JAKARTA - Throughout 2025, the crypto market, especially Bitcoin (BTC), has shown erratic performance, especially in the fourth quarter of 2025 BTC recorded a decline of up to -23.7 percent. Even so, Pintu Futures, one of the crypto derivative trading products from PT Pintu Kemana Saja (PINTU) recorded a growth of new users in Pintu Futures quarter-on-quarter (QoQ) from the third quarter of 2025 to the fourth quarter of 2025 by 37 percent.
Head of Product Marketing PINTU Iskandar Mohammad revealed that the market correction that occurred during the fourth quarter of 2025 actually opened up opportunities for crypto traders to continue trading when prices fell, namely by using the Pintu Futures product where when market movements weakened, this condition can be utilized by placing a short position.
"The ability of traders to take short positions, allows traders to remain active in adjusting their strategies in various market conditions, and this is reflected in the growth of new Pintu Futures users," said Iskandar, in a statement, Monday, December 22.
Quoted from Pintu Academy, a crypto and blockchain education platform from PINTU, in crypto derivatives trading, traders can use Pintu Futures products in various highly volatile market conditions by taking long or short positions, i.e., a position when predicting the movement of the purchased crypto asset. The expectation of rising prices can be long positions, and vice versa, the expectation of falling prices, can be short positions.
"To optimize long or short positions, Pintu Futures is equipped with a variety of comprehensive features that users can maximize to adjust the crypto derivative trading strategy, ranging from advanced order types, adjustable leverage up to 25x, price protection, to Take Profit and Stop Loss to help manage risk," said Iskandar.
Quoted from the ccn.com report, it is stated that more than 90 percent of the global volume of crypto asset trading is contributed by crypto derivative trading. Based on data from Coingecko, as of December 19, 2025, the total volume of crypto derivatives globally reached 760 billion US dollars, while spot trading was still in the same period in the range of 162 billion US dollars.
"Crypto derivatives trading has changed the landscape of crypto asset trading. First, traders can use leverage that allows for increasing the position installed beyond the capital. Second, traders can use short strategies, which allow the potential to earn profits when prices fall. Finally, trading that is free for 24 hours that provides flexibility for traders," said Iskandar.
In order to provide the first experience of trading crypto derivatives to the Indonesian people and PINTU users, the PINTU application held a promo titled, "Trading Futures can get USDT rewards up to IDR 2 million". This promo starts from December 1, 2025 to December 31, 2025.
"The growth of Pintu Futures users shows that Indonesian crypto traders are increasingly adaptive to market dynamics. For this reason, we want to encourage Indonesian crypto traders to understand derivative instruments more comprehensively, from strategies to risk management. We believe that proper education, supported by superior and easy-to-use features, will help users make more measured trading decisions in the midst of crypto market volatility," concluded Iskandar.
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