How to Create a Perp DEX (Without Writing a Line of Code)

Launching a perpetual futures exchange used to mean raising millions, hiring a team of smart contract engineers, negotiating with market makers, and spending a year in development before your first trade.

Now you can create a perp DEX for free in about ten minutes.

Orderly One is a no-code platform that lets anyone launch a fully branded perpetual DEX on top of Orderly's omnichain orderbook. KOLs, trading communities, memecoin teams, funds, DAOs, and more have already created over 400 perp DEXs. Here's how it works, and why the perp DEX has quietly become one of the most accessible crypto businesses to start.

Why Create a Perp DEX?

Perpetual futures are one the highest-volume products in crypto. Traders want leverage, they want to long/short, and they increasingly want to do it on-chain with self-custody instead of trusting a centralized exchange with their funds.

The problem has always been supply-side: building a perp DEX from scratch is brutally hard. You need matching infrastructure, oracles, liquidations, risk engines, and hardest of all, liquidity. A perp exchange with an empty orderbook is a ghost town.

Orderly solves the hard parts at the infrastructure layer. Every DEX built on Orderly plugs into one shared omnichain orderbook, so a brand-new exchange launches with the same liquidity depth as one that's been live for years.

No cold start. No fragmented books. No begging market makers to quote your venue.

What You Get With Orderly One

When you create a perp DEX on Orderly One, you're not getting a toy frontend. You're getting a professional exchange:

• Launch in ~10 minutes, zero code. Pick your brand, configure your exchange, go live with a fully designed and tradeable frontend.
• Shared liquidity across 400+ DEXs. One unified orderbook means deep markets from day one.
• 130+ markets. Traders on Orderly DEXs can trade stocks, crypto, commodities, indexes, and more.
• 15 chains, multicollateral. Traders deposit and withdraw across chains and can post 7 different assets as collateral.
• Revenue. Your community trades, you earn.

There are dozens of additional customizations you can make to your DEX, including but not limited to:

• Multi-level Referrals
• Points Campaigns
• Permissionless Perp Listings
• Fee Rebates
• Permissionless Vaults
• Tools from other DEX builders
• Trading Competitions

That last point is the real unlock. A perp DEX isn't just a product; it's a business. If you have an audience that trades, whether that's a Discord, a following on X, or a token community, Orderly One turns that attention into fee revenue you own instead of volume you hand to someone else's exchange.

Check out Orderly One: dex.orderly.network

Who Is This For?

• KOLs and communities who want to monetize their audience's trading activity
• Token teams who want a perp market for their asset without waiting on a listing committee
• DeFi projects who want a turnkey solution to add another revenue stream
• Funds and prop firms who want a branded venue with institutional-grade infrastructure
• Builders who want to start a crypto exchange business without a dev team

Create Your Perp DEX Today

The barrier between “I have an audience” and “I run an exchange” is now ten minutes and zero lines of code.

Create your perp DEX at dex.orderly.network, and when you're ready to go further, permissionless listings let you bring entirely new markets to DeFi on your own terms.

FAQ

How much does it cost to create a perp DEX?

Launching a perp DEX on Orderly One requires no code and no development budget. You don't need to build infrastructure or bootstrap liquidity, since your exchange plugs into Orderly's shared orderbook from day one.

To unlock advanced features and add your own fees, you can “graduate” your DEX for only $10 as a one-time investment.

Do I need coding experience to launch a perp DEX?

No. Orderly One is fully no-code. You configure your branding and exchange settings through the platform and go live in roughly ten minutes. Developers who want deeper customization can also build with Orderly's SDK.

How does a perp DEX make money?

Every trade on a graduated Orderly exchange generates fees. Graduating an exchange requires a one-time $10 fee, and Orderly One operators can customize the fees that they charge.

The more your community trades, the more you earn. Learn more about our trading fees in our docs.

What's the difference between creating a perp DEX and listing a new perp market?

Creating a perp DEX means launching your own branded exchange on Orderly's shared liquidity. Anyone can do this with no code.

Listing a new perp market means adding a trading pair that doesn't yet exist on the network. That's permissionless in the sense that there are no approvals, but it requires:

• A supported price oracle
• A $25,000 USDC insurance fund
• A depth proof before the market goes public

Read more about permissionless listings here.

Which chains does a perp DEX built on Orderly support?

Orderly One exchanges are live across 15 chains with multicollateral support, so traders can deposit, withdraw, and post collateral across ecosystems while trading on one unified orderbook.

The full list of chains Orderly currently supports is:

• Arbitrum
• Optimism
• Polygon
• Base
• Mantle
• Ethereum
• Sei
• Avalanche
• Solana
• Sonic
• Berachain
• Mode
• Abstract
• BNB
• ADI Chain