Key Takeaways
Quickswap approved Orbs with 81.8% support, unifying perps across supported blockchains.Orbs’ Layer 3 stack boosts dex execution, aiming to rival centralized exchanges from 2026 onward.Orbs secures 1.12B+ ORBS staked as Quickswap expands on-chain perpetual futures infrastructure.
A New Era for Decentralized Derivatives
Quickswap has adopted Orbs’ Perpetual Hub Ultra 2.0 as its default infrastructure for perpetual futures trading across all supported chains, following a community governance vote that saw 81.8% of QUICK token holders back the transition.
The vote, titled “Full Shift of Decentralized Perpetuals to Orbs Network,” replaces Quickswap’s previous Orderly-powered Falkor deployment on Polygon PoS and expands on the Orbs-based perpetuals platform the exchange launched on Base in late 2025. Quickswap and Orbs have collaborated for several years, with the decentralized exchange running Orbs-powered features such as dTWAP, dLIMIT, and Liquidity Hub across Polygon and Base.
Ran Hammer, vice president of business development at Orbs, said the upgrade signals a shift in how decentralized derivatives platforms compete. “This is what the next phase of DeFi looks like: a top-tier DEX running a complete perps stack natively on Layer 3, with liquidity from day one and execution quality that rivals centralized venues,” Hammer said. “An 81.8% community vote says it all — decentralized markets are ready to compete with traditional finance on its own terms.”
Perpetual Hub Ultra 2.0 delivers a full perpetual futures stack, including execution, settlement, hedging, liquidation, pricing, and a professional trading interface. The system runs entirely on Orbs’ Layer 3 infrastructure without third-party dependencies. Liquidity is available immediately through integrated routing across multiple deep venues, removing the need for bootstrapping at launch.
The platform uses a TEE-secured execution environment that expands progressively and relies on cryptographically signed price feeds. State roots are committed on-chain through rollup settlement.
Quickswap, launched in 2020, is one of DeFi’s longest-running exchanges and the leading trading venue in the Polygon ecosystem. QUICK token holders govern the platform, which operates on Polygon PoS and Base. Orbs is a decentralized Layer 3 network secured by delegated proof-of- stake, with more than 1.12 billion ORBS staked across its permissionless validator set.
Both teams say making Perpetual Hub Ultra 2.0 the default infrastructure positions decentralized exchanges to compete more directly with centralized platforms on execution quality, capital efficiency, and user experience — while maintaining on-chain transparency and self-custody.
