Solana Perp DEX Wars Line-Up @solana has held the crown for being the #1# token launch and onchain spot trading chain for years. Aside @base and most recently Robinhood, there was rarely any serious competition. However, perps on Solana have always struggled to gain the traction of Hyperliquid, or even Lighter/Variational. Yet, the price is big, so the landscape is getting more and more crowded. Meet the Solana perp DEX ecosystem: - @PhoenixTrade (Ellipsis Labs' fully on-chain, crankless CLOB, ~0.5s settlement, fees a third of Hyperliquid's. The engine everyone else plugs into: Solflare Perps, Aeonian, TradePilot and Imperial all route into it, 65+ markets incl 24/7 stocks, $1B all-time.) - @pacifica_fi (Off-chain matching, on-chain settlement, built by ex FTX COO Constance Wang, self-funded, no token. The CEX-grade product: 65+ perps incl RWAs, FX and pre-IPO, vaults, API, mobile, $220B+ cumulative and still farming points.) - @JupiterExchange (Trader vs JLP pool, oracle pricing, no orderbook slippage, up to 250x leverage, only SOL, ETH, wBTC. Wins on distribution and the JLP counterparty, largest cumulative venue at ~$510B but no longer the volume leader.) - @bulktrade (Own leaderless network running on Solana validator subset, BULKBFT 20ms blocks, 5 to 20ms execution, portfolio margining, BIP-1 lets anyone deploy a perp market. Solana's answer to a dedicated HL-style execution layer without an external sequencer, $8M from Robot capital and 6MV, $25.9M pre-deposits, mainnet live now.) - @gmtrade_xyz (GMX v2 pool model ported to Solana, rebranded from GMXSOL. The RWA venue: commodities, stocks, forex, indices, 86 pairs, #1# Solana perp DEX by volume since March, points-driven tho, so read the volume accordingly.) - @Bulletxyz (Zeta's rebirth as a Solana network extension: ZK-verified rollup built with Sovereign SDK and using Celestia DA, sub-ms matching, 30k orders/s, multi-asset margin. The L2 route to CEX latency, still a gated private mainnet with a $100k deposit cap.) - @buildonparasol (Neon Labs' ZK-powered perps engine that extends the Agave client at node level for CLOB-grade execution on app-specific blockspace, with changes meant to flow upstream to Solana. Pre-launch, research only so far.) - @VelocityDEX (Drift after the $285M April exploit: rebranded 1 Jul, rebuilt as perps-only and USDT-settled with a $127.5M Tether credit line. Private beta round 2 since 9 Sep, the comeback story of the war.) - @jtx_trade (Jito Labs' self-custodial terminal, live since 14 Jul with spot only, perps and prediction markets on the roadmap. 80% of fees to JTO buyback and burn, so the perps launch matters for JTO more than for traders yet.) - @ranger_finance (The original Solana perps aggregator: smart order routing across Solana venues plus Hyperliquid, $86M MetaDAO ICO in January. Terminal, not an engine.) - @derpetual (Thiel Fellow Antoni Kiszka's "market for any asset, with leverage" and looking to introduce the concept of "abstract futures", a.k.a. derivatives of any numeric value.) - @margin_trade (Solayer's cross-margin perps venue, mainnet since June, crypto plus gold, silver, oil and an MT500 equity index, only 3x at launch. Runs on Solayer's own stack, so Solana-adjacent rather than Solana-native.) - @arqentrade (Long-tail perps: 20 isolated-margin markets since early Sep, each backed by a project-funded maker pool, paste a CA and trade it. Self-reported numbers only so far.) - @PercolatorTrade (Third-party productization of Toly's open-source sharded perps design: router plus independent slabs, reserve-commit against MEV, a perp market for any Solana token. Devnet and waitlist for now.) - @ImperialPerps (Not a venue, a perps router: scores Phoenix and Jupiter on all-in cost and routes one order, GMTrade and Lighter next, runs its own liquidations. The aggregator play for the current cycle.) Who are you placing your bets on?

serious question, at this point why not simply cancel the ipo’s & nationalize the labs? theoretically nationalization would solve some of the incentive problems immediately. the us treasury becomes the only shareholder. the govt can coordinate compute, model releases, security standards, & pacing without asking rival firms to collude. you could theoretically put openai, anthropic, & eventually other designated frontier labs under something analogous to a federally owned strategic technology corporation, with the president appointing the board rather than literally having sam & dario file weekly tps reports to the oval office.

Serious wipeout across the entire memestocks and memecoin/utility coin pairing meta. It was coming. So much trash popping up daily which made the entire meta highly PvP. Glad I exited most degen and 'new flavor of the day' positions as soon as this domain got so frothy. It only gets worse from here. Guess where all my profits went? Something that is immune to all of this. $USELESS PS: I am still holding $MARSCOIN and am immensely bullish on it. I also view it more as a memecoin despite its pairing to $SPCX.

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Serious question for market speculators and gamblers (same thing) reading this X post What SINGLE personal character trait of yours do you need to allow to fully flower in your goal to become a successful full time trader, if that is your goal? HINT: Ask your spouse, adult children, close friends to name this character trait. They know better than you.