from institutional sources are all mechanisms for keeping a 24/5 derivatives market honest about the fact that its underlying sleeps on weekends.
ApeX Protocol is a decentralized, non-custodial trading platform for perpetual derivatives, incubated by Davion Labs. ApeX Omni is the protocol's flagship platform, consolidating crypto perpetuals, TradFi perpetuals, prediction markets, and yield products into a single multi-chain interface. Its mission is straightforward: deliver the speed and depth of a centralized exchange without asking traders to give up custody of their assets.
To explore stock perpetuals, visit ApeX Omni or read the documentation at the ApeX Protocol GitBook.
Trading perpetual contracts involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor. Leverage amplifies both gains and losses. Nothing in this article constitutes financial advice.
