# Overview (/docs/risex/about/overview)

RISEx is the unified exchange where the orderbook, margin, yield, and DeFi all exist within a single system. Traders can earn yield while using the same capital as margin, execute multi-step perp strategies atomically, and arbitrage across markets instantly. This creates unique strategies that are impossible on other exchanges.

Today, that means institutional-grade crypto perps with flexible collateral and programmable trading accounts. Tomorrow, that means equities, forex, commodities, and any asset with a price feed.

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## What makes RISEx different?

Before RISEx Orderbook DEXs took two approaches, the offchain matching or dual-core execution. Both of these approaches introduce fragmentation between the exchange and the rest of DeFi.

RISEx makes no such tradeoff. The orderbook lives onchain and shares state with all of DeFi. Same block. Same transaction. Full atomicity. When you trade on RISEx, your order, your collateral, and every DeFi protocol on RISE exist in a single execution environment with unified liquidity.

This isn't just a better exchange. It's programmable market infrastructure. Use any ERC20 as collateral. Build modular sub-accounts that automate strategies or create new order types. Compose across lending markets, vaults, and the orderbook in one transaction. The design space that opens up when execution and liquidity are truly unified. That's what we're building for.

We call this Unified Exchange. Leverage anything, trade everything.

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## Key Features

**For users**

* **Permissionless Portfolio Margin**: Leverage everything. Use any supported collateral, LP positions, lending deposits, yield-bearing assets—as margin for your trades, with risk calculated across your entire portfolio.
* **AutoYield**: Put your idle collateral to work. Earn yield on your collateral while you trade, powered by onchain yield.

**For builders**

* **Unmatched Performance**: 1ms execution with a target of 50k TPS, powered by RISE's continuous execution pipeline and sub-50ms block times.
* **Synchronous Composability**: Orderbooks share state with AMMs, lending markets, and vaults in the same block, unlocking a design space impossible on fragmented venues.
* **Modular Sub-accounts**: Programmable trading accounts that anyone can build on. Automate strategies, delegate execution, or create entirely new trading primitives—all permissionlessly.

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## Core Contributors

The RISE/x team has extensive experience in trading and in building high-performing, low-latency systems, which is why the team was able to develop both the execution layer (RISE L2) and the onchain application (RISEx).

* **Sam** (CEO and Co-Founder) — Founded RoboVault (50M TVL) and Arkiver (10K users)
* **Hai Nguyen** (CTO and Co-Founder) — Founded MELD ($45M raised), where he led 25+ engineers.
* **Sasha** (CGO and Co-Founder) — Former head of growth at KyberSwap

Other members of the team have worked across JUMP, FalconX, and Coinbase, and also include several math olympiad medalists.

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## Investors

RISE is backed by industry leaders and investors, including Galaxy Digital, Finality Capital, DACM, Vitalik Buterin and more.