About Merkle Trade
Merkle Trade is the first-ever gamified decentralized futures trading platform, offering crypto, forex, and commodities trading with leverage up to 1,000x, alongside a simplified UX and engaging gamified features.
Our aim is to provide the most enjoyable and inclusive trading experience for everyone. Unlike most other perpetual exchanges, we are dedicated to creating the most accessible trading venue, catering to traders of all experience levels, not just experienced traders or so-called whales. Ultimately, Merkle Trade aims to become the largest decentralized hub for leveraged trading.
Why Merkle Trade
📈 Best-in-class Decentralized Leveraged Trading
Trade crypto, forex, commodities with leverage up to 1,000x Merkle Trade offers a wide range of trading pairs - crypto, forex and commodities, with some of the highest leverages on the market; up to 150x on crypto and up to 1000x on forex.
Sub-second order execution with fair price and minimal slippage Enjoy sub-second delays and minimal slippage. Built on Aptos, the lowest-latency production blockchain, Merkle Trade provides the fastest on-chain trading experience, ensuring responsive trades and reduced price slippage.
Decentralized, non-custodial trading without counter-party risk All trades and settlements are executed by the protocol's smart contracts, eliminating custody of user funds. Execution prices are powered by the decentralized oracle network, Pyth.
🚀 Gamified and Social Trading Experience
Bi-weekly Trading Seasons Participate in unique trading competitions every two weeks, enhancing the trading experience.
Level up system and In-game Items
Level up your profile by trading and completing missions. Each level-up unlocks equippable items (NFTs) with trading benefits and point boosts.
Weekly trading missions
Complete daily trading missions and earn rewards. Missions vary from beginner to high-stakes, with rewards to match.
How It Works
Passive MM: Unlike most exchanges, there is no order book on Merkle Trade. Instead, the Merkle LP acts as the counter-party to every trade, as it receives the collateral when traders take loss and pays out the profit on the closed trades with positive PnL.
Synthetic Trading: Trades are always denominated and settled in USDC regardless of the asset being traded, allowing any asset with enough liquidity and a reliable price feed to be listed and traded on the protocol.
Decentralized: Merkle Trade is a decentralized application based on smart contracts. This means the exchange can operate without a centralized party, and you have the full control over your account and the assets within it. The Merkle Trade protocol runs on Aptos blockchain, and uses prices feeds from Pyth Network for order executions.
Merkle Trade's charting solutions are powered by TradingView, a charting platform for the global community. In addition to charts like BTCUSD, advanced analytical tools like the Economic Calendar or Stock Screener allow you to make trades based on comprehensive market analysis.
Builders & Backers
The core contributors of Merkle Trade consist of renowned product builders and software developers who have decades of experience, building consumer products used by over 10 million users daily at companies like Amazon, Kakao, and Nexon.
Highlighted Core Contributors
Ye (twitter)
Co-founder & Head Builder, full-stack dev, wrote code since 10 yo, serial entrepreneur with 2 successful exits.
Patrick (twitter) Co-founder & CTO, SC guru, software engineer (11 yrs), entered crypto in 2018 (BitBerry wallet), ACM ICPC winner.
YK (twitter) Business & Operations, prev. investor at Hashed, entered crypto since 2018.
Liam Head of Engineering, software engineer (13 yrs), building in crypto since 2018 (Klaytn), ACM ICPC winner.
Backers
Merkle Trade team has raised a seed investment of $2.1M, co-led by Hashed and Arrington Capital, with participation from Morning Star Ventures, Amber Group, Aptos Labs, Dorahacks, and Re7 Capital.
Start Trading
Trade on https://merkle.trade
Read the guides: Getting started, Opening a Trade
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