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.

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Risk And Analytics

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

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.

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.

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.