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PERPTools raises $5M seed at $80M valuation led by BigBrain Holdings, NEAR, Animoca Brands for AI-powered perpetuals trading.

PRIVATESep 30, 2026

Amount Raised

$5 Million

Round Type

Seed

Financial ServicesArtificial IntelligenceFintechBlockchainCryptocurrencyMachine Learning

Investors

NearBigbrain HoldingsAnimoca BrandsSfermionShima Capital

Description

PERPTools has closed a $5 million seed round at an $80 million fully diluted valuation, bringing total funding to $8 million. The round was led by BigBrain Holdings, NEAR, Animoca Brands, Sfermion, and Shima Capital. Built by the DEXTools team, PERPTools is an AI-native perpetual futures trading platform that has generated $240 million in trading volume during private beta. The platform is embedded into DEXTools, providing potential access to a trading ecosystem of 30 million traders.

Company Information

Company

PERPTools

About

PERPTools is an AI-native perpetual futures trading platform built by the team behind DEXTools that combines AI-powered trading agents with decentralized perpetual futures trading. The platform provides infrastructure for non-custodial perpetual derivatives trading integrated into DEXTools' ecosystem of 30 million traders. It offers three main products: Perp DEX (a mainnet perpetual exchange), AI Arena (a marketplace for autonomous trading agents), and Tap Prediction (real-time prediction markets). The company targets the decentralized perpetual futures market, which exceeds $10 billion in daily trading volume.

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