What ZKPerp is
ZKPerp is a decentralized exchange for perpetual futures — leveraged crypto trading — with one big difference: your trades are private. On every other trading platform, your position size, entry price, leverage, and profits are permanently visible on a public blockchain. That means bots can front-run your orders, other traders can target your liquidation level, and anyone can copy your strategy. On ZKPerp, all of that stays encrypted.
How the privacy works
This is possible because ZKPerp is built on Aleo, a blockchain designed around zero-knowledge proofs. In simple terms: the network can verify that every trade is valid — real collateral, correct prices, honest payouts — without ever seeing the numbers behind it. You don't have to trust anyone with your trading data, because nobody ever has it. Privacy isn't a setting you switch on; it's the default.
Features
Using it feels like any modern trading platform. You can go long or short on BTC, ETH, and SOL with up to 20× leverage, set limit orders, take-profits, and stop-losses, or provide liquidity to the pool and earn fees from trading activity. For larger trades, there's a built-in dark pool where orders are matched in sealed batch auctions, so big positions can be filled without moving the market or revealing intent.
Who it's for
The result is trading the way it should work: the market sees that trades happen, but only you see what you're doing. Whether you're an individual trader tired of being hunted by bots or an institution that can't afford to telegraph its strategy, ZKPerp lets you trade with full confidence and zero exposure. Read the whitepaper for the full technical picture.