Raydium is an automated market maker (AMM) and liquidity provider built on the Solana blockchain for the Serum decentralized exchange (DEX) and the Solana ecosystem. It's one of the top DeFi applications on the Solana blockchain and also includes a Solana project launchpad and NFT support.

RAY is the native token of the Raydium ecosystem.

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What Is Raydium

Raydium is an automated market maker built on the Solana Blockchain that shares liquidity with the Serum decentralized exchange. Raydium leverages the central order book of the Serum decentralized exchange (DEX) to enable lightning-fast trades, shared liquidity, and new features for earning yield.

The combination of Raydium automated maker and Serum’s traditional order book mechanism provides Raydium users with fast, liquid, and low-fee trading of digital assets on the Solana blockchain. Moreover, this combination proves to be the winning formula behind Raydium’s success.

As an AMM, Raydium enables the trading of digital assets in a permissionless way through the use of liquidity pools. Liquidity pools rely on liquidity providers, who lock their assets in a liquidity pool smart contract. These locked assets can then be used as the trading pair within a given market for traders on the decentralized exchange.

Raydium Key Features

As a DEX, Raydium offers the benefits of decentralized exchanges, such as complete control of your assets, privacy, etc., with some additional features:

Fast and Affordable Transactions: Raydium is built on the Solana blockchain, known to be faster than Ethereum and with gas fees that are a fraction of what Ethereum charges.

Intuitive Interface: It offers users TradingView charts and enables them to set limit orders, etc., and have more control over their trading. 

On Chain Liquidity: Raydium provides on-chain liquidity to the central limit order book of the Serum DEX, giving Raydium LPs access to all of Serum’s order flow and liquidity.

RAY Token

RAY is the native protocol token of the Raydium network. The RAY coin is a governance token that enables RAY holders to vote on community proposals. The token is used to pay transaction fees and fund rewards on Raydium. To earn additional rewards, RAY can be staked or deposited into liquidity pools on the Raydium platform.

RAY token holders can also lend or borrow their RAY coins and participate in various staking or yield farming incentives within the Solana DeFi ecosystem.

Raydium Founders

Raydium’s core development team goes by a series of pseudonyms.

AlphaRay runs the project’s strategy and business development, drawing from a background in algorithmic commodities trading.

XRay is Raydium’s Chief of Technology.

GammaRay, StingRay, and RayZor contribute across marketing, trading, and computer security initiatives.

Raydium is funded by 5 investors, with Tagus Capital and Sand Hill Angels being the most recent investors.

How Does Raydium Work

Raydium AMM provides access to Serum’s order book and uses the CFAMM (constant function automated market maker) algorithm.

Raydium offers the following functionalities:

1. Trade and Swap
   Raydium lets users swap digital assets in just a few clicks via Serum. It also allows users to trade using advanced features, such as limit orders with access to Serum’s central order book. Trades and swaps on Raydium are charged a 0.25% fee.
   
2. Provide Liquidity
   Raydium draws liquidity for asset trading via liquidity pools, comprising assets deposited by users. Users can deposit their assets into a liquidity pool and get 0.03% of all transaction fees.
   
3. Yield Farm
   Liquidity providers can earn additional incentives for their contributions by farming on Raydium. RAY tokens are used to incentivize the key pools.
   
   Users can even earn dual yield.
4. Stake
   Users can stake their RAY tokens within Raydium to enjoy a current APY of around 18%.
   
5. Participate in Launchpads and NFT Drops
   Raydium launched AcceleRaytor and Dropzone to help grow the ecosystem further. AcceleRaytor allows users to participate in new projects pre-launch while enabling projects to raise initial capital with an Initial DEX Offering (IDO).
   
   Dropzone supports new NFT collections with a fair platform to launch on Solana’s most popular NFT marketplace, Magic Eden.
   

Where to Buy Raydium

The top cryptocurrency exchanges for trading in Raydium stock are currently Binance, OKX, FTX, BingX, and Bitget.