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DeriW Testnet Launch Sets New Standards in Decentralized Derivatives Trading
HONG KONG, March 13, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — DeriW, the world’s first zero-gas-fee decentralized perpetual exchange operated by CoinW, has officially launched its public testnet, marking a pivotal step toward a new era of DeFi derivatives trading. This testnet isn’t a generic trial run – it’s a full-featured preview of DeriW’s high-performance, user-centric platform, designed to demonstrate concrete improvements in usability, speed, and security. Early users and developers can now experience lightning-fast trades, up to 100x leverage, and robust security measures in a realistic environment as DeriW prepares to challenge industry incumbents.
A Closer Look at the Testnet: Usability, Performance & Security
DeriW’s testnet is engineered to feel like a production-ready exchange. Usability is key: traders can quickly connect their self-custody wallets and begin trading cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum with up to 100x leverage and a low 0.02% transaction fee. The platform offers multiple order types (market, limit, take-profit, stop-loss) and a diverse selection of tokens, from major assets to emerging projects. With its zero gas fee model, DeriW eliminates blockchain transaction costs, enabling rapid order placement and frictionless trading—comparable to centralized exchanges.
On the performance front, the DeriW testnet showcases the platform’s cutting-edge infrastructure. Built on the Arbitrum Orbit Layer 3 network (DeriW Chain), it leverages optimistic rollup technology and a custom WASM/Geth-based architecture. In practical terms, this translates to extremely high throughput and low latency. With a capacity of up to 80,000 transactions per second, testnet traders can execute orders smoothly with minimal latency, ensuring the platform stays responsive even during intense trading activity.
Security measures are woven deeply into the testnet’s design, reflecting DeriW’s priority on protecting users. By building on Arbitrum’s L3, DeriW inherits Ethereum’s battle-tested security properties and decentralization while adding its own enhancements. All trades and collateral remain on-chain under users’ self-custody, eliminating the custodial risks found in centralized exchanges. To further harden the platform, DeriW launched a comprehensive bug bounty program in tandem with the testnet. Security researchers and users are incentivized with bounties ranging from 100 to 100,000 $DER tokens for identifying vulnerabilities. Additionally, the testnet operates with a closed-fund liquidity mechanism and an automatic risk recalibration system that ensure stability even under extreme market conditions. These concrete measures give testnet participants confidence that the platform’s performance comes without compromising safety.
How DeriW Stacks Up
In an increasingly competitive DeFi derivatives arena, DeriW’s testnet is already demonstrating unique advantages over other leading platforms’ test networks:
- Gas Fees & Trading Costs: DeriW distinguishes itself with its zero gas fee model. Every trade on DeriW’s testnet is executed without on-chain transaction fees, which is a stark contrast to many competitors. DeriW’s approach of truly on-chain, gas-free trading gives it an edge in user experience – traders get the convenience of a CEX-like feel without sacrificing on-chain transparency.
- Performance Throughput: When it comes to raw speed, DeriW sets a high bar, delivering up to ~80,000 TPS—exceptional among decentralized exchanges. In comparison, some newer standalone-chain DEXs offer around 10,000 TPS—better than legacy Ethereum-based platforms but only an eighth of DeriW’s capability. This firmly places DeriW among elite, next-generation exchanges that support high-frequency trading at scale. Notably, DeriW achieves this impressive throughput while remaining fully EVM-compatible and secured by Ethereum, powered by the Arbitrum Orbit framework—a key differentiator validated by real user conditions on its testnet.
- Leverage and Trading Features: High leverage is a hallmark of derivative exchanges, and DeriW doesn’t disappoint. It offers up to 100x leverage on major trading pairs, which is higher than most decentralized competitors. By providing 100x, DeriW is catering to a segment of traders who seek higher risk-reward profiles, similar to offerings on some centralized futures exchanges. Importantly, DeriW couples this with advanced order types (stop-loss, take-profit, etc.) on the testnet, ensuring traders have tools to manage the risk that comes with high leverage. This combination of flexibility and control is critical – and DeriW is showing that even in a testnet environment, users can practice sophisticated trading strategies that rival those on established platforms.
- Liquidity Model & Price Execution: Perhaps the most innovative aspect differentiating DeriW is its Pendulum AMM liquidity pool. Unlike traditional order books or static AMMs with oracles, DeriW’s pool dynamically adjusts liquidity based on traders’ positions. This “pendulum” approach optimizes asset utilization in real-time, supporting volumes beyond initial capital, reducing slippage, and providing deeper liquidity. While orderbook-based DEXs rely on market makers—vulnerable to slippage during volatility—DeriW’s closed-fund model and automatic risk recalibration ensure solvency and stability, combining order-book depth with AMM efficiency.
- Security and Decentralization: All leading DeFi derivatives platforms prioritize security but use different approaches. Some rely on decentralized validators, others utilize their own consensus mechanisms with federated validators, and another inherits security from Arbitrum Layer 2. DeriW leverages Ethereum’s robust security via Arbitrum’s rollup, enhanced by its unique UBPK (Unstolen Browser Private Key) mechanism that ensures private keys remain securely stored within user browsers.
Benchmarks and Performance Metrics in Context
Thanks to Arbitrum Orbit’s efficient consensus and block production, DeriW’s block time is expected to be on the order of a second or less, which is similar to other DEXs 0.2s block time advantage. Achieving near-instant finality is crucial for traders who might otherwise worry about timing and MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) issues. Although detailed latency stats are still being gathered, the user experience goal is clear: make on-chain trading on DeriW feel as immediate as trading on a centralized platform.
Another important metric is uptime and reliability during the test. The DeriW team is closely monitoring system uptime and recovery from any crashes or network issues. A robust exchange must handle network spikes, degraded conditions, or attacks without downtime. By publishing these performance metrics and comparing them with industry standards, DeriW intends to demonstrate transparently where it stands. So far, the absence of gas fees and high throughput capacity on testnet have enabled continuous trading even when simulating thousands of concurrent users – something that might clog less scalable testnets. The platform is also tracking how its automatic risk controls (like the pendulum mechanism) perform quantitatively: e.g., maintaining targeted liquidity levels, keeping slippage near zero, and ensuring the funding rates and PnL (profit and loss) for liquidity providers stay within expected bounds. These technical benchmarks, once validated on testnet, will serve as proof points that DeriW can handle real-world volumes and stress when it goes live.
Expected Outcomes & Next Steps Before Mainnet Launch
The testnet phase is not just a demo for DeriW – it’s a critical period for learning and refining. The main goals include collecting user feedback on the trading interface and features, uncovering any bugs or security vulnerabilities, and optimizing the platform’s performance under realistic conditions.
DeriW is actively analyzing user interactions with its new liquidity model (including preferred leverage levels, popular trading pairs, and responses to zero fees) to refine fee structures and risk management. Incentive initiatives, such as the Supernova event, serve both as promotional tools and practical stress tests to ensure the platform performs reliably under high trading volume.
Feedback collected through community channels will directly guide improvements, prioritizing user-identified issues in ongoing development sprints. By Q2 2025, DeriW plans to transition from testnet to mainnet alongside the $DER Token Generation Event (TGE), officially launching its economic and governance models. Prior to mainnet launch, the team will thoroughly fine-tune smart contracts, bolster infrastructure, and enhance the user interface based on insights gained from testnet users.
The roadmap beyond mainnet is ambitious: by Q3 2025, DeriW plans to introduce a professional-grade API for algorithmic traders and support custom trading pairs. By Q4 2025, the goal is to cultivate a global trading community and further improve the user experience through community-driven enhancements—all built upon the foundation established during the testnet.
Engaging the Community and Conclusion
DeriW actively keeps the community engaged and informed with regular testnet updates, transparent performance metrics, and ongoing social media interaction. Early testnet adopters gain not only rewards but also valuable firsthand experience, positioning them advantageously for the mainnet launch. Backed by the seasoned CoinW exchange group, the meticulous approach to this testnet demonstrates readiness for prime time.
DeriW’s testnet isn’t just another generic launch—it’s a bold demonstration of innovation, combining proven DeFi strengths with fresh enhancements. By benchmarking against industry leaders, DeriW signals its ambition to lead in decentralized trading. The coming months will be critical, but current progress suggests DeriW is well-positioned to convert testnet success into a transformative mainnet launch. Stay tuned as DeriW moves from testnet to mainnet, carrying forward the insights and confidence gained during this trial by fire.
About DeriW
DeriW is the first zero-gas-fee decentralized perpetual contract exchange, blending Ethereum’s security with Layer 3 scalability to deliver CEX-like efficiency in a decentralized framework. Operated by CoinW’s seasoned fintech team, it redefines trading with 80,000 TPS throughput, ensuring speed, transparency, and trustless execution.
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MEKKA integrates behavioural finance and market intelligence to transform investment decision-making
DUBAI, UAE, March 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Fayafi Investment Holding, the first UAE firm made available through a bankable certificate issued under the SIX Swiss Exchange framework and featured on Bloomberg, has unveiled the proprietary algorithm MEKKA underpinning its investment decision-making.
MEKKA, an acronym for Market Emotional Knowledge & Kinetic Analysis, was created by Fayafi Investment Holding’s Executive President Dr Patrick Pilati in 2017 in collaboration with Swiss mathematicians.
The advanced financial platform recognizes that markets are driven by human emotions, biases, and psychological patterns. MEKKA integrates sentiment analysis, AI-driven market forecasting, and real-time behavioural insights to optimize investment strategies.
MEKKA relies on Market Emotional Knowledge (MEK) to understand and quantify investor sentiment, cognitive biases, and emotional market drivers. It also uses Kinetic Analysis (KA) to study market momentum driven by behavioural patterns, liquidity flows and investor reactions. MEKKA helps institutional investors like Fayafi anticipate market shifts before they occur.
“While traditional financial models focus purely on quantitative and fundamental analysis, MEKKA combines psychology, AI, and trading analytics to deliver a more complete understanding of market behaviour. By integrating market sentiment analysis, AI-driven behavioural finance models, and predictive trading intelligence, MEKKA enables a more complete understanding of market sentiment. It allows investors to identify opportunities before they gain mainstream attention,” said Dr. Patrick Pilati, Executive President of Fayafi Investment Holding.
MEKKA continuously scans and quantifies investor sentiment using AI-powered real-time monitoring of news and social media analysis to detect sentiment and market shifts. It tracks proprietary indicators measuring emotional states in equity, commodity, and bond markets. It also offers decision-makers investor sentiment heatmaps, visually depicting emotional trends across global financial markets. These insights enable investors to detect early signs of market movements.
“MEKKA represents a transformational shift in financial markets, proving that investor psychology is as crucial as technical and fundamental analysis. MEKKA empowers investors to understand hidden psychological market drivers, capitalise on market inefficiencies and mitigate risk through behavioural-based trading strategies. With MEKKA, investment decisions are no longer based solely on numbers but are also guided by deep insights into human psychology and market emotion,” he added.
MEKKA offers deep insights into niche strategic investments such as isotope copper — of which Fayafi holds USD 3.6 billion in reserves within its Dubai vaults at Ferrari Logistics DMCC. Fayafi Investment SPV has succeeded in commoditizing and securitizing isotope copper, making available USD 1.44B in Euroclear security certificates backed by the metal on the SIX Swiss Exchange in February 2025.
In 2025, Fayafi Investment Holding Limited integrated MEKKA into its investment framework, enhancing its ability to navigate market trends, manage risks and capitalize on behavioural-driven opportunities. MEKKA has enabled Fayafi to optimise its investment decisions by aligning commodity investments with sentiment-based market trends, and enhance liquidity management by timing transactions based on emotional flow predictions.
Backed by Fayafi Investment Holding, MEKKA is evolving rapidly. Upcoming milestones include the launch of automated financial advisors powered by MEKKA’s reasoning engine, integration with blockchain and DeFi, and expanding MEKKA’s insights beyond commodities into other sectors including real estate, venture capital and private equity markets. A key goal, according to Dr Pilati, is to begin offering MEKKA’s capabilities to investment banks and sovereign wealth funds as a licensed platform.
“MEKKA has enabled Fayafi to achieve stronger market positioning, mitigate risks, and maximize returns by aligning investments with psychological market trends. With its rapid improvements and new features, MEKKA is set to reshape the future of behavioural finance-driven investing while keeping Fayafi Investment Holding Limited at the forefront of global financial market intelligence,” Dr Pilati concluded.
Contact Details:
FAYAFI Investment Holding
[email protected]
DIFC, Dubai, UAE
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Term Structure Institutional (TSI): The Future of Institutional Fixed-Rate Digital Asset Lending and Borrowing
HONG KONG, March 17, 2025 /PRNewswire/ —
As institutional adoption of digital assets accelerates, the demand for reliable, predictable, and efficient lending and borrowing solutions has never been greater. Term Structure Institutional (TSI) is at the forefront of this transformation, offering a cutting-edge fixed-rate borrowing and lending platform designed to meet the needs of institutional investors.
With a robust foundation built on Fireblocks’ industry-leading Multi-Party Computation (MPC) technology and as an advanced Electronic Communication Network (ECN), TSI eliminates the risks of volatile lending and borrowing markets, providing institutions with seamless access to fixed-income opportunities in the digital asset space.
Despite the rapid growth of digital asset markets, institutional participants continue to face significant barriers:
- Unpredictable Borrowing Costs – Open-term loans expose institutions to fluctuating interest rates, making financial planning challenging.
- Security Concerns – The on-chain DeFi ecosystem is prone to hacks and vulnerabilities, deterring institutional involvement.
- Limited Trading Flexibility – Traditional custodian solutions often restrict institutions from executing sophisticated borrowing and lending strategies.
- Inefficiencies in OTC Markets – A lack of transparency and standardized pricing leads to suboptimal execution.
TSI directly addresses these pain points, delivering a reliable and efficient fixed-income platform purpose-built for institutional engagement.
Enhanced Security with Fireblocks MPC Technology
TSI integrates Fireblocks’ cutting-edge MPC technology, ensuring that institutional assets remain protected at all times. By eliminating single points of failure, TSI significantly enhances risk management and compliance.
Predictable, Fixed-Rate & Fixed-Term Borrowing & Lending
TSI enables institutions to lock in stable interest rates and predefined loan durations, providing much-needed certainty for long-term financial strategies.
Efficient Market Access
TSI’s ECN-powered platform revolutionizes price discovery and liquidity aggregation, bringing the standardization and efficiency of traditional finance into the digital asset ecosystem.
Institutional-Grade Over-Collateralized Lending
To mitigate default risks, TSI requires borrowers to provide collateral exceeding the loan value, ensuring robust lender protection and market stability.
Streamlined Collateral Liquidation
TSI’s structured liquidation process ensures collateral is efficiently managed, safeguarding institutional participants from unnecessary losses.
TSI is more than just a platform—it’s a game-changer for institutional digital asset lending and borrowing. By combining enhanced security and fixed-rate certainty, TSI is setting a new standard for institutional finance in the digital asset space.
Are you ready to experience the next evolution of institutional digital asset lending? Join TSI today and unlock the power of predictable, reliable, and institutional-grade financing. Follow us on X to stay updated!
Term Structure Labs Limited is a company registered in BVI, primarily focused on DeFi research with an emphasis on fixed-rate solutions. Term Structure Institutional (TSI) is one of its products, designed specifically to cater to institutional users, offering tailored solutions within the broader Term Structure ecosystem.
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PANAMA CITY, March 15, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — BingX, a global leading cryptocurrency exchange, is excited to announce its participation as a Gold Sponsor at the 5th edition of Next Block Expo (NBX), scheduled for March 19-20, 2025, at Multikino Złote Tarasy in Warsaw, Poland. As one of Europe’s premier Web3 events, NBX 2025 is expected to attract over 2,000 attendees, making it a key platform for blockchain innovation and collaboration.
NBX serves as a dynamic hub for industry leaders, startups, investors, and developers, fostering knowledge-sharing and networking opportunities to drive the future of blockchain. As a firm advocate for Web3 advancements, BingX will showcase its ongoing commitment to innovation through an interactive booth, featuring engaging activities, expert insights, and exclusive giveaways. Attendees will gain firsthand knowledge of how BingX supports high-potential blockchain projects with financial backing, technical expertise, and strategic growth consultations.
In addition to its sponsorship, Vivien Lin, Chief Product Officer of BingX, will be a key speaker at NBX 2025, contributing to discussions on strategic trading approaches, risk management, and the evolving landscape of blockchain investments. She will also deliver a keynote speech exploring BingX’s vision for blockchain innovation and how the company translates emerging technologies into real-world applications.
“At BingX, we believe that true innovation comes from bold ideas and strategic execution,” said Lin. “Sponsoring NBX 2025 is more than just a presence for us — it’s a commitment to fostering a thriving blockchain ecosystem. We are here to connect with visionaries, provide the resources they need, and help shape the future of decentralized technology. By empowering builders and innovators, we’re not just supporting projects — we are accelerating the evolution of Web3 itself.”
BingX’s participation at NBX 2025 underscores its long-term vision of driving blockchain innovation and supporting the next generation of industry leaders. As BingX continues to expand its global footprint, initiatives like this sponsorship reinforce its role as a catalyst for growth in crypto space. By engaging with emerging projects, thought leaders, and investors, BingX remains at the forefront of Web3 advancements, bridging the gap between groundbreaking ideas and real-world impact.
About BingX
Founded in 2018, BingX is a leading crypto exchange, serving over 20 million users worldwide. BingX offers diversified products and services, including spot, derivatives, copy trading, and asset management – all designed for the evolving needs of users, from beginners to professionals. BingX is committed to providing a trustworthy platform that empowers users with innovative tools and features to elevate their trading proficiency. In 2024, BingX proudly became the official crypto exchange partner of Chelsea Football Club, marking an exciting debut in the world of sports.
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