Pacifica

Pacifica is a Solana-native perpetual futures decentralized exchange co-founded in January 2025 by Constance Wang, the former Chief Operating Officer of FTX, alongside Jose from NFTperp and Tony from AsyncBlock. The team includes veterans from FTX, Binance, Coinbase, Jane Street, OpenAI, and DeepMind, bringing a rare combination of traditional finance, crypto-native, and AI expertise to decentralized derivatives trading. Notably, Pacifica is entirely self-funded with no external venture capital investment. The platform employs a hybrid architecture with an off-chain Central Limit Order Book (CLOB) for fast order matching and on-chain settlement for deposits, withdrawals, and trade finalization on Solana, delivering sub-20 millisecond execution with full transparency and self-custody. Pacifica supports over 35 perpetual assets with leverage ranging from 3x to 50x, supporting both cross-margin and isolated-margin trading modes. AI-driven tools learn from users' trading styles to offer personalized insights and dynamic margin adjustments. Since its mainnet launch in June 2025, Pacifica has rapidly grown to surpass $40 million in total value locked with over $64 billion in cumulative perpetual trading volume, overtaking Jupiter and Drift Protocol to claim the top spot among Solana-based perpetual DEXs. The platform has been profitable from its early stages and consistently ranks among the top 12 perpetual DEXs by monthly volume across all chains.

Pacifica currently has $35.96M in Total Value Locked (TVL).