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    Brine Fi challenges Coinbase, Binance with decentralized exchange as it nets Pantera-led $16.5M round

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    After the collapse of FTX, crypto merchants have been on the lookout for decentralized, non-custodial and safer methods to execute orders and retailer their property. This explains why some decentralized crypto exchanges (DEXs) like Brine Fi are getting investor curiosity even as VCs throughout the board proceed to maintain off the digital asset business.

    Brine is asserting a $16.5 million Series A at a post-money valuation of $100 million as buyers seem bullish concerning the new orderbook-based decentralized exchange. The DEX, of which “mainnet,” or its totally operational community, launched merely weeks in the past and has already gathered $500 million in buying and selling quantity, based on stats from Starkware, the Ethereum scaling resolution that powers Brine.

    DEXs, as the title implies, perform transactions purely on blockchains, a distinction to centralized exchanges (CEXs) that embrace client family names like FTX, Binance and Coinbase, which Brine sees as its closest opponents. Traders would possibly select DEX not only for full custody over their property however for privateness — CEXs are usually required to bear know-your-customer or KYC with native regulators, whereas laws round DEXs are nonetheless largely undefined because of the lack of a central get together.

    “While they are the safest way to trade, many traders opted for a CEX to counter higher trading fees on DEXs, price slippage, transaction fees ($5-$25 per transaction), liquidity issues, the absence of an orderbook, transaction delays and an inability to provide privacy on orders causing front-running attacks. All things that can impact profit margins and substantially increase the uncertainty of specific trades,” stated Shaaran Lakshminarayanan, Brine Fi co-founder, in a written response to Ztoog.

    “Keeping all these points in mind, we’ve built Brine Fi to let traders experience the best of both worlds, get access to the merits of a DEX and a CEX at the same place. Moreover, high volume traders and institutions don’t need to worry about front-running attacks anymore as we provide complete privacy on orders by using zkP (Zero Knowledge Proofs) technology which is backed by Starkware.”

    Orderbook and 0 data

    That’s a mouthful of crypto jargon — the takeaway is that Brine has discovered a manner to supply the advantages of CEX that aren’t usually out there in DEX. One of those is an orderbook.

    An orderbook, as in a standard inventory market, matches patrons and sellers primarily based on value and amount. It permits for sorts of orders not attainable on a DEX, which are perfect for institutional merchants as a result of it lets them higher handle their positions underneath completely different market circumstances and reduce slippage, the completely different commerce execution value than supposed.

    DEXs such as Uniswap, alternatively, function on a very completely different precept. Instead of matching patrons and sellers, DEXs enable merchants to exchange one kind of asset for one more by interacting with a pool of liquidity. So relatively than having costs be decided by different merchants, costs are set by a mathematical components used to keep up the general worth of the property deposited by liquidity suppliers.

    Brine says it’s additionally capable of stop “frontrunning” for merchants by leveraging zero-knowledge proof (ZKP), a cryptographic technique that has been choosing up steam just lately as customers search for extra transactional privateness. The approach, which is a manner of authenticating an announcement with out revealing the assertion itself, permits a transaction to be verified on a DEX with out revealing particulars of 1’s buying and selling place.

    The round was led by U.S.-based crypto investor Pantera Capital, with participation of Elevation Capital, Starkware Ltd., Spartan Capital, Goodwater Capital, Upsparks Ventures, Protofund Ventures and a variety of angel buyers.

    Lakshminarayanan stated Brine Fi is constructing for each retail and institutional merchants. For the previous, it’s launched a newbie mode and inked a deal with liquidity aggregation platforms like 0x to allow folks to simply begin buying and selling. The DEX goes after establishments like crypto hedge funds trying to transition away from centralized exchanges, that are presently driving a giant chunk of its transactions. During its testing part between February and June this yr, Brine claims to have processed 4 million transactions and surpassed a buying and selling quantity of greater than $1.6 billion.

    “Over the past month, Brine has been able to execute orders in milliseconds while remaining fully non-custodial. It has helped us onboard some of the largest hedge-funds, exchanges and high-frequency traders in the world by helping them diversify their asset allocation and mitigate counterparty risks,” stated Lakshminarayanan, who co-founded Brine with the agency’s CTO Bhavesh Praveen (CTO) and CDO Ritumbhara Bhatnagar.

    Regulation

    As centralized exchanges like Binance proceed to face regulatory scrutiny over their operations within the U.S. and claims of canvassing breaches and cash laundering in France, DEXs additionally face a danger of misuse as they aren’t required to abide by any Know Your Customer (KYC) and AML (Anti-Money Laundering) laws.

    The founder steered that laws would require DEXs to forfeit person anonymity, which is likely one of the appeals for customers preferring decentralized exchanges within the first place.

    “DEXs present an opportunity for unscrupulous bad actors to take advantage of the industry for money laundering purposes as well as other financial crimes. Because individual users don’t need to verify their identity or the source of their funds when they create an account with a decentralized exchange, it’s much easier for them to slip under the radar compared to traditional financial institutions. For this reason, many industry experts believe that it’s only a matter of time before decentralized exchanges find themselves subject to such regulations,” stated Lakshminarayanan.

    “With this in mind, it would be prudent for decentralized exchanges to recognize the potential for regulation and begin generating a framework for KYC and AML compliance in the event that it becomes required. At Brine we are already using providers such as Chainalysis and Merkle Science to ensure that we are taking the best measures to protect ourselves from such bad vectors,” he added.

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