The post Raydium is Solana’s AMM King. Can it Corner the Perps Market Next? appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com.

Decentralized crypto trading engine Raydium is making a bid for Solana’s multibillion dollar perpetuals market – and gaining traction fast. Raydium’s weeks-old foray into offering these hyper-popular derivatives contracts – they allow crypto traders to speculate on price swings without holding the actual token – is already racking up $100 million in daily trading volume. It’s now Solana’s third most popular venue for trading perps, behind Jupiter and Drift, this ecosystem’s trading heavyweights. The growth comes despite Raydium perps’ nascency; its builders haven’t poured marketing capital on promoting a trading tool that’s yet to officially launch. “Raydium brand still packs a punch,” said InfraRAY, a core contributor to the project. The push caps Raydium’s ascendence to the top of Solana’s decentralized crypto trading landscape. Its automated market maker (AMM) setup, which enables anyone to spin up a trading pool of any asset, has been a difference-maker in Solana’s memecoin era. And yet, most traders who use Raydium’s swap rails never visit its website. Instead, they access its services through trading aggregators that split orders across multiple venues. This means potentially less activity for Raydium and, crucially, a weaker relationship with direct users, the traders. In industry parlance, these traders are the “takers,” the ones who execute a trade. Makers, meanwhile, are the ones providing liquidity, perhaps by funneling assets into Raydium’s AMM. “Raydium has done well on the maker-side,” said InfraRAY, “But greater network effects exist when you own the relationship with the taker.” Behind the scenes, Raydium’s perps trading is being supported by Orderly Network, a trading project with roots outside the Solana ecosystem. Orderly allows perps traders working from multiple blockchains to trade assets on a unified order book. This provides smoother sailing for all orders. Orderly’s month-old Raydium rollout is proving to be a major boon. Perps…

---

Filed under: News - @ February 6, 2025 5:18 am