Deep Dive

AI Trading Agents Need a Decision Layer, Not Another Bigger Model

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.

Deep Dive

AI Trading Agents Need Scoped Permissions, Not Just Deterministic Execution

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?

Education Deep Dive

How to Build a Grok Bot Trading Agent on LeverUp (Gasless, No Wallet Popups)

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.

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Borrowing to Leverage vs. Trading Perps: Two Different Ways to Get Leveraged Exposure

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.

Deep Dive

The DeFi Investor's Guide to Perpetual Futures

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.

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LVUSD: Why LeverUp Settles Positions in a Synthetic Asset, Not Raw USDC

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.

Deep Dive

Who Perp DEX Fee Design Is Actually Optimized For

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.

Deep Dive

LeverUp vs. Hyperliquid: Two Different Answers to the Same Design Question

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.

Deep Dive

The LP Tax: Why Perp DEX Market Structure Keeps Shifting

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.

Deep Dive

PropAMM Enters the Picture: A Third Liquidity Architecture for Perp Markets

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.

Deep Dive

FTX, Self-Custody, and How DEX Trading Reduces Custodial Risk

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.

Deep Dive

Oracle Integrity: Why Permissioned Validators and Protection Triggers Matter for Perp DEXs

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.