ZKX Pro Trade launches on Starknet mainnet, bringing superior trading experience within reach
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ZKX Pro Trade launches on Starknet mainnet, bringing superior trading experience within reach
Pro Trade expands the scope of sophisticated trading by introducing advanced order types and API integration, designed specifically for professional traders, large-volume traders, and institutional trading firms.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsAuthor: Tanisha Kohli
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Introducing ZKX Pro Trade
PRO Trade is now live on the Starknet mainnet. OG Trade was great, but we knew you wanted a more advanced trading terminal. In response to high demand, we’ve decided to launch the early version of Pro Trade ahead of schedule.
With Pro Trade, we’re expanding the scope of sophisticated trading by introducing complex order types and API integration—specifically designed for advanced traders, whales, and professional trading firms.
There are many PERP DEXs in the market today—so what sets us apart? Read on to find out.
Our Architecture
In the DeFi world, arbitrary gas fees, scalability issues, and fragmented liquidity have always been obstacles. When building a DEX, these challenges become even more pronounced. To directly address them, we've developed our own application chain, self-custodial accounts, and bridging technology.
Starting with the ZKX appchain, we realized that having a dedicated blockchain infrastructure tailored specifically for the protocol would be the most effective long-term solution. Our appchain, powered by Substrate and compatible with Starknet’s ZK-Rollup, enables gasless transactions, a unified order book, and full transparency. A public block explorer will be released in future updates to further enhance transparency.
While ZKX accounts leverage Starknet's account abstraction for secure fund custody and margin management, the appchain provides the scalability and speed required for a derivatives order book. Additionally, our native bridge, Starkway, ensures fast deposits and withdrawals between Ethereum and Starknet.
This is our architecture—and how we're advancing perpetual contract trading.
As for our long-term vision? The appchain initially deployed on Starknet is designed to integrate across multiple L1s and rollups in the future, promising compatibility, composability, and high throughput while simplifying the DeFi experience and maintaining a low-fee environment.
Pro Trade Offers a Range of Features Tailored to Traders’ Needs
Let’s dive deeper into what this means.
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User Interface: Customizable, intuitive, and familiar
CEXs, despite their flaws, have undeniably optimized user interfaces. ZKX aims to meet these standards, ensuring users can trade instinctively and comfortably regardless of their expertise level. To achieve this, we offer two UI options: Standard and Advanced.
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Market and Limit Order Types
In leveraged trading, higher risk demands stricter risk management and timely execution.
Multiple limit order types to suit your strategy:
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Limit
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Market
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Limit Take Profit
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Market Take Profit
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Limit Stop Loss
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Market Stop Loss
You can track your trading history on the historical or order page, where all executed and pending orders are visible.
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Pricing Information
To ensure fair and tamper-resistant pricing, we aggregate price data from multiple CEXs such as Binance, OKX, and Coinbase.
The ZKX appchain has its own built-in oracle within the node client, called the Data Provisioning Service (DPS). Common oracles like Chainlink are also used as support for price calculations.
You can check the pricing methodology here.
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High-Performance API
Automated traders contribute the majority of market liquidity, and our API makes their processes easier.
The public API will be released in the coming days.
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Markets
Pro Trade is currently live with three assets: ETH, SOL, and BTC, offering up to 20x leverage. $STRK will be listed soon in February. Later this year, the implementation of DAO governance will enable permissionless market listings, significantly expanding Pro Trade’s market offerings.
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Cross-Margin Mechanism
At ZKX, our liquidation price differs from the market price. Instead, we rely on a more secure option provided by our Data Provisioning Service (an internal oracle within the appchain), which aggregates prices from multiple CEXs. This approach reduces volatility and minimizes slippage, ensuring a safer experience for our users.
Cross-Margin Account: As a trader, you can use a single trading account on Pro Trade, leveraging the cross-margin mechanism for your trading strategies.
Benefits include:
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Capital efficiency
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Reduced position liquidation risk
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Ease of compounding returns
Isolated Margin: You can create multiple trading accounts and isolate trades per market or strategy in each. This setup ensures that any liquidation won’t affect your other positions or accounts, providing greater control over risk management. Isolated margin will be launched in a future release.
Benefits include:
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Improved risk management
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Enhanced portfolio flexibility
Check here for details on liquidation and margin.
Rewards
At ZKX, your performance matches your rewards. You can earn locked $ZKX tokens through the following ways.
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Trading on Pro Trade qualifies users for Airdrop 2.0, which includes 12.1 million $ZKX tokens (15% of the community token launch). Eligibility criteria will be released in March.
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Trading incentives: 7 million $ZKX tokens (18% of total supply) allocated from trading incentives to bootstrap the DEX at mainnet launch. The majority of this allocation will be distributed to OG Trade users via profit, volume, and loss leaderboards.
Regarding timelines, Airdrop 2 will follow closely after the token listing. We are actively discussing $ZKX listings with major CEXs. More details will be shared prior to listing.
Users will also have the opportunity to earn $STRK tokens through Starknet Foundation’s DeFi Spring Program.
The DeFi Council will distribute $40 million in STRK tokens every two weeks over the next six to eight months. Starting March 28, these $STRK tokens will incentivize users trading on ZKX.
Product Roadmap Preview
ZKX is continuously building, with ambitious plans for the future. Our goal is to make this your new home for perpetual contract trading.
The team has been working hard to make this vision a reality. Here’s a look at what’s coming:
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Feature Updates
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Markets and rewards page
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One-click sharing of your trades on social media
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Advanced order type features (e.g., cancel or execute)
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Four new perpetual contracts launching soon
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Introduction of isolated and cross-margin trading
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Product Updates
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$ZKX staking
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Referral URL functionality
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Social trading and pools
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High Tide algorithm for liquidity incentives
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ZKX appchain block explorer
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Enjoyed reading about Pro Trade? There’s much more in the works. We’ve been building for the past two years. Join our Discord or Telegram to contribute, discuss, and share feedback. We’re all ears.
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