SynFutures, one of the leading decentralized exchanges (DEXs) for perpetual futures, is broadening its role in the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem with the launch of the SynFutures Builder Program, a new initiative aimed at accelerating development of onchain financial platforms.
The program will provide developers with access to SynFutures’ modular infrastructure stack — which includes a highly optimized trading engine, frontend templates, and strategic support — to build their own DeFi applications atop a proven foundation.
The move comes amid a broader wave of innovation across the DeFi sector, as protocols seek to offer CEX-like performance while preserving the transparency and composability of blockchain-based trading.
“SynFutures’ infrastructure is mature and has already processed over $275 billion in trading volume across Base and Blast,” said Rachel Lin, Co-Founder and CEO of SynFutures. “Monday Trade is living proof of how pairing proven infrastructure with a high-performance chain, facilitates seamless trading experiences without compromising transparency, asset control, or decentralization.”
First Deployment: Monday Trade on Monad
The program’s first live example is Monday Trade, a spot DEX deployed on the fast-rising Monad testnet, which boasts over 50,000 transactions to date. Monad, a layer-1 blockchain known for optimizing EVM performance, recently attracted significant attention following a $225 million funding round led by Paradigm in April 2025.
Monday Trade combines SynFutures’ onchain orderbooks and automated market maker (AMM) architecture with Monad’s millisecond execution times and gas efficiency. According to Lin, this pairing allows Monday Trade to provide real-time trading with millisecond execution and a streamlined interface — functionality typically reserved for centralized exchanges.
Such capabilities are expected to be crucial as more institutional and retail players look to trade tokenized real-world assets, an area where SynFutures sees strong future demand.
Value Capture for SynFutures’ $F Token
In a move to align incentives, SynFutures announced that all platforms built using its infrastructure — including Monday Trade — will participate in a revenue-sharing model that funnels protocol fees back to SynFutures. A portion of this revenue will be used for buybacks of the $F token, the native governance and utility token of the SynFutures ecosystem.
The protocol also teased an upcoming Season 2 airdrop to reward active users and further boost community engagement around $F.
This model mirrors broader trends in the DeFi space, where token buybacks and revenue-sharing strategies are being employed to enhance token utility and attract longer-term holders.
Expanding Modular Onchain Finance
The launch of the Builder Program marks a strategic shift for SynFutures, as it evolves from being a standalone DEX into a platform for modular DeFi innovation.
The company plans to scale the program to enable development of additional DEXs, RWA-focused platforms, and stablecoin-based solutions across major chains. It is also expanding its integration with Base, Coinbase’s Layer-2 network, where SynFutures was an early launch partner for the Flashblocks feature, offering sub-second transaction finality.
By enabling 200 millisecond transaction times on Base, SynFutures aims to offer a 10x improvement in trade execution speed — further narrowing the gap between decentralized and centralized trading experiences.
Competitive Landscape and Outlook
SynFutures’ push into modular infrastructure comes as competition intensifies in the DeFi derivatives and perpetuals space. Rivals such as dYdX, GMX, and newer entrants like Hyperliquid are racing to deliver optimized trading platforms amid surging demand for onchain leverage.
According to Token Terminal data, decentralized perpetual futures platforms have generated over $2.5 billion in cumulative trading fees in 2025 to date — signaling robust market appetite.
Meanwhile, the tokenization of real-world assets is poised to become a multitrillion-dollar market. Recent reports from Boston Consulting Group and McKinsey project that RWAs onchain could surpass $10 trillion by 2030, presenting a massive opportunity for infrastructure providers like SynFutures.
By opening its battle-tested stack to builders and aligning ecosystem growth with its native token, SynFutures is positioning itself not just as a top DEX — but as a core infrastructure layer for the next wave of onchain finance.
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