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How to evaluate perpetual futures on Robinhood Chain against a native perp DEX: custody, settlement path, leverage limits, and liquidity source. What is publicly documented, what is not, and how LeverUp answers each question.
Category Labs unveiled a design called Monad Private Settlement at OPEN Singapore — confidential execution domains that still settle into Monad's shared environment. Here's what's known, what isn't, and why it matters for trading infrastructure.
OpenAI Dots are always-on agents powered by GPT-6 Astra, each with its own cloud computer and plugin access to 4,000+ apps. Here's how Dots work, who can get one, how purchases and approvals are handled, and what it all means for traders.
Manus Cue is a new app from Manus that gives each personal AI agent its own email, phone number, wallet and computer. Here's what Cue does, what changed in Manus 2.0, how to get access, what pricing is known, and whether it can trade crypto.
Manus Cue gives each personal AI agent its own agentic wallet with a budget you set. That works for bills and bookings. For an agent trading perps, a spending budget caps what leaves the wallet, not the exposure it opens. Here's what else needs a limit.
Tokenized stocks are starting to work as trading collateral. The hard part isn't the token, it's the weekend. Here's how on-chain venues set haircuts, price stock collateral when the market is closed, and handle liquidation when redemption is restricted.
RWA perps hit $117B in monthly volume in August 2026. Stocks, oil, pre-IPO companies, even shipping data now trade as perpetuals. Here's a four-layer map of perpification, and where the pricing risk actually sits.
Jev could add a bounded decision layer before LeverUp's scoped 1CT intent flow. This is a proposed architecture for AI trading agents, not a live integration.
AI agent platforms like Grok Bot are already running finance-adjacent tasks from a cloud computer with a terminal. Trading is the obvious next step — but it raises a question execution quality alone doesn't answer: what can the key actually do?
Grok Bot can run named agents with their own tools, memory, and a cloud terminal. Here's how to wire one up to trade perps on LeverUp using gasless intent signing, with a scoped key that can't transfer tokens or withdraw collateral.
Recursive borrowing on a lending protocol and opening a perpetual position both produce leveraged exposure — but they get there through completely different mechanisms, with different costs, different liquidation behavior, and different capital requirements.
If you already understand LP positions, pool ratios, and APY, you have most of the mental model you need for perp trading — it just points at different variables. Here's how the concepts map, and a practical path to opening a first position.
When a trader opens a LeverUp position with USDC collateral, the protocol mints LVUSD to settle it — rather than routing the trade through USDC directly. Here's the design reasoning behind that extra step, and how LVUSD holds its peg.
Trading fees on a perp DEX have to go somewhere. On LP-based venues, part of that revenue compensates external liquidity capital first. LeverUp's protocol-managed virtual liquidity architecture removes that layer — here's what changes about where the revenue goes instead.
Hyperliquid and LeverUp are both on-chain perpetual venues, but they're built on different chains, different execution models, and different liquidity architectures. Here's an objective look at how the two designs actually differ.
Perp DEX volume hit record highs in 2026, but market leadership keeps changing hands. That instability is a signal about what actually determines who wins — and it's still unsettled.
Passive LP pools and protocol-managed liquidity aren't the only two ways to run a perp DEX. A third architecture — professional market makers operating a privately-run pricing engine — is emerging on Solana. Here's how it works, and why it answers a different question than the other two.
FTX collapsed because customer funds ended up in accounts a centralized exchange could move at will. On-chain trading is built to remove that specific failure mode.
A recent incident involving Ostium brought oracle security back into focus. Here's how LeverUp's oracle design addresses price integrity at two layers: permissioned validators and reference-based protection triggers.
LeverUp's Genesis Airdrop Season 1 runs two parallel point systems — LVP for sustainable trading and LVHP for high-leverage positions. Here's how each works and how to maximize your allocation.
If you've ever swapped tokens on Uniswap, you've already used an Automated Market Maker. The model is elegant and it changed DeFi forever. But here's something most traders don't think about: AMMs we
Leverage multiplies exposure — and every cost underneath it. Oracle staleness, funding drag, and liquidation mechanics matter more than the headline number.
Tokenized real-world assets are accumulating on-chain. The derivatives layer to hedge or leverage them barely exists. AnyCollateral is the missing piece.
AI agents need deterministic execution, predictable margin, and reliable settlement. Here's why oracle-referenced protocol execution is the right infrastructure for automated trading.
Every millisecond your oracle is stale, you're paying slippage you can't see on your receipt. Fee rates are marketing. Oracle freshness is execution quality.
DeFi's first decade was user-facing. The next phase is infrastructure-facing — protocols running behind products that don't advertise being DeFi.
AnyCollateral isn't a product feature. It's a different theory of what productive capital looks like — and it starts with keeping assets working rather than converting everything to USDC.
LeverUp is a perp DEX today, but its protocol-layer design also points toward execution infrastructure. What the architecture enables and what remains open.
Liquidation cascades aren't random volatility events — they're the mechanical output of concentrated leverage. Understanding how they build and break is one of the cleaner edges available in perp markets.
How Oracle Freshness Affects Your Trades Trades use oracle-referenced pricing — and there's a gap between when the oracle last updated and when your transaction is processed. That gap is oracle stal
Funding Rates Explained: What They Signal, What They Cost, and How to Use Them A funding rate is a periodic payment exchanged between long and short traders in a perpetual futures market. It exists t
LeverUp is a perpetuals protocol built on Monad, using a protocol-managed virtual liquidity architecture with up to 1001x leverage, AnyCollateral support, and RWA markets including gold and stocks. Here's how on-chain trading on Monad works, and why the architecture matters for retail traders.
LeverUp's funding fee is built to do two things at once: lower the cost of holding positions in normal markets, and keep the system balanced when positioning gets crowded on one side. In typical con
Funding rates are the hidden cost of holding a perp position — and one of the clearest signals of market sentiment. Here's how they work and how to read them.
A transparent response to recent community concerns. Over the past day, we’ve seen thoughtful questions and concerns from the community around LVMON, LVUSD, and the current user experience on LeverUp
Liquidation is what happens when your collateral runs out. Here's the exact math behind when it triggers on LeverUp, what the oracle's role is, and how to manage your positions to stay out of range.
Monad hit $400M TVL and 140M+ transactions within five months of mainnet. The ecosystem that follows every successful L1 is now building — and perpetuals are the most critical financial primitive in that stack.
Traditional perp DEXes split fees with LPs who act as the counterparty to your trades. LeverUp's LP-free design routes 100% of protocol fees back to traders. Here's how the VMMV makes that possible.
LeverUp is a perpetuals exchange on Monad that uses a protocol-managed virtual liquidity system — no external LPs, up to 1001x leverage, and protocol value flowing back to traders. Here's how it works.
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