Ben is the former Retirement and Investing Editor for Forbes Advisor. With two decades of business and finance journalism experience, Ben has covered breaking market news, written on equity markets ...

Portions of this article were drafted using an in-house natural language generation platform. The article was reviewed, fact-checked and edited by our editorial staff. Derivatives are a kind of ...

A crypto derivative, such as a “perpetual futures," is a financial instrument that “derives" its value from an underlying cryptocurrency or digital asset. For example, there are many perpetual futures ...