Drift
Built for Traders. Engineered for Execution.
Drift is an open-source perpetual futures exchange built on the Solana blockchain, offering trading across 40+ markets with up to 101x leverage. It provides a full DeFi suite including spot trading, yield earning on deposits, and institutional credit solutions. The platform emphasizes high-performance infrastructure with top-of-block execution, gasless trading, and a real-time risk engine.
Users connect to the Drift protocol on Solana to trade perpetual futures and spot markets using any token as collateral, with positions monitored by a real-time risk engine and liquidation system.
Crypto traders and DeFi investors ranging from retail to institutional level
Background.
- Status
- launched
- Business model
- unknown
- Company
- Drift Protocol
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