The Case for a Dark Pool Perp DEX (And Why It Might Be Time)
The recent market chaos has exposed a big flaw in DeFi: everyone can see your moves before you make them. On a perp DEX, that’s dangerous—your liquidation points are public, your large orders get front-run, and MEV bots feast on slippage. In TradFi, big players avoid this with dark pools (private order books 10x larger than public ones). So why don’t we have this on-chain?
A ZK-powered dark pool DEX could hide orders (or even deposits) until trades execute. No more:
Front-running your $1B buy
Hunters targeting your liquidation price
MEV bots jacking up your costs
Some argue transparency helps liquidity, but let’s be real—whales won’t trade where they’re exposed. The tech exists (ZK, encrypted mempools). Now’s the perfect time to build it.
Do I agree? Mostly. Dark pools work in TradFi because they’re regulated—on-chain, we’d need clever design to prevent abuse. But if done right? Game-changer for institutional DeFi.
Thoughts? Would you use a DEX where your trades stay hidden?
By the way this idea belongs to CZ
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