A CEX Performant and Unified Liquidity Layer
From the perspective of Layer 2s, the current cycle has been marked by frustration. This has been accentuated by the majority of market participants complaining about how they fragment liquidity and add friction to the overall user experience. In addition to that, despite heavy investment in infrastructure, there’s been little headway in products for real users.
Ethereum alignment and capital allocation issues aside, when the conversation turns to crypto’s winning verticals, a few key names keep coming up: lending markets, spot trading, and derivatives. In DeFi, it’s all about yield and leverage—a speculative game where capital efficiency prevails, plain and simple. Vertex offers all of that in a vertically integrated exchange that stands out for matching the 10-30 milliseconds latency of CEXs with the self-custodial and permissionless nature of DeFi.
While competitors launch their own Layer 2s using Rollup as a Service (RaaS) providers, Vertex deploys on top of existing Layer 2s, adding value to their respective ecosystems and tapping into their liquidity and users. With portfolio-margin and seamless cross-chain liquidity by default, Vertex achieves CEX-level speeds through off-chain execution, settling all trades directly on-chain.
Instead of sucking liquidity out of Layer 2s, Vertex aligns with the chains it deploys on, paying fees and unifying liquidity across Arbitrum, Blast, Sei, Base, Mantle, and more to come—all while boosting value for each of these ecosystems.
Vertex’s Edge orderbook syncs liquidity across chains in milliseconds, enabling traders to get the best of both worlds: high-speed performance and the security of on-chain custody. And this all comes together in a single platform that integrates spot, lending, and perpetual markets, a rare level of vertical integration that brings liquidity and usability together for a streamlined experience.
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