• Africa’s largest crypto exchange by trade volume expands its derivatives architecture, integrating Hyperliquid to offer access to perpetuals on equities, indices, precious metals, commodities, forex and crypto. 
• This marks the first time a major regulated exchange has natively integrated an on-chain Layer-1 protocol to source liquidity and execute trades across global cross-asset perpetuals.
• Perps on VALR are set to go live on the web on Monday, 6 July, with mobile app availability to follow shortly after.

VALR has announced the imminent launch of ‘Perps’, a new cross-asset class perpetuals product that introduces more than 200 markets to the platform. This expansion enables users to express directional views by going long or short with leverage across a comprehensive selection of global equities, commodities, precious metals, stock indices, forex pairs, and crypto assets. The launch adds to VALR’s established derivatives infrastructure, which pioneered the exchange’s initial perpetuals offering in 2023.

Strategic Infrastructure Integration with Hyperliquid

The new product is delivered through an integration of Hyperliquid, a high-performance decentralised blockchain. Using Hyperliquid’s permissionless infrastructure, VALR users can open and manage positions directly on VALR, ensuring a seamless user experience.

Advanced Cross-Asset Market Exposure

The inclusion of over 200 new markets marks a major development in the diversity of assets available through a single digital platform and marks the first time that a major regulated exchange has natively integrated an on-chain Layer-1 protocol to source liquidity and execute trades across global cross-asset perpetuals. The newly available contracts span multiple global asset classes, enabling traders to express their views on macroeconomic events and capitalise on volatility:

• Global Equities and Benchmarks: Perpetual contracts on trending global enterprises and pre-IPO markets, including SpaceX, NVIDIA, Tesla, Apple, SK Hynix, Samsung, and Palantir Technologies, alongside exposure to leading global equity indices such as the S&P 500 and other international indices.
• Commodities and Precious Metals: Exposure to vital energy markets, including Brent Crude Oil, WTI Crude Oil and Natural Gas, metals such as Gold, Silver, Platinum and Copper.
• Foreign Exchange: Institutional currency pairs including EUR/USD, GBP/USD, and USD/JPY.
• Crypto Assets: Comprehensive coverage of the digital asset ecosystem, ranging from foundational protocols like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, to a wide selection of alternative layer-1 and layer-2 networks, decentralised finance tokens and high-volume tokens.

Gianluca Sacco, Chief Operating Officer at VALR, said:

“With this launch, we’re putting over 200 perpetuals markets directly inside the VALR app. 24/7 access to crypto, commodities, currencies, and equities – both listed and pre-IPO – all through the regulated exchange our customers already trust. Perps are how crypto traders take a view on price – a market now exceeding hundreds of billions of dollars in daily volume. We believe they will become how people trade every market. Our integration of Hyperliquid will give our users the deepest on-chain liquidity available anywhere. For VALR customers in South Africa and beyond, this is access to the markets that matter, in real-time.”

Source: VALR