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Ecosystem Spotlight: Merkle Trade — Seamless Leverage Trading for Everyone
Merkle Trade is redefining leveraged crypto trading, making it more accessible, intuitive and engaging for all.
Since its launch, Merkle has addressed key user painpoints surrounding the crypto derivatives market—having grown to more than $17 billion in trading volume and 170,000 users worldwide. By leveraging Aptos' tech stack, Merkle is removing critical barriers to redefine the trading experience for everyone.
Bridging Complexity and Accessibility
While the crypto derivatives market sees over $100 billion in daily trading volume, its complexities often deter the majority of retail users. Merkle Trade proactively eliminates such complexities with a streamlined user experience. For example, users can sign in with Google, deposit seamlessly and start trading with just $2 up to 150x leverage and low fees.
As part of their journey to transform leverage trading into a seamless and intuitive experience, Merkle recently introduced Walletless: a new feature that allows users to trade without managing complex crypto wallets.
Merkle Walletless: Decentralized Trading, Simplified
Merkle Walletless eliminates the friction of wallet setups, private key management and asset transfers by allowing users to sign in with credentials (like Google) and start trading immediately. Simply put: Walletless is a game-changer for DeFi, making it as accessible as traditional financial platforms.
Powered by Aptos, Walletless combines advanced blockchain features with simple user experiences. For example, Merkle’s adoption of Aptos Keyless means users can seamlessly and securely create accounts. Plus, users no longer need to worry about gas fees thanks to Aptos' Sponsored Transaction feature that facilitates smooth, uninterrupted trading.
Why Aptos?
Merkle's gamified trading experience—which offers streak-based rewards, loot boxes, missions and more—utilizes Aptos' unique capabilities, such as:
Sponsored Transactions: Ensuring users can trade without network gas fees.
Keyless Authentication: Meaning users can authenticate via their OIDC credentials, ensuring secure and frictionless access to their accounts.
On-Chain Multisig Accounts: Allowing users to migrate accounts to Walletless while maintaining full on-chain functionality, enabled by Merkle’s contribution to Aptos Improvement Proposal‑100.
These innovations demonstrate how Aptos empowers protocols like Merkle Trade to unlock new possibilities for dApp design and usability.
Merkle’s Vision for the Future
Merkle Trade envisions a future where trading is seamless, social and innovative. As part of its 2025 roadmap, the platform is focused on:
Expanding Asset Offerings: Adding mid-cap assets to provide more trading opportunities.
Enhancing the UX: Streamlining onboarding, making market discovery tools more intuitive and tailoring the trading interface for users of all experience levels.
Fostering Community: Launching social features like public profiles, achievements and seasonal events to make trading more interactive.
Supporting Builders: Introducing a comprehensive SDK and API suite, enabling developers to integrate Merkle Trade's capabilities into custom solutions and AI agents.
Enabling AI Infrastructure: Supporting AI trading frameworks—such as ElizaOS—to simplify agent deployment and ensure optimal execution for autonomous trading strategies.
Empowering the Next Generation of Traders
With Aptos, Merkle Trade is redefining the crypto trading experience by combining powerful infrastructure, and user-friendly features for users and developers alike.
The future of Merkle Trade is poised to lead the next wave of DeFi adoption thanks to its commitment to accessibility, engagement and innovation.