# Avantis

Avantis helps users trade cryptocurrencies and real-world assets with leverage by providing synthetic derivatives through a decentralized exchange on Base.

Avantis helps DeFi users trade crypto and real-world assets with up to 500x leverage by providing a decentralized derivatives exchange. With it, users can long or short synthetic assets including forex, commodities, indices, and cryptocurrencies from self-custody wallets. Avantis reduces barriers to global market access through innovative features like zero-fee perpetuals and loss rebates.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Finance
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2023-01-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/avantis

## Products

- [Avantis](https://thegrid.id/profiles/avantis): Avantis is a decentralized derivatives exchange that supports synthetic trading of cryptocurrencies, forex, commodities, and indices with up to 500x leverage. The protocol uses USDC liquidity pools and synthetic asset mechanisms to enable cross-asset leverage trading with features including zero-fee perpetuals and loss rebates. (Decentralised Exchange, Live, Main Product)
- [Avantis SDK](https://thegrid.id/profiles/avantis): Avantis SDK provides developers with tools and APIs to integrate real-time price feeds, execute trades, and manage positions on the Avantis platform for building DeFi applications and trading algorithms. (Developer Tooling, Live)

## Assets

- [Avantis (AVNT)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/avantis): AVNT is the utility and governance token of Avantis, a decentralized derivatives exchange on Base. It is used for voting on protocol upgrades, staking to earn protocol fees, and receiving trading fee discounts of up to 50%. Stakers backstop vault losses and earn rewards, functioning similarly to Layer 1 staking models that align security with economic incentives. (Utility)

## Links

- [Main](https://avantisfi.com)
- [Documentation](https://docs.avantisfi.com)
- [Blog](https://avantisfi.medium.com)
- [Terms of Service](https://www.avantisfi.com/docs/tos)
- [Privacy policy](https://www.avantisfi.com/docs/privacy)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/avantisfi)
- [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/avantis-labs)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/Avantis-Labs)
- [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/avantisfi)

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