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# Home

Here are some links to get you started:

[Website](about:blank)

[Twitter](https://x.com/avantisfi)

[Discord](https://discord.com/invite/avantisfi)

**Mission**

As traders first, our mission is trader-first: to help traders realize their full potential by unlocking access to the untradeable, with the deepest liquidity and lowest fees.\
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The flywheel begins with traders; a relentless focus on the demand side (trading) ultimately benefits all Avantis stakeholders.

**Vision**

Our vision is for Avantis to become the bridge that makes global markets borderless.

**Introduction**

Avantis is an all weather exchange. Where users can express their views on global markets like forex, equities, indices, crypto and commodities by going long or short against the price of the market.

Here's what Avantis unlocks:

* **Liquidity & Access:** Up to $500M in OI capacity across 100+ assets, with a strong emphasis on RWA liquidity. All equities trade 24/5, so you can express views on earnings and pre/after-market volatility. We plan to house 500+ RWA markets by the end of 2026. In practice:
  * Long a $10M NVDA market clip with only \~5bps slippage
  * Short the Yen with a $25M market clip on USDJPY, at <2bps slippage and <3% holding costs
  * Access exotic assets like the Turkish Lira, longer-tail equities (like Nokia) and commodities (like Soybean futures)
* **Zero-commission trading (RWAs)**: Zero maker and taker fees across every single RWA listed, while in growth mode.
* **Industry-standard spreads & funding:** RWA flow is routed through a network of market makers to large TradFi venues including IBKR and LMAX, passing their spreads and cost of carry straight through to you.

  Avantis' vault backed model gives traders a stable funding leg; clean directional views and cross-venue arbitrage without the funding volatility manufactured by mark/index gaps on orderbook DEXs.
* **Upside Perps:** We innovated Upside Perps (Previously ZFP) where traders pay from their profits (and avoid taker fee drag) while unlocking higher leverage on blue-chip crypto; hold SOL at 2x leverage for weeks, or scalp BTC within minutes at 250x while paying nothing upfront.
* **Advanced trading features:** Partial TPs and SLs, TWAPs, scale orders and more; with gasless one-click execution.
* **For agents + builders:** State of the art, easy to integrate APIs for interacting with Avantis, and economically aligned builder codes to help the best builders monetize their products
* **For Liquidity Providers:** The avUSDC vault unlocks passive USDC yields on deposits earning above-market, risk-adjusted returns from all-weather trader demand.

**Team**

The Avantis protocol is created by the Avantis Foundation, who contracts several service providers as its developers. Several members contribute to the development of the Avantis protocol, including 14 crypto native individuals, with experience in engineering, investment banking, consulting, VC / private equity, incentive design, product design, and backend / frontend engineering. Cumulatively, the contributor team has over 20 years of cumulative experience in crypto.

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*Note: Please do not constitute anything written here or on our social channels as investment advice. Always do your research, carefully read the docs and ping our team to fully understand the protocol and any associated risks, including but not limited to smart contract and market risks.*
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