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Deep Dive

How Oracle Freshness Affects Your Trades

How Oracle Freshness Affects Your Trades Trades use oracle-referenced pricing — and there's a gap between

Deep Dive

Funding Rates Explained: What They Signal, What They Cost, and How to Use Them

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Announcement

LeverUp CoinMarketCap Listing Verification

As LeverUp continues to grow, we're taking steps to ensure our presence across major crypto data platforms

Deep Dive

Trading on Monad: What Retail Traders Need to Know

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.

Education

What Is Oracle Pricing in DeFi? How Price Feeds Work in Crypto Trading (2026)

Price oracles bring real-world asset prices on-chain. Here's how they work, why oracle freshness matters for perpetual futures, and what stale pricing risk means for your trades.

Education

What Is Slippage in DeFi? Price Impact, Tolerance, and How to Minimize It (2026)

Slippage is the difference between the price you expect to pay and the price you actually get. Here's why it happens in DeFi, how oracle-priced perp markets handle it differently, and how to minimize it when trading.

Education

What Is Leverage Trading in Crypto? How It Works and What to Know (2026)

Leverage trading lets you control a larger position than your deposited capital. Here's how the math works, what leverage does to your liquidation risk, and how to size positions without blowing up your account.

Education

What Is a Funding Rate in Crypto? How It Works and What It Signals (2026)

A funding rate is the periodic payment between longs and shorts in a perpetual futures market. Here's how it keeps perp prices anchored to spot, what a high rate signals about positioning, and how to factor it into your trades.

Education

What Is Open Interest in Crypto? How to Read OI Like a Trader (2026)

Open interest measures the total value of all active positions in a market. Here's what rising and falling OI actually signals, how to use it alongside price action, and why it matters more in perp markets than anywhere else.

Announcement

LVMON Staking Is Now Open to Every Wallet

The whitelist period is over. Any wallet on Monad can stake LVMON and start earning — no allocation required.

Announcement

100x on Every Listed Stock: One Tier, All Names

Every listed stock perp on LeverUp now carries a single leverage ceiling: 100x. Tesla, Nvidia, MSTR — the full list, one tier. Here's what changed and why it matters.

Announcement

LeverUp × DOKDO: Pioneer Movement Season 2 — $17,000 in Rewards + Rare Pokémon Cards

LeverUp and DOKDO are running a joint trading campaign for the Korean community. $17,000 reward pool, rare Pokémon cards for the top 3, and a competitive PnL challenge — June 9 to June 30.