VALR Launches 200+ Hyperliquid Perps Markets

Johannesburg, South Africa, 2nd July 2026, Chainwire

[PRESS RELEASE – Johannesburg, South Africa, July 2nd, 2026]

• Africa’s largest crypto change by commerce quantity expands its derivatives structure, integrating Hyperliquid to supply entry to perpetuals on equities, indices, treasured metals, commodities, foreign exchange, and crypto. 
• This marks the primary time a significant regulated change has natively built-in an on-chain Layer-1 protocol to supply liquidity and execute trades throughout world cross-asset perpetuals.
• Perps on VALR are set to go dwell on the net on Monday, 6 July, with cellular app availability to observe shortly after.

VALR has introduced the upcoming launch of ‘Perps’, a brand new cross-asset class perpetuals product that introduces greater than 200 markets to the platform. This enlargement allows customers to specific directional views by going lengthy or brief with leverage throughout a complete choice of world equities, commodities, treasured metals, inventory indices, foreign exchange pairs, and crypto property. The launch provides to VALR’s established derivatives infrastructure, which pioneered the change’s preliminary perpetuals providing in 2023.

Strategic Infrastructure Integration with Hyperliquid

The brand new product is delivered by means of an integration of Hyperliquid, a high-performance decentralised blockchain. Utilizing Hyperliquid’s permissionless infrastructure, VALR customers can open and handle positions immediately on VALR, making certain a seamless person expertise.

Superior Cross-Asset Market Publicity

The inclusion of over 200 new markets marks a significant growth within the range of property obtainable by means of a single digital platform and marks the primary time {that a} main regulated change has natively built-in an on-chain Layer-1 protocol to supply liquidity and execute trades throughout world cross-asset perpetuals. The newly obtainable contracts span a number of world asset courses, enabling merchants to specific their views on macroeconomic occasions and capitalise on volatility:

• World Equities and Benchmarks: Perpetual contracts on trending world enterprises and pre-IPO markets, together with SpaceX, NVIDIA, Tesla, Apple, SK Hynix, Samsung, and Palantir Applied sciences, alongside publicity to main world fairness indices such because the S&P 500 and different worldwide indices.
• Commodities and Treasured Metals: Publicity to very important vitality markets, together with Brent Crude Oil, WTI Crude Oil, and Pure Fuel, metals comparable to Gold, Silver, Platinum, and Copper.
• Overseas Alternate: Institutional foreign money pairs together with EUR/USD, GBP/USD, and USD/JPY.
• Crypto Belongings: Complete protection of the digital asset ecosystem, starting from foundational protocols like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana, to a wide array of other layer-1 and layer-2 networks, decentralised finance tokens, and high-volume tokens.

Gianluca Sacco, Chief Working Officer at VALR, mentioned:

“With this launch, we’re placing over 200 perpetuals markets immediately contained in the VALR app. 24/7 entry to crypto, commodities, currencies, and equities – each listed and pre-IPO – all by means of the regulated change our prospects already belief. Perps are how crypto merchants take a view on value – a market now exceeding lots of of billions of {dollars} in every day quantity. We imagine they’ll grow to be how folks commerce each market. Our integration of Hyperliquid will give our customers the deepest on-chain liquidity obtainable anyplace. For VALR prospects in South Africa and past, that is entry to the markets that matter, in real-time.”

About VALR

Based in 2018, headquartered in Johannesburg, and backed by main traders together with Pantera Capital, Coinbase Ventures, and Constancy’s F-Prime Capital, VALR is the main digital asset change and infrastructure supplier on the African continent, providing a complete suite of merchandise, together with Spot Buying and selling, Spot Margin, Perpetuals, Staking, Lending, Borrowing, OTC providers, VALR Make investments, Crypto Bundles, and VALR Pay. Licensed by South Africa’s FSCA, and with a provisional licence from the Cayman Islands Financial Authority, VALR serves over 1.9 million registered customers and 1,900 company and institutional purchasers worldwide. The change is devoted to advancing a simply monetary future that upholds human dignity and the unity of mankind. For extra data, go to valr.com.

About Hyperliquid

Hyperliquid is a decentralised layer one blockchain greatest identified for perpetuals and spot buying and selling. It’s the largest and most liquid decentralised change, with help for crypto and real-world property, comparable to oil and treasured metals. As well as, the ecosystem helps borrowing, lending, and a full-fledged EVM.

Danger Disclosure

Futures buying and selling is offered by VALR DAM Pty Ltd, a licensed Monetary Companies Supplier (FSP #54897) and Over-the-Counter Derivatives Supplier.

VALR Perps order administration, order execution, liquidation, margin necessities, place administration, mark costs, and funding charges are managed by, and offered by means of, sure third-party liquidity supplier(s). VALR acts solely as an middleman that allows account holders to entry the providers supplied by such third-party liquidity supplier(s) and disclaims any legal responsibility arising from or in reference to the acts, omissions, providers, pricing, liquidity, order execution, system availability, or operational failures of such third-party liquidity supplier(s).

Use of VALR Perps entails threat; please confer with VALR’s Risk Disclosures and Futures Terms of Service.