ZK Perpetual on Hyperliquid: Live Price, Funding, Specs

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ZK perpetual on Hyperliquid

Live market data and verified contract mechanics for the ZK perp — one of the markets on Hyperliquid's on-chain order book.

Which venues list ZK

5 of the perp DEXs this site covers list a ZK 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.

Venues listing ZK perpetuals
Venue	Ticker there	Contract tracks	Max leverage
Hyperliquid	`ZK`	1 unit	5x
dYdX	`ZK-USD`	1 unit	5x implied — see note below Maintenance margin 10%
Aster	`ZKUSDT`	1 unit	not published on the public API
Lighter	`ZK`	1 unit	not published on the public API
Pacifica	`ZK`	1 unit	5x

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.

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.

Contract specs

Contract specifications for ZK-USD perpetual
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	5x (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 (2026-09-04): mark price 0.009417, 24h volume $223K — the live strip above supersedes these on load.

How trading ZK perps works here

Like every Hyperliquid perp, ZK-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 5x cap — the full liquidation math is in our leverage & liquidation guide.

At 5x maximum leverage, initial margin for a ZK position is 1/5 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.

ZK's 5x cap is on the cautious side of Hyperliquid's range. It's enough leverage to amplify a move without the thin margin buffer of the majors — a ceiling the exchange tends to set on markets with real but limited depth.

ZK also trades on dYdX and Aster and Lighter 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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