# Helix > Open finance reimagined Helix is a decentralized exchange built on Injective. It offers gas-free trading of spot and perpetual markets, including crypto, stocks, and commodities, with leverage. Helix is a decentralized exchange operating on the Injective network, offering an on-chain orderbook for trading digital assets. It serves retail and institutional traders seeking spot and perpetual markets, including tokenized stocks and commodities, without paying network gas fees. The platform positions itself as a community-driven alternative to conventional centralized exchanges. The exchange addresses common on-chain trading issues such as slippage and value extraction by relying on an orderbook model rather than an automated market maker, paired with a batch auction mechanism designed to reduce front-running. Trades, settlements, and asset issuance occur entirely on-chain, and users retain control of their assets throughout. Institutional users can access permissioned markets and connect through dedicated infrastructure alongside retail participants. Helix offers spot trading, perpetual futures with leverage, and automated trading bots, along with liquidity provider rewards for market makers. Its product suite extends to tokenized real-world assets such as equities and commodities traded alongside cryptocurrencies. The exchange is used by individual traders, market makers, and financial institutions seeking on-chain access to a broad range of tradable assets. - Type: Project - Sector: Finance - Status: Active - Founded: 2021-11-01 - Profile: https://thegrid.id/profiles/helix ## Products - [Helix](https://thegrid.id/profiles/helix): Helix is a decentralized exchange that lets users trade spot and perpetual futures markets, including tokenized stocks, commodities, and foreign exchange, directly from self-custodied wallets. It runs on a fully on-chain orderbook with instant settlement and MEV-resistant transaction ordering, and processes trades without gas fees. Traders can access leveraged perpetual futures, automated trading bots, liquidity provider rewards, and iAssets, a class of programmable derivatives representing real-world assets. The platform also supports permissioned markets and multi-asset access for institutional users alongside retail traders. (Decentralised Exchange, Live, Main Product) - [Helix Build Your DEX](https://thegrid.id/profiles/helix): Build Your DEX is a developer toolkit that lets teams launch their own branded decentralized exchange using the Helix trading frontend and its underlying order book infrastructure. Developers clone an open-source reference implementation and configure branding, supported markets, quote assets, and enabled trading features such as order types, portfolios, and trading bots. It provides a ready-made frontend and market configuration layer rather than requiring exchange infrastructure to be built from scratch. The toolkit is aimed at teams that want to operate an independent exchange interface backed by the same liquidity and matching engine as Helix. (Developer Tooling, Live) ## Links - [Main](https://helixapp.com) - [Blog](https://blog.helixapp.com) - [Documentation](https://docs.helixapp.com) - [Privacy policy](https://helixapp.com/privacy-policy) - [Terms of Service](https://helixapp.com/terms) - [Twitter / X](https://x.com/helixapp_) - [Telegram](https://t.me/helixapp) - [Twitter / X](https://x.com/HelixMarkets) - [Discord](https://discord.gg/helixapp) - [GitHub](https://github.com/InjectiveLabs/injective-helix-demo) ## Legal This data is provided under two licensing models. Model 1 - open data. 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