Perpetual futures, at Solana speed
Axiom routes perpetual orders to Hyperliquid's on-chain order book — BTC, ETH, SOL, and the deepest selection of altcoin perps in DeFi — with up to 100x leverage, sub-second fills, and zero counterparty custody.
Spot is half the trade. Perps complete it.
Memecoin trading on Solana has matured fast. Most serious participants no longer trade in a single dimension; they pair spot exposure with perpetual hedges, run delta-neutral funding harvests, express directional views on majors with leverage, and rotate between spot and perpetual books as volatility regimes change. The problem until recently has been workflow fragmentation: spot trades on one venue, perps on another, with manual reconciliation in between.
Axiom's perpetuals integration fixes that. Perpetual markets live inside the same UI as your Solana spot trading, share the same portfolio engine, and route through Hyperliquid — the deepest on-chain perp venue in DeFi, with a true central-limit order book, institutional-grade matching latency, and decentralized settlement. You get the speed and depth of a CEX without ever surrendering custody of your funds.
Markets, leverage, and execution
100+ perp markets
BTC, ETH, SOL, plus the full Hyperliquid roster of major altcoin perpetuals — including newly listed narratives within hours of launch.
Up to 100x leverage
Per-market max leverage following Hyperliquid's risk tiers. Cross or isolated margin, switchable per position.
Sub-second matching
Hyperliquid's L1 finalizes orders in under a second. Axiom adds zero latency on top of that — orders go straight to the book.
Non-custodial settlement
Margin lives in a smart-contract account you control. No exchange wallet, no withdrawal queue, no counterparty IOUs.
Cross-margin or isolated
Run the whole book against one collateral pool for capital efficiency, or isolate each position to cap risk.
Funding visibility
Live funding rates per market, historical funding charts, and per-position funding PnL — so basis trades are properly costed.
Stop-loss & take-profit
Native TP/SL on every order, plus trailing stops, time-in-force selection, and reduce-only flags.
Position ladders
Scale into a directional view with multi-leg laddered entries, or scale out with multi-leg TP grids — all from one ticket.
One-click hedge
From any spot position in your Axiom portfolio, click 'Hedge' to open a perp short of equivalent notional — instantly neutralizing delta.
The execution path, end to end
When you open a perpetual position from Axiom, the order is signed in your wallet and relayed to Hyperliquid's L1 via the cross-chain message layer. Hyperliquid matches the order against its on-chain CLOB, returns a fill, and the resulting position is reflected in your Axiom portfolio in real time. No custodial transfer, no off-chain promise — every margin movement, every fill, every funding payment is settled and auditable on Hyperliquid's chain, while you keep a unified interface on the Axiom side.
Margin model
Hyperliquid uses a cross-margin model by default: all open positions share one collateral pool, which maximizes capital efficiency for traders running multiple uncorrelated positions. Axiom exposes a per-position toggle to switch into isolated margin when you want to firewall risk — for example, on a directional bet you do not want to threaten your delta-neutral funding book. Maintenance margin requirements follow Hyperliquid's published risk tiers and update live as your position size and the market's open interest change.
Funding mechanics
Perpetual contracts have no expiry; instead, they pay funding every hour. When the perpetual trades at a premium to spot, longs pay shorts; at a discount, shorts pay longs. Axiom surfaces the current and recent funding rate on every market, computes your expected funding PnL for any new position, and tracks realized funding payments in your portfolio's PnL attribution so basis trades show their true edge after carry.
Liquidation engine
Hyperliquid's liquidation engine is fully on-chain and transparent. When your margin ratio crosses the maintenance threshold, the protocol attempts to close your position into the book; any residual loss above the insurance fund is socialized via Hyperliquid's published rules. Axiom shows your live liquidation price, distance-to-liquidation in percent, and an explicit warning band when you cross 75% of the maintenance threshold — so blow-ups are a choice, not a surprise.
What real Axiom perp traders do every day
Directional alts. Spot a narrative forming on Solana — say a memecoin rotation into a specific theme. Open a long perp on the related major (often SOL itself or a high-beta altcoin) at 5–10x to express the macro view while you trade the underlying spot names tactically. Both positions live in the same portfolio with consolidated PnL.
Delta-neutral funding harvest. When a specific market's funding rate is persistently positive, buy spot and short the equivalent notional in perp. You earn the funding rate without market exposure. Axiom shows the realized funding PnL net of fees in your portfolio so you know whether the carry is genuinely profitable.
Spot hedging. You are long a memecoin bag overnight but worried about broader market weakness. From your portfolio, click "Hedge", set the notional to your spot exposure, and open a perp short. The next morning, close the hedge when you are ready to take the market risk back on.
Scalp the majors. Hyperliquid's book on BTC and ETH is deep enough for meaningful size. Axiom's hotkey layer means you can scalp directional moves on majors with the same speed you scalp memecoins — laddered entries, TP/SL preset, all from the keyboard.
The numbers we make impossible to ignore
Leverage is leverage. Axiom's UI is built on the assumption that the only way to use it safely is with permanent visibility into the things that hurt you. Every perp position surfaces, in real time:
- Live liquidation price and distance-to-liquidation in percent
- Margin ratio (current vs. maintenance)
- Effective leverage after open PnL
- Funding rate now, funding paid lifetime of the position, and projected next funding
- Position notional, side, and entry vs. mark price
- Unrealized PnL and PnL as a percent of margin used
These numbers are not buried in a side panel. They are on the primary ticket, the portfolio row, and the risk dashboard. When you cross 50% margin usage, the indicator shifts to caution; at 75%, it turns to warning; at 90%, the position is flagged as critical with a one-click reduce-only ticket pre-filled.
The venue choice, defended
Axiom integrates with Hyperliquid because it solves a real problem the rest of the perp DeFi landscape has not. Other on-chain perp venues use AMM-style price discovery (oracle + virtual liquidity) which works for small size but breaks down on bigger tickets and introduces oracle-attack surfaces. Hyperliquid runs a true on-chain central-limit order book with deep maker participation, sub-second matching, and decentralized settlement — the closest thing to a Binance-quality book that exists without surrendering custody.
On top of that, Hyperliquid's market roster moves fast. New altcoin perps list within hours of broader market attention, which matters when you want to express directional views on the narratives that actually drive Solana flows. And the protocol's risk framework — public, parameterized, and conservative — gives Axiom a stable foundation to build on without inheriting unknown counterparty risk.
What you keep, what you give up
You keep your private key. You keep custody of the underlying collateral asset until the moment a margin debit is required, and you can withdraw margin from Hyperliquid at any time without permission. Axiom never has signing authority over your wallet; every action you take in the perp interface is a transaction you sign locally and broadcast yourself.
What you accept, by trading perps anywhere, is venue risk on the matching engine itself, the cross-chain bridge, and the underlying L1's liveness. Hyperliquid publishes its risk framework, its insurance-fund balance, and its socialised-loss rules openly. We encourage you to read them before opening size.
Common questions
Do I need a Hyperliquid account?
No separate account is required. Connecting your wallet to Axiom is sufficient; the first time you open a perp position, the interface will prompt you to fund the on-chain margin account associated with your address.
What collateral is supported?
USDC is the canonical collateral for Hyperliquid perpetuals. Axiom helps you bridge from Solana USDC to the perp venue in a single guided flow.
Are there maker rebates?
Yes. Hyperliquid pays maker rebates and charges a small taker fee. Axiom passes the venue's fee schedule through transparently — there is no hidden mark-up on top.
What happens during an oracle outage?
Hyperliquid's matching is order-book driven; oracle prices are used for mark price and liquidation, with safeguards against single-source manipulation. In a disagreement, the protocol favors conservative behavior — see Hyperliquid's published documentation.
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