What is Antarctic?

Antarctic (AX) is a decentralized perpetual futures exchange designed to deliver institutional-grade execution, low fees, and strong privacy guarantees. AX combines non-custodial settlement with transparent, rules-based market operations to provide a trading venue that is resilient, permissionless, and aligned with the core principles of on-chain finance.

To support consistent execution quality, AX is built around deep liquidity and efficient price discovery. The protocol is engineered to minimize adverse selection and reduce the structural disadvantages often faced by retail traders, while maintaining clear and auditable market behavior for all participants.

AX aims to offer a CEX-level user experience without compromising the flexibility of decentralized trading. While the initial focus is perpetuals, the platform is designed to expand its feature set over time—prioritizing performance, risk controls, and product capabilities demanded by active traders.alized trading. While the initial focus is perpetuals, the platform is designed to expand its feature set over time—prioritizing performance, risk controls, and product capabilities demanded by active traders.