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Over the past three years, Orbs has become the execution layer behind some of the most active decentralized trading venues in the industry. Liquidity Hub, dTWAP, dLIMIT, and dSLTP are live across 30+ integrations on 10+ chains, with $2.5 billion in spot volume processed since 2023. The protocols are non-custodial, gasless, MEV-protected, and run on audited smart contracts with no admin keys.
Until now, this infrastructure has reached thousands of users through DEX front-ends. Retail traders on PancakeSwap, SushiSwap, QuickSwap, THENA, and others. The technology was always institutional-grade. The packaging wasn't.
Today, Orbs is announcing Orbs Institutional, the same battle-tested execution stack, purpose-built for trading desks, OTC desks, treasuries, custodians, wallets, and institutional platforms.
The conversation around institutional DeFi adoption has shifted from "if" to "how." Regulatory clarity is improving across major jurisdictions. On-chain treasuries are growing. And trading desks are exploring decentralized execution not as an experiment, but as real infrastructure.
What they keep running into is a gap. The execution tools available on-chain don't meet institutional requirements. Order types are primitive. Custody models are unclear. Compliance trails are incomplete. And most solutions still require trusting a centralized intermediary, which defeats the entire purpose of going on-chain.
Orbs has spent years solving exactly these problems for DEXs. The protocols that power aggregated liquidity, limit orders, TWAP execution, and stop-loss automation are the same primitives institutions need. They just need to be accessible through institutional workflows.
At the center of Orbs Institutional is Liquidity Hub, the same aggregation layer already powering execution across leading DEXs.
Liquidity Hub aggregates every major DEX alongside professional market makers through a private RFQ layer. The result is best available on-chain pricing on every trade. No mempool exposure. No sandwich attacks. Every fill is bounded by a cosigned price oracle, meaning clients can't be filled at a bad price even if the chain misbehaves. The price they sign is the price they get.
For institutions, this matters because current alternatives leave a lot on the table. OTC desks carry hidden spreads of 2 to 10 basis points. Comparable on-chain aggregation solutions charge 25 bps or more to integrators, who then mark it up further, with all-in costs often reaching 30 to 50 bps for end users. Orbs Institutional starts at 3 bps and scales down to 0.5 bps at volume. No stacking, no hidden fees, full execution transparency.
This isn't theoretical pricing. It's what the infrastructure already delivers in production across billions in volume.
Beyond Liquidity Hub, the full suite of Orbs execution products is available:
These are the order types institutional traders already use every day. The difference is they now work on-chain, from the client's own wallet, with a full audit trail.
Assets never leave the client's wallet. Orders sign from whatever signer the institution already trusts and settle back to the same wallet. The architecture is compatible with any institutional signer, in-house solution, or any architecture that supports EIP-712. No custody handoff. No counterparty exposure. Every order produces a deterministic on-chain trail covering trades, slippage, fills, and routing decisions.
This is not a new build. Orbs Institutional is a repackaging of infrastructure that has processed $2.5B+ in spot volume since 2023, across 30+ venue integrations on 10+ chains. Live since 2017, no known exploits, no material downtime, audited by leading security firms, running on immutable contracts with no admin keys. PancakeSwap, SushiSwap, QuickSwap, THENA, and dozens of other venues already trust this in production.
Orbs Institutional serves two audiences:
Institutional users directly. Trading desks, OTC desks, DAO treasuries, asset managers, and payment platforms get API access to the full execution stack. Connect a signer, configure parameters, and trade.
Infrastructure and access partners. Wallets, custodians, exchanges, MPC providers, and prime brokers can embed Orbs execution inside their existing platform. Co-branded or fully white-labeled. The Orbs team handles integration engineering. Partners earn a revenue share on all flow their clients bring.
For the Orbs community, Institutional represents a significant new distribution channel. The same L3 execution layer, the same validator network, the same protocols, now serving an additional and potentially high-volume market segment.
Institutional flow tends to be larger and more consistent than retail. More volume through existing rails means more network activity, more protocol revenue, and a stronger foundation for the role ORBS staking plays in securing production infrastructure. This is a direct expansion of what Orbs already does well, aimed at users who have been waiting for exactly this kind of on-chain execution quality.
For institutional teams exploring on-chain execution, or infrastructure providers looking to embed professional trading capabilities, the Orbs team is ready to talk.
About Orbs
Orbs is a decentralized Layer-3 (L3) blockchain designed specifically for advanced on-chain trading. Utilizing a Proof-of-Stake consensus, Orbs acts as a supplementary execution layer, facilitating complex logic and scripts beyond the native functionalities of smart contracts. Orbs-powered protocols, including dLIMIT, dTWAP, dSLTP, Liquidity Hub, and Perpetual Hub, push the boundaries of DeFi by introducing CeFi-level execution to on-chain trading.
With a global team of over thirty dedicated contributors based in Tel Aviv, London, New York, Tokyo, Seoul, Lisbon, and Limassol, Orbs continues to innovate at the forefront of blockchain technology.
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