Decibel, a fully on-chain perpetuals exchange built on the Aptos blockchain, has listed perpetual contracts for Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Meta (NASDAQ: META), and Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT).
The move follows an earlier wave of equity listings that brought perpetual contracts for NVIDIA, Tesla, Google, and Amazon onto the platform.
Brylee Whatley, Head of the Decibel Foundation, has positioned the exchange as a venue where traders can access major asset classes without the constraints of traditional market hours.
The core argument for 24/7 onchain trading is straightforward: markets for commodities like gold and oil react to global events regardless of what time it is in New York.
For most retail traders, acting on a price-moving headline at 2 a.m. has historically meant waiting until an exchange opens, by which point the opportunity has already shifted.
On-chain perpetual markets remove that waiting period entirely, allowing traders to respond to developments in real time, around the clock, from anywhere in the world.
Decibel also strips out the intermediaries, brokerage accounts, and fragmented infrastructure that have traditionally made equity and commodity access slow and expensive, particularly for traders outside the U.S. and Europe.
Whatley noted that commodity and equity perpetuals have already become consistent top-five traded assets on the platform, signaling genuine demand for this type of cross-asset onchain exposure.
Decibel operates a fully on-chain order book on Aptos, meaning every trade, liquidation, and margin check is recorded on the blockchain and publicly verifiable by any participant.
The transparency of the model is a deliberate design choice, separating Decibel from centralized exchanges where order book data and liquidation mechanics are often opaque or selectively disclosed.
The longer-term vision Decibel is building toward is a single on-chain venue where traders can access crypto, commodities, equities, and forex from one account, at any hour, without switching between platforms or jurisdictions.
The addition of Apple, Meta, and Microsoft deepens the equity offering considerably, bringing three of the world’s most actively traded stocks into a permissionless, always-on trading environment for the first time.
