OG Market Maker in Solana ecosystem. Specialised in onchain liquidity and DEX advisory | Head @RealSpaceMonkey

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Welcome to Aphelion Trading! We’re an OG Solana-native market-making firm founded by Adam @realspacemonkey on a mission to accelerate decentralised trading and DeFi. The ethos of crypto is in our DNA. apheliontrading.com
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September was an absolute blur, looking back on it we actually shipped a bunch of cool updates, and finally cracked a few big milestones (10m volume, 2m OI) 🚢 Bullet Liquidity Provider (BLP) was finally opened to public deposits, and the $300k cap filled the same day. We've extensively tested the strategy for 3 months and it's been overall profitable, with a 2.37 Sharpe and ~100% APY on the last 30 days annualised. Deposit caps will be opening up again this week, keep notis on 🔔 Speed. We benchmarked end-to-end execution against other perp venues. Bullet came in at ~8ms, ahead of Lighter and HL (Nado just recently improved their p50 a lot to ~7ms, congrats to them, we will get you back xd). Our matching engine runs at ~250µs, and most of the remaining time goes to the network, and there's a lot we have flagged to improve still. Thankfully still have the lowest p999 (tail latency) of any DEX by a factor of 4x. Collateral. You can now post SOL and jitoSOL as margin, meaning no hassle to sell your beloved bags to stables. We built the jitoSOL integration with @jito_sol, so your collateral keeps earning staking yield while you trade. New Markets. We listed RAY, BNC, UNI and NEAR, and PUMP and DOGE go live tomorrow. We also automated most of our listing pipeline, so a new market now takes us about 15 minutes end to end. Expect a lot more of them, and quickly. People under-appreciate the operational burden of exchange listings, and we've spent a bunch of time seeing how it can largely be automated. We're aiming to list 2 new markets every week. Liquidity. Most majors (BTC/ETH/SOL) are now consistently 0.1-0.5bps wide at the top of the book (!!), which is testament to why we've been hell bent on building the fastest execution stack on the market. @AphelionTrading is now providing very competitive liquidity on Bullet. They were the highest-volume onchain market maker on Solana from last cycle, and true friends and legends that I am grateful to be working with again. Fees. We cut trading fees across every tier, and volume picked in accordance. We are going to continue experimenting with fee structures that reduce friction to onboarding for new traders evaluating our product, our goal being to provide the best cost for the average perps consumer (spread + fees). Affiliates. More than 100 affiliates have signed up since we launched the program. Form linked below. Product. We shipped subaccounts, isolated margin, and vault infrastructure that lets anyone launch and run their own vault.
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The next market is pouring in by the barrel. The Solana ecosystem is filling up. 🛢️
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More stocks on Solana @sunrise @Backpack
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$SKHY is now live on Solana via Sunrise, market made by @AphelionTrading.
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$DRAM is now live on @Solana, market made by @AphelionTrading. The Roundhill Memory ETF holds Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron and SanDisk in one ticker.
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Tokenized gold on @Solana. $PAXG is now live, market made by @AphelionTrading.
🤖 Made with AI
$PAXG is now live on @Solana via Sunrise. PAX Gold is a digital asset where 1 token represents exactly 1 fine troy ounce of physical London Gold Delivery gold bar. Own something.
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We are hiring a rust developer and a trader. If you're interested or just want to chat about DeFi and its future on Solana, please DM or come meet us at our event with Bullet. luma.com/s7e814gq
This is a long post about the rise of "prop AMMs", the history behind them and their advantages/disadvantages. This post will be different than my usual style of trying to be concise and is more of a story since it was meant to be for a DeFi Day talk like I did in the past 2 years. Unfortunately, this year I was asked to provide my ID/KYC (not the fault of the organisers) to be able to speak which I'd rather not do.
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If you are interested in Solana DeFi and Bullet L2, come hang out with us!
The event to end off the year. December 11th. Trading Lounge at @SolanaConf, co-hosted with @AphelionTrading. Sign up now, link below 👇
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We are headed to @SolanaConf in Dec 11-13 where our side event with @AphelionTrading will be held. If you want to know what's in the secret menu, you got to head down to our event and find out 😁 luma.com/s7e814gq
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See you at the lounge @SolanaConf. December 11th. Link below 👇
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Props Where Props Are Due I am a hands-on explorer. When I review various protocols, I get in there, test, use, attempt to find every positive as well as every negative. A couple months ago a certain team reached out to me. They wanted my feedback as a large trader on what they could do to improve, as they are working furiously on some updates. I agreed to dive in and give them feedback. After my big public liquidation, what most people didn’t know was that I’d been testing multiple perp DEXs simultaneously with much smaller sizes to get hands on experience - not just for myself - but for my audience who asks me daily "what about ____ protocol?" One by one, the dominoes fell. Every single position across every DEX got liquidated. Except one. @DriftProtocol At first, I actually thought I’d broken their liquidation engine. Price had blown right past my liquidation price - yet somehow, my position stayed alive. I was convinced it was a bug. Turns out it wasn’t. Drift’s guardrails - the ones they quietly mention in their docs - actually worked. They throttle liquidations during violent wicks, use oracle-based pricing instead of thin-book marks, and can even temporarily pause liquidations when volatility or oracle data goes off the rails. In other words, they built a system that recognizes when the market’s lost its mind - and gives traders a fighting chance instead of an instant execution. I know many of you are new to following me so as a reminder: my voice is never for sale. I never sponsor anything and refuse to talk about anything positively or negatively in exchange for financial gain. In a space where “robust risk management” usually means “we’ll pray the oracle holds,” Drift engineered something real. They deserve acknowledgment for that. Respect. 🫡 From the depths — The White Whale 🐋
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Replying to @BioProtocol @solana
Hey guys, I can't comment on the forum, so I will leave some input on the strategy of building the most efficient on-chain liquidity for BIO on Solana. Expansion to a new chain consists of two steps: 1) Selecting a custody bridge that will allow minting/redeeming a 1:1 derivative of a native BIO token. Here you can explore deBridge's custody solution called dePort: app.debridge.finance/deport 2) Bootstrapping on-chain liquidity. This stage normally consists of two steps a) Create a static liquidity pool — classic AMM that doesn't require active liquidity management. You can use @MeteoraAG dynamic pool (app.meteora.ag/pools/create) or @RaydiumProtocol (raydium.io/liquidity/create-…). Choosing Meteora will likely get your DAO exposure on their upcoming airdrop. b) Manage concentrated liquidity to make spreads on-chain tight. For this one, @AphelionTrading is likely the best partner. With a small bit of capital, they can set up very efficient concentrated on-chain liquidity. Once the token becomes liquid on Solana, it will automatically become available for instant cross-chain trading in deBridge main app (app.debridge.finance/), so users will be able to buy it in seconds using any asset on any other chain. Let me know if you have any questions.
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No one manages concentrated liquidity on Solana better than @AphelionTrading.
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BTC is the undisputed king of crypto. @Coinbase is the most trusted name in the industry. Aphelion is the OG Solana market maker. Together, we’re bringing BTC trading on-chain with the tightest spreads and capital efficiency that can only come from a CLOB.
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If you’re interested in learning more about what Aphelion can do for your protocol or token, get in touch!
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The king is here! Aphelion is now quoting cbBTC on Solana!
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We are hiring a BD person who is deep in the Solana ecosystem. If you are one or know someone that might be interested, please get in touch!
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The king is here! BTC is the undisputed king of crypto. @Coinbase is the most trusted name in the industry. Aphelion is the OG Solana market maker. Together, we’re bringing BTC trading on chain with the tightest spreads and capital efficiency that can only come from a CLOB.
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USDS just launched on Solana, and is directly available and integrated on most major Solana DeFi protocols such as Jupiter, Kamino and Drift! Users of USDS on the supported platforms will automatically get the Sky Savings Rate, giving 8.5% plus 500k per week of incentives on top
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