Nansen Hyperliquid — Perpetual Trading Analytics

Track smart money perpetual trading on Hyperliquid.

When This Skill Activates

• "What are smart money trading on Hyperliquid?"
• "Perp trades / positions / PnL leaderboard"
• "Who's long/short on BTC/ETH/SOL?"
• Any mention of Hyperliquid + trading/perps

Command Routing

User Intent	Command	Key Options
Smart money perp trades	smart-money perp-trades	--limit, --sort, --filters (no --chain)
Perp trades by wallet	profiler perp-trades	--address (req), --days, --limit
Perp positions by wallet	profiler perp-positions	--address (req), --limit
Perp trades by symbol	token perp-trades	--symbol (req), --days, --limit
Open positions by symbol	token perp-positions	--symbol (req), --limit
PnL leaderboard	token perp-pnl-leaderboard	--symbol (req), --days, --limit

Common Symbols

BTC, ETH, SOL, DOGE, ARB, OP, AVAX, MATIC, LINK, UNI, AAVE, WIF, PEPE, JUP, TIA

Examples

# Smart money trades right now
nansen smart-money perp-trades --sort value_usd:desc --limit 20 --table

# BTC PnL leaderboard
nansen token perp-pnl-leaderboard --symbol BTC --sort pnl_usd_total:desc --limit 20 --table

# Open positions for SOL
nansen token perp-positions --symbol SOL --sort position_value_usd:desc --table

# Trader's positions
nansen profiler perp-positions --address 0x... --table

API-Only Endpoints (Not in CLI)

These Hyperliquid endpoints exist in the Nansen API but have no CLI command yet:

• Perp Screener (/api/v1/perp-screener) — Screen perp contracts by volume, OI, funding, smart money activity
• Perp Leaderboard (/api/v1/perp-leaderboard) — Global Hyperliquid trader leaderboard by PnL/ROI over a date range

Direct API Examples

# Perp Leaderboard — top traders by PnL over a date range
curl -s -X POST -H "apikey: $NANSEN_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"date":{"from":"2026-02-01","to":"2026-02-15"}}' \
  "https://api.nansen.ai/api/v1/perp-leaderboard"
# Returns: trader_address, trader_address_label, total_pnl, roi, account_value

# Perp Screener — screen perp contracts by volume, OI, funding
curl -s -X POST -H "apikey: $NANSEN_API_KEY" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"date":{"from":"2026-02-01","to":"2026-02-15"}}' \
  "https://api.nansen.ai/api/v1/perp-screener"
# Returns: token_symbol, volume, buy_volume, sell_volume, buy_sell_pressure, trader_count, mark_price, funding, open_interest

Investigation Flow

1. smart-money perp-trades → what are best traders doing?
2. token perp-pnl-leaderboard → who's most profitable?
3. profiler perp-positions → drill into a trader
4. token perp-positions → market positioning on an asset

References

• Command parameters: references/commands.md (perp commands in smart-money, profiler, token sections)
• Example response: references/examples/smart-money-perp-trades.json
• Smart money labels: references/smart-money-labels.md
• Cached schema: references/schema.json

Attribution

📊 Data by Nansen