Key takeaways
- Quickswap approved orbs with 81.8% support, unifying stakeholders across supported blockchains.
- Orbs’ layer 3 stack improves dex execution, aiming to compete with centralized exchanges starting in 2026.
- Orbs secures over 1.12 billion staked ORBS as Quickswap expands its on-chain perpetual futures infrastructure.
A new era for decentralized derivatives
Quickswap has adopted Orbs’ Perpetual Hub Ultra 2.0 as the default infrastructure for perpetual futures trading on all supported chains, following a community governance vote that saw 81.8% of QUICK token holders support the transition.
The vote, titled “Complete Transfer of Decentralized Perpetuals to the Orbs Network,” replaces Quickswap’s previous Orbs-powered Falkor deployment on Polygon. Point of sale and develops the Perpetuals based on orbs exchange platform launched on Base at the end of 2025. Quickswap and Orbs have been collaborating for several years, with the decentralized exchange running Orbs-based features such as dTWAP, dLIMIT and Liquidity Hub through the polygon and base.
Ran Hammer, vice president of business development at Orbs, said this upgrade signals a shift in how decentralized derivatives platforms compete. “This is what the next phase of Challenge looks like: a higher level DEX run a full stack of pers natively on Layer 3with liquidity from day one and execution quality that rivals centralized venues,” Hammer said. “A community vote of 81.8% says it all: decentralized markets are ready to compete with traditional finance on their own terms.”
Perpetual Hub Ultra 2.0 offers a comprehensive perpetual futures stack, including execution, settlement, hedging, liquidationprices and a professional trading interface. The system runs entirely on Orbs Layer 3 infrastructure without third-party dependencies. Liquidity is available immediately with integrated routing across multiple deep sites, eliminating the need for bootstrapping at launch.
The platform uses a TEE-secured execution environment that scales incrementally and relies on cryptographically signed price feeds. The roots of the state are engaged on-chain via cumulative settlement.
Quickswap, launched in 2020, is one of the ChallengeThe oldest exchanges and the leading trading platform in the Polygon ecosystem. QUICK token holders govern the platform, which runs on Polygon Point of sale and base. Orbs is a decentralized system Layer 3 network secured by delegated proof of possession betwith over 1.12 billion ORBS staked across its validator set without permission.
Both teams state that Perpetual Hub Ultra 2.0 is the default infrastructure position. decentralized exchanges to compete more directly with centralized platforms in terms of execution quality, capital efficiency and user experience, while maintaining on-chain transparency and self-custody.
