# edgeX > Liquidity for all edgeX is a decentralized perpetual futures exchange for self-custodial trading of crypto, tokenized stocks, and forex, using an off-chain order book with onchain settlement. It offers mobile and desktop access for retail and institutional traders. edgeX is a decentralized perpetual futures exchange that pairs centralized-exchange style order matching with self-custodial settlement on Ethereum. It lets traders access perpetual and spot markets spanning crypto, tokenized equities, and commodities through a single mobile and desktop interface. The platform serves both retail and institutional traders seeking fast execution while retaining control of their own assets. Orders are matched off-chain through a central limit order book and settled onchain, so users keep custody of funds through their own private keys rather than a platform-held account. This design addresses the gap between the speed of centralized trading venues and the transparency of decentralized settlement. edgeX runs on its own application-specific rollup that settles through Ethereum, and it is positioning that infrastructure as a liquidity layer meant to support both human traders and automated trading agents. The offering spans perpetual contracts across multiple asset classes, spot markets, and vault-based yield strategies, with backing from Circle Ventures and native stablecoin support. Published documentation, a whitepaper, and audit reports describe the platform's architecture and security practices. edgeX is used by active individual traders and institutions trading across its supported markets. - Type: Project - Sector: DeFi - Status: Active - Founded: 2023-10-01 - Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/edgex ## Products - [edgeX Exchange](https://thegrid.id/profiles/edgex): edgeX Exchange is a decentralized derivatives and spot trading platform for perpetual futures on crypto, commodities, and tokenized stocks. It matches orders off-chain through a high-throughput central limit order book and settles trades on-chain through a rollup architecture that inherits Ethereum's security while preserving self-custody of user funds. The platform consolidates perpetuals, spot markets, vaults, and portfolio management in a single application accessible via web and mobile. Cross-collateral margin, multiple order types, and up to 100x leverage are supported for retail and institutional traders. The exchange previously settled through a zero-knowledge rollup and has since transitioned to a modular rollup design for its execution and settlement layers. (Decentralised Exchange, Live, Main Product) - [Edge Stack](https://thegrid.id/profiles/edgex): Edge Stack is an application-specific execution layer designed to power high-performance onchain derivatives trading as a future sovereign settlement network. It uses a modular multi-virtual-machine design that separates perpetual futures matching logic from standard decentralized finance execution, combined with deterministic parallel transaction processing for higher throughput and lower latency. The architecture settles state commitments to Ethereum for security while remaining structured to evolve into an independent settlement layer. It is intended to support additional financial primitives, such as options or prediction markets, as modular extensions without requiring network-wide upgrades. (L2, In Development) ## Assets - [edgeX (EDGE)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/edgex): EDGE is the governance token of edgeX. Holders vote on edgeX Improvement Proposals, stake through delegated validators to secure the orderbook and earn protocol rewards, and receive ecosystem incentives such as developer grants. Total supply is fixed at one billion tokens with a vesting schedule across contributor and reserve allocations, and a portion of protocol revenue funds an ongoing buyback-and-burn programme. 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