Core concepts and terminology explained for on-chain traders.
18 articles
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.
Leverage numbers and fee percentages don't tell the whole story. Here's a full breakdown of what actually eats into perp trading returns: open/close fees, holding fees, funding, slippage, and the cost structure of liquidation.
MEV — maximal extractable value — is the profit that can be extracted by reordering, inserting, or censoring transactions on a blockchain. Here's how it actually works, and why the mechanics change depending on whether you're trading against an order book, an AMM, or oracle-referenced pricing.
A short position gains value when an asset's price falls. Here's what actually happens when you open a short on a perpetual DEX, how it differs from a long, and what to watch for — liquidation, funding, and leverage risk in both directions.
Gold is one of the oldest hedges in traditional finance, and it's now tradeable on-chain as a perpetual contract. Here's what an on-chain gold perp is, how it differs from an ETF or futures contract, and how it works on LeverUp.
Trading on LeverUp doesn't happen in isolation — it sits inside a broader Monad ecosystem of wallets, bridges, stablecoins, portfolio tools, and other DeFi protocols. Here's how the pieces around your trading activity fit together.
A spot DEX lets you swap one token for another. A perp DEX lets you trade a price direction without holding the asset at all. The two run on genuinely different mechanics — here's how.
Category Labs expanded its $MON buyback plan from $30M to $80M. Here's why holding MON idle is a missed opportunity — and one path to put it to work.
In perp markets, liquidity is one of the easiest things to claim and one of the hardest things to prove. When a venue's liquidity is too thin, the chart starts telling the truth.
$LVMON staking APY isn't a fixed-rate promise or a black-box subsidy. Here's where the yield comes from, how sLVMON share value works, and what the on-chain data shows.
Leverage can amplify gains — but without a risk framework, it amplifies losses just as fast. Here's how to manage risk as a new perp trader.
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.
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