FTX to Launch ‘Scalable’ Decentralized Exchange in Weeks
FTX to Launch ‘Scalable’ Decentralized Exchange in Weeks
Established derivatives player FTX is building an alternative exchange for the growing decentralized finance (DeFi) space on top of highly-scalable chain Solana
- Dubbed Serum, the initiative claims to offer a scalable and liquid decentralized exchange (DEX) for derivatives, solving some of the structural vulnerabilities and limitations in the existing DeFi space.
- Solana is said to be able to process 50,000 transactions per second, compared to Ethereum, which can currently handle 15.
- Being highly scalable means Serum can run an orderbook onchain – improving the exchange’s liquidity, according to the white paper.
- Serum will be fully interoperable with Ethereum so it can tap into the existing DeFi space, which saw its market cap break the $4 billion boundary over the weekend.
- The exchange will also offer a bitcoin proxy token, allowing users to trade the largest cryptocurrency’s value on the Solana blockchain.
- In June, Kin said it had the community’s backing to fork the project over from Stellar to Solana – it began on Ethereum.
- Since Saturday, the price of Solana’s native “SOL” token has almost doubled from $0.99 to $1.90, according to CoinGecko.
- Parallel to Serum, FTX announced it had listed SOL on its centralized exchange.
- An FTX spokesperson stressed to CoinDesk it’ll be the users who decide the products traded on Serum.
- They added that Serum could go live sometime in the next couple of weeks.
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