Aboard: A perpetual trading platform with full-chain aggregation for multi-layered yields, ushering in a new era of derivatives trading
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Aboard: A perpetual trading platform with full-chain aggregation for multi-layered yields, ushering in a new era of derivatives trading
Aboard is about to achieve another project milestone, becoming the only Omni-Chain decentralized derivatives project in the Solana ecosystem.
Navigating Web3 tides with focused insightsAuthor: TechFlow
The market is making a strong recovery.
On one hand, Tether and Circle—the operators of the two largest stablecoins—have collectively issued $10 billion in new tokens over the past 30 days. This influx of fresh capital, driving expanded demand, is seen as a powerful signal of market回暖; on the other hand, the crypto market is showing long-missed vitality: Bitcoin’s ecosystem is rising strongly, with inscriptions, runes, and Bitcoin L2s becoming hot topics; Solana’s ecosystem has made a comeback, with DePIN, Meme, and DeFi thriving across multiple fronts; Ethereum continues to steadily advance in its core financial domain, with Restaking emerging as a market focal point…
In every wave of development, time is money and efficiency is life. As the market recovers and new trends emerge, exchanges—as primary trading venues—must evolve to meet user needs. Meanwhile, those seeking to maximize returns need more comprehensive, efficient, and secure trading services to fully unlock capital efficiency.
Amid this market momentum, Aboard—a dedicated perpetual trading platform focused on low barriers, full coverage, and high yields—is gaining increased attention within the community. As the industry’s first Omni-Chain decentralized derivatives contract project, Aboard leverages cross-chain aggregation, smart order routing, and seamless cross-chain functionality to deliver deeper liquidity and higher capital efficiency, while enabling users to earn layered rewards from DEXs, blockchains, and Aboard incentives.
Technologically, Aboard is already at the forefront. In terms of ecosystem development and user experience, it continues to innovate and optimize, setting a new benchmark for trading services. Its standout technical innovation and smooth user experience have drawn the attention of top-tier VCs in the industry. As the only decentralized derivatives project backed by the Avalanche Foundation, Aboard received exclusive investment from the foundation. This not only reflects Avalanche’s strong confidence in Aboard’s technology and future prospects but also brings substantial ecosystem resources and technical support. With Aboard’s token TGE approaching, the project is poised for a new phase of rapid growth.
This article explores Aboard Exchange, examining how its highly intelligent trading services generate layered returns for users while ensuring fund security, offering insight into the evolution and future direction of exchanges in this bull market cycle.
Image source: Aboard Medium
Full Market Opportunity Coverage: Efficient Cross-Chain Aggregation Unlocking Capital Efficiency
As a perpetual trading platform, Aboard focuses on the derivatives market:
On one hand, the derivatives market inherently offers flexibility and efficiency—providing diversified trading options such as futures, options, and synthetic assets, allowing users to control larger positions with less capital and thus achieve greater return potential, along with enhanced liquidity and trading depth. On the other hand, current on-chain spot trading volume far exceeds that of derivatives. Following traditional financial patterns, derivatives are considered a blue-ocean market with at least 20x growth potential.
As the market warms up, both new and experienced DeFi participants are paying close attention to derivatives. Aboard stands out by building user-centric services that cover all major blockchains and multiple types of decentralized derivatives trading.
First, Aboard is currently the industry’s first Omni-Chain decentralized derivatives contract project. Unlike centralized exchanges with inherent risks, Aboard enhances asset security and transparency through fully decentralized contract trading, delivering a worry-free crypto trading experience.
More importantly, Aboard enables entry and exit across all major blockchains via integrated margin and position management. It currently supports over 10 popular blockchains including Arbitrum, Avalanche, zkSync Era, ZkEvm, and Mantle. Based on market trends and community feedback, Aboard plans to add support for even more chains in the future.
Cross-chain aggregation means breaking down barriers between chains, significantly enhancing the trading experience:
On one hand, seamless cross-chain interactions free users from cumbersome manual operations; on the other, liquidity—DeFi’s lifeline—is aggregated across fragmented chains, providing deeper markets and better prices. Additionally, Aboard aims to build a one-stop cross-chain asset management service. Users can enter Aboard from any supported chain, view all their on-chain assets, and manage them easily through an intuitive interface, greatly simplifying multi-chain management.
Another highlight enabled by multi-chain support is the cross-chain margin and position interoperability mechanism: For users, 10 USDC margin deposited on Chain A can be combined with 10 USDC on Chain B. On April 29, Aboard launched its cross-chain composite margin feature, which consolidates trading margins deposited from different chains under the same wallet address. This unifies trading activities across chains: realized profits can be withdrawn on any chain, while realized losses or fees are deducted from the funding chain. This not only mitigates the issue of fragmented on-chain capital but also boosts capital efficiency, delivering a CEX-like trading experience in a decentralized environment.
Notably, after months of continuous effort, Aboard is about to achieve another milestone—becoming the only Omni-Chain decentralized derivatives project in the Solana ecosystem. Integrating with Solana will further accelerate Aboard’s growth:
On one hand, Solana already has a solid DeFi foundation. Its scalable architecture enables faster transaction confirmations and lower fees, supporting the development of high-frequency DeFi applications. The Solana DeFi landscape now includes AMM DEXs, limit-order-book DEXs, stablecoins, oracles, algorithmic stablecoins, lending protocols, and derivatives. Within the perpetuals space where Aboard operates, projects like Raydium, Serum, and Drift exist—but as the first fully cross-chain perpetual DEX on Solana, Aboard runs entirely on blockchain technology, with order matching, asset custody, and settlement all executed on-chain. This ensures high performance, low cost, and guarantees security, transparency, and decentralization, making it more attractive to a broad base of users and developers.
On the other hand, Solana’s ecosystem热度 is undeniable. Beyond DePIN and Meme coins, its DeFi sector has seen broad rallies, with Solana DeFi TVL recently reaching $4.5 billion—a two-year high. This upward trend not only offers users more opportunities to participate and earn substantial returns but also raises community expectations for Aboard’s integration with Solana. Furthermore, future collaborations enabled by Solana’s rich ecosystem will inject stronger momentum into Aboard’s development.
Image source: Aboard website
While offering comprehensive services, Aboard is also committed to delivering efficient trading experiences to fully capture market opportunities—the most notable being native BTC and ETH support as collateral.
This means the exchange can directly process transactions on major blockchains without extra conversion steps, reducing potential security risks from intermediaries and lowering user complexity and time costs, enabling faster deposits and immediate trading. In early April 2024, Aboard announced support for native BTC deposits, with earnings accumulated in USDC. Users can switch to the BTC chain via OKX Wallet and deposit native SegWit BTC into Aboard. With the Bitcoin ecosystem being a central narrative in this bull run, supporting native BTC deposits opens up more Bitcoin-based earning opportunities for users.
Image source: Twitter @AboardExchange
From Dex to Chain to $200M Ecosystem Incentives: Layered Returns
Human nature seeks profit. As a trading platform, Aboard’s ultimate goal—after creating low-barrier, comprehensive, and efficient trading experiences—is helping users achieve higher returns. Unlike conventional platforms, Aboard delivers high yields through layered incentives from “Dex + Chain + Aboard.”
On the Dex side, main revenue streams include airdrops, trading mining, and referral incentives. Through smart order routing, Aboard monitors high-yield opportunities across all chains in real-time, offering users a one-stop solution to capture Dex rewards—especially lucrative but often overlooked referral programs.
On the blockchain side, Aboard will empower user earnings through joint airdrops with partner chains. Historically, each airdrop generates significant community excitement: for projects, airdrop scale signals commitment to the community and serves as an effective way to distribute tokens and attract broader participation; for users, airdrops offer profitable marketing campaigns and often provide early access to valuable projects.
Image source: Aboard Medium
On the Aboard side, revenue sources are even more diverse:
First, Aboard has established a dual incentive system combining tokens and points. Public data shows that Aboard’s native token ABE has a total supply of 1 billion, with 20% (200 million) allocated to ecosystem incentives, including a massive 100 million specifically reserved for airdrops to reward community support. Such generous airdrop incentives highlight Aboard’s commitment to its community and offer users richer earning opportunities. Prior to the token launch, Aboard introduced a points program where users earn points through daily check-ins and trading activity. These points are linked to airdrop eligibility—meaning the more points users accumulate now, the larger their share of the 100 million airdrop tokens later.
Image source: Twitter @AboardExchange
Looking Ahead: Token TGE Approaching, Key Tokenomic Insights
According to official announcements, preparations for Aboard’s token TGE and IDO are underway, expected to be unveiled to the community in Q2 2024. Of the 1 billion ABE total supply, beyond the 20% ecosystem incentives mentioned earlier, the specific allocation is as follows:
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Team: 15%, i.e., 150 million ABE, unlocking 12.5% every 6 months post-TGE;
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Early investors: 15%, i.e., 150 million ABE, unlocking 20% every 6 months in the first year post-TGE, then 15% every 6 months thereafter;
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Trading mining rewards: 50%, i.e., 500 million ABE, used for liquidity mining incentives.
To enhance token utility, ABE holders can deeply engage in the ecosystem and earn richer rewards through multiple channels:
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Trading mining: Aboard allocates 50% of the total token supply to incentivize liquidity providers and traders;
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Staking: ABE holders can stake to receive trading fee discounts, governance rights, and access to the Aboard ecosystem;
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Auctions and burns: Aboard DAO will regularly hold revenue auctions priced in ABE, using proceeds to buy back and burn tokens;
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Access to advisory protocols: Fund managers with over $1 million in AUM must stake ABE tokens.
The linear vesting for team and early investor tokens eases initial market pressure, while diverse use cases demonstrate Aboard’s long-term commitment to the trading space. With 70% of tokens allocated to incentives, participants gain substantial earning opportunities—users are encouraged to stay tuned.
In blockchain and L2 integrations, Aboard completed integration with popular L2s including Scroll, Era, Polygon zkEVM, Manta Pacific, and Mantle in Q1 2024. Q2 will focus on Solana, followed by BNB Chain, Ethereum, Linea, and OP in Q3 and Q4.
On product features, Aboard achieved native BTC deposit trading in Q1 2024. Q2 will prioritize cross-chain margin and position consolidation, and cross-chain deposits/withdrawals. In Q3 and Q4, efforts will center on launching and refining market modules.
For perpetual DEX integrations, Aboard plans to integrate Aevo in Q2, followed by GMX, Vertex, GNS, and Kwenta in Q3 and Q4.
With the upcoming TGE and IDO this quarter, along with continued feature enhancements, Aboard Chain will soon launch by year-end, aiming to further integrate liquidity and amplify the ecosystem’s reinvestment through token incentives, delivering a trading experience that combines low barriers, low cost, high efficiency, and high yield.
Image source: Twitter @AboardExchange
Conclusion
In the short term, 2024 is widely anticipated as a year of ecosystem revival. Aboard is set to hit multiple milestones this year—from deep exploration of the Bitcoin ecosystem and becoming Solana’s first cross-chain Perp Dex, to the imminent TGE and IDO. The community is expected to maintain close attention on the project in the foreseeable future.
Long-term, the pursuit of more efficient, comprehensive, and profitable trading experiences is an endless journey. As market回暖 becomes increasingly evident, robust trading services are a necessity for most users. We look forward to more innovations emerging, and with Aboard’s deep focus on capital efficiency and user returns, we anticipate even more impressive achievements ahead.
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