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Türkiye's leading digital asset platform expands into DeFi and equities, integrating Hyperliquid perpetuals, Polymarket option markets, and U.S. and Turkish stocks in a single app.
ISTANBUL — Paribu, Türkiye's leading digital asset platform, has launched DeFi access, covering DEX trading, perpetual contracts via Hyperliquid, and option markets via Polymarket, and has opened an equity trading waitlist. The moves mark a strategic shift for the nine-year-old exchange as it builds toward a single app covering crypto, DeFi, yield, and equities.
Paribu is the first regulated exchange to deliver both Hyperliquid perpetuals and Polymarket option markets directly inside a CEX interface, without requiring a separate wallet application. Users can access all DeFi features from within the existing Paribu app using their current balances through a fully self-custodial setup. Paribu delivers on-chain access directly from the exchange interface itself: same account, same balance, no separate app, and no seed phrase. Every DeFi position remains self-custodial, with assets staying in the user's own wallet at all times.
Türkiye ranks fifth globally in retail crypto activity, recording US$40 billion in trading volume during the first quarter of 2026 alone, representing 7% year-on-year growth despite an 11% global market contraction (TRM Labs, April 2026). Until now, retail investors in Türkiye have had limited access to on-chain perpetuals or prediction markets.
Existing integrations for Hyperliquid and Polymarket have primarily served users already operating within DeFi wallet environments. Paribu brings these markets to a different audience: millions of users who manage their primary crypto holdings through a single application and have never needed to leave that environment. The integration enables them to access perpetuals and prediction markets without switching platforms, creating a new wallet, or opening another account.
"Paribu is becoming a single app for all of finance: crypto, DeFi, equities, and yield. Integrating Hyperliquid and Polymarket is another step toward that vision. Instead of asking users to navigate multiple wallets and protocols, we're bringing a seamless in-app self-custodial DeFi experience to millions of people, making on-chain perpetuals and prediction markets as accessible as the rest of their financial lives. Soon, we'll expand that vision even further by bringing access to both U.S. equities and Borsa Istanbul-listed stocks into the Paribu app, creating a single destination for investing across traditional and on-chain markets," said Yasin Oral, Founder and CEO of Paribu.
Perpetual contracts are now accessible through the DeFi section of the Paribu app. Trades are routed directly to Hyperliquid's decentralized blockchain, with every position remaining on-chain in the user's self-custodial wallet.
Hyperliquid has become the dominant infrastructure layer for on-chain perpetuals, processing more than US$4 trillion in cumulative trading volume. The protocol leads the decentralized exchange market by open interest and has built a rapidly expanding ecosystem, including integrations with major self-custody wallets. Its builder code programme has distributed more than US$85 million in revenue to frontend developers. By integrating Hyperliquid, Paribu connects its users to the deepest on-chain liquidity currently available in the perpetuals market.
Curated prediction markets are available through the same DeFi section of the Paribu app. Paribu acts as the interface layer, while execution and settlement take place on-chain through Polymarket's infrastructure. Each market undergoes review for integrity, liquidity depth, and risk profile before becoming available within the application.
Polymarket is the world's largest decentralized prediction market. This marks the first time prediction markets have become accessible to Türkiye's retail investor base through a mainstream exchange interface, and the first time a centralized exchange has integrated Polymarket through a fully self-custodial experience.
Paribu has received establishment authorization from Türkiye's Capital Markets Board (CMB) for its brokerage subsidiary, which is currently awaiting its operating licence. Once approved, users will be able to trade stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), Nasdaq, and Borsa Istanbul through the Paribu platform. Real-time market data for all three exchanges is already available free of charge, and a waitlist has opened ahead of the launch of equity trading.
