StarkWare Industries

ZKX is a decentralized financial platform established in 2021, focusing on democratizing access to global yields and enhancing trading experiences. It is the first exchange based on StarkNet to offer perpetual futures and complex financial instruments as swaps. The company specializes in developing developer tools and a permissionless protocol for derivatives, facilitating the introduction of sophisticated trading strategies as simple perpetual swaps. ZKX aims to empower users through self-custody and genuine community governance, featuring gamified leaderboards and decentralized order books to elevate engagement in trading activities.

Espresso Systems specializes in providing scaling and privacy solutions for Web 3 applications, focusing on the innovative area of shared sequencing within blockchain technology. This involves the use of sequencers that verify and batch transactions on layer-2 blockchains before sending them to a layer-1 chain, such as Ethereum, for settlement. Additionally, Espresso Systems develops online transaction technology aimed at enhancing the online payment industry, offering infrastructure that facilitates secure and efficient online interactions. Their solutions cater to the needs of clients in the online transaction sector, contributing to the advancement of the third generation of the World Wide Web.

ZKX is a decentralized financial platform established in 2021, focusing on democratizing access to global yields and enhancing trading experiences. It is the first exchange based on StarkNet to offer perpetual futures and complex financial instruments as swaps. The company specializes in developing developer tools and a permissionless protocol for derivatives, facilitating the introduction of sophisticated trading strategies as simple perpetual swaps. ZKX aims to empower users through self-custody and genuine community governance, featuring gamified leaderboards and decentralized order books to elevate engagement in trading activities.

zkLend is an L2 money-market protocol built on StarkNet, combining zk-rollup scalability, superior transaction speed, and cost-savings with Ethereum’s security.

Efficient Frontier is a cryptocurrency algorithmic trading firm and liquidity provider that conducts over $1 billion in trades weekly. With more than 13 years of experience in high-frequency trading, the firm specializes in developing quantitative strategies and market-making services for prominent cryptocurrency exchanges and digital asset issuers. Since its entry into the digital asset sector, Efficient Frontier has established an advanced trading infrastructure tailored for electronic trading and execution in both spot and derivatives markets. The company has expanded its operations significantly, now functioning from two global hubs in Tel Aviv and San Francisco, and offers institutional-grade algorithmic trading, market-making, analytics, and liquidity management for token-backed digital assets, enabling investors to engage effectively within this sophisticated trading ecosystem.

dYdX is a decentralized exchange that provides traders with a secure and efficient platform for various financial activities. Established in 2017 by Antonio Juliano, a former engineer at Coinbase and Uber, dYdX operates on audited smart contracts on Ethereum, ensuring transparency and security without relying on a central authority. The platform offers a range of trading options, including perpetual, margin, and spot trading, along with borrowing and lending pools. Users can earn interest on deposits or take loans at nominal fees, enabling them to trade on margin with customized leverage. dYdX aims to create an open financial system, granting users access to vital financial tools while facilitating fully collateralized loans for short-selling.

DeversiFi gives traders the edge in fast-moving decentralized finance (Defi) markets by allowing them to trade at lightning speed and with deep aggregated liquidity, directly from their privately owned cryptocurrency wallet. Traders can take advantage of more trading opportunities while always preserving control of their assets when they need to move fast. DeversiFi’s order-books are off-chain, but settlement occurs on the Ethereum blockchain. This means that traders benefit from fast-moving order books and instant execution, without having to trust the exchange and whilst always maintaining control of their assets at all times.