.@paradex is a privacy-first perp DEX that offers zero-fees for retail users. $DIME, the exchange's native token, is expected to launch soon.

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Paradex is #1 in 24h volume 🔥 Many people left us for dead last year, so just being here today is a massive milestone. Congrats to all of you who believed, this is just a taste of what’s to come. Despite many wanting us to fail, we simply WILL NOT go away. 2026 will be the year of $DIME, and until we get there, we will be relentless. Enjoy this day. You all deserve it.

Privacy Perps 🔒 Privacy Perps are now live on Mainnet. Effective today, position and account state on Paradex is private to the account holder (via authenticated RPC) and the operator (Paradex), delivering CEX-like privacy but with self-custody. This privacy is is end-to-end: orders, positions and trades are private on the Paradex Cloud, Paradex Chain (L2) and on Ethereum (L1) where state commitments are posted. Prior to today’s upgrade (Paradex Chain v0.14.1), there were two broad ways to observe or reconstruct account/chain state: 1️⃣ querying off-chain services that index Paradex 2️⃣ reconstructing aggregated balances from the L1 data availability v0.14.1 closes both paths for unauthenticated observers while preserving an escape hatch on Ethereum. Architecture L2: Private reads via authenticated RPC Privacy on the L2 is guaranteed through a custom RPC configuration. RPC nodes mask position and account fields by default, and only return private data to the owner after authenticating the request via a valid signature. This addresses (1) the historical “off-chain indexing” visibility path. Bridge partners are only granted selective access to the transaction data (account state remains private) required by their smart contracts to process deposits and withdrawals. L1: Encrypted state diffs with ZK verification When the sequencer posts updates to Ethereum, it will now encrypt the state diff and include it in the ZK proof posted to the L1. This specifically addresses (2) the historical “reconstruct state from L1 DA” path. Starting in v0.14.1, the blob data that carries the serialized squashed state diff is encrypted before being posted to Ethereum, while the ZK proof still validates both the correctness of the state transition and the correctness of the encryption/commitment to the encrypted diff. Decryption keys are held by the Paradex Privacy Council, and only council members can decrypt the L1 state. A more technical write-up, including encryption details, is available here: docs.paradex.trade/trading/p… Why a Privacy Council Paradex continues to submit state to Ethereum to preserve the possibility of an escape hatch in the event Paradex becomes inoperable. The council model balances that escape hatch with privacy: under normal operation diffs remain encrypted on L1, and if an escape hatch is required, the council can decrypt and publish the necessary state to enable recovery. The current members of the Privacy Council are the @ParadexFNDN, @paradex, and @karnotxyz. As Paradex scales, the committee will be expanded for even stronger decentralization. Trust assumptions At the RPC layer, trust assumptions do not change: Paradex remains the operator of Paradex Chain RPC nodes. At the Ethereum layer, trust shifts to the Privacy Committee for the ability to decrypt state diffs during an escape-hatch scenario. TL;DR Private by default on L2 encrypted diffs on L1, with the possibility of an escape hatch preserved via council-controlled decryption. Only the account owner and operator can view their trading state, providing a CEX-equivalent privacy experience with self-custody. Paradexio

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Perp DEXs are Going to Eat All of Finance From Software to the Internet Economy Silicon Valley investors have long championed the idea that “software is eating the world.” But why does this hold true? Because software cuts overhead, compounds efficiency, and expands margins, making companies more profitable and therefore better investments. Everyday users have experienced this shift in a tangible way in the devices we use. Not long ago, you needed a calculator for arithmetic, a camera for photos, a typewriter to write letters, and a fax to send them. Today, a single phone does all that and more. This same upgrade cycle that transformed our devices is now reshaping the global economy. Software began this transformation eighty years ago, steadily driving down the cost of doing business. It started with basic computing tasks, moving to calculators, then entire functions like accounting as computers became ubiquitous. Then came the internet, which gave rise to internet-native businesses and a $16 trillion digital economy that now accounts for roughly one-fifth of global GDP. But even at its peak, the internet moved information, not value. You could send an email across the world instantly, but a wire transfer could still take days. Crypto solved that problem by adding the missing layer of trust and value. In other words, crypto is the logical next step in software’s evolution, powered by smart contracts. As that infrastructure scales, the hard problem shifts from moving money to coordinating capital and risk among many actors. The physical economy is ready to move on-chain, and the first thing it needs is capital and liquidity hubs to power markets and risk transfer across participants. This is driving the emergence of DeFi Supercenters like Paradex, Lighter, and Hyperliquid. DeFi Supercenters as the Next Hyperscalers To fully understand what DeFi Supercenters represent, consider this. The industrial age built Wall Street, while the information age built digital marketplaces such as Nasdaq and Amazon. Wall Street was vital to the global economy because it concentrated liquidity, information, and trust. Capital flowed efficiently because investors, brokers, and institutions gathered in one place for price discovery, clearing, and settlement. It was never about the buildings but about proximity to capital and counterparties. @fiddybps1 from @paradex recently tweeted that “Financial supercenters already exist in the physical world, such as Wall Street, London, Dubai, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Now zoom out. In the on-chain world, the equivalent is the perp DEX, a supercluster of liquidity that will be the beating heart of the global digital economy.” A DeFi Supercenter is that digital equivalent but fully on-chain, a programmable hub where trading, settlement, lending, and risk management operate within one composable system of smart contracts. These hubs mirror what Wall Street achieved for the industrial era by concentrating capital and trust, but they do so borderlessly, transparently, and at internet scale. DeFi Supercenters will be the next hyperscalers, but fully on-chain. Think of them as large financial service providers operating massive liquidity superclusters and delivering highly scalable, on-demand liquidity, capital coordination, clearing, and settlement. Why Only a Few Will Win As in every financial era, not every center will thrive. Liquidity always migrates towards venues with the least cost, least friction, and the least amount of information leakage. Accessing liquidity has a cost, not only in fees or spreads but also in execution size, information leakage, and ease of access/execution. Markets that minimize these frictions become natural centers of gravity for capital. Over time, only a few on-chain Supercenters will command this depth and reach. The platforms that combine speed, privacy, and composability at scale will set the new standard for finance. How Paradex Fits In Paradex embodies the DeFi Supercenter thesis in full. It is a native on-chain financial hub where liquidity, risk, and settlement operate within a single unified architecture. Paradex runs on a zero-knowledge rollup that pairs Ethereum-grade security with sub-second trade execution while preserving transparency, privacy, and self-custody. Its unified margin layer powers perpetuals, spot, and cross-margin trading from a single collateral pool, maximizing efficiency and eliminating fragmentation. With unified margin, users no longer have to move assets between a spot and perps account, your assets are unified into a single collateral pool. Paradex was designed to converge the roles of brokerages, exchanges, asset managers, and clearinghouses into one composable framework. By collapsing trading, clearing, and settlement into one composable system, Paradex achieves what traditional finance could not: frictionless, deterministic liquidity at internet scale. The Future of Finance Is On-Chain Finance is entering its software phase, where liquidity, trust, and execution exist as code rather than physical institutions. The shift is already underway, and the winners will define how value moves in the decades ahead. We are still early, but the direction is clear. The future of finance isn’t scattered across silos. It’s going to be concentrated in a handful of on-chain Supercenters, and Paradex has what it takes to become the ultimate DeFi Supercenter. If you haven’t been paying attention to Paradex, you need to start now. Watch out for our next article on Paradex. Till then, thank you for being a part of the When Shift Happens Family.

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Incident Post-Mortem - Oct 10-11** What Happened On `Oct 10-11`, extreme volatility and the subsequent flash crash led to a large number of concurrent liquidations on the platform in a short period of time. This led to a large, sudden accumulation of positions on the GigaLiquidator (GL). Typically the GL unwinds quickly, but severe on-chain transaction backlog slowed unwinds until chain max-position and event limits were hit, halting GL trading. As a result, subsequent GL trades were busted on-chain. Trade busts are rare, but when they occur, affected accounts temporarily enter resync mode to correct chain vs account state—during this period, impacted users couldn’t open/close positions. Busts also briefly worsened the backlog and created additional downstream contagion, thought it only affected a small number of users. Immediate Response We activated Cairo Native (live on Testnet for several months) which roughly doubled our throughput instantly and cleared the backlog within an hour. We then settled all Perp Options to shrink GL poisitions, after which the GL resumed normal operation. Given unexpected GL PnL moves from both correct and incorrect liquidations, we temporarily reserved GL PnL pending an audit to ensure fairness for both depositors and users. We reduced the TVL cap to pause new deposits and prevent opportunistic capture of the pending redistribution. BTC and ETH options were relisted soon after, and the platform returned to normal operation within a few hours. It is worth noting that despite heavy chain congestion, the platform stayed operational and did not trigger socialized loss backstops. Paradex does not implement Auto-Deleveraging (ADL)—common on many CEXs/DEXs—because it breaks cross-platform hedges and adds unpredictability to risk management. In cross-margin systems, there’s also no guarantee of finding profitable ADL counterparties without amplifying liquidations. While not perfect, socialized loss is, in our view, the less harmful user experience. We’ll publish deeper design notes on Socialized Loss vs ADL soon. Resolution The GL audit was completed on Oct 14. We credited `$604,225.4`8 back to all Gigavault depositors—including those who had withdrawn and technically forfeited PnL—and allocated `$160,182.13` was reserved for incorrect liquidations, which has been distributed to affected users. The GV TVL cap has been restored to $60M with new deposits re-enabled, and options settlement fees were refunded given the short-notice delisting. Following the learnings from the incident, we have optimized chain logic to support much higher position limits and optimized cloud-side position-limit checks to block trades before chain limits are hit, preventing trade busts. We also increased account-resync frequency for faster state convergence, and permanently enabled Cairo Native on-chain, delivering significant, sustained throughput improvements. Final notes Despite the scale of the contagion in the market, this was by and large a significantly less severe outcome for our users and the exchange. The platform remained operational and no socialized loss backstops were triggered. The scaling improvements we shipped quickly after the Sep 30 incident materially reduced congestion on Oct 10—proof that in crypto you must move fast and fix things; repeating the same mistake can be fatal. Thank you to the community for the patience, feedback, and encouragement during the chaos. The culture we’re building together is special—and we feel it every time you show up for us ❤️

Join our second Space of the CLOB Season on October 8 at 1pm UTC! Co-hosted with @trevor_flipper and featuring @paradex, @monacotrading and @GSR_io as speakers. Topics covered: • Performance vs trust vs privacy: can you have all three? • The complete institutional trading stack by 2026 • Upcoming catalysts and alphas from speakers Drop your questions here and set a reminder (link below) 🔔