Vertex Protocol
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Vertex Protocol is a decentralized exchange (DEX) on Arbitrum offering spot and perpetual trading, integrated money markets and a universal cross-margin system. Powered by a hybrid order book and automated market maker design, it targets low-latency trading and efficient liquidity utilization, combining self-custody with portfolio margining for professional and novice traders. It has processed over $45 billion in total trading volume with about $45 million in TVL, and runs a 6+ year ongoing incentive program including 3 million ARB tokens from the Arbitrum DAO.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Seed round
Vertex Protocol closed an $8.5 million seed round ahead of its planned Summer 2022 launch, led by Hack VC and Dexterity Capital, with Jane Street, Hudson River Trading, GSR, Huobi, Collab+Currency, JST Capital, Big Brain and Lunatic Capital participating. It had developed the first facility for stablecoin perpetual swaps on Terra.
- Testnet and token launch
The protocol launched its testnet in November 2022, completed a strategic financing round in June 2023 (sole investor Wintermute), and launched the VRTX token in November 2023.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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