The Full-stack Trading Infrastructure for the Next Generation of Finance

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Joined May 2024
Spot markets have just been getting better at one thing: making it easier and cheaper to find someone on the other side of the trade. We went from physical dealers, to electronic books, to crypto exchanges that finally let people trade directly. Each step cut the friction. The problem now is that most of the liquidity is still stuck on individual chains. That raises the cost of actually finding the best price. Euclid is built as a universal finance engine. One settlement layer that works across chains natively, so you don’t have to keep moving capital around just to trade. Lower search cost. Better prices.
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Good fills. Low fees. My keys. Shouldn’t be a big ask.
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Three things decide if a market is worth trading. Spread. The gap between best buy and best sell. You pay it on the way in and out. Depth. How much you can trade near the current price. Thin depth means your order moves the market against you. Fills. Whether you get the price you saw. The difference is slippage, and it often costs more than fees. None of these show up on a landing page. All of them decide what trading actually costs. That’s what Euclid Prime is built around.
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Most new tokens don’t have a price problem. They have a liquidity problem. One decent order moves the price hard because there’s almost nothing underneath it. That’s why getting in and out feels so expensive. Order books need active traders on both sides. That’s something young tokens rarely have. Euclid Prime gives a token always-on liquidity from day one through pools, then lets market makers quote the book and hedge into those same pools as it grows. The market gets tighter without ever going dark. Liquidity from the start. A path to better prices later.
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No bridging first. No switching apps. Deposit from the chain you’re already on and trade on Euclid Prime. One place. Any chain. Launching soon.
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Why run an order book and pools together? Because on one liquidity layer, they help each other. Market makers hedge book fills in the pools. Pool prices get pulled back in line with the book. New tokens start in pools and grow into the book. That's Euclid Prime. Launching soon.
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Sunday is for rest, family and refreshing a price chart every four minutes.
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Markets used to close. Onchain, they don’t. That’s why people moved onchain. What was missing: depth you can actually see, tight quotes, tools that don’t fight you, and trading without moving funds first. That’s the gap Euclid Prime is built for.
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A 0.1% difference in fees sounds like nothing. Then you trade 200 times. Same with spreads. Same with slippage. None of it hurts once. All of it adds up. That’s the difference between a strategy that works and one that slowly bleeds. Euclid Prime was built specifically to minimize these friction costs for active traders, structurally, not just as a temporary promotion. Prime launches with mainnet.
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Should I use Prime or Swap? Start with Prime. Prime is the order book. Fund from the chain you’re already on, see the depth, and place the exact order you want. Swap is one click away inside Prime. Use it when you just want to swap one asset for another across chains in a single step, or when you want to add liquidity. One place. Two ways to trade. Prime launches with mainnet.
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If you remember one thing about Euclid, make it this. You shouldn’t have to move your money before you can trade. Not to a bridge. Not to another chain. Not to a venue that holds it for you. Deposit from the chain you’re already on, and trade. An order book for tight quotes. Pools for liquidity that’s always there. One liquidity layer connecting both. One place to trade onchain.
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There are two kinds of liquidity. Most platforms only give you one. Tight prices when active traders are making markets. Always-on depth that works even when no one’s watching. Most places make you pick. Euclid runs both on the same liquidity. Prime for the order book. Swap for the pools. They feed each other, so you get tighter prices and reliable depth, without having to choose.
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Sunday is for slow mornings. Not slow bridges.
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Every trader has made this tradeoff. Good execution. Low fees. Control of your funds. Pick two. A CEX gives you the book. The price is custody. Most days that is invisible. When something goes wrong, the withdraw button is the first thing to go. A DEX lets you keep control. The price is the trade. Slippage. Gas. A book that isn’t really a book. So traders split themselves in two. Size on the exchange. Conviction on chain. Euclid Prime is built so you don’t have to choose. A real order book. Fast matching. Low trading fees, no gas to place the trade. It settles on-chain. You fund it from the chain you’re already on. CEX-grade execution. No CEX custody. Full self-custody. Always. Prime opens to traders soon.
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Everything you need to make an onchain trade. A bridge. Another tab. Another login. Three gas tokens. A prayer the funds don’t get stuck. Or one place. Deposit from where you are.
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Good infrastructure is the stuff you only notice when it's missing.
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Prime has swaps built in. Same liquidity. Same pools. No second app, no second login. One referral code across both. Swap without leaving.
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The secret to a better order book isn’t in the order book. It’s in the pools. Most platforms run the book and the AMM as separate markets. Different prices. Liquidity that can’t cross. Two shallow books instead of one deep one. On Euclid they feed each other. A maker fills on the book and hedges in the pool immediately. Less risk, tighter quotes, bigger size. When the pool drifts from the book, the book pulls it back. No stale price for the person trading the pool. One liquidity layer. Each side turns the other.
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