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A derivatives trading platform differs from a regular crypto exchange mainly in the type of financial products it supports. While a traditional exchange focuses on spot trading (buying and selling assets at current market prices), a derivatives platform enables trading of contracts such as futures, options, and perpetual swaps, where users speculate on the asset’s future value rather than owning it directly.

From a derivatives trading platform development perspective, the architecture needs to support advanced features like:

• Margin & leverage trading systems
  
  

• Risk management and liquidation engines
  
  

• High-speed order matching for complex contracts
  
  

• Collateral management and real-time PnL tracking

Additionally, compliance with regulations, secure custody solutions, and integration of liquidity providers play a more critical role compared to standard exchanges.

This is why businesses often turn to specialized derivatives trading platform development services—to build a scalable, secure, and regulation-ready infrastructure tailored for high-volume, high-risk derivative products.