- Polymarket offers up to 20x leverage across 67 crypto, stock, and commodity perps.
- India blocks Polymarket, although the platform does not list the country as restricted.
- CoinDCX offers Indian traders 24/7 crypto perps with leverage reaching up to 100x.
Polymarket’s launch of 20x perpetual futures has widened the platform’s reach from prediction markets into continuously traded crypto, stocks, indexes, and commodities. The September 3 rollout includes 67 contracts covering Bitcoin, Ethereum, Nvidia, Tesla, the S&P 500, Nasdaq 100, gold, and crude oil.
For Indian traders, however, the expansion highlights an access gap rather than an absence of round-the-clock derivatives. India supports leveraged crypto products domestically, but Polymarket remains blocked under a government order tied to online money-gaming restrictions.
Polymarket’s 67 Perps Expose India’s Cross-Asset Access Gap
Polymarket Perps offers leverage of up to 20x and uses funding payments instead of expiry dates to keep contracts aligned with reference markets. As a result, its structure reflects a shift toward always-open trading across several asset classes.
That trend is already taking shape elsewhere. Coinbase launched 24/7 stock perpetuals for eligible international users in March, while Ondo announced leveraged perpetual exposure to U.S. equities, ETFs, gold, and silver.
However, access to these markets remains jurisdiction-dependent. Polymarket lists 39 restricted countries, yet India does not appear on that list. Instead, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology said in April that the platform had been blocked under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act.
The government also instructed VPN providers not to facilitate access. That means the barrier comes from domestic regulation, rather than Polymarket’s own geographic exclusion policy.
India Has 24/7 Crypto Leverage but Less Cross-Asset Integration
Even so, India is not without round-the-clock derivatives. CoinDCX already offers 24/7 INR-margined crypto perpetual futures, with leverage reaching up to 100x. Similarly, Delta Exchange India offers round-the-clock Bitcoin and Ether futures and options, alongside tokenized gold, silver, and U.S. stocks.
Delta also says its Indian entity is registered with the Financial Intelligence Unit. The difference, therefore, lies in how broadly those markets are combined. NSE equity derivatives still trade within defined sessions, with regular hours from 9:15 a.m. to 3:40 p.m.
Meanwhile, offshore platforms increasingly place cryptocurrencies, equities, commodities, and indexes inside the same continuously traded interface. This creates a wider cross-asset trading environment than India’s more segmented market structure.
At the same time, India’s cautious approach reflects significant investor-protection concerns. According to SEBI data, individual equity-derivative traders lost ₹916.85 billion in FY2026, while 87.7% of traders lost money.
Therefore, India is not falling behind in leverage or 24/7 crypto trading itself. Instead, the clearer gap is in access to integrated global markets, where liquidity, hedging, and multiple asset classes are available within one continuous trading system.
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