Vision
One account. One engine. Every market. Any chain.
Vortum is the on-chain prime brokerage — spot, perpetuals, lending, predictions, and managed vaults unified with cross-margined collateral and native multi-chain settlement.
No bridges. No wrapped tokens. No fragmented liquidity. One platform that does what today requires five protocols and three bridges.
Why a Unified Platform?
Today's DeFi is fragmented. Trading perpetuals, lending assets, and managing collateral means juggling multiple protocols across multiple chains — separate accounts, separate risk, separate liquidity.
Vortum takes a different approach: one unified system, atomically composable. Every product shares the same accounts, the same collateral pool, and the same settlement layer — no bridges between components, no cross-protocol risk.
| Fragmented DeFi | Vortum |
|---|---|
| Separate accounts per protocol | One account for everything |
| Bridge assets between chains | Native multi-chain via Chain Fusion |
| Isolated collateral | Cross-margined collateral |
| Idle capital earns nothing | Idle capital earns yield automatically |
| MEV on every interaction | No mempool, no MEV |
Feature Blueprints
| Feature | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Perpetual Contracts | 🔄 In Progress | Leverage trading with funding rates and cross-margin |
| Transfusion | 📐 Designed | Deposit on any chain, withdraw on any chain — one balance, no bridging |
| Lending Protocol | 📐 Designed | Orderbook-based money market with term structure and DeFi's first yield curve |
| Prediction Markets | 📐 Designed | Binary and multi-outcome event markets with autonomous resolution |
| Curated Vaults | 📐 Designed | Curator-managed yield vaults allocating across lending, perps, and LP |
Perpetual Contracts
Leverage trading up to 100x on the same matching engine that powers spot — no custom L1 required. Multi-source oracle pricing via HTTPS outcalls, autonomous funding settlement every 8 hours, isolated and cross margin modes, and a graduated liquidation cascade with insurance fund backstop. No MEV, no keepers, no front-running — built on ICP, without the overhead of launching a dedicated chain.
Transfusion
Transfusion gives users a single, chain-agnostic balance. Deposit USDC on Solana, withdraw it on Ethereum — the canister controls addresses on every chain via threshold cryptography and fulfills withdrawals directly. No bridges, no wrapped tokens. When vault liquidity is insufficient, an intent-based system (ERC-7683) with LP pools and external solvers ensures instant fulfillment.
Lending Protocol
Rate = Price. Lend = Ask. Borrow = Bid. The existing matching engine handles lending orders identically to spot orders. Multiple duration books (1D, 7D, 30D, 90D) create a real-time yield curve — the foundation of fixed-income pricing that doesn't exist in DeFi today. Liquidations are canister-executed with no MEV.
Prediction Markets
Each outcome in a prediction event is its own orderbook, trading outcome shares against USDC. Price = probability. A 3-outcome event creates 3 independent orderbooks linked by event ID. Resolution is autonomous — the canister queries external APIs via HTTPS outcalls and settles via a 24-hour dispute window.
Curated Vaults
Professional curators — quant teams, DeFi funds, DAOs — manage yield vaults that allocate depositor capital across Vortum's own products: lending rate books, perp funding capture, and LP provision. Depositors get passive yield. Curators earn performance fees. Everything is non-custodial and transparent. Because every product is atomically composable, reallocation is a single call — no cross-protocol risk, no bridge exposure, no governance-gated strategy updates.
The Vortum Stack
Every product shares the same infrastructure:
One Engine, Many Markets
The same orderbook that matches spot trades also matches lending rate orders, prediction shares, and perpetual contracts. Adding a new product means adding a new market type — not new infrastructure.