# Darklake

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Darklake was a privacy-focused decentralized exchange project on Solana. It built zero-knowledge proof technology that kept trade details hidden until execution to protect traders from front-running and sandwich attacks.

Darklake was a privacy-focused decentralized exchange project on Solana. It developed a zero-knowledge automated market maker that kept trade size, direction, and slippage private until execution. The goal was to remove the front-running and sandwich attacks that come with fully visible order flow.

Each trade was checked against a minimum output inside a zero-knowledge proof, so the protocol could confirm a fair fill without revealing the order. Its proof system kept private trade inputs separate from public market data, so a proof stayed valid as prices moved.

Its main product was the Darklake zkAMM, with blind slippage, single-sided pools, and atomic pools, alongside a perpetuals exchange that never launched. It was used by Solana traders looking for private execution. SOL Strategies acquired the Darklake assets, and its app and documentation went offline.

- Type: Company
- Sector: Privacy & Confidentiality
- Status: Acquired
- Founded: 2024-10-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/darklake

## Products

- [Darklake zkAMM](https://thegrid.id/profiles/darklake): Darklake zkAMM was a decentralized exchange on Solana that used zero-knowledge proofs to keep trade size, direction, and slippage private until execution. Each trade was checked against a minimum output without revealing its details, which reduced front-running and sandwich attacks. It offered blind slippage, single-sided pools, and atomic pools, and its app went offline after SOL Strategies acquired the Darklake assets. (Decentralised Exchange, Discontinued, Main Product)
- [Darklake Perp DEX](https://thegrid.id/profiles/darklake): Darklake Perp DEX was a perpetual futures exchange that Darklake announced but never launched, designed to use zero-knowledge proofs to keep derivatives trades private while settling on Solana. Its only public presence was a page in the Darklake documentation. Work on it ended when SOL Strategies acquired the Darklake assets. (Derivatives, Discontinued)

## Links

- [Main](https://darklake.fi)
- [Documentation](https://docs.darklake.fi)
- [Blog](https://blog.darklake.fi)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/darklakefi)
- [Telegram](https://t.me/darklakeficonvo)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/darklakefi)

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- [SOL Strategies](https://thegrid.id/profiles/sol_strategies): Parent organization

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