Binance Futures will launch three new perpetual futures contracts on April 20, 2026: Microsoft (MSFTUSDT), Broadcom (AVGOUSDT), and Alibaba (BABAUSDT). The exchange has set a maximum leverage of 10x for all three contracts; these USDT-collateralized contracts will be available for trading 24/7. The contracts will launch at short intervals: MSFTUSDT at 16:30, AVGOUSDT at 16:40, and BABAUSDT at 16:50.
Technically, all three contracts share a similar structure. The tick size is 0.01; the minimum trade amount is 0.01 lot per asset; and the minimum nominal value is 5 USDT. The funding rate cap is fixed at two percent and will be calculated every eight hours; the interest component is zero. One notable detail in the announcement is that these contracts are exempt from the 8.1 rule, which reduces the range from eight hours to one hour when the funding rate reaches its ceiling or floor. In other words, the funding schedule will not change regardless of how volatile the markets become.
Binance is also activating Multi-Assets Mode support. This feature allows users to trade these contracts using different assets as collateral, such as Bitcoin, instead of USDT; however, separate discount (haircut) rates will apply for each asset.
The company reserves the right to update contract specifications, including leverage limits, collateral requirements, and tick size, according to market conditions.
The selection of the three stocks is no coincidence. Microsoft and Broadcom are two names that most directly reflect corporate interest in artificial intelligence infrastructure. Alibaba, on the other hand, continues to be one of the main representatives of the Chinese technology sector trading on Western platforms; moreover, the company has been rapidly expanding both its AI investments and cloud infrastructure in recent months.
Stock-tracking contracts: New popular assets
Stock-tracking contracts are no longer unusual in crypto derivatives markets. But it's still surprising to see how fast this trend is growing. Binance's TradFi perpetual volume jumped from $3 billion per day in January 2026 to $8.6 billion in March; a three-month increase of 188 percent. While these contracts accounted for only three per thousand of the total crypto derivatives volume in December 2025, this share reached 1.72 percent in Q1 2026. The numbers may seem small, but the growth rate is not.
The process was actually ignited by gold and silver. Binance launched TradFi perpetual contracts with XAUUSDT and XAGUSDT in January 2026, introducing USDT-collateralized 24/7 traditional asset trading. By early March, the total trading volume in this segment exceeded $130 billion; On its busiest day, 6.3 million transactions were recorded, the majority of which were gold and silver contracts. Then came stocks: in early February, MicroStrategy, Amazon, Circle, Coinbase, and Palantir contracts were listed, bringing Binance's range of US stock derivatives to eight.
