A perpetual futures DEX with dark pool execution and zero-knowledge privacy. Orders sealed by zkPrivacy, matched through Orderly Network, settled on Ethereum mainnet. The chain only sees the net.
Every public exchange leaks. Order book, mempool, settlement trail, somewhere along the path, your intent becomes someone else's edge. DarkX collapses that surface by stacking the zkPrivacy protocol over Orderly Network's omnichain perp engine. The book sees aggregate flow. The chain sees net positions. Nothing in between is recoverable.
You build a commitment locally: size, side, leverage, limit, salt. The hash is what we see. The parameters never leave your client. The relayer cannot read it, and neither can the chain.
Sealed commitments are uniform-size blobs. Snipers, MEV searchers, and rival market-makers all see the same noise. Order books are obsolete here, there is nothing to scrape and nothing to outbid.
At the close of every two-second epoch, all sealed orders enter a Halo2 circuit. Uniform-price clearing happens entirely inside the proof. No party, including the operator, learns the inputs. The output is a single succinct attestation.
Net cleared positions leave the pool and route through Orderly Network's omnichain orderbook for execution. The dark pool's aggregate flow disappears into the broader liquidity, indistinguishable from any other counterparty. Fills, funding, and liquidations return to your stealth margin account on Ethereum.
Two production-grade primitives do the heavy lifting. zkPrivacy handles the cryptography, Orderly Network handles the matching and liquidity. DarkX is the integration that makes them private end-to-end.
Privacy on most exchanges is a promise made by the operator. The book lives somewhere, usually inside the venue's own backend, and the operator's word is what keeps it confidential. DarkX rejects that model outright. Privacy here is a cryptographic property of the protocol itself, enforced by the zkPrivacy layer that sits in front of every order.
zkPrivacy is the primitive DarkX is built on. Each order enters the system as a Poseidon commitment salted with a client-side nonce. The relayer cannot read it. The chain cannot read it. We cannot read it. At the close of every two-second epoch, all sealed commitments are fed into a Halo2 circuit that performs uniform-price clearing entirely inside the proof. What the verifier sees is a single succinct attestation, never the inputs that produced it.
The trade settles. The trader does not.
Net cleared positions are then routed to Orderly Network's omnichain orderbook for execution against real liquidity. The dark pool's aggregate flow is indistinguishable from any other counterparty on the book, there is no signature, no metadata, no ledger entry that ties a fill back to a trader. Nullifiers prevent double-spend. Position commitments re-randomize on every interaction. The anonymity set is the entire pool, and it grows with every batch.
This is what we mean when we say DarkX is private by construction. There is no panel we could be subpoenaed for, no log we could be ordered to produce, no kill switch we could be coerced into pulling. The math is the protocol, and the protocol is open. Audit the circuit, verify the proofs, watch the chain, every layer is checkable, and none of them learn you.
Commit-reveal order flow, uniform-price clearing engine, and the first three perpetual markets, BTC, ETH, SOL, live on Ethereum mainnet.
Circuit specification finalized, Trail of Bits audit closed, prover infrastructure live at sub-second clearing latency.
Production deployment shipped, eight markets open, USDC-native margin live, ERC-4337 wallet integration enabling one-click sealed trades. Trade now.
Stealth address support, privacy-pool integration for margin funding, and cross-margin via an unlinkable aggregator account.
Open prover network, slashable bonding, decentralized sequencing, and full governance handoff to a token-curated registry.
DarkX is live on Ethereum mainnet. Bring your own keys, your own size.
DarkX is experimental software built on public blockchain infrastructure. Perpetual contracts involve leverage and can result in the total loss of margin posted. Smart-contract risk, oracle risk, and liquidation risk all apply.
Privacy is enforced cryptographically inside the matching circuit and the verifier contract. No party operating DarkX can recover a user's order contents, position size, or identity from on-chain data. This is a property of the protocol, not a service we provide.
You are responsible for reviewing addresses, approvals, and margin settings before use. DarkX does not provide financial, legal, tax, or investment advice. Access may be restricted in certain jurisdictions.