Descripción
Verus is a perp DEX aggregator focused on best execution. With Verus, you never select a venue, you simply enter your desired trade and it is automatically routed to the venue with the best all-in execution. It is super simple to use, just sign up with an email or wallet and send Arbitrum USDC to your account. No manual signing or ETH for gas is ever required.
The automated routing includes CLOBs which is a differentiator to existing products. Furthermore, Verus has a more granular cost simulation model than those currently available (docs.verusapp.io) and existing solutions often charge high fixed fees leading to them not providing best execution. Some competitors have also poorly managed their community leading to a sharp decline in product usage and an even wider gap in the market.
DEX aggregators make up ~25% of daily DEX volume whereas perp DEX aggregators make up <1%. This is the UX problem that we are looking to solve. Our closed beta is already live with a round of KOLs testing and providing feedback. You can check out our X and the KOLs supporting us here: x.com/tradeverus.
Progreso del hackathon
Verus is a perp DEX aggregator that routes each trade to the venue with the lowest total cost (slippage, fees, funding/carry over hold duration, and deposit/withdraw cost), with gasless embedded-wallet UX so users never hold ETH or touch a private key. We worked from 25 May to 14 June 2026 and shipped everything below to production. It is live now for our private beta users across three releases (v0.2.0 to v0.3.0).
What we shipped during the buildathon:
1. Two new on-chain Arbitrum perp venues behind our existing venue abstraction. GMX V2 (pool-based) and Ostium (RWA-focused), both integrated as "onchain-perp" adapters where every order is a signed Arbitrum transaction, with cost models, candle data, market data, liquidation pricing, and referral wiring (PRs #75, #82, #84, #86, #89).
2. Fully gasless UX via Circle Paymaster v0.8 plus EIP-7702 Simple7702 smart accounts. Every USDC deposit, send, and on-chain trade pays gas in USDC and refunds in postOp, so users spend zero ETH (PRs #64, #70).
3. Cross-venue cost simulation engine. An hourly worker writes a durable cross-venue cost time series over a canonical 30-asset universe (20 crypto, 10 RWA) across six size tiers, feeding an admin dashboard, plus canonical per-venue ticker translation end-to-end (PRs #82, #83, #92).
4. Shareable PnL cards. X-first server-rendered OG cards for realized and unrealized PnL (PR #80).
5. Unified round-trip economics, savings single source of truth, and all-venue liquidation accounting so HL, Lighter, Orderly, GMX, and Ostium liquidations are recorded correctly (PRs #88, #66, #73, #93, #87, #90).
6. Lighter WebSocket reliability fix that ended a per-IP rate-limit reconnect storm (PR #85).
7. Security and infra hardening: input validation, CI CVE gate, Postgres advisory-lock on migrate-on-boot, credential migration, cold-start routing fix, and a sweep of user-reported bugs (PRs #65, #76, #72, #67, #94, #95, #91).
Pre-buildathon foundation (V1): three CLOB adapters (Hyperliquid, Lighter, Orderly), the cost-aware router and quote engine, the gateway API, Privy embedded and agentic wallets, and the web frontend. Buildathon PR range in the repo: #64 to #95. Full audit map with every PR tagged is in BUILDATHON.md(github repo)
