edgeX: The Ambition from Perp DEX to Financial Infrastructure

When I saw the roadmap for edgeX V2

I realize that this is not a Perp DEX.

This is an ambitious player aiming to become the on-chain financial infrastructure.

The logic of most Perp DEX is: create an exchange, issue a token, airdrop to boost volume, and then wait for luck.

The logic of edgeX is: starting from Perp trading, gradually building a complete on-chain financial system.

It does more than just trading.
edgeX V1 is a Perp DEX, this is the starting point.

But it also has:

Spot Trading: Spot trading covering over 70 chains

eStrategy: On-chain asset management, allowing users to participate in market-making strategies and liquidity mining.

edgeX V2: A high-performance L2 specifically designed for DeFi products.

This is a complete financial infrastructure, not a single-point product.

From trading platform to financial settlement chain
The positioning of edgeX V2 is very clear: to become the financial settlement layer of DeFi.

It allows anyone to create markets, deploy liquidity strategies, and issue financial products without permission. It sounds a bit like the App-Chain concept of Cosmos, but focuses on financial scenarios.

If Hyperliquid aims to perfect the Perp DEX, what edgeX wants to do is to be the foundation of the entire DeFi financial system.

This is quite an ambition.

Why does it have confidence?
Because of Amber Group.

Amber itself is a top-tier crypto market maker and asset management institution, managing billions of dollars. The edgeX team comes from Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and Barclays, with an average of over 7 years of exchange operation experience.

This is not a group of entrepreneurs who have just entered the cryptocurrency space; this is a group of professionals who truly understand finance, exchanges, and liquidity management.

So they can achieve a monthly income of 50 million USD without issuing coins; they can surpass most competitors in liquidity depth; and they can make the mobile experience as smooth as a CEX.

Long-termism vs Short-term narrative
I have watched too many Perp DEX:

Financing → Token Issuance → Airdrop Volume Manipulation → Then what?

The narrative is appealing → The data looks good → But the product cannot withstand the test of real traders.

The path of edgeX is different.

It first focuses on making the product well so that traders are willing to use it, generating real income, and then considers TGE and ecological expansion.

These are two completely different value systems: one is engaged in short-term traffic business, and the other is focused on long-term infrastructure.

My opinion
If edgeX is just a Perp DEX, it could be a decent trading platform.

But its ambition goes beyond this - it aims to become the underlying infrastructure of on-chain finance.

From Perp trading to Spot, from asset management to L2, from single products to financial settlement chains - this is a complete ecological plan.

While most projects are still competing in the Perp DEX space, edgeX is already thinking about how to make the entire DeFi financial system operate on its infrastructure.

This is the gap in the pattern.

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