LeverUp Radio

This week LeverUp shipped two structural upgrades. LVMON staking is now open to all wallets — no whitelist, no minimum — with 13.3M LVMON already staked and an APY running at 63%. Alongside that, the protocol deployed a cubic OI funding model that reduces funding signals by up to 75% under normal market conditions compared to the previous linear approach, smoothing out the cost of holding position...

LeverUp and Nad.fun have announced a two-part integration that connects perpetuals trading infrastructure with Monad's memecoin launchpad. The first integration makes LVMON a pair token on Nad.fun V2 bonding curve launches — so new tokens on Nad.fun can launch paired against LVMON rather than MON alone. The second integration makes graduated Nad.fun tokens candidates for LeverUp's AnyCollateral Pr...

Pingu is closing. If you've been trading on Pingu, LeverUp is welcoming you with a one-month fee rebate program — no forms, no migration steps, just trade and get 50% of your fees back. Eligibility is straightforward: any wallet with Pingu trading history qualifies automatically, and so does anyone who traded on LeverUp before May 31. Verification happens on-chain, so there's nothing to submit. Th...

LeverUp is partnering with the DOKDO Pioneer Movement for Season 2 of their Korean community trading campaign, running June 9–30, 2026. This episode breaks down everything you need to know to compete — from registering your campaign code to understanding how rankings are calculated across two separate competitions. The Main Leaderboard puts $15,000 USDT and a set of rare Pokémon cards on the line...

LeverUp has set a single leverage ceiling of 100x across all stock perpetuals — Tesla, Nvidia, MicroStrategy, and every other equity market on the platform. Most trading platforms use tiered leverage caps that vary by market, because the depth of each liquidity pool limits how much leverage can safely be extended per asset. Thinner pools mean lower caps. In this episode, we break down why that con...

LVMON staking on LeverUp has moved out of whitelist access and is now open to any wallet on Monad. In this episode, we walk through what that means, how the staking mechanic actually works, and why getting in early has a structural yield advantage that most staking programs don't offer. The key mechanic to understand is the participation rate amplifier. Yield is generated on the total MON vault, b...

A liquidation cascade is not random volatility — it's a mechanical sequence with identifiable inputs, a predictable structure, and observable preconditions. This episode builds the cascade mechanism from first principles so traders can see the conditions developing before they happen. The mechanism: traders cluster at similar leverage levels targeting similar price zones, creating dense liquidatio...

Oracle staleness is hidden friction embedded in every trade on a perp DEX — it doesn't appear as a labeled fee, but it shows up as worse-than-expected entries, unexpected liquidations during volatile conditions, and mark price readings that don't match spot data. This episode explains the mechanism and the practical consequences at the trader level. On a perp DEX, the oracle is not informational —...

Funding rates are one of the most reliable real-time signals of market positioning — and most traders treat them as background noise. This episode covers the structural problem they solve, what they actually cost you in practice, how to read them as a market signal, and how LeverUp's funding rate mechanism is structured. The mechanism: perpetuals have no expiry date, so funding rates are the corre...

Most perp protocols accept only stablecoins as collateral — not because multi-collateral is impossible, but because every new asset introduces valuation risk the protocol has to manage. AnyCollateral takes a different approach: accept ecosystem tokens in their native form, apply a Collateral Ratio to buffer the valuation risk, and let capital stay productive without conversion friction. This episo...

LeverUp runs on Monad, which means before you can open a single trade, your funds need to be on the right network. This episode is the step-by-step guide for getting there — from Ethereum, Arbitrum, Solana, Base, BNB Chain, or a centralized exchange. The episode explains why bridging is necessary (separate chain instances can't interact directly), covers two main paths: Path A using MonadBridge (...

A complete step-by-step walkthrough of opening your first perpetual trade on LeverUp — from connecting your wallet to closing your position and withdrawing funds. Seven steps, zero assumed knowledge. The episode covers: connecting a Monad-compatible wallet (Rabby or MetaMask), checking your balance and depositing if needed, selecting a market and choosing direction, configuring your order (order t...

Liquidation is the most misunderstood risk in leveraged trading. People know it can happen. Most don't know exactly when — or why. This episode fixes that with the actual math. We cover the maintenance margin threshold (15% on LeverUp), the precise formula for calculating liquidation price for both long and short positions, and a worked example from entry to liquidation — including how the buffer...

Perpetual futures are the dominant trading instrument across much of crypto — but a lot of people trade them without fully understanding how they work. This episode builds the mental model from scratch. We cover what makes perps different from standard futures (no expiry date, continuous funding mechanism), how the funding rate works as continuous arbitrage pressure that keeps perp prices anchored...

Trading fees on LeverUp are down more than half. This is a short announcement episode covering exactly what drove the reduction and what it means in practice. The fee reduction is a structural output of the Pyth Pro oracle upgrade — not a promotional adjustment, not a fee holiday, and not time-limited. The mechanism is straightforward: the Pyth Pro upgrade reduced measured price feed staleness by...

LeverUp has upgraded to Pyth Pro — the institutional tier of the Pyth oracle network. We have the data to show what that means. Measured across 370 parallel samples on Monad mainnet, price staleness dropped from 1.676 seconds on Pyth Core down to 0.086 seconds on Pyth Pro. That's a roughly 19.5× improvement in measured feed freshness. This episode walks through why oracle staleness is the largest...

LeverUp has activated its buyback mechanism. Starting this epoch, a defined share of protocol revenue — specifically the staking commission from $LVMON — is being routed to purchasing $LV on the open market. Every token bought is sent to the dead address and burned. This is not a roadmap item. It's running. In this episode, we walk through exactly how the LVMON staking revenue stream works, why th...

Monad crossed $400M in TVL within five months of mainnet launch. But TVL is a foundation, not a ceiling — and the next phase of any L1 cycle is determined by which financial primitives get built. Perpetual contracts are the most important of those. They deepen price discovery, enable hedging, concentrate leverage-seeking capital, and create the conditions for institutional participation. Without p...

Most perp DEXes route trades through LP pools that act as counterparty capital. LeverUp's architecture does something different — and the structural consequences go deeper than the marketing language suggests. In this episode, we break down exactly how the LP pool model works and where its friction points are (open interest caps, fee splitting, LP exit risk), then explain what LeverUp's Virtual Ma...

LVMON staking is live on LeverUp. If you're holding MON on Monad, your tokens no longer have to sit idle. In this episode, we break down exactly how LVMON works: open a MON-collateral position on LeverUp, close it, and the protocol settles you in LVMON. Stake that LVMON to earn yield generated by Monad's LST infrastructure (shMON and dMON) — without selling your MON or giving up your exposure. We...

AnyCollateral is now open for Monad builder applications, $LVMON staking quota applications are live, and the new LeverUp website is up. In this episode, Marcus and James walk through everything that happened the week of May 12–17: what AnyCollateral actually means for Monad ecosystem projects, how the LVMON staking quota system works and who it's designed for, and what the protocol numbers are sh...

Most DeFi traders face the same problem: to use capital, you have to sell what you want to hold. AnyCollateral changes that. LeverUp's new program lets holders of supported Monad ecosystem tokens use them as trading margin — without selling, without any changes to the token's design, and without requiring project-side engineering integration. In this AMA, we cover: 00:00 The capital efficiency pro...

What is LeverUp? We break down the LP-free perpetuals exchange built on Monad, covering uncapped open interest, 1001x leverage, 100% fee redistribution to traders, and native LVUSD settlement. If you're exploring DeFi on Monad or looking for alternatives to traditional perps exchanges, this one's worth understanding. 🔗 LeverUp: leverup.xyz #LeverUp #Monad #DeFi #Perpetuals #Crypto