LeverUp Weekly Recap — Sep 14–20, 2026
bStocks bridging went live, Guess One completed its $GONE raise, and CHOG joined AnyCollateral alongside a 2.5M CHOG trading competition.
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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.
LeverUp Weekly Recap — Sep 7–13, 2026
Weekly reported volume rose 5.3% to $55.68M as the Layer3 Trading Milestones Campaign concluded and the LeverUp × Zealy Trading Sprint continued.
Deep Dive
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In-depth analysis of LeverUp's mechanism, the LP-free model, and the Monad perps landscape.
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.
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?
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.
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.
Education
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New to perps? Start here — how leverage works, liquidations, funding rates, and more.
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.
What Are the Hidden Costs of Perp Trading?
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.
Announcements
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Protocol updates, new features, and product launches from the LeverUp team.
$CHOG Is Now Live as AnyCollateral on LeverUp
CHOG holders can now use CHOG as trading margin on LeverUp, settle eligible positions in CHOG, and access up to 1,001x leverage on eligible markets.
The Second LeverUp Fair Launch: How $GONE Raised 4,500 BNCB on Monad
Guess One's $GONE raise reached its 4,500 BNCB target, completing LeverUp's second Fair Launch and linking a bStock contribution asset to a live Monad product.
From Tokenized Securities to Launch Capital: bStocks Come to Monad
LeverUp's Wormhole-powered bridge brings supported bStocks from BNB Smart Chain to Monad, where BNCB is already being used as the contribution asset for a Fair Launch.
Fair Launch: One Starting Price, Built for the Long Term
LeverUp Fair Launch gives every contributor the same per-token price — the minimum price of the launch — with no private allocation entering below it. Here's how the mechanism works, and why it's built on Nad.Fun rather than a parallel launch stack.
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