QuickSwap Goes All-In on Orbs for Perpetual Futures Trading

QuickSwap, one of the oldest names in decentralized exchange trading, has officially rolled out Orbs’ Perpetual Hub Ultra 2.0 as the default engine powering perpetual futures across every chain it operates on. The decision wasn’t made behind closed doors. It came after a community vote, “Full Shift of Decentralized Perpetuals to Orbs Network,” which cleared with a decisive 81.8% approval from QUICK token holders.

The shift effectively retires the Orderly-based Falkor setup that had been running on Polygon PoS, replacing it with the same Orbs-driven architecture that QuickSwap already introduced on Base back in the fourth quarter of 2025. It’s not a cold start, either. QuickSwap and Orbs have been working together for years at this point, with tools like dTWAP, dLIMIT, and Liquidity Hub already live in production on both Polygon PoS and Base.

Ran Hammer, VP of Business Development at Orbs, framed the announcement as something bigger than a routine infrastructure swap. “This is what the next phase of DeFi looks like: a top-tier DEX running a complete perps stack natively on Layer-3, with liquidity from day one and execution quality that rivals centralized venues,” he said. He also pointed to the vote itself as a signal of where the industry is heading, adding, “An 81.8% community vote says it all – decentralized markets are ready to compete with traditional finance on its own terms.”

Full-Service Perpetual Trading Stack

What QuickSwap gets out of the deal, in practical terms, is a full-service perpetual trading stack that doesn’t lean on outside providers. Execution, settlement, hedging, liquidation, pricing, and the trading interface itself are all handled natively through Orbs’ Layer-3 infrastructure. There’s no bootstrapping period to worry about, either; liquidity is pulled in from day one through Orbs’ integrated system, which taps into several deep liquidity sources at once rather than relying on a single pool building up over time.

Under the hood, the platform runs on a TEE-secured execution environment, meaning trades are processed inside a trusted, hardware-isolated setting rather than out in the open. Price feeds come in cryptographically signed, and the resulting state is periodically committed on-chain through rollup settlement, giving traders a verifiable record without sacrificing speed.

On the trading side, users get access to the usual order types, market, limit, stop-loss, take-profit, along with more advanced bracket orders. Convenience features like one-click trading, account abstraction, and gasless transactions are also part of the package, lowering the friction that’s historically kept some traders away from on-chain platforms.

QuickSwap itself needs little introduction to anyone who’s spent time in DeFi. It’s been running since 2020 and remains the top exchange within the Polygon ecosystem, expanding over the years from Polygon PoS into Polygon zkEVM and Base while holding onto its reputation as Polygon’s flagship DEX.

Like much of its infrastructure, the exchange is steered by its community through QUICK token governance, which is exactly the mechanism that greenlit this latest move. Orbs, for its part, operates as a decentralized Layer-3 network built specifically to handle the kind of complex trading logic that standard smart contracts struggle with.

Its validator network runs on delegated Proof-of-Stake, backed by more than 1.12 billion ORBS tokens staked across the system. Both teams are pitching this integration as a step toward closing the gap between decentralized and centralized trading venues, not just in terms of speed and cost, but in the overall experience, while still keeping self-custody and on-chain transparency intact for users.