Perpetual futures generated over $61 trillion in volume last year. By a wide margin, it’s the deepest liquidity layer in crypto.
Most of that volume flows through a small number of venues. Hyperliquid has become one of the more significant ones — fast execution, competitive fees, an order book that functions the way traders expect an order book to function.
The access problem
Hyperliquid runs on its own chain. Your assets, in all likelihood, do not. Getting from wherever you hold things to a funded Hyperliquid account has required bridging, an extra step that adds time, cost, and enough friction that some traders don’t bother.
That’s the gap NEAR’s integration closes.
How it works
Through near.com, traders can now fund a Hyperliquid account with any major asset from any major chain in a single flow. The underlying infrastructure, NEAR Intents, routes the transaction automatically. You select your asset, confirm, and the system handles the rest. No bridge interface. No second platform. No waiting on a separate confirmation before you can trade.
Trade here, hold there
The practical effect is that your assets and your trading venue no longer have to live in the same place. Hold ETH on Ethereum. Hold SOL on Solana. Keep your portfolio wherever it makes sense. When you want to put on a position, near.com connects you directly to Hyperliquid’s liquidity from wherever you already are.
That shifts how traders can think about their setup. The conventional approach has been to maintain a funded balance on every venue you use — capital sitting idle, waiting for a trade. With NEAR, your assets stay where you keep them until you need them. The routing happens at execution time.
The integration is live now at Near.
