Johannesburg, South Africa, July 2, 2026, Chainwire
- Africa’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume is expanding its derivatives architecture and integrating Hyperliquid to provide access to perpetuals on equities, indices, precious metals, commodities, forex and crypto.
- This is the first time a major regulated exchange has natively integrated an on-chain Layer-1 protocol to obtain liquidity and transact across global cross-asset perpetuals.
- VALR perpetrators will go live on the internet on Monday, July 6, with mobile app availability following shortly after.
VALR has announced the upcoming launch of ‘Perps’, a new multi-asset class Perpetuals product that introduces more than 200 markets to the platform. This expansion allows users to express directional views by going long or short with leverage on a vast selection of global stocks, 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 via an integration of Hyperliquid, a powerful decentralized blockchain. Using Hyperliquid’s permissionless infrastructure, VALR users can open and manage positions directly on VALR, ensuring a seamless user experience.
Advanced exposure to various asset markets
The inclusion of more than 200 new markets marks a significant 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 obtain liquidity and transact across global cross-asset perpetuals. The newly available contracts span multiple global asset classes, allowing traders to express their views on macroeconomic events and profit from volatility:
- Global stocks and benchmarks: Perpetual contracts on trending global companies and pre-IPO markets, including SpaceX, NVIDIA, Tesla, Apple, SK Hynix, Samsung and Palantir Technologies, in addition to exposure to leading global equity indices such as the S&P 500 and other international indices.
- Raw materials 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 such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana, to a wide selection of alternative layer-1 and layer-2 networks, decentralized financial tokens and high-volume tokens.
Gianluca Sacco, Chief Operating Officer at VALR, said:
“With this launch, we are putting over 200 perpetuals markets directly into the VALR app. 24/7 access to crypto, commodities, currencies and stocks – both listed and pre-IPO – all through the regulated exchange our customers already trust. The culprits are the way crypto traders look at price – a market that now exceeds hundreds of billions of dollars in daily volume. We believe this will become the way people trade in every market. Our integration of Hyperliquid will benefit our users providing the deepest insights, on-chain liquidity available everywhere 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 the South African FSCA and provisionally licensed by the Cayman Islands Monetary Authority, VALR serves more than 1.9 million registered users and 1,900 corporate and institutional clients worldwide. The exchange is dedicated to promoting an equitable financial future that upholds human dignity and the unity of humanity. For more information, visit valr.com.
About hyperfluidity
Hyperliquid is a decentralized layer one blockchain best known for perpetuals and spot trading. It is the largest and most liquid decentralized exchange, with support for cryptocurrencies and real assets, such as oil and precious metals. Moreover, the ecosystem supports borrowing, lending and a full-fledged EVM.
Risk disclosure
Futures trading is handled by VALR DAM Pty Ltd, a licensed financial services provider (FSP #54897) and over-the-counter derivatives provider.
VALR Perp’s order management, order execution, liquidation, margin requirements, position management, market prices and funding rates are managed by and provided through certain third party liquidity providers. VALR acts solely 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 related to the acts, omissions, services, pricing, liquidity, order execution, system availability or operational errors of such third party liquidity provider(s).
Using VALR Perps involves risks; see VALRs Risk Disclosures And Futures Terms of Service.