# Ekubo

> One exchange. Shared liquidity. Infinite products.

Ekubo is a decentralized exchange protocol built around a single shared Core contract used across multiple EVM chains. It serves traders, liquidity providers, and builder teams who launch their own exchange brands on that shared liquidity.

Ekubo is a decentralized trading protocol, classified as a decentralized exchange, that consolidates trading and liquidity into a single shared smart contract. It supports token swaps and liquidity provision across Starknet and multiple EVM chains through one core system rather than separate deployments per pool or per version. Independent teams can launch their own branded exchanges on top of this shared infrastructure while settling into the same underlying contract.

The protocol addresses liquidity fragmentation by routing all trades and positions through one ownerless core contract that charges no protocol-level fee. It uses flash accounting to defer token transfers until a sequence of operations completes, so trading across many pools or opening several positions requires only the net token movement rather than a transfer per step. A permissionless extension system lets developers add features such as oracles or time-weighted order execution without splitting liquidity into separate pools or protocols.

Multiple licensee teams run their own frontends and brands while all resulting orders and liquidity settle into the same Core contract, so gains in liquidity depth and gas efficiency compound across the network rather than fragmenting across competing venues. This shared model also reduces duplicate integration work, since indexers, analytics providers, and aggregators can build against one core system to cover every licensee at once.

- Type: Protocol
- Sector: DeFi
- Status: Active
- Founded: 2023-01-01
- Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/ekubo_org

## Products

- [Ekubo V3](https://thegrid.id/profiles/ekubo_org): Ekubo V3 is a decentralized exchange protocol that consolidates all liquidity pools for a deployment within a single smart contract to reduce gas costs across multi-hop trades. Users swap tokens, provide concentrated liquidity, place limit and time-weighted orders, and vote to direct fee-sharing pool incentives by locking the protocol's governance token, with a shared extension system letting developers add custom pool logic such as oracles and automated strategies. The interface supports staking-based voting, where locked stake sets pool swap fees and reward allocation. Protocol fees are collected at the periphery, keeping the core contracts permissionless and ownerless, and governance token holders vote on protocol-level proposals through an onchain governor contract. (Decentralised Exchange, Live, Main Product)
- [Ekubo Wallet](https://thegrid.id/profiles/ekubo_org): Ekubo Wallet is a native desktop application that lets an AI agent execute onchain actions such as claiming fees, swapping, bridging, rebalancing, and staking without holding the user's private keys. It works by having an agent draft a transaction plan that the wallet simulates and presents for human review before signing, enforcing configurable signing policies and automation rules. Traders and liquidity providers use it to authorize unattended, policy-bound agent workflows across supported onchain protocols while retaining approval control over every transaction. (Wallet, Live)
- [Ekubo Indexer](https://thegrid.id/profiles/ekubo_org): Ekubo Indexer is an open-source data indexing service that parses onchain events from Ekubo deployments into structured, queryable data. Developers, analytics providers, and aggregators use it to retrieve pool, position, and trade data without running their own indexing infrastructure. The service underpins shared tooling such as risk engines and analytics dashboards that integrate with the protocol once rather than per deployment. (OnChain Data API, Live)
- [Ekubo MCP Server](https://thegrid.id/profiles/ekubo_org): Ekubo MCP Server exposes Ekubo protocol data and actions through a Model Context Protocol endpoint, letting AI agents and LLM-based applications query pool information and construct trades programmatically. It provides a machine-readable interface so agent frameworks can discover and interact with the protocol without custom integration code. Developers building agents, including the Ekubo Wallet, use it to source structured protocol data during automated workflows. (MCP, Live)

## Assets

- [EKUBO (EKUBO)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/ekubo_org): EKUBO is the governance token of Ekubo Protocol, an automated market maker on Starknet and Ethereum. Holders vote on fee tiers, treasury allocation, and protocol upgrades through the Ekubo DAO. Protocol revenue is directed to a permissionless buyback mechanism that purchases EKUBO from the market, linking token value to actual trading activity rather than emissions. (Governance)
- [STONX (STONX)](https://thegrid.id/profiles/ekubo_org): STONX is the proposed stake-and-vote token for Ekubo's Ve33 liquidity marketplace on Robinhood Chain. Holders lock STONX into a transferable veSTONX position to allocate voting power toward pools, directing swap fees and emissions to bootstrap liquidity for tokenized stock pairs. Its supply and allocation remain subject to Ekubo DAO approval before launch. (Governance)

## Links

- [Main](https://ekubo.org)
- [Documentation](https://docs.ekubo.org)
- [Blog](https://blog.ekubo.org)
- [Governance](https://ekubo.org/governance/proposals)
- [Twitter / X](https://x.com/EkuboProtocol)
- [Discord](https://discord.com/invite/RFbSXxtqUG)
- [Telegram](https://t.me/Ekubo_Protocol)
- [GitHub](https://github.com/EkuboProtocol)

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