UK trading technology provider Gold-i has integrated decentralised exchange Hyperliquid into its MatrixNET liquidity management platform, the company announced on Wednesday. It is the first DeFi venue to be connected to MatrixNET.
Brokers, prop trading firms, and fund managers can now access Hyperliquid’s perpetual futures and spot crypto liquidity via standard FIX API connectivity and stream it into MT5 or other professional trading platforms.
MatrixNET handles the normalisation of order flow, aggregation, smart routing, and risk controls, removing the need for clients to build bespoke blockchain connectors.
Gold-i CEO and founder Tom Higgins noted that the work was not straightforward.
“This was a complex implementation but a significant development for Gold-i, enabling us to offer our clients access to a market-leading DeFi exchange,” Higgins said. “As interest in DeFi grows, Gold-i plans to support both centralised and decentralised liquidity venues, giving clients the benefit of flexibility, efficiency, and seamless multi-venue access.”
Prior to this integration, MatrixNET was already connected to more than 80 liquidity providers and 35 centralised crypto exchanges. Adding Hyperliquid extends the platform into decentralised venues, treating them as equivalent to centralised exchanges within the routing engine.
The timing coincides with growth for Hyperliquid. Open interest on the platform’s permissionless futures markets hit roughly $1.2 billion this week, according to CoinDesk, with much of the activity driven by non-crypto contracts. Only seven of the top 30 markets on Hyperliquid are currently crypto pairs, with the rest covering commodities and equities such as WTI crude oil, gold, Tesla, and Amazon.
Hyperliquid is a Layer 1 blockchain built for decentralised derivatives trading. Its HIP-3 framework allows users staking 500,000 HYPE tokens to create perpetual futures markets permissionlessly, which has broadened the platform well beyond its original crypto focus.
Gold-i, headquartered in the UK, provides liquidity management technology to brokers, exchanges, and fund managers across FX and crypto markets.
