Gradient

Creating efficient markets beyond AMMs.

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6 months ago, Gradient’s platform went live in beta.

Just over 60 days ago, Gradient opened its doors to all ERC-20 tokens trading on Uniswap.

To date, nearly $12,000,000 USD has been transacted with zero price impact - keeping an extra $700,000 in the pockets of 1,100 unique traders.

With @base & @BNBCHAIN now integrated, and @solana on the way, we’re welcoming even more traders to swap for less at https://t.co/ljmkfp6CD1

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Prime example of the need for Gradient.

solana:9cRCn9rGT8V2imeM2BaKs13yhMEais3ruM3rPvTGpump holders are stuck with paper value they can’t sell.

https://t.co/rmOXVGfIYY makes it possible. Live on EVM, coming to @solana soon.

[Atitty @Atitty]

Ansem is now sitting on $174m but if he sold he’d only get $1.1m

People said he’s the first trader to hit $100m+ off of memecoins

His bag isn’t even worth $2m

[douglas @dglace22]

We’re entering the third quarter, and it’s been a difficult six months for the web3 space.

Gradient has felt this pain especially. We cater mainly to traders of lowcap tokens, and that’s the corner of the market that always gets crushed hardest in a bear.

I’ll start by saying the problem we built Gradient to solve is still very much alive.

Declining volume has made it hard for an emerging startup like us to establish a presence. It’s set us back, but it hasn’t ended us.

When Gradient launched, it proved how effective the platform could be. Users saved an average of 6–8 cents on every dollar they traded— over $700k in savings on low eight figures of total volume. It worked exactly as intended, and we were growing week over week at a huge rate.

Then adoption slowed. The core projects we started with began to decline, and as they faded, so did their communities. People who no longer traded had no reason to use Gradient or tell a friend, and that quietly took our growth plan apart. It left us active only where we’d started, in our own community— which was no longer a path to scaling.

Gradient is permissionless. Any coin on ETH, BASE, and BNB can be traded here, price-impact free, against either a counterparty or a market maker. The trouble is that both are hard to find right now. In this market, the incentives simply aren’t there.

If you’ve read this far, you’ve probably spotted the chicken-and-egg problem: Gradient is incredibly useful when people are actively trading lowcaps that last longer than a few days, and not very useful when they aren’t.

$GRAY has suffered alongside, it captures fees, and fees track volume- so when volume dried up, the token followed.

That isn’t a side effect we’re hiding from; it’s the mechanism working as designed, in a market that stopped giving it anything to work with.

I won’t pretend there’s a lever we can pull to change that on its own, separate from volume and mindshare coming back. There isn’t.

What I can tell you is what we’re doing in the meantime.

Solana integration:

We’re bringing Gradient to @Solana the most active lowcap market in crypto right now, and an entirely new addressable audience for us.

Rethinking how lowcaps launch and trade:

Gradient’s mission has always been more efficient lowcap markets, swaps were the easy target. The deeper problems sit upstream in how tokens launch, how early liquidity forms, and how they go on to trade. We’ve spent a long time inside these mechanics, and we’re researching and developing ways to fix them. As tokenization takes hold, the venues where assets launch and trade will matter more than ever.

- Douglas

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Gradient launched a year ago today.

We thank everyone who has & continues to supported the platform.

Gradient has enabled over 8 figures of price-impact free trading so far, with nearly a million extra dollars being kept in the pocket of traders.

The only place to swap for less is on https://t.co/ljmkfp6CD1

We look forward to another great year ahead.

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Track the total amount of savings made by Gradient users now on our Dune.

https://t.co/Af7RQaRfPJ

Gradient has now kept over $700k in the pockets of traders.

Only possible on https://t.co/BxXW5AHNxV

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The Gradient now supports tokens trading on @pancakeswap on BSC, the leading DEX on the Binance Smart Chain.

Trade your favorite BEP20 tokens price impact free today, only on https://t.co/BxXW5AHNxV

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A refreshed user experience just landed.

One box, one swap, more savings.

https://t.co/4dOZRpDoZs

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https://t.co/ITCd9uiH2U

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The Gradient’s dune dashboard now reflects our latest contract updates.

https://t.co/Af7RQaRfPJ

Now nearing $12M in price-impact free trades, executed by over 1,000 unique users.

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The Gradient now supports the trading of both @BASE and @BNBCHAIN tokens on Uniswap.

Expanded DEX support is around the corner, announcements to follow here on X.

Trade for less today.
https://t.co/BxXW5AHNxV

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Phase 4 is all about growth.

Explore the Gradient’s latest roadmap.

https://t.co/OluAemFF7A

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Import the contract address in the search bar to trade your favorite ERC20 pair.

We feature both partners & top 20 coins by volume on the swap.

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The Gradient now supports the trading of all ERC20 Tokens on @Uniswap V2 & V3.

Navigate to https://t.co/BxXW5AIlnt and swap price-impact free today.

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The Gradient is opening it’s doors to all ERC-20 tokens trading on @Uniswap v2 & v3 this Monday!

Mark your calendars, price impact free trading is coming to a coin near you.

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The Gradient v1.1 has been completed.

The update included:
- Support for UNI-v3 pairs.
- Automatic Fallback.
- UI Upgrades.
- Public Marketing Making.

A new phase for Gradient begins shortly.

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Public Market Making is here.

Providing liquidity on the Gradient is no longer limited to token teams. As of today anyone can begin market making on the Gradient.

Get started here: https://t.co/jNee0ACylI

This marks the final update ahead of Gradient opening its doors to all tokens!

Announcements pertaining to the full release to be posted here on our X.

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With automatic fallback your trades fulfill at the best possible price, every single time.

Use Gradient as you would any traditional swap - except you save on every click.

Now live on: https://t.co/ljmkfp6CD1

Enabling the switch means orders will first route through both flash & matching layers.

Should any part of the order remain unfulfilled by the end of its TTL, it will automatically route through Gradient’s native aggregator and executes on DEX.

The order cancels if market price is no longer within your specified range at the time of expiry.

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The Gradient has now reached $11,000,000 in volume.

That’s $11M traded with zero price-impact.

Only possible on https://t.co/BxXW5AIlnt

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Users can now view both their savings per trade and total savings while trading on Gradient.

Total amount saved applies to transactions made on the new v1.1 contract and will not reflect previous trades made before the update.

Swap for less, only on https://t.co/BxXW5AIlnt

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Learn more about zkCLOB: https://t.co/1DOyhdr5Vh

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The @zkCLOB team has added liquidity to the Z/ETH pair on the Gradient.

We thank them for their contribution to helping traders avoid price-impact.

zkCLOB combines on-chain order books with zero-knowledge privacy for spot trading.