Binance Adds Gold and Silver Perps: Why USDT Is the Real Winner

[Ben Graham]

Binance rolled out gold and silver perpetual futures settled in USDT, giving crypto traders 24/7 access to precious metals without touching a traditional broker. The move lands as gold trades near $4,400 an ounce, and silver holds above $75 after a blistering 2025 rally. Zoom out, and this fits a wider trend: crypto platforms keep pulling familiar Wall Street products on-chain.

TradFi meets crypto.

Gold & Silver now trade 24/7 on Binance Futures.

Know more https://t.co/iMDb7VTdQf pic.twitter.com/j54EgO5VvS

— Binance (@binance) January 8, 2026

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What Are Gold and Silver “Perps,” in Plain English?

A perpetual future is a contract that tracks a price but never expires. Think of it like betting on gold’s price on a scoreboard that never shuts off. You do not own bars of gold. You trade price movement.

Binance’s new contracts, XAUUSDT and XAGUSDT, settle in USDT, Tether’s dollar-pegged stablecoin. That means gains and losses land in digital dollars, not physical metal. For beginners, this removes the headache of storage, shipping, and bank wires.

Why now? Gold and silver hit fresh highs in December as investors rushed toward safe-haven assets. Gold topped $4,549 and silver touched $83. Binance is meeting demand where traders already live.

(Source: Gold Chart / TradingView)

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Why Is Binance Mixing TradFi With Crypto Trading?

This launch sits under Binance’s Abu Dhabi license, which matters for trust. Regulators approved these contracts through the ADGM framework. That gives traders a clearer rulebook than the usual offshore derivatives.

The bigger story is USDT. By settling metal trades in a stablecoin, Binance turns USDT into a common checkout currency for traditional assets. That mirrors moves across finance, from banks testing stablecoin rails to tokenized assets breaking past $1 billion in value during 2025.

Other exchanges already offer similar products, including Coinbase and Bybit. Binance wants volume. It also wants to keep traders inside crypto rather than losing them to stock or commodity platforms.

TRADITIONAL METALS GO ON-CHAIN #Binance has already launched Gold $XAU perpetuals, bringing precious metals onto crypto-native trading rails.

Silver $XAG is now in focus as the next potential addition

This shows TradFi is integrating with crypto. Watch the shift closely. pic.twitter.com/bFtRHmGpfd

— Open4profit (@open4profit) January 7, 2026

How Does This Affect Regular Crypto Investors?

If you only hold Bitcoin, this adds a diversification tool without leaving your exchange. Gold rose 67%, and silver jumped 152% in 2025, while Bitcoin slipped about 5%. That gap explains why some traders now hedge crypto swings with metals.

Still, these are derivatives. Prices move fast. Liquidations hurt. Newcomers should treat perps as advanced tools, not starter products.

There is also a geography angle. USDT gained approval in Abu Dhabi but skipped Europe’s MiCA framework. That shapes where these contracts appear and who can access them.

The tokenization market has 10x’d in the past two years.

One of the biggest players behind that has been Chainlink.

That’s it. That’s the tweet. pic.twitter.com/I8wa40Yie0

— Bitwise (@BitwiseInvest) January 8, 2026

Expect more traditional assets to land on crypto rails as exchanges chase volume and trust. The line between your crypto app and your old brokerage keeps thinning. Tokenization is coming for you all.

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