# Market Makers

Market makers play a crucial role in **Optimex**, providing real-time **rates** and settling trades **directly with users**. Unlike traditional models, market makers **do not need to commit liquidity on-chain**; they can **maintain their inventory elsewhere** and only move assets when a trade is confirmed.

To ensure reliability and prevent **Sybil attacks**, market makers must **stake a security deposit**, which also acts as an incentive to fulfill trades. Initially, **Optimex** will launch with a **select group of reputable market makers** for efficiency.

In the future, a **reputation system** will track market makers’ success rates—measuring the ratio of **successful trades to total trades**—with a similar system applicable to solvers.

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<summary><strong>Meet our Market Makers</strong></summary>

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*Tokka Labs is a leading proprietary trading firm specializing in high frequency onchain trading strategies. Known for its rigorous research, advanced technology, and collaborative approach, the firm designs and operates its own trading systems to serve as market makers, searchers, and solvers for top DeFi protocols, cross-chain bridges, and intent-based frameworks. With over $50 million in capital deployed across more than 70+ venues, Tokka Labs delivers dependable liquidity and drives market efficiency across some of the most active and complex onchain ecosystems.*

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*Kipseli Capital is a pioneer in on-chain market making, providing liquidity on-chain since 2018. Having processed billions in on-chain volume, they consistently offer deep liquidity at competitive rates. Kipseli is integrated with all major RFQ protocols and aggregators, and has deployed more than $25 million in capital on the Ethereum mainnet alone. Their robust infrastructure ensures high reliability and uptime.*

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In addition to the **market makers** already onboard, we’re actively bringing in **more top-tier market makers** to further enhance our **service quality** and ensure the **most competitive rates** in the market.


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