Pump.fun Taps Hyperliquid to Bring Leverage to Memecoin Traders

TL;DR: The platform enabled derivatives trading offering maximum leverage levels of 40x for Bitcoin and 25x for Ethereum. API logs as of October 9, 2026, verify that the system extracts open interest and funding rates from HyperCore. At the end of August 2026, the perpetual contracts market operated by Hyperliquid reached a daily trading volume of $12.43 billion. This Friday, October 16, Pump.fun announced the integration of the Hyperliquid infrastructure to launch perpetual futures trading. The deployment, revealed through a post on X, allows users to open leveraged cryptocurrency positions from the same web platform. Perps now available in the @Pumpfun app. Hyperliquid.

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