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.
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Explore LeverUp content by category — market analysis, protocol deep dives, trader education, and announcements.
Market Weekly
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Weekly market intel — price action, protocol data, and what's moving in perp markets.
Deep Dive
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In-depth analysis of LeverUp's mechanism, the LP-free model, and the Monad perps landscape.
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.
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.
What is LeverUp?
LeverUp is an LP-free perpetuals exchange built on Monad. Traders open leveraged positions directly against th
Education
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New to perps? Start here — how leverage works, liquidations, funding rates, and more.
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.
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.
Announcements
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Protocol updates, new features, and product launches from the LeverUp team.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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