🚀 Rocket Lab and Oracle Perpetuals Launch with 20x Leverage

🚀 Rocket Lab goes 20x

By Aster
May 25, 2026, 2:50 PM
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Two new real-world asset (RWA) perpetual contracts are now available for trading:

  • $RKLB (Rocket Lab) - up to 20x leverage
  • $ORCL (Oracle) - up to 20x leverage

Traders can earn 1.​2x trading points on these positions until May 29, 23:59 UTC.​

This follows recent RWA perpetual launches including Futu Holdings ($FUTU) at 5x leverage, and earlier listings of Broadcom, Coinbase, Palantir, and AMD at up to 20x leverage.​

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