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Trading, Perps & Derivatives

Onchain trading is where market structure changes first. Castle Labs covers perp DEXs, options, commodity markets, prediction markets, volatility venues, and exchange design from the microstructure up. Our commodities report benchmarked Hyperliquid's oil perps against CME futures tick by tick; our options and prediction-market work asks the same question for binary outcomes and volatility: where is price discovery moving onchain, and what still blocks institutional depth?

$219.8M
commodity perp volume (24h)
$506.4M
commodity open interest
$2.8B
all Trade XYZ volume (24h)

key figures as of 2026-07-07 · refreshed daily

Trading Articles

The Rebirth of Onchain Options: An Ecosystem View
·Deep DivesTrading

The Rebirth of Onchain Options: An Ecosystem View

This article is an excerpt from our research on The Renaissance of Onchain Options, mapping the expansion of options (and prediction markets) as a trading instrument and the volatility that prices them, published in collaboration with Block Scholes.

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propAMMs: Better than CEX?
·L2sDeep Dives

propAMMs: Better than CEX?

PropAMMs are all about onchain execution

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432 Hours of Hyperliquid Oil Market Data: A Microstructure Comparison with CME WTI Futures
·TradingMarkets

432 Hours of Hyperliquid Oil Market Data: A Microstructure Comparison with CME WTI Futures

Story of three weekends of Price Discovery on Hyperliquid

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Hyperliquid is Not a Company
·TradingMarkets

Hyperliquid is Not a Company

Hyperliquid is Not a Company — research from Castle Labs.

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Making All Markets Hyperliquid
·TradingMarkets

Making All Markets Hyperliquid

Predictions Entering the House of All Finance

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The Almanak Strategy Builder: How to create your own strategy with the help of an AI swarm
·TradingMarkets

The Almanak Strategy Builder: How to create your own strategy with the help of an AI swarm

Using AI swarms to build trading strategies

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USDH: A Hyperliquid Aligned Stablecoin
·TradingDeFi

USDH: A Hyperliquid Aligned Stablecoin

A deep dive into all the current proposals for the USDH stablecoin

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The AI Dispatch #27 - Same Old, $REI Network, Hyperliquid AI?
·AIMarkets

The AI Dispatch #27 - Same Old, $REI Network, Hyperliquid AI?

The AI Dispatch #27 - Same Old, $REI Network, Hyperliquid AI? — research from Castle Labs.

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The Ultimate Guide to Farm the Hyperliquid Ecosystem
·TradingDeep Dives

The Ultimate Guide to Farm the Hyperliquid Ecosystem

A Castle Research Piece

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Solana Perpetual Powerhouses: An Overview of GMX-Solana, Jupiter, and Drift
·TradingDeep Dives

Solana Perpetual Powerhouses: An Overview of GMX-Solana, Jupiter, and Drift

A comparative analysis of Solana’s thriving perpetual ecosystem

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All for One and One for All: The Evolution of Consensus Models with Hyperliquid, Monad & Sonic
·TradingMarkets

All for One and One for All: The Evolution of Consensus Models with Hyperliquid, Monad & Sonic

All for One and One for All: The Evolution of Consensus Models with Hyperliquid, Monad & Sonic — research from Castle Labs.

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$DMT L3, $ETH ETF, HyperLiquidX & More
·TradingMarkets

$DMT L3, $ETH ETF, HyperLiquidX & More

The Castle Chronicle: Volume 70

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BTC stumbles at $100K, Hyperliquid’s $2B Boom and Pudgy Penguins’ Airdrop Claims
·TradingL2s

BTC stumbles at $100K, Hyperliquid’s $2B Boom and Pudgy Penguins’ Airdrop Claims

PLUS: Don't Ignore AI on Arbitrum

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Unlocking Hyperliquid: A Deep Dive into its Future and Fair Valuation
·TradingDeep Dives

Unlocking Hyperliquid: A Deep Dive into its Future and Fair Valuation

A Castle Research Report

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$NIM & $EIGEN Live, HyperLiquidX Pulling Numbers, Fresh TA & More
·TradingMarkets

$NIM & $EIGEN Live, HyperLiquidX Pulling Numbers, Fresh TA & More

The Castle Chronicle: Volume 67

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Deciphering GMX v2: The Next Wave of Decentralized Perps
·TradingDeep Dives

Deciphering GMX v2: The Next Wave of Decentralized Perps

Castle Capital Research Report

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