Orbs Deepened Onchain Liquidity Last Year: This Year It’s Making DeFi More CeFi
After 12 months of integrations and partnerships galore, Orbs is eager to hit the ground running in 2025. It’s got a new product to push – or technically an enhanced one in the form of Liquidity Hub V2. But so drastic are the upgrades that to all intents and purposes V2 feels like a new release. But before Orbs starts pushing out the latest cornerstone of its tech stack to DEXs far and wide, it’s intent on reflecting how far it’s come – and what still needs to be achieved.
While, by any measure, 2024 was a phenomenally successful year for Orbs, its team is aware that there’s more work to be done. On the one hand, Orbs’ primary products – dLIMIT, dTWAP, Liquidity Hub, and Perpetual Hub – were integrated far and wide last year. On the other hand, liquidity and trading experience is still suboptimal on dozens of DEXs and L2s. Orbs may have won fans on every chain it’s connected to, but the long tail of DEXs have yet to plug in and start taking advantage of its liquidity layer.
Why Orbs Matters
The promise of decentralized finance – open access, self-custody, and an array of financial services from lending to trading – is incredible. Yet for many projects, bridging the gap between vision and execution remains a challenge. Liquidity, interoperability, and scalability continue to pose hurdles and as the industry expands, there remain concerns that DeFi will never fulfill its potential unless it can solve these outstanding problems.
Newer, faster L1s and L2s are all well and good, but the liquidity fragmentation they exacerbate risks impairing onchain trading for all users in the process. Which is where Orbs comes in and why it made such headway last year, at a time of massive expansion to the omnichain landscape. It should be noted that Orbs’ contribution to DeFi didn’t just take place at the protocol level either: it was also busy on the investment front.
Orbs led a $10 million strategic funding round for Harris & Trotter, an accounting firm specializing in digital assets. In the process, Orbs showed its willingness to tackle the broader infrastructure challenges that can limit DeFi’s growth. Around the same time, it also made a strategic investment in Fenix Finance, one of the first DEXs to spring up on Blast. For Fenix, the infusion of capital and expertise from Orbs represented not just financial backing but also an opportunity to tap into Orbs’ broader network of liquidity providers and technical resources.
Integrations Everywhere
For the most part, 2024 was a year of high-profile partnerships that attested to Orbs’ growing influence in the DeFi sphere. The collaboration between Orbs and THENA culminated in its token receiving a Binance listing, highlighting Orbs’ knack for identifying the most promising protocols in a sea of similar looking services. Orbs also invested in THENA, and integrated its Liquidity Hub for the benefit of traders on the BNB Chain DEX.
Other DEXs that bolted Orbs’ tech into their backend last year include SushiSwap, Lynex, PancakeSwap, QuickSwap, SYMMIO, and loads more. Some went for Liquidity Hub; others went for its dTWAP and dLIMIT protocols; while others went for all three. The latter two have proven Orbs’ most popular products to date thanks to their ease of integration and the tangible boost they grant DEX users, who instantly have the ability to set limit orders and DCA into assets.
While Orbs will be doubling down on its efforts to integrate dTWAP and dLIMIT far and wide this year, its primary strategy centers around Liquidity Hub, V2 of which arrived in December and which has the potential to bring Orbs closest to its grand goal in 2025: bringing CeFi features onchain.
Reinventing Liquidity Provision with Liquidity Hub V2
Liquidity Hub V2 introduces a set of improvements aimed at making DEX liquidity provision more efficient than ever, both for the protocols themselves and for their end-users. As Orbs explains, “By combining real-time fee optimization, continuous AMM price monitoring, and provable outcomes through LH Explorer, V2 delivers better execution prices for traders, full transparency and confidence in every trade, and enhanced competitiveness for DEX operators, enabling them to attract more liquidity providers and traders.”
In 2025, Orbs is now intent on bringing CeFi-level execution to DeFi. The goal is bold: to replicate the reliability and user experience that institutional and retail investors have come to expect on centralized exchanges, without compromising the transparency and decentralization that define Defi. With Liquidity Hub V2 as a springboard, Orbs is confident it can eliminate friction points such as high slippage, slow transaction speeds, and complex user interfaces.
The hope is that by providing a CeFi-grade trading environment, DeFi can attract the broader audience and institutional capital it needs to become a true alternative to legacy finance. In a market where liquidity is a make-or-break factor, there’s a lot riding on the widespread adoption of products such as Liquidity Hub. Orbs has done the hard part in building and refining the tech to make deep onchain liquidity possible. Now it’s a case of rolling it out far and wide to prove that DeFi can match CeFi for user experience.
It’s a huge undertaking, but buoyed by its successes on multiple fronts last year, Orbs is confident that it can succeed in making onchain liquidity great.
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