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Orderly Preview Light Orderly is trading infrastructure for partners that want to build their own trading experience on top of shared liquidity. Instead of building a matching engine, liquidity network, and settlement stack from scratch, builders integrate Orderly’s APIs, SDKs, and smart contracts to launch their own product. Orderly is not a consumer-facing exchange. It is a headless trading backend that sits underneath partner applications and powers the account, trading, market data, and settlement flows those applications expose to their own users. The core model is simple: your team owns the product, frontend, branding, and user relationship, while Orderly provides the trading infrastructure underneath.

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Who Orderly Is For

  • DEX builders and trading apps: Launch a branded perps experience on top of shared liquidity instead of operating a standalone venue.
  • Wallets, custodians, and partner platforms: Add trading functionality to an existing product without building the full backend trading stack yourself.
  • Trading teams and API integrators: Connect programmatically to trading, account, and market data interfaces while using the same core infrastructure as partner front ends.

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Why Teams Build On Orderly

  • You keep the frontend and user relationship: Your team controls the product experience while Orderly handles the backend trading stack.
  • You connect to shared liquidity instead of starting from zero: Builders plug into a common trading backend and shared orderbook rather than trying to bootstrap isolated liquidity market by market.
  • You get CEX-like trading performance with on-chain settlement: Orderly combines low-latency trading infrastructure with documented on-chain deposit, withdrawal, and settlement flows.
  • You get a builder-friendly business model: Partners can define their own end-user fee structure on top of Orderly’s base fee model.

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What Orderly Provides

Orderly’s primary product is omnichain trading infrastructure for perpetual futures. In practical terms, that includes:
  • shared liquidity and orderbook access
  • account, order, and market data APIs
  • smart contract rails for deposit, withdrawal, and settlement
  • partner-facing controls for fees, referrals, and operational workflows

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Why Omnichain Matters

Orderly’s architecture is designed so partner applications can serve users across supported chains while connecting into the same trading system and shared orderbook. That reduces the need to fragment liquidity by chain and makes it easier to deliver a consistent trading experience from a single partner product. If you want the system-level view, start with the System Overview, which explains how the Asset Layer, Settlement Layer, and Engine Layer fit together.

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How You Can Build On Orderly

Different teams need different levels of control. Builders can choose between:
  • Direct API access: Build your own backend and frontend against Orderly’s REST and WebSocket interfaces.
  • SDKs and connectors: Use our React SDK, Hooks SDK, or Python connector to accelerate implementation.
  • Partner onboarding support: Work with Orderly on builder setup, launch planning, and operational readiness when needed.
Orderly also has complementary product areas and programs, such as Orderly One and Orderly OmniVault, but those sit alongside the core builder integration story rather than replacing it.

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Why We Are Building This

Orderly’s mission is to make it easier for partners to build and scale trading products without rebuilding the entire market infrastructure themselves. That means reducing two of the hardest problems in launching a trading venue: liquidity is difficult to bootstrap, and infrastructure is expensive to build and maintain. The goal is not just more trading interfaces. It is a stronger ecosystem of partner products built on common infrastructure.

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Where To Start