Decibel, a fully on-chain perpetual exchange built on Aptos, added perpetual contracts for Apple (AAPL), Meta (META), Microsoft (MSFT), Strategy (MSTR), and LIT on June 26–27. The listings follow earlier equity perps covering NVIDIA, Tesla, Google, and Amazon on the same venue.
Every order, match, liquidation, and margin check executes on Aptos and is publicly verifiable on-chain, with no off-chain matching logic. The markets run around the clock, letting traders take long or short exposure outside regular stock-market hours.
Brylee Whatley, Head of the Decibel Foundation, positioned the exchange as a venue where traders can respond to price-moving developments without waiting for traditional exchanges to open. Aptos' sub-50 millisecond block times and sub-500 millisecond finality underpin that model.
Equity perps give traders price exposure to a stock without ownership of the underlying shares. The contracts settle on-chain in crypto collateral. That makes them different from tokenized-stock products, where tokens represent a claim on the actual security, such as the $5 billion weekly tokenized-stock volume Crypoch reported on BNB Chain on June 27.
The listings arrive as non-crypto perpetual markets have expanded. The BitMEX Q1 2026 Derivatives Report found commodity perpetual weekly volume rose from $38.1 million to $25.0 billion in the quarter, led by Binance's precious-metals contracts in January and crude-oil volumes reaching $6.9 billion weekly in March.
Equity perpetuals rose 908% over the same period, from $486.4 million to $4.9 billion weekly, with a peak of $5.7 billion the week of March 8. Decibel cites equity perps as the next category to follow that demand curve.
Decibel launched on Aptos mainnet in February 2026 after attracting more than $50 million in pre-deposits. First-week on-chain volume figures for the new equity listings are not yet publicly available.