Pump.fun moves into perpetual futures with Hyperliquid powering the engine

The memecoin launchpad is plugging into Hyperliquid's infrastructure to offer leveraged BTC and ETH perpetuals, entering a derivatives race rival FOMO joined months earlier Pump.fun built its name as the place where memecoins are born. Now it wants a piece of the leveraged trading business, too. A post on X announced that Pump.fun is launching crypto perpetual futures trading powered by Hyperliquid . API data shared around October 9, 2026, shows the platform pulling funding rates and open interest for BTC and ETH perpetuals directly from Hyperliquid’s HyperCore mainnet. Perpetual futures are a type of derivative contract. They let traders bet on an asset’s price without owning it, and with no expiration date.

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