Taker Protocol is a yield scaling layer built on the NPOL consensus mechanism. It provides liquidity and yields to the Bitcoin ecosystem through robust incentive structures, offering features such as EVM compatibility and strong demand for Taker tokens. Any Bitcoin derivatives can be traded via the Taker protocol, generating attractive on-chain yield and protocol revenue, which are directly distributed to protocol users. Taker will be the yield scaling and dAPP layers for all BTC and its derivatives.

Hyperliquid is a performant L1 optimized from the ground up. The vision is a fully onchain open financial system with user built applications interfacing with performant native components, all without compromising end user experience. The Hyperliquid L1 is performant enough to operate an entire ecosystem of permissionless financial applications – every order, cancel, trade, and liquidation happens transparently on-chain with block latency <1 second. The flagship native application is a fully onchain order book perpetuals exchange, the Hyperliquid DEX.

Opyn is building DeFi-native derivatives and options infrastructure in the DeFi space.

ApeX is a multi-chain decentralized trading protocol based on zero-knowledge proof. It provides contracts and spot transactions under the self-custody of user assets. Its product lines include crypto-perpetual contracts, leveraged event prediction contracts, vault treasury, usdt one-click trading of multi-chain assets and US stock spot.

BULK is a fully verifiable, low latency on-chain CLOB.

Pendle is a yield trading protocol that allows users to tokenize and trade future yields by leveraging top yield-generating protocols such as Aave, Compound, and Wonderland. Similar to stripped bonds in traditional finance, Pendle splits yield-bearing assets into tokenized ownership (zero-coupon bonds) and yield components (coupons), enabling innovative yield trading opportunities.

Lighter is a perpetual trading protocol that introduces a scalable, secure, transparent, non-custodial, and verifiable order book trading infrastructure within the Ethereum ecosystem. As an application-specific zk-rollup, it employs advanced cryptographic techniques and data structures. Lighter significantly improves the security and fairness of order book trading with its verifiable matching engine, ensuring scalable and efficient market price discovery. Thus, Lighter lays the groundwork for creating new, high-performance, and secure digital trading platforms.

Aevo is a high-performance decentralized derivatives exchange platform, focused on options and perpetual contracts. The exchange runs on a custom EVM roll-up that rolls up to Ethereum. Aevo operates an off-chain orderbook with on-chain settlements. This means that once orders are matched, trades get executed and settled with smart contracts.

Jupiter is a Solana-based DEX aggregator that aggregates liquidity for traders looking for the best possible prices with minimal slippage. Though Jupiter was initially conceived as a swap engine, the protocol has evolved significantly to include a number of different products for different kinds of users such as: Dollar-Cost Averaging (DCA), limit orders, perpetual trading, and, most recently, a launchpad.

edgeX is a high-performance, orderbook-based Perp Dex with native trading experience.

Injective is an interoperable layer-1 blockchain that powers the next generation of financial applications. Injective uniquely provides plug-and-play financial infrastructure primitives such as high-performance on-chain decentralized trading infrastructure, decentralized bridges, oracles, and multiple composable smart contract layers such as CosmWasm and EVM.

GMX is a decentralized spot and perpetual exchange that supports low swap fees and zero-price impact trades. Trading is supported by a unique multi-asset pool that earns fees from market making, swap fees, and leverage trading for liquidity providers.

D3X is a multichain decentralized exchange for spot and derivatives trading, powered by AI. It provides an all-in-one solution with AI-driven insights, offering market signals and advanced trading tools to enhance decision-making and strategy development across spot and Perp DEX trading.

Ethereal is a decentralized spot and perpetual DEX based on Ethena. Ethereal aims to fully utilize the power of USDe within a high performance onchain finance environment to provide users with a one-stop-shop for all their core DeFi needs in a single vertically integrated application.

VOOI is a perpetual DEX aggregator supporting both EVM and non-EVM networks, offering flexibility to integrate additional networks and perpetual DEXs as needed. By focusing on chain and account abstraction, VOOI simplifies leveraged trading across supported DEXs, making user interactions seamless across any supported network.

Felix is a synthetic dollar protocol on Hyperliquid L1 that allows users to deposit collateral and borrow feUSD to earn income using Felix vaults.

Rails, a self-custodial crypto exchange that leverages a centralized order book to drive optimal trade execution, combined with a self-hosted decentralized solution on the blockchain to provide transparent custody of funds, thereby protecting user funds and gaining user trust.

Arcadia is a decentralized and composable margin protocol that allows users to lend, borrow, and trade assets permisionlessly. Borrowers can access up to 10x more capital than their initial collateral and use both their deposited collateral assets and the borrowed assets to permisionlessly interact with any other protocol, all while retaining full ownership of their assets.

Neutrl is a high-yield synthetic dollar, leveraging OTC arbitrage strategies across altcoin markets for scalable, market-neutral returns.

Nemo Protocol is the native yield-trading platform on Sui Network where users can Long yield or hedge yield exposure.

Variational is a crypto derivatives trading protocol based on Arbitrum. Its applications include Omni, a perpetual futures trading platform that allows traders to take leveraged long or short positions on any time series, with a special focus on newly launched tokens, baskets, yield/volatility perpetual contracts, and other new products. OLP is Omni's liquidity provider, which brings together liquidity from centralized and decentralized exchanges and over-the-counter trading platforms. The second application of Variational is Pro, a platform for institutional traders.

dYdX is a decentralized exchange that provides users with key financial instruments, such as perpetuals, margin trading, spot trading, lending, and borrowing. It equips traders with off-chain order books and on-chain settlement, allowing them to short-sell tokens, increase exposure by leveraging long positions, and earn interest on deposited tokens for faster transactions.

StandX is a perpetual DEX that enables users to trade with yield-earning margins. DUSD is StandX's first product - a yield-bearing stablecoin.

Perp.fun is a platform for trading perpetual futures onchain, powered by Perennial Labs. It provides a rollup for transactions, supporting leverage trading with a user interface. The project routes trades through a system built for liquidity and execution, accessible via cryptocurrency wallet connection.

OpenDelta is a delta-neutral, yield-bearing synthetic dollar powered by Bitcoin derivatives. OpenDelta’s flagship token, USDO, will retain its dollar value by hedging bitcoin (BTC) deposited by users as collateral.

Avantis is an oracle-based synthetic derivatives protocol where users can trade crypto and real world assets with up to 100x leverage, and earn yield as a market-maker by providing USDC liquidity.

Synthetix is a decentralized platform for synthetic assets that provides on-chain exposure to real-world currencies, commodities, stocks, and indices. These synthetic assets (Synths) are backed by Synthetix Network Tokens (SNX) locked into a smart contract as collateral. The protocol also issued a stablecoin sUSD. Synths track the prices of various assets, allowing crypto-native and unbanked users to trade peer-to-contract (P2C) on Synthetix Exchange without liquidity restrictions.

Paradex is a crypto-derivatives exchange launching on Starknet’s first Appchain. Paradex will offer perpetual futures trading with deep liquidity, capital efficiency and performance while remaining transparent and self-custodial. Paradex was incubated by the team at Paradigm, the largest institutional liquidity network in crypto.

Trade.fun is a next-generation trading platform designed for advanced traders. It empowers users to trade anything on-chain—from memecoins to perpetuals—with precision, speed, and community-focused rewards. Our cutting-edge tools and integrations provide an unmatched trading experience making you more profitable. 75% of all platform revenue is used to buy back $TRADE tokens from the market, directly benefiting our community of traders.

Euphoria Finance is a derivatives trading market based on the MegaETH network. The platform combines the fundamentals of price prediction, the efficiency of CLOB market making, and abstracts the complexity of the underlying protocol to create a fun, social, mobile-first trading experience with a game-like feel.