
kdot | bulk
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kdot | bulk
@kdotcrypto
orderbook oligarch | co-founder @bulktrade





bulk is now at 29k followers and testnet is officially out to those with an invitation. the thesis has not changed: bulk will be the most transformative innovation for perp dexes possibly ever. the speed of a cex, with the decentralization of solana. all open source. day 1. no more opaque risk engines, and not understanding what happened to your positions and why. it's really fast. like, actually, crazy fast. 20ms matching times and 40ms finality. for context, solana slot times are 400ms. so bulk is going to be around 10x faster. and you feel it. ive been trying out testnet for the past couple weeks/days and the difference is so large from anything ive ever tried before that i could quite literally never go back to anything else (after mainnet). you might say "yes but that's only testnet", but my friend, let me tell you, bulk testnet is pretty much the same thing as it's going to be when it goes live, since it is running on actual real mainnet validators. now with the solana foundation delegation program unwinding and validators needing more sources of revenue, there has quite literally never been a better time for bulk to be released. funny thing is, all this is just scratching the surface of what bulk is going to become and the reasons why it will truly shape the perp landscape. ps.: i actually got to meet a couple of the team members at breakpoint, and let me tell you, they are the most lovely individuals.

After over 2 years of blood, sweat and sacrifice… Mainnet is imminent. We have spent an inhumane amount of hours building what we believe to be not only the most complete trading venue in the world... But also infrastructure that will serve as the blueprint for the largest technological advancement for financial products in recent history. We have come along way since the birth of perpetual contracts, but we are still a considerable distance away from offering an environment that real size is willing to deploy on In a game of never ending exchanges, the question we have repeatedly asked ourselves is "why would people switch?" The answer for us is simple, we offer that environment. For the longest time the debate has been between globally distributed, or fast… And although you absolutely need both, this misses the point entirely. The heart of an exchange is the risk engine. Where real people trade real money, you must offer the most efficient venue for protecting and enabling capital. BULK approaches risk management like a tradfi clearing house - precise and robust. Our key differentiator is SPAN style portfolio margining, where every asset has a correlation that adjusts required margin dynamically based on market conditions. A result of this is positions hedge each other resulting in lower margin requirements. Leading CEXs and DEXs don’t offer anything close to this, but instead they view your portfolio on a per position basis, which puts capital at risk. For over 3 decades SPAN has been the gold standard for futures and we are brining it on chain. Liquidations are like precise surgeries where it’s an optimisation being run in realtime. During market momentum bulk removes positions that don’t correlate and reduces your protfolio risk, instead of liquidating an entire position To build an engine like this is incredibly expensive when it comes to compute, which is why no L1 today is able to offer the same. There has never been a better environment for someone to disrupt this space and offer an experience that the industry so desperately needs Competing between ourselves in crypto is too short sighted, as the true TAM for this is EVERYTHING The best thing about this, is that because we are a complete stack, every market participant from traders and hedge funds to validators and market makers, get to become part of the network and benefit in the growth of it. As an ecosystem, we have repeatedly told each other not to let the traditional giants come and take everything we have worked so hard to build… This is our chance to see that reality. We are not only committed, but obsessed with building something truly capable of advancing modern finance on a global scale One Exchange. Infinite Markets.


Today @humidifi is launching Aquarium, a transparent market making system built to give Solana projects deeper liquidity, tighter spreads, and clearer performance. Where the water is deep, the fish gather. Live on Solana ↓ 🐟



The whole point of having a transparent venue is being able to see this Hyperliquid, Paradex, Aster, Lighter - none of them tell you how their margin model works. you size a position, you pay margin, you get liquidated @bulktrade just publishes the whole thing, every cell, every regime, every decay curve Hedges count. long BTC / short ETH on Bulk gets netted via the live correlation between them Your effective notional drops, your margin requirement drops with it (everyone else just margins each leg like the other one isnt there) Markov Regime Model. when a regime kicks in Bulk gets strict, then it relaxes as time passes. you can actually watch this on the heatmap in bulkstats.com/analytics/risk that smooth transition is how CME SPAN handles volatility regimes than anything else in DeFi Live mode shows what Bulk actually charging right now Strict mode shows the worst case if a regime just kicked in if your venue cant show you any of this - ask why

Got my speaker slot taken by Luis Suarez, AMA

2 days till Solana Accelerate USA! 🇺🇸 Who's coming to Miami?


This is exactly why we’re building @bulktrade You can deposit tokenised gold directly as collateral and short the gold perp against it - no borrow/lend required Our portfolio margin engine (SPAN-style) recognises the correlation between your gold collateral and your short gold perp. The effective margin requirement is near-zero because the position is naturally hedged at the portfolio level. On binance, you would need USDC to margin the short, If you hold gold, you're forced to either sell it or borrow USDC against it through a separate lending protocol - paying interest, taking on liquidation risk, and fragmenting your position across two systems We are merge the exchange, clearing house, and prime brokerage stack into one system. In TradFi these are separate entities - the exchange matches orders, the clearing house nets risk, and the prime broker extends cross-asset margining. Each adds a layer of cost and a lot of counterparty risk. BULK collapses all three into a single protocol - your collateral, positions, and risk are evaluated as one unified portfolio with no intermediaries between them







