Perp DEX Aggregator Liquid secures a $7.6 million seed funding round led by Paradigm.

Liquid, a decentralized futures contract exchange aggregation platform, has raised $7.6 million in a seed funding round led by Paradigm, along with investors such as General Catalyst, Alpen, and angel investors from Ramp, Cursor, Cognition.

The funding round was completed in 5 days in March in the form of equity. The Liquid platform combines leading exchanges like Hyperliquid, Lighter, and Ostium into a non-custodial application, offering leverage of up to 40 times and transaction fees reduced by up to 90%. The company stated it achieved a trading volume of 600 million USD and 2 million people on the waiting list. As this market develops, Hyperliquid remains leading with 308 billion USD, followed by Lighter (278 billion) and Aster (258 billion). The total volume reached over 1.2 trillion USD.