Your total perps exposure across every venue, one number
Trade on two perp DEXes and no dashboard answers the weekly question: total exposure and what it really earned. How to aggregate positions and PnL.
If you trade perps on more than one venue, you have a number nobody shows you: total exposure. A Hyperliquid long here, a Lighter short there, an old GMX position you forgot: each venue draws its own dashboard, and none of them adds across the street. The fix is aggregation by address, and it changes what you can see about your own trading.
Why perps fragment across venues
Fees and listings differ, airdrop seasons pull traders to new venues, and specific markets live in specific places. Fragmentation is rational behaviour. The cost is visibility: three venues means three PnL definitions, three funding meters, and no single answer to "am I net long right now?"
The three numbers that matter
- Net exposure per asset: your BTC longs minus BTC shorts across all venues. Hedged on paper is not hedged if you forgot a leg.
- Total margin at risk: how much collateral is posted across venues, and how close each position sits to liquidation.
- Real PnL: price PnL plus funding minus fees, summed across venues, the way we broke down for Hyperliquid.
Watch the definitions
Venues disagree about what PnL means: some include funding in the position card, some report it separately, some reset realized PnL views by epoch. Comparing raw numbers across dashboards misleads. An aggregator has to normalize to one definition before adding, which is precisely the boring work that makes the total trustworthy.
One view in TrueHold
TrueHold reads Hyperliquid and Lighter by address, adds your exchange futures through read-only keys, normalizes positions and funding, and totals them next to your spot, DeFi and NFT holdings. One exposure line, one honest PnL, and the same read-only rule as everywhere else in the product: nothing connected, nothing signable.
Frequently asked questions
Which perp DEXes can be tracked by address?
Venues where the account is a wallet address with public state can be read straight from the address. TrueHold reads Hyperliquid and Lighter this way and totals them with the futures on your connected exchanges.
Does aggregating venues require API keys?
Not for on-chain perp DEXes: a public address is enough. Centralized futures accounts still need a read-only API key.
Why does my total PnL differ from adding the venue dashboards?
Dashboards use different PnL definitions, especially around funding. An aggregate is only meaningful after normalizing to one definition, which is what a cross-venue tracker does.
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