Avantis

Avantis is the largest derivatives exchange on base blockchain and also the largest DEX for trading and market-making real-world assets (RWAs). Avantis provides the Universal Leverage Layer — one that allows anyone from anywhere, to trade markets that matter the most to them. From Bitcoin to Crude, Turkish Lira to US equity indices, with on-demand liquidity, capital efficiency, truly limitless leverage, fee optionality and most importantly, self-custody.

Synthetic leverage combined with a USDC stablecoin LP makes Avantis very capital efficient,  allowing for a wide selection of trade-able assets and high leverage (up to 500x). We are also unlocking fine-grained risk management for our LPs via time and risk parameters, allowing any LP to be a sophisticated market maker for leverage trades, and building composable protocols on top of our leverage engine.

Avantis introduces several unique mechanisms in DeFi, including Loss Rebates, which offer rebates on certain trades to balance the platform’s open interest skew, and Positive Slippage, providing better-than-market entry prices for trades that help achieve balance. The platform also offers access to a wide range of real-world assets (RWAs) like the Japanese Yen, Gold, and Bitcoin in one terminal, as well as zero-fee leverage, allowing traders to pay fees only from their profits — a feature popular among short-term traders. For liquidity providers, Avantis offers advanced risk management tools, allowing them to either passively deposit USDC or actively engage as market makers by selecting risk tranches and time-locks.