PERPTools has raised a $5 million seed round at an $80 million fully diluted valuation, bringing the AI-native perpetuals trading platform’s total funding to $8 million across two token rounds. The seed round brought in BigBrain Holdings, NEAR, Animoca Brands, Sfermion and Shima Capital as key stakeholders. It followed a $3 million pre-seed round completed at a $30 million fully diluted valuation and led by DEXTools Ventures and Orderly Network. Fundraising began in November 2025, with the pre-seed closing the following month and the seed round following in early 2026.
PERPTools was built by the team behind DEXTools and combines AI-native trading agents with decentralized perpetual futures infrastructure. The company said its fundraising strategy was designed to add investors that can contribute distribution, liquidity and ecosystem alignment in addition to capital.
The pre-seed brought together Orderly Network’s omnichain liquidity infrastructure with DEXTools’ established trading platform and user base. PERPTools is embedding trading directly into the DEXTools ecosystem, giving users the ability to move from token and market discovery into execution without leaving the platform.
PERPTools said the platform already has access to a potential audience of 30 million DEXTools traders and has generated $240 million in trading volume during its beta period.
The company is led by CEO Evgen Tokarev, who previously built trading infrastructure at DEXTools and has nine years of experience developing trading systems. CTO Denys Hrechko, formerly of Everstake, oversees the PERPTools platform, while CMO Wael Rajab also serves as CEO of DEXTools Ventures and leads distribution efforts.
PERPTools is built on Orderly Network’s omnichain liquidity engine, an orderbook-based trading infrastructure that provides shared liquidity across supported chains without requiring users to bridge assets. Orderly Network is also a stakeholder and strategic partner in PERPTools.
The company is targeting the decentralized perpetual futures market, which the release said generates more than $10 billion in daily trading volume across decentralized exchanges.
PERPTools has already launched three products ahead of its planned Token Generation Event.
Its Perp DEX is a non-custodial perpetual futures exchange operating on mainnet. It supports long and short positions, leverage and cross-margin trading, with transactions settled through Orderly’s omnichain central limit order book.
The company’s AI Arena is a marketplace for autonomous on-chain trading agents. Users can create an agent in approximately five minutes by selecting a risk profile, establishing leverage constraints and describing a trading strategy in natural language. Agents then trade continuously using liquidity from the same Perp DEX.
Other users can allocate USDC to agents they want to follow, while agent rankings are based on verified 30-day on-chain profit and loss data.
PERPTools has also launched Tap Prediction, a real-time prediction product based on live perpetual-market feeds. Users select cells on a price grid and can stake as little as $0.10 for potential payouts of up to 25 times their stake. The product has a prize pool exceeding $1 million and is already generating revenue ahead of the company’s TGE.
With both funding rounds completed, PERPTools plans to shift its emphasis toward product execution and growth. The company is preparing for a Q4 2026 Token Generation Event and intends to further integrate market discovery and trading execution within the broader DEXTools ecosystem.
KEY QUOTES:
“We built the execution layer for 30 million traders already inside DEXTools. By embedding directly into the analytics platform and plugging into Orderly’s omnichain engine, we solved the cold-start problem before we even launched. $240 million in beta volume proves that when you remove the friction between discovery and execution, traders receive the best experience possible.”
Evgen Tokarev, CEO of PERPTools
“DEXTools became the place where DeFi found its next trade. PERPTools is the natural next chapter, where the trade itself happens without ever leaving. We’ve watched our traders ask for this for years, and the response to Season 1 tells us everything: $240 million in beta volume before the token even exists. Now the entire flow from discovery to execution lives in one place, and 30 million traders are first in line.”
Frederic Fernández, Co-Founder and CMO of DEXTools
“PERPTools is exactly the kind of builder Orderly’s liquidity layer was designed for. A team that already has millions of users and needs institutional-grade depth on day one. Embedding a full perp DEX inside a platform with 30 million traders is a genuine first, and the beta volume already speaks for itself.”
Ran Yi, CEO and Co-Founder of Orderly Network
