Raydium (RAY)

Basics

• Based in:
• Started in / Announced on: 9-2020
• Mainnet release: 19-2-2021
• A decentralized exchange running on Solana.

History

• From TheTie (25-5-2021):

"Raydium was founded by former prop traders who got into crypto in December 2017 to trade arbitrage strategies on Bitcoin."

Token

Token Allocation

• From TheTie (25-5-2021):

1. "Liquidity Mining 34%
2. Partnerships and Ecosystem 30%
3. Team 20%
4. Liquidity 8%
5. Community & Seed Funding 6%
6. Advisors 2%

There is a hard cap of 555 million RAY. The total RAY mining reserve consists of 34% of all tokens, or 188.7M RAY. Emissions will last for approximately 36 months, with halvenings occurring every six months."

Utility

• From TheTie (25-5-2021): "0.03% of trading fees will be awarded to RAY stakers."

Technology

• Whitepaper can be found [insert here].
• Code can be viewed [insert here].

Implementations

• Built on: Solana

How it works

• From TheTie (25-5-2021):

"Unlike other AMMs who are only able to access liquidity within their own pools, think Uniswap/PancakeSwap/Sushi, Raydium provides liquidity to Serum’s on-chain central limit order book, granting ecosystem-wide access to all order flow and liquidity on Serum. With the help of Serum, Raydium has brought order books to AMMs, allowing traders to exchange the tokens they are willing to trade at any price. Traditional AMMs don’t allow you to change your price, so you’re almost always taking the worst price in the market. In addition to that, with so much overlapping liquidity in their different offerings, traders end up paying more for slippage because liquidity is fragmented throughout several different pools. Since Raydium provides liquidity to Serum’s CLOB, anyone on Serum can transact against that liquidity and vice versa. Raydium acts as a market maker, taking all the tokens accrued in its LPs to place a series of orders at different prices and sizes on to the orderbook using an equation called the constant product invariant."

Their Other Projects

AcceleRaytor

• Launchpad for IDOs on Raydium.
• From TheTie (25-5-2021):

"Users can participate in two different types of pools for each AcceleRaytor project; Community Pools and RAY Pools. Community Pools are open to the entire community, allowing anyone to participate whether they have used Raydium before or not. RAY Pools are only available for users who hold a minimum number of RAY tokens and have been staking it on Raydium for a set period of time. There are two primary token allocation models; a first come first serve model and guaranteed proportional model. The guaranteed proportional model gives all participants who contributed within the set time period an allocation proportional to their contributed funds as a percentage of total funds contributed. Any funds that exceed the max cap of the pool will be returned. After raising funds through AcceleRaytor, these projects can launch an IDO through Raydium liquidity pools. This will allow the community to quickly provide liquidity and trading the token. Projects can also offer LP farming rewards for LPs immediately after the IDO."

Fusion Pools

• From TheTie (25-5-2021):

"These Fusion Pools are essentially liquidity pools with two partner tokens from within the ecosystem. This allows for these projects to interact with their user base and reward them, in addition to getting an initial boost from the Raydium community. When tokens are added to a liquidity pool, Raydium issues a liquidity provider (LP) token to track what percentage of the pool the owner of this token represents. These tokens can then be farmed to receive rewards. Projects can also sponsor certain pools by adding tokens to a reward pool to further incentive users to hold project tokens and receive additional rewards while providing liquidity."

Roadmap

• Can be found [Insert link here].
• From TheTie (25-5-2021):

"Q4 2020

1. Ideation and project scope
2. Development of the protocol and iteration on testnet

Q1 2021

1. Development of liquidity pools and staking completed, mainnet launched
2. Website and platform launch
3. Development of cross-chain swap

Q2 2021

1. Research on additional market making models and features in partnership with other protocols

Q3 2021

1. Leverage of external oracles for improved market making
2. Governance model ideation in collaboration with partners"

Audits

• Bug bounty program can be found [insert here].

Usage

Projects that use or built on it

• SushiSwap; "A proposal on the SushiSwap forum details a plan to use Raydium as a bridge to bring the exchange onto Solana." (23-2-2021).

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Bankman-Fried told Crypto Briefing (24-2-2021):

"Because it provides liquidity on Serum orderbooks, it is able to provide to all the flow on Solana, not just users who seek it out; and it has the flexibility to provide in different ways in the future.”

Team, Funding, Partnerships, etc.

Team

• Full team can be found [here].
• AlphaRay; co-founder