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announcement

AnyCollateral: The Monad Ecosystem as Collateral

AnyCollateral is now live — Monad ecosystem tokens can now be used as margin on LeverUp. Apply at ac.leverup.xyz.

Market Analysis

LeverUp Weekly Recap — May 4–10, 2026

AnyCollateral launched, $LV hit a new ATH, protocol vault crossed 47.8M MON, and LVMON APY sits above 200%. Here's everything from the past week.

Education

How Liquidations Work 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.

Education

What Are Perpetual Futures? A Trader's Guide to Perps

Perpetual futures are derivatives that let you trade with leverage and no expiry date. Here's how they work, what makes them different from spot trading, and why they dominate on-chain DeFi volume.

deep-dive

Perpetual Contracts on Monad: The Infrastructure Layer That DeFi Needs

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.

deep-dive

LP-Free Perps: Why Removing the Liquidity Provider Is Better for Traders

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.

announcement

AnyCollateral: Use Any Monad Ecosystem Token as Trading Margin Without Selling

LeverUp's AnyCollateral program lets holders of any supported Monad token use it as trading margin — without selling, without tokenomics changes, without any engineering work from the project team.

announcement

19× Faster Price Feeds: LeverUp Upgrades to Pyth Pro

LeverUp has switched to Pyth Pro, the institutional tier of the Pyth oracle network. Measured staleness dropped from 1.676 seconds to 0.086 seconds — a 19.5× improvement that flows directly to traders.

announcement

Every Epoch, LeverUp Buys Back $LV: How the Buyback Mechanism Works

LeverUp now routes LVMON staking commission to buy $LV on the open market every epoch. All purchased tokens are burned. Here's what that means and where it goes.

announcement

LVMON Staking Is Live: How to Earn Yield on Your MON Without Selling

Meta description: LVMON staking is live on LeverUp. Deposit MON, mint LVMON 1:1, stake to earn yield from Mona

deep-dive

What is LeverUp?

LeverUp is an LP-free perpetuals exchange built on Monad. Traders open leveraged positions directly against th