Some participants of the Serum and Solana ecosystem are (rightly) known as classics: strong and proven players who have long demonstrated their passionate support for the community and who have… (read more)

Derivatives on Serum and Solana are hot, and for good reason. The ability to hedge, speculate, and lever up across positions is critical for modern finance as we know it today, and the same tenets… (read more)

If farmers are the salt of the earth, then DeFi natives are the seasoning of blockchain. This week’s flavour of Serum Story is a bit floral and vibrant with change. We’re joined by the Tulip Protocol… (read more)

Today, we are excited to announce a new integration with Zeta Markets. Zeta will leverage Serum’s order book design to create a fully on-chain decentralized vanilla options protocol on Solana. Zeta… (read more)

We often talk about ‘financial primitives’ in DeFi, given the industry’s relatively nascent status. Many of the constructs that we see within TradFi are somewhat taken for granted in that world, and… (read more)

You can set up your own state-of-the-art DEX based on Serum. You can embed the Serum Swap feature that routes to the order book. You can utilize Serum as the liquidity layer and matching engine for… (read more)

How do you accelerate adoption and participation within a promising and hot blockchain ecosystem? Part of the answer is making the lives of developers and builders much easier. Dexlab encapsulates… (read more)

A single year is an epoch for crypto. Readers may remember the landscape in September of 2020: Serum emerged alongside a number of primitives with incredible ambition and plans to bootstrap an entire… (read more)

Derivatives are key to financial services. Hedging, risk transfer, and even speculation play crucial roles in financial markets. We’re all familiar with products like vanilla options. What about… (read more)

Project Serum provides infrastructure for the wider Solana ecosystem. The ‘lower level’ action doesn’t stop there: analytics data is like a second lifeblood for financial dApps and means a world of… (read more)

Serum has always represented and championed the mass adoption of decentralized finance. Many proponents of DeFi have long recognized that one necessary factor for transforming DeFi into a global… (read more)

Today when we talk about composability in DeFi, we’re referring to the innovative feature whereby separate applications can connect as if they were native and generate otherwise unachievable… (read more)

We continue to be inspired by the sheer number of ambitious and talented teams building amazing products on the bleeding edge of finance and technology. There are of course a number of exciting… (read more)

There are many teams building exciting things in crypto, but unmatched are those willing to be pioneers of a growing ecosystem. This week we are joined by the one and only Solrise — an established… (read more)

Serum and Solana are really starting to hit their stride. This year has been prolific for both ecosystems, to say the least. One application that has especially turned heads since its launch is… (read more)

Talk of Serum goes hand in hand with talk of liquidity. The Serum DEX turned heads when it announced to the world the benefits of its completely on-chain order book and matching engine. This design… (read more)

Serum’s on-chain infrastructure powers not only a wealth of financial applications, but also supports growing industries like gaming. The introduction of DeFi elements like in-game NFT marketplaces… (read more)

Working with the teams building in the Serum ecosystem is always a surreal and awe-inspiring experience. Innovative projects and ambitious, talented people continue to emerge and push the boundaries… (read more)

TL;DR: Serum DEX is the plumbing and infrastructure for financial projects building on the Solana ecosystem. Protocols with any trading-related features benefit by sending their bids and offers to… (read more)