- Solayer has launched its first multi-asset perpetual trading platform for public testing on the Solana testnet following last week’s private testing.
- The expert-developed platform offers a unified margin, live execution, and exposure to both traditional and crypto trading in a single on-chain ecosystem.
- The release follows the recent launch of the Solayer Pay physical card and marks the utility of the network’s $35 million ecosystem fund.
Solayer, a high-performance Solana Virtual Machine (SVM)-compatible Layer 1 blockchain, has launched public testing for its flagship multi-asset perpetual trading platform, Margin Trade.
Solayer opens Margin Trade to public testing
Built by a team at Solayer Labs, and former traders with backgrounds at Citadel and Kraken, Margin Trade offers unified margin with on-chain trading of both cryptocurrencies and traditional market instruments on a single platform. Its traditional finance offerings include commodities such as gold, silver, and oil, as well as the MT500, a synthetic index that tracks United States equities.
The public launch of the Margin Trade on Solana testnet follows last week’s private beta, which involved early users, partners, and traders from Solayer’s waitlist. During the same period, Solayer finalized protocol integrations, marketing collaborations, and strategic partnerships in preparation for today’s release.
Regarding this, Joshua Sum, the Chief Product Officer at Solayer Labs, stated:
“Most perpetual futures trading infrastructure today remains siloed across separate markets and fragmented collateral account structures. Margin Trade is designed to bring capital efficiency, real-time execution, and multi-asset exposure in a unified environment that feels closer to the vision of truly global financial markets than traditional trading platforms.”
Being native to Solayer’s InfiniSVM, Margin Trade leverages the chain’s hardware-accelerated infrastructure for efficient, scalable, and low-latency functioning. The chain delivers over 330,000 transactions per second (TPS), with roughly 400 milliseconds of finality for its 304,000 users. All these highly valuable features are indispensable for building high-throughput, performance-critical decentralized applications on the network.
Even more, using Solana’s native token (SOL) for gas fees makes transactions exceptionally affordable, as Solana’s fees are among the lowest in the entire crypto ecosystem.
Solayer’s entrance into the financial arena
Margin Trade’s debut further enforces Solayer’s product diversification initiative – from building infrastructure to live financial markets. Among its financial products is Solayer Pay, the stablecoin payments platform that recently launched a physical card to support merchant-customer transactions. Margin Trade’s launch also shows the utility of the $35 million ecosystem fund backing high-throughput on-chain applications.
In the future, Margin Trade plans on expanding its offerings to include single-stock equities and volatility products. Solayer is also planning trading competitions, ranking systems, and referral-based incentive programs as part of its broader ecosystem development.
