جی‌ام‌ایکس GMX / GMX

Check out our deep dive into GMX.

What is GMX?

GMX is a leading decentralized exchange (DEX) for trading perpetual swaps with up to 100X leverage on popular cryptocurrencies like BTC, ETH and more. The platform launched in September 2021 on the Ethereum Layer-2 blockchain Arbitrum. To date, GMX has a total trading volume of over $355B and 758K total users, making it one of the leading multichain Perpetual DEXs.

Nowadays, anyone can trade on GMX from Arbitrum, Avalanche blockchain, Solana (under the name GMTrade), Ethereum Mainnet, Base, BNB Chain, Botanix, and MegaETH.

Who Are the Founders of GMX?

The founding team is anonymous, however, the lead developer is likely @xdev_10 on Twitter.

What Makes GMX Unique?

GMX is a permissionless perpetual and spot exchange, providing users with a seamless trading experience across multiple public blockchains. The DEX is based on the DeFi principles of permissionlessness, transparency, and self-custody: users can trade on GMX directly from their own private wallet.

Instead of an order book model employed by centralized exchanges (CEXs), trading is enabled via permissionless liquidity pools. This represents an innovation to the automated market model (AMM) deployed by DEXs like Uniswap. GMX V1 utilised a multi-asset pool (GLP), while GMX V2 uses isolated GM liquidity pools and GLV liquidity vaults built on top of these pools. These are permissionless and generate revenue for liquidity providers: anybody can deposit liquidity in GM or GLV and earn fees — in fact, more than 45,000 users earn as LPs on the popular GMX platform.

GLV operates as a multi-asset liquidity pool (LP) based on 50% ETH or BTC paired with 50% USDC, which automatically shifts its liquidity to the top-performing GMX markets. This dynamic liquidity allocation mechanism boosts capital efficiency and maximises rewards for liquidity providers.

Market prices on GMX are provided through low-latency Chainlink Data Streams, a pull-based oracle model that collects aggregated token price data from all the top exchanges.

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How Many GMX Coins Are There in Circulation?

At the time of writing, the GMX token's circulating supply is over 10M. The expected maximum supply is 13.25M GMX tokens.