edgeX Announces EDGE Chain on Arbitrum
The edgeX mobile and desktop experience offers perp swaps, spot trading of crypto and equities, commodities perps, quidation reliability, and fair ordering are not negotiable.
Enter edgeX: a high-performance decentralized trading platform with deep institutional liquidity processing billions in daily trading volume. The edgeX mobile and desktop experience offers perp swaps, spot trading of crypto and equities, commodities perps, and prediction markets, all in a 24/7 trading interface. With a team of crypto and traditional finance veterans from the likes of Binance, Bloomberg, Morgan Stanley, and Barclays, edgeX is building an all-in-one platform to meet traders’ needs.
Now, the edgeX team is announcing EDGE Chain, an app-specific rollup powered by Arbitrum. Built as a fully custom chain on the Arbitrum platform, EDGE is optimized from the ground up to handle the demands of high-speed global trading.
Why Arbitrum?
EDGE Chain uses a modular architecture that separates trading execution from standard DeFi logic. The edgeX team needed a high-performance and secure chain that only a platform like Arbitrum can provide.
For EDGE Chain, perpetual order matching and cancellation operations run on an execution environment optimized for speed and determinism. Asset issuance, governance, and other protocol functions operate on a separate EVM environment. By isolating these workloads, EDGE prevents administrative or token activity from competing with trading flow during periods of elevated market activity.
Arbitrum’s programmable platform makes this separation possible without fragmenting away from shared liquidity or Ethereum settlement. edgeX can define its own execution environment and resource allocation model while remaining economically connected to the broader Arbitrum ecosystem.
Looking forward, EDGE chain will allow extensible functions, allowing a new product line without redesigning the system core, and FlashLane for processing non-conflicting transactions in parallel. Reducing execution bottlenecks and protecting trading reliability for users as volume increases. edgeX has released the Edge Chain Roadmap whitepaper, aiming to create a better, faster, and more versatile trading execution environment.
Supported by Circle, with Native USDC and CCTP
Circle Ventures has also announced a strategic partnership and investment in edgeX, with native USDC and CCTP on EDGE Chain. With this partnership, EDGE Chain will gain access to the world’s largest regulated stablecoin, while also benefiting from CCTP’s secure cross-chain transfers.
Native USDC on EDGE Chain will make it possible for eligible users to access Circle Mint’s institutional on/offramps, while CCTP makes it easier to move USDC to other supported blockchains without relying on wrapped or bridged assets. Developers can also use CCTP on EDGE Chain to build their own apps that support seamless cross-chain financial features.
EDGE Chain, Launching in March
edgeX is a universal trading interface for 24/7 global markets, which is why they chose to build EDGE Chain on the Arbitrum platform, with its deep liquidity, high performance, security, and total customization to meet the demands of enterprise-grade applications, all secured and settled on Ethereum.
With over $1 billion in open interest, $405 million TVL, and over $800 billion in cumulative perpetual trading volume according to Dune, edgeX has built a formidable trading ecosystem in a short time.
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