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PEPE perpetual on Hyperliquid
Live market data and verified contract mechanics for the PEPE perp — one of the markets on Hyperliquid's on-chain order book.
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Which venues list PEPE
7 of the perp DEXs this site covers list a PEPE perpetual. Each uses its own ticker for the same underlying — shown below so you can confirm you're on the right market before sizing a position.
| Venue | Ticker there | Contract tracks | Max leverage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hyperliquid | kPEPE | 1,000 units | 10x |
| dYdX | PEPE-USD | 1 unit | 10x implied — see note below Maintenance margin 5% |
| Aster | 1000PEPEUSDT | 1,000 units | not published on the public API |
| Lighter | 1000PEPE | 1,000 units | not published on the public API |
| edgeX | 1000PEPEUSDC | 1,000 units | up to 20x on the smallest position tier — falls as size grows Maintenance margin 2.5% |
| Paradex | kPEPE-USD-PERP | 1,000 units | not published on the public API |
| Pacifica | kPEPE | 1,000 units | 10x |
Venue coverage from each exchange's own public market-list endpoint, snapshot 2026-09-02. Tickers are reproduced exactly as the venue publishes them. Where a venue doesn't publish a leverage cap without an authenticated key, this table says so rather than estimating one.
How the venues differ for PEPE
Contract size isn't the same everywhere: on Hyperliquid and Aster and Lighter and edgeX and Paradex and Pacifica one PEPE contract is 1,000 units, while on dYdX it's 1 unit — so a single "contract" is a very different notional. Read the contract-tracks column before sizing a position.
On the implied dYdX figure: dYdX doesn't publish a max-leverage number. The figure above is 1 ÷ the market's initial margin fraction, which is the leverage that margin requirement allows. Treat it as a reading taken at the snapshot date, not a fixed venue setting — per dYdX's help centre, once a market's open interest passes its lower cap the initial margin fraction rises, which pushes the usable leverage down (all the way to 1x at the upper cap). dYdX doesn't document whether the published fraction already reflects that scaling, so we don't claim either way. Maintenance margin, where shown, is a stated field rather than a derivation: it's the equity ratio below which the position is liquidated.
Careful: these contracts aren't the same size
The venues above don't all use the same contract scale for PEPE. Hyperliquid quotes 1,000 units; dYdX quotes 1 unit; Aster quotes 1,000 units; Lighter quotes 1,000 units; edgeX quotes 1,000 units; Paradex quotes 1,000 units; Pacifica quotes 1,000 units. A price on one venue is therefore not directly comparable to a price on another, and a position of "1 contract" means different exposure depending on where you open it. Check the ticker and the contract size before comparing quotes or copying a position size between venues.
Contract specs
| Contract type | Linear perpetual, no expiry — cash-settled, funding every hour |
|---|---|
| Collateral | USDC |
| Oracle | USDT-denominated oracle against USDC collateral (a quanto-style detail from Hyperliquid's contract specifications) |
| Max leverage | 10x (set per asset by the exchange; leverage is any integer from 1 up to this cap) |
| Size precision | 0 decimal places |
Specs from Hyperliquid's public API meta and official contract-specification docs. Build-time reference (2026-09-03): mark price 0.003473, 24h volume $4.2M — the live strip above supersedes these on load.
How trading PEPE perps works here
Like every Hyperliquid perp, kPEPE-USD trades on a fully on-chain central limit order book with no gas fee per trade — costs are the maker/taker fee (fee schedule) plus hourly peer-to-peer funding. Margin can be cross or isolated; maintenance margin is half the initial margin at this market's 10x cap — the full liquidation math is in our leverage & liquidation guide.
At 10x maximum leverage, initial margin for a PEPE position is 1/10 of notional at minimum — and the higher the leverage, the closer liquidation sits to entry. New to the instrument entirely? Read perpetuals explained first, and our Hyperliquid review for the venue itself, including the risks.
PEPE's 10x cap is mid-range for Hyperliquid — meaningful leverage without the razor-thin liquidation buffer of the top tiers. The exchange tends to set caps in this band on markets with solid but not headline liquidity.
PEPE also trades on dYdX and Aster and Lighter and edgeX and Paradex and Pacifica. Fee schedules and funding mechanics are set per venue, not per asset — compare them on fee comparison and live funding rates, and see the feature comparison for order types, collateral, and everything else each venue supports.
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