Johannesburg, South Africa, July 2nd, 2026, Chainwire
- 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.”
About VALR
Founded in 2018, headquartered in Johannesburg, and backed by leading investors including Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and Fidelity’s F-Prime Capital, VALR is the leading digital asset exchange and infrastructure provider on the African continent, offering a comprehensive suite of products, including Spot Trading, Spot Margin, Perpetuals, Staking, Lending, Borrowing, OTC services, VALR Invest, Crypto Bundles, and VALR Pay. Licensed by South Africa’s FSCA, and with a provisional licence from the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, VALR serves over 1.9 million registered users and 1,900 corporate and institutional clients worldwide. The exchange is dedicated to advancing a just financial future that upholds human dignity and the unity of mankind. For more information, visit valr.com.
About Hyperliquid
Hyperliquid is a decentralised layer one blockchain best known for perpetuals and spot trading. It is the largest and most liquid decentralised exchange, with support for crypto and real-world assets, such as oil and precious metals. In addition, the ecosystem supports borrowing, lending, and a full-fledged EVM.
Risk Disclosure
Futures trading is provided by VALR DAM Pty Ltd, a licensed Financial Services Provider (FSP #54897) and Over-the-Counter Derivatives Provider.
VALR Perps order management, order execution, liquidation, margin requirements, position management, mark prices, and funding rates are managed by, and provided through, certain third-party liquidity provider(s). VALR acts only as an intermediary that enables account holders to access the services offered by such third-party liquidity provider(s) and disclaims any liability arising from or in connection with the acts, omissions, services, pricing, liquidity, order execution, system availability, or operational failures of such third-party liquidity provider(s).
Use of VALR Perps involves risk; please refer to VALR’s Risk Disclosures and Futures Terms of Service.
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