The Good Tech Companies - How gTrade v10 Is Redefining On-Chain Derivatives for Professional Traders

Episode Date: August 7, 2025

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This audio is presented by Hacker Noon, where anyone can learn anything about any technology. How G-Trade V-10 is redefining on chain derivatives for professional traders. By a Sean Pondy, what happens when a decentralized trading platform removes its biggest bottlenecks? That is the question Gains network is attempting to answer with the rollout of G-Trade v10, a major infrastructure upgrade intended to scale the protocol to meet the growing needs of defy traders and integrators. The update brings notable changes to how fees, leverage, and execution are handled without compromising on chain transparency. Funding fees replace borrowing, a shift in incentive design. In V10, G-Trade replaces the traditional borrowing fee model with funding fees, a mechanism commonly used on centralized

futures exchanges to balance long and short positions. In the old system, traders paid borrowing fees on leverage, often leading to unpredictable holding costs, especially during volatile markets. Now, a market-driven velocity model adjusts funding rates gradually based own-open interest imbalances, referred to as skew. For example, if too many users are a long BTC using stable coin collateral, the system progressively increases the funding fee for longs and decreases it for shorts. This encourages countertrades that rebalance the system, greater than, were taking the precision and transparency that scalpers loved and unlocking greater than it for a broader class of traders. Said Seb, founder of GTrade, this change is currently applied to stablecoin

backed positions on major pairs like BTC, ETH, SAL, XRP, and BNB. Pairs using GNS, ETH, or APE as collateral will retain the old borrowing fee model for now. Counter-trades and market incentives. Another key innovation in V-10 is the introduction of counter-trades, which are trades that reduce skew in the market. These trades, if executed under specific leverage limits, qualify for lower fees and reduced price impact. The protocol is also offering whitelist incentives to frequent arbitrageurs and market-neutral traders. Counter-trades are especially useful in volatile markets, where large imbalance-scan occur quickly. By rewarding trades that help restore equilibrium, G-trade is moving closer to a self-regulating system. From a system-designed perspective, this supports sustainability. From a user's perspective,

it creates an additional revenue path for market makers and delta-neutral traders. G-trade v10 also moves toward native price discovery, shifting execution prices closer to real-time market demand rather than relying entirely on Oracle's fore-trade entries and exits. This enables a more dynamic and fair experience for high-frequency traders. Liquidations, however, still use Oracle pricing to avoid manipulation, a feature that protects users from getting liquidated based on short-term volatility or anomalies. This dual model helps balance between execution flexibility and liquidation safety, both critical for trust in perpetual futures protocols. Mid-trade profit withdrawals, a capital efficiency move, in a first for many decentralized futures platforms,

V-10 allows P&L withdrawals during an open trade. A trader can lock in some profit without fully closing or sizing their position. This is useful for strategies that require reallocation of capital or risk management without breaking a running trade. For example, a user who is long ed with $1,000 profit can withdraw $400, leave the trade open, and use that $400 elsewhere. This improves capital efficiency and opens the door for more complex strategies like hedged positions or multi-leg exposure. Collateral withdrawals are also more flexible now, provided they do not violate the leverage bounds for the asset pair. Position management becomes more transparent. One of the less discussed but critical upgrades in V10 is the move from USD-based position sizing to token-based sizing.

This means a position is now tracked and displayed directly in terms of token quantity, EG 0-75 BTC long, rather than the USD value collateralized. This aligns with how most traders think about exposure and makes it easier to track performance. Fees and PNL are are now displayed separately, improving clarity and user trust. Adaptive leverage and real-time risk management. Previously, leverage needed to remain above 1.1-X, but now V-10 reduces the minimum leverage for updates to open trades to just zero. 1x. This applies to partial closes or collateral withdrawals and provides better risk and position management, especially during high volatility. Greater than, this helps traders adjust their positions intelligently without the need to greater than

close out prematurely, Seb added in the official announcement. The UI has also been upgraded to reflect real-time leverage thresholds and risk limits, reducing errors and confusion for advanced users. Integrator benefits and ecosystem expansion. The long-term goal for V-10 is to make G-trade attractive not just for retail traders but also for integrators, funding fee farmers, and marketmakers. Partners like Volmex Finance, Bifrost, and Symphony can now build on top of the protocol using its new high open interest caps, fairer execution model, and funding fee flexibility. With G-Trade now active on multiple chains like Arbitrum, Base, Solana, and Polygon, the protocol is attempting to bridge scalability with accessibility. $200,000 trading competition and what it signals. To coincide with the launch,

Gaines Network will host a $200,000 trading competition later this month. This is not just a marketing stunt, it is also asterist test of the new system under load. By encouraging traders to experiment with V-10's features at scale, the team is gathering live feedback on slippage, funding rate stability, UI experience, and execution latency. Final outlook, a system grown up. G-trade V-10 feels like a significant maturing moment for the protocol. Ite introduces scalable economic incentives, mechanisms for self-balancing, and clarity for traders that were previously lacking in many DEX. It also shows that the team is actively listening to power users, particularly those managing large trades, engaging in arbitrage, or integrating external strategies into the platform.

For defy to rival centralized exchanges, it needs not only deep liquidity boot also features that mirror C-EX sophistication. G-trade v10 gets closer to that line, without abandoning its on-chain principles. Don't forget to like and share the story. author is an independent contributor publishing via our business blogging program. Hacker Noon has reviewed the report for quality, but the claims here and belong to the author. Hashtag DiO thank you for listening to this Hackernoon story, read by artificial intelligence. Visit hackernoon.com to read, write, learn and publish.