RISE, the fastest Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain, has announced a new strategic direction with the launch of RISE MarketCore and RISEx, positioning itself as the home for global onchain markets. This evolution transitions RISE from a high-performance execution layer into a comprehensive ecosystem for onchain trading, bolstered by the recent acquisition of BSX Labs, which contributed key technology to the offering.
For the first time, orderbooks can operate entirely onchain, addressing latency and complexity issues that previously made traditional financial market structures incompatible with blockchain. RISE's performance advancements enable deep liquidity, programmability, and composability, revolutionizing onchain finance.
RISE MarketCore, built on RISE's ultra-low latency EVM, provides an orderbook infrastructure with shared liquidity, allowing permissionless launch of spot and perpetual markets. Future support is planned for options and prediction markets, offering native primitives, risk engines, and APIs at the base layer.
RISEx serves as the flagship Integrated Perpetuals DEX, combining DeFi with CEX-grade perpetuals for a premium trading experience. Every order, margin update, and settlement occurs synchronously onchain, ensuring transparency and composability for traders and market makers.
CEO Sam Battenally emphasized, "RISE was never just about building a faster blockchain. It's about enabling a new market structure for the internet," highlighting the platform's role as a programmable foundation for global finance.
Key capabilities include native orderbook infrastructure for spot and perpetuals, programmable instruments via SDKs and APIs, and a high-performance EVM with millisecond-class latency. RISEx enters closed mainnet this quarter, with public mainnet launch in early 2026, followed by permissionless deployment on RISE MarketCore. The roadmap includes expanding to options, structured products, and prediction markets.
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