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  • About Defx
  • Defx Platform Overview
    • Self-Custodial
    • Central-Limit Order Book (CLOB)
    • APIs & Webhooks
  • Defx Product Docs
    • Orders
    • Margin
    • Liquidation
    • Insurance Fund
    • Auto-Deleveraging
    • Just-in-Time (JIT) Funding
    • Self Trade Prevention
    • Price Oracle
    • Fees
    • Multi-Asset Mode
      • Collateralization & Liquidation Ratios
      • Liquidation in Multi-Asset Mode
    • Glossary
  • Defx Smart Contracts
  • Contract Specifications
  • Defx Developer Hub
    • REST APIs Documentation
      • REST API Postman Collection
    • WebSocket Documentation
      • User Data Streams (Closed Socket)
      • MarketFeed Streams (Open Socket)
  • Referrals
  • Points
  • Using our Testnet
  • Audits
  • Risks
  • Restricted Territories
  • Terms & Conditions
  • Features
    • Trade Smarter: How Defx's Multi-Asset Collateral System Transforms Crypto Trading
    • sUSDe support
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About Defx

Defx.com is a Hybrid Unified Central Limit Order book (CLOB) based decentralised trading venue offering a perpetuals market. Built on a custom L1, with native funding and settlement across major public blockchains including Arbitrum, Blast, Base and Solana, Defx provide a secure, efficient, and advanced trading experience for users. Defx offers extremely low-latency trading and effective liquidity management through GUI or API, enabling you to extend your existing trading strategies to execute directly on Defx.

The Defx Orderbook currently operates as an off-chain sequencer, capable of matching inbound orders with a p95 execution speed of 0.591ms. Every order placement or updates, order matches, and liquidation are transparently available onchain. Currently the Defx DEX provides a CLOB based Isolated Margin perpetuals trading venue with native funding and settlements on Arbitrum. Upcoming upgrades will include native funding and settlement from other L1 and L2 networks, spot trading, cross margin trading, and bringing the off-chain sequencer onchain. Additionally, Defx L1 will extend to provide a unified trading ecosystem that lets any DEX to use the robust matching engine and liquidity layer to build perpetual or spot markets.

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