Article Library
Standalone Educational Articles
This index collects risk-first perp DEX education, reusable research workflows, and static publication templates. The pages are educational research only, not financial advice, not recommendations, and no trading advice.
Static Library Filters
These local anchors group articles by review use case without client-side tracking or external services. The category, readiness filter, and source-review outcome labels below must match each article card before publication review.
Education And Workflow Drafts
Foundations
Beginner
What Is a Perpetual Futures DEX?
Introduces perpetual futures mechanics, venue design, and risk questions without execution instructions.
Draft readiness: Needs source review; outcome is draft internal review.
Checklist
Pre-Trade Risk Checklist for Crypto Perpetuals
Frames liquidation, collateral, funding, and operational checks before any independent decision process.
Draft readiness: Needs source review; outcome is draft internal review.
SEO Content Plan (Months 1โ3)
Beginner
What Are Perpetual Futures? A Beginner's Guide to Perps
Pillar explainer on perpetual contract mechanics, funding, margin, and beginner risk questions.
Draft readiness: Needs source review; outcome is draft internal review.
Beginner
Top 7 Decentralized Perpetual Exchanges (Perp DEXs) in 2026
Educational overview of major perp DEX design patterns without venue rankings or deposit advice.
Draft readiness: Needs source review; outcome is draft internal review.
Operations
How to Trade Perpetual Futures on GMX (Step-by-Step Guide)
High-level GMX workflow steps with pre-trade risk review and current documentation reminders.
Draft readiness: Needs source review; outcome is draft internal review.
Beginner
Centralized vs. Decentralized Perp Trading: Pros and Cons
Neutral comparison of CEX and DEX perpetual models covering custody, execution, and operational risk.
Draft readiness: Needs source review; outcome is draft internal review.
Analytics
How to Read On-Chain Data for Trading: A Beginner's Guide
Introduces open interest, funding, flows, and data-quality limits for market-structure research.
Draft readiness: Needs source review; outcome is draft internal review.
Analytics
Funding Rate Arbitrage: How to Profit from Perp DEXs
Explains funding mechanics and basis-style research without profit claims or strategy recommendations.
Draft readiness: Needs source review; outcome is draft internal review.
Operations
Hyperliquid Deep Dive: The Fastest-Growing Perp DEX
Architecture and research questions for Hyperliquid without promotional or ranking language.
Draft readiness: Needs source review; outcome is draft internal review.
Risk Basics
Risk Management for Leverage Trading: 10 Rules Every Trader Needs
Ten process-oriented risk rules for leveraged perpetual research without trade instructions.
Draft readiness: Needs source review; outcome is draft internal review.
Analytics
Best On-Chain Analytics Tools for Perp Traders in 2026
Tool category overview for perp research without product endorsements or rankings.
Draft readiness: Needs source review; outcome is draft internal review.
Automation
How to Build a Perp Trading Bot (Python Tutorial)
Research-oriented Python bot architecture for observation and alerts, not live trade automation advice.
Draft readiness: Needs source review; outcome is draft internal review.
Analytics
Perp DEX Token Analysis: GMX, dYdX, HLP โ Which Has the Best Tokenomics?
Token mechanics research framework without investment advice or token rankings.
Draft readiness: Needs source review; outcome is draft internal review.
Beginner
The Future of Decentralized Derivatives: Trends for 2026โ2028
Trend hypotheses for DeFi derivatives infrastructure without price predictions or trade calls.
Draft readiness: Needs source review; outcome is draft internal review.
Risk And Analytics
Risk Basics
How Liquidation Works on Decentralized Perpetual Exchanges
Explains forced liquidation mechanics, maintenance margin, and why liquidation distance is not a plan.
Draft readiness: Needs source review; outcome is draft internal review.
Risk Basics
How to Estimate Liquidation Distance
Shows the inputs to review before relying on venue liquidation displays or rough margin estimates.
Draft readiness: Needs source review; outcome is draft internal review.
Analytics
How to Read Funding Rates Before Opening a Leveraged Trade
Separates funding mechanics from directional signals and highlights holding-period cost review.
Draft readiness: Needs source review; outcome is draft internal review.
Analytics
Open Interest Crowding
Describes what crowding can suggest, what it cannot prove, and why source quality matters.
Draft readiness: Needs source review; outcome is draft internal review.
Operations And Workflow
Operations
Bridge, Wallet, and Chain Reliability Checks
Turns operational dependencies into a pre-deposit review list for on-chain derivatives users.
Draft readiness: Needs source review; outcome is draft internal review.
Automation
Perp DEX API Risk Controls for Bots and Alerts
Documents non-advisory bot controls for observation, rate limits, dry runs, and kill-switch reviews.
Draft readiness: Needs source review; outcome is draft internal review.
Workflow
How to Build a Perp DEX Trade Journal
Focuses post-trade review on process quality instead of outcome-only notes.
Draft readiness: Needs source review; outcome is draft internal review.
Security
Smart Contract, Oracle, and Admin-Key Questions
Collects due-diligence questions for protocol dependencies and upgrade authority.
Draft readiness: Needs source review; outcome is draft internal review.
Report Template
Monthly Perp DEX Venue Review Template
Provides a reusable research structure for venue reviews without rankings or recommendations.
Draft readiness: Needs editorial setup; outcome is draft template only.
Venue Drafts
Venue Profile
GMX Venue Profile Draft
Draft source notes for liquidity pools, oracle checks, collateral review, and publication blockers.
Draft readiness: Blocked pending manual source review.
Venue Profile
dYdX Venue Profile Draft
Draft source notes for order books, margin rules, liquidation process, and chain operations.
Draft readiness: Blocked pending manual source review.
Venue Profile
Hyperliquid Venue Profile Draft
Draft source notes for market depth, open interest concentration, account controls, and operations.
Draft readiness: Blocked pending manual source review.
Venue Profile
Vertex Venue Profile Draft
Draft source notes for hybrid liquidity, portfolio margin, collateral rules, and sequencer dependency.
Draft readiness: Blocked pending manual source review.
Venue Profile
Aevo Venue Profile Draft
Draft source notes for perps, options, settlement workflow, collateral policies, and review gaps.
Draft readiness: Blocked pending manual source review.
Venue Profile
Drift Venue Profile Draft
Draft source notes for Solana reliability, oracle behavior, borrow costs, and cross-margin review.
Draft readiness: Blocked pending manual source review.
Article Readiness Filters
These local filter labels are editorial markers only. They do not sort the page dynamically, but they give reviewers stable labels to use when batching source checks, template setup, or venue-blocker review.
- source-review-needed: 22 education and workflow drafts need source and no-advice review.
- venue-source-blocked: 6 venue drafts are blocked by current-source verification.
- editorial-setup-needed: 1 reusable template needs venue-specific editorial setup.
Draft Readiness Summary
This section is a manual editorial snapshot for publication review. It must remain aligned with card-level
data-draft-readiness and data-publication-outcome attributes; the validator checks those
attributes so generated reports and manual notes do not silently drift apart.
- Needs source review: 22 education and workflow drafts.
- Blocked manual source review: 6 venue profile drafts.
- Needs editorial setup: 1 reusable report template.
- Ready for publication: 0 drafts until source checks and no-advice review are complete.
Source Review Outcome Matrix
This matrix separates source-review status from publication outcome so a reviewer can see why no article is ready for publication without treating generated counts as manual signoff.
- pending-editorial-source-check: 22 education and workflow drafts need source and guardrail review.
- blocked-current-source-check-required: 6 venue drafts need current protocol, app, parameter, and operations checks.
- template-not-reviewed: 1 reusable template remains outside article publication review.
Venue Blocked-Status Explanations
Venue profiles remain blocked until current sources are checked manually. The explanations below mirror
data/venues.json so reviewer notes, data, and index copy stay aligned.
- Publication is blocked until a reviewer verifies pool composition, oracle methodology, fee rules, and liquidation parameters against current GMX sources.
- Publication is blocked until a reviewer verifies margin schedules, market parameters, chain operations, and withdrawal paths against current dYdX sources.
- Publication is blocked until a reviewer verifies validator operations, market depth, collateral flows, and liquidation parameters against current Hyperliquid sources.
- Publication is blocked until a reviewer verifies portfolio margin, liquidation process, sequencer dependency, and collateral rules against current Vertex sources.
- Publication is blocked until a reviewer verifies perps, options, collateral policies, expiry mechanics, and settlement workflow against current Aevo sources.
- Publication is blocked until a reviewer verifies cross-margin behavior, oracle design, borrow costs, and network reliability against current Drift sources.
Article Blocked Reason Matrix
This matrix translates readiness filters into editorial blocker reasons. It keeps education drafts, venue drafts, and the reusable template out of publication until source evidence, guardrail checks, or venue-specific setup are complete.
- source-freshness-and-guardrail-review: 22 education and workflow drafts need current source checks and no-advice review.
- current-venue-source-review: 6 venue profile drafts need current protocol, app, parameter, and operations evidence.
- venue-specific-template-setup: 1 reusable template needs venue-specific evidence before it becomes an article outcome.
Article Category Coverage
The library currently covers beginner education, risk checklists, analytics, operations, automation, workflow, security, templates, and venue profile drafts. Category coverage is a validation target so future rounds can add pages without leaving source notes or risk-first education behind.
- Analytics: 6 drafts.
- Automation: 2 drafts.
- Beginner: 5 drafts.
- Checklist: 1 draft.
- Operations: 3 drafts.
- Report Template: 1 draft.
- Risk Basics: 3 drafts.
- Security: 1 draft.
- Venue Profile: 6 drafts.
- Workflow: 1 draft.
Final Readiness Handoff
Round 10 should treat this page as an inventory, not a publication queue. The saved metadata report, static QA checklist, reviewer log, and evidence dashboard must agree before any draft outcome changes.
- Final campaign handoff: keep the no-launch decision, blocker inventory, final checklist, and post-campaign next steps visible.
- Generated metadata report: verify source freshness, article rollups, venue rollups, and final readiness counts.
- Static QA checklist: run local checks only and keep live URL fetching out of the review.
- Static reviewer log: record initials, ISO date, source basis, and remaining blockers before outcome changes.
- Reviewer evidence dashboard: confirm every article still has visible evidence coverage before publication review.
Draft Template Support
New article drafts should start from the local template in templates/standalone-article-template.html. Before publication, reviewers should replace every placeholder, confirm source limits, and keep the no-advice boundary visible.