# Saros > Solana's liquidity layer Saros is a decentralized trading protocol on Solana. It offers token swaps, concentrated liquidity pools, yield farming, staking, and perpetual futures for traders and liquidity providers. Saros is a decentralized trading protocol built on Solana that provides a liquidity layer for spot and derivatives markets. It combines an automated market maker, a dynamic liquidity market maker, and a perpetual futures venue, giving users tools to swap tokens, provide liquidity, farm yield, stake, and trade with leverage from a single ecosystem. The protocol targets traders, liquidity providers, and projects seeking to bootstrap on-chain liquidity. At its core, Saros addresses the capital inefficiency of traditional automated market makers by deploying liquidity into discrete price bins that adjust fees dynamically with volatility, allowing trades within a bin to execute without slippage. This liquidity book design is composable, letting other applications route through or build on top of it. The protocol also integrates external order-book infrastructure to support its perpetual futures market, keeping settlement non-custodial while offering leverage and a wide range of trading pairs. Saros groups its offerings around a spot exchange, a yield and staking suite, and a perpetual futures market, alongside identity and NFT tooling that connects these products under a single wallet login. Its native token supports staking, fee discounts, and a points-based loyalty program tied to platform participation. The protocol is used by retail traders, liquidity providers, and Solana-based projects seeking distribution and liquidity support. - Type: Protocol - Sector: DeFi - Status: Active - Founded: 2021-09-01 - Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/Saros ## Products - [Saros Finance Platform](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Saros): Saros Finance Platform is a decentralized exchange and liquidity protocol on Solana that lets users trade tokens and provide liquidity without intermediaries. It combines a standard automated market maker with a dynamic liquidity market maker that allows liquidity providers to concentrate capital within custom price ranges and adjust fees dynamically. Users can swap tokens, farm yield on deposited liquidity, and stake assets for rewards, all through smart-contract pools that keep custody with the user. Developers can integrate with the underlying pools through an open software development kit. (Decentralised Exchange, Live, Main Product) - [Saros Perpetuals DEX](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Saros): Saros Perpetuals DEX is a decentralized derivatives exchange that lets users trade perpetual futures directly from a self-custody wallet. It connects to a shared omnichain orderbook and liquidity layer, giving traders access to pooled depth without the platform holding user funds. Traders open leveraged long or short positions on major crypto assets with orders settled on-chain while signing in once to enable subsequent gasless trading. (Decentralized Derivative Exchange, Live) ## Assets - [Saros (SAROS)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/Saros): SAROS is the utility token of Saros Finance, a decentralized finance platform on Solana. It is used for governance voting, unlocking premium features, and earning incentive rewards across the ecosystem's products, including SarosSwap, SarosFarm, and SarosStake. Token holders help direct protocol development through on-chain governance participation. (Utility) ## Links - [Main](https://www.saros.xyz) - [Blog](https://blog.saros.xyz) - [Documentation](https://docs.saros.xyz) - [Terms of Service](https://docs.saros.xyz/legal/terms-of-service) - [Privacy policy](https://docs.saros.xyz/legal/privacy-policy) - [Media Kit/branding](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1AiW7GYkk_ot4lNG1_cBw9iR1z5Dqa7Kz) - [Telegram](https://t.me/saros_finance) - [Twitter / X](https://x.com/saros_xyz) - [Twitter / X](https://x.com/SarosFDN) - [Twitter / X](https://x.com/i/communities/1919946232866472247) - [GitHub](https://github.com/saros-xyz) - [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/3sTjahyjWz) - [Twitter / X](https://x.com/SarosPerps) - [Twitter / X](https://x.com/SarosFDN) ## Legal This data is provided under two licensing models. Model 1 - open data. 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