In a market driven by speed and community influence, there is no better time to consider launching your own DEX than now. This is especially true if you are a top trader offering tailored strategies and crypto alphas to your loyal online community on the streets of crypto twitter.

While trading revenues offers an immediate incentive to launch your DEX, building your own DEX helps you unlock the true value of Web3 –community, decentralization, and autonomy. With DEXs capturing a growing share of crypto trading volume, building your permissionless DEX is more than just following a growing trend; it is the future.

Enter Orderly Network, where permissionless building is not a luxury but a standard. You get access to cloud liquidity and an omnichain infrastructure designed for next-gen dApps, giving you the toolkit to build your own DEX without the traditional headaches.

Want proof? Check out how Veeno leveraged Orderly’s infrastructure to bring perps trading to life.

Why Consider Building a DEX?

For starters, Orderly offers substantial revenue potential: builders have earned over $11 million in trading fees across 62+ markets listed on the platform. This speaks volumes about the income-generating power a DEX can bring, especially if you’re a seasoned trader with influence among fellow traders. Owning a DEX might be the next logical step—and it’s more accessible than you might think, characterized by;

Simple, Fast Integration Process

Orderly provides one of the fastest, most cost-efficient paths to building a DEX, allowing you to get up and running in just days. Following a clear integration checklist, you can start by selecting compatible tools from Orderly’s tech stack—options include APIs, Python connectors, TypeScript SDK, React Hooks, and pre-built UI components. Each tool comes with thorough documentation, code examples, and proof-of-concept (PoC) resources, making it easy to begin building without a steep learning curve.

Cost-Effective Customization

As someone who understands your community’s trading preferences better than anyone, Orderly lets you craft a user experience that resonates with your audience. Our SDK allows you to integrate tools like TP/SL, real-time data feeds, and volume-based fee settings, providing advanced features without extensive technical demands, giving you complete control over how your DEX looks and operates.

Upon launch, you instantly gain access to over 62+ listed markets backed by industry renowned market makers powering liquidity on Orderly.

Additionally, the DeFi market eclipsed $100 billion in locked value in Q2 2024 and currently maintains a sideways trend in the face of uncertainty surrounding the upcoming US general elections. However, historical data suggests the crypto market tends to boom post-elections. Hence, building a DEX positions you right at the forefront of the next wave of DeFi users, alongside;

• Control Over Trading Dynamics: A custom DEX lets you shape trading tools, fees, and liquidity rules to fit your strategies and community needs.
• Revenue Potential: Each transaction on your DEX translates into real earnings, particularly as you hold influence over a large community that trusts your judgment.
• Strategic Flexibility: You can readily offer unique assets, align with DeFi trends, or integrate new features, particularly without waiting for centralized approval.

Pros and Cons of Launching Your DEX

Having given a hint into why building your own DEX isn’t such a crazy idea, here are some pros and cons of building your DEX.

Pros:

• Community Loyalty & Growth: Having a large online community that believes in your alphas could readily translate into huge trading volume on your DEX, helping you overcome one of the foremost challenges faced by new DEXs - user acquisition. All that's left is to build a solution that enhances the user experience, effectively converting followers into power users.
• Custom Trading Ecosystem: Use your DEX to showcase strategies and demonstrate mastery. You can include exclusive tokens, integrate AI agents, and offer custom strategies, showcasing how much you understand traders' pain points.
• Scalable Revenue: The more your community trades, the more revenue flows directly to your DEX.

Cons:

• Capital Requirements: Running a DEX takes serious capital for liquidity, security, and tech. If not managed well, these costs can eat into profits, especially during low market activity.
• User experience: DEXs aren’t quite as sleek as CEXs yet. Sure, orderbook DEXs can come close, but getting that buttery-smooth trading experience takes work. A less-than-seamless UX could leave traders longing for the CEX feel they’re used to.
• Liquidity Challenges: Low liquidity is a classic DEX struggle. Keeping those orderbooks full and spreads tight isn’t easy. Without deep liquidity, order books thin out, and spreads widen, making trades less efficient.

Fortunately, that’s where we come in. We do the heavy lifting, you build.

How Orderly Powers Permissionless Building

Orderly makes the complex simple. By providing cloud liquidity, any builder on Orderly gains access to a shared omnichain liquidity —a game-changer in permissionless building. Orderly offers robust infrastructure serving as the building block for next-gen dApps, and offering tools that allow anyone to build and deploy seamlessly.

Our infrastructure caters to native DeFi builders and traders looking to launch complex and modular products on an omnichain infrastructure that offers hyper-liquidity and CEX-like agility. This is made possible through our SDK solution and plug-and-play interface which simplifies integration and reduces building time.

What's left? Build your DEX in no time and lead your community to partake in the next phase of DeFi evolution. Just look at how Veenox leveraged Orderly’s permissionless infrastructure, delivering perps trading with a team of three. The era of permissionless innovation is here, and Orderly is leading the charge.

Building a DEX doesn’t have to be a moonshot—Orderly Network makes it achievable, scalable, and, most importantly, permissionless. Why wait for someone else to define your trading landscape when you could define it yourself?

The future is permissionless, build with Orderly today!