iShares MSCI Korea Perps (EWY)

iShares MSCI Korea (EWY) is a major equity index that traditionally requires a brokerage account, an exchange-listed futures contract, or an ETF wrapper to access. The EWY perpetual on trade.xyz, built on Hyperliquid delivers the same directional exposure on-chain — leveraged, USDC-margined, and settled without a broker, a custodian, or a corporate intermediary sitting between you and the market.

EWY perpetual futures currently trade at a mark price of $62.40, with up to 10× leverage available on trade.xyz. The protocol enforces a $50.00M open-interest cap on EWY, which keeps the order book deep enough for professional position sizing while limiting tail-risk exposure to the broader system. Funding is the lever that anchors the perp price to the underlying — when the perp trades above spot, longs pay shorts, and when it trades below spot, shorts pay longs. Today's funding reading of 0.0050% means long holders are paying short holders 0.0050% per funding interval — historically a sign of crowded long positioning on EWY.

Leverage on EWY is a tool, not a strategy. 10× leverage means a 1% move against your position erases roughly 10% of your collateral, and trade.xyz liquidates positions automatically once margin falls below the maintenance threshold. Most experienced EWY traders size well below the maximum, use stop levels, and watch funding closely — paying or earning 0.0050% every interval is meaningful at high leverage and compounds quickly across a multi-day hold.

Button is built for traders who want professional EWY perps execution without giving up custody. Connect a wallet, sign one transaction, and the order ticket is live — there is no Button account to create, no KYC at the protocol layer, and no Button-side markup on top of the standard trade.xyz maker/taker fees. On Button, EWY perpetuals trade Sunday 6 PM ET through Friday 5 PM ET, with reduce-only mode outside those hours, with live mark prices, funding, and AI-generated trade signals streaming directly into the interface so you can size into a position with full context on what the market is paying for risk right now.

In practice, trading EWY on Button looks like this. You fund a wallet with USDC on a supported network and bridge to trade.xyz, which becomes your margin account. You open the EWY market, set your direction and leverage within the 10× cap, and the order ticket shows your live liquidation price before you commit. Funding accrues every interval at the current 0.0050% reading — paid or earned depending on which side of the book you sit. Closing the position is symmetric: one signed transaction, on-chain settlement in USDC, no withdrawal queue, no custodian to ask for permission. Most EWY traders use Button alongside the rest of the Hyperliquid market list, moving margin between perps as their view of the broader market changes.

EWY as a perpetual futures market is a different proposition from holding the underlying asset directly. There is no expiration to manage, no contract roll, no broker statement, and no custodian standing between you and your collateral. The trade-off is the cost of carry — funding charged hourly on trade.xyz — and the session structure: EWY reduces to read-only outside its trading window rather than closing the market entirely. For traders who want exposure to iShares MSCI Korea as a price input rather than as an asset to hold, the perp is structurally simpler and operationally lighter than the traditional equivalent.