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What are DeFi Projects?
DeFi projects are DeFi (decentralized finance) platforms built on the blockchain that are being actively developed. DeFi projects and DeFi platforms can serve a multitude of purposes, with the aim of making it easy for cryptocurrency investors and DeFi traders to trade, stake, earn, lend, and borrow using DeFi apps on the blockchain. Compare and read user reviews of the best DeFi Projects currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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HollaEx
HollaEx®
Unleash the potential of your business with HollaEx® — not just any white-label crypto software, but a comprehensive tool kit that revolutionizes your connection to the blockchain world 🌐. Featuring customized markets and crypto assets on your website, using the open-source HollaEx crypto tool kit As an open-source solution, it's free, fast, and straightforward to rebrand and customize. Exchange operators can assemble and host their platform in just a few simple steps, thanks to the user-friendly DIY setup. 💪 Paid HollaEx users get a cloud exchange that's automatically hosted, ensuring rapid ⚡ time-to-market. Pricing follows a pay-as-you-go model, and yearly subscriptions offer significant cost savings of up to 45%. It's a perfect fit for crypto entrepreneurs and bootstrapping startups. 💼 Comes with built-in liquidity from a network of over 100 other platforms allowing operators to focus their resource on localization, marketing and their online business strategies.Starting Price: Free -
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1inch
1inch
1inch is the DeFi ecosystem building financial freedom for everyone. We research and develop cutting edge technology that allows our users and partners to realise the potential of decentralized finance, without workarounds or security risks. And we bring the sector together to advocate for compliant DeFi as the future of global finance. Our products: We serve users and builders with products built on open-source, on-chain protocols. Access efficient, secure trading at the best rates through the 1inch dApp and self-custodial 1inch Wallet app, track your crypto with 1inch Portfolio, or spend and borrow against your digital assets with 1inch Card (powered by CryptoLife). Builders and enterprise partners can access the core technologies powering 1inch to connect with an ecosystem that offers millions of tokens and tokenized RWAs, integrates 13+ networks and includes the first native swaps between Solana and the EVM.Starting Price: Free -
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ReHold
ReHold
📈 Trade, 💰 Earn, 🔄 Swap across Bitcoin and EVMStarting Price: $0 -
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Orbit Bridge
Ozys
Orbit Bridge is a bridge service that supports token conversion between mainnets and supports 15 blockchains and 58 tokens. The fragmented blockchain ecosystem inevitably faces limits to growth in all aspects, including market capitalization, users (including token holders), and the number of Dapps. Orbit Bridge, which supports users' platform access and interaction between protocols, will be the only key to solving this problem.Starting Price: Free -
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Velas
Velas
The fork of Solana with embedded EVM integration. Fastest EVM/EBPF hybrid chain inherited best from Solana and applied to EVM world. Supports all smart contracts built on the Ethereum blockchain. Extremely efficient performance at a fraction of the cost. Stake to support decentralization and get rewards. Through the Velas Network users gain access to decentralized services, delegating the security of his passwords, keys or seed-phrases to segmentation algorithms and validators that are interested in data security. Most important, this information will be distributed over the network and not available to any of its participants. -
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InsurAce
InsurAce
InsurAce.io is a leading decentralized multi-chain insurance protocol that provides reliable, robust and secure insurance services to DeFi users, allowing them to protect their investment funds against various risks. We respect the DeFi insurance pioneers that paved the way before us and do not think of ourselves as competitors to the existing players, but rather a company filling a necessary complementary role in the immense and expansive DeFi world. InsurAce.io reduces the premium for the insurance product by design. Our team designs portfolio-centric products to embrace risk diversification. We have also developed unique pricing models to optimize the cover cost, leveraging our advisors’ expertise in the insurance domain. Furthermore, the investment utilities complement the cover cost to offer ultra-low premiums, which are close to zero at their best. -
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Biswap
Biswap
Biswap is the first decentralized exchange platform on the market with a three-type referral system and the lowest platform transaction fees (0.1%). We are a decentralized exchange platform for swapping BEP-20 tokens on the Binance Smart Chain network. This network guarantees superior speed and much lower network transaction costs. BSW is a popular utility token with a huge user base that supports the Biswap ecosystem. Apart from being able to trade BSW token, you can also make use of a wide variety additional benefits that come along with it. We are highly committed to providing true value, fairness, and innovation to decentralized finance through our high-quality products and services. Biswap is fast, secure and anyone can swap and earn tokens.Starting Price: 0.1% Fee -
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Jupiter
Jupiter Exchange
Jupiter is the key liquidity aggregator for Solana, offering the widest range of tokens and best route discovery between any token pair. We aim to provide the most friendly UX for users and the most powerful tools for developers to allow them to easily access the best-in-class swap in their application, interface or on-chain programs. Offer the best price swaps for your users. Automatically stay up to date with the latest tokens and liquidity sources. Make swaps a revenue source by adding your own platform fee to the transaction. Set their caching options to make their swap as speedy or as precise they wish to be. Developing on Solana can be a landmine of potential hiccups. On our end, we aim to make developing a good swap interface or program as seamless and magical as possible. Provide various methods of accessing the swap, so all apps, dApps, and programs can use it seamlessly. -
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Zapper
Zapper.xyz
Manage your DeFi assets and liabilities in one simple interface. Get unique access to opportunities in open finance. Zapper is the ultimate hub for Decentralized Finance aka DeFi. Our mission is to increase the GDP of DeFi by abstracting the complexities of accessing unique opportunities faced by retail investors, fund managers and builders around the world. Get a snapshot of all your DeFi assets & liabilities. Invest in unique opportunities available across the always expanding list of available DeFi platforms. Saves on time and gas. Easily re-balance between DeFi platforms or create your own opportunities. Connect to and leverage battle-tested brands your users are already using daily in DeFi. Analyze behavior to understand & prioritize which strategies to integrate next. Embed integrations seamlessly into your apps, emails or website. -
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BakerySwap
BakerySwap
BakerySwap is the 1st AMM+NFT exchange on Binance Smart Chain. Launch your project with BakerySwap, BakerySwap is a decentralized trading platform that uses the automatic market maker (AMM) model. At the same time BakerySwap is the 1st AMM+NFT exchange on Binance Smart Chain. Various data indicate the rapid growth of BakerySwap in the DEFI ecosystem. BakerySwap is cooperating with Ankr Staking to use aETH, a synthetic derivative asset, to launch new farming pools, including aETH-BETH and aETH-ETH. BakerySwap will allow aETH holders to benefit from becoming liquidity providers. Also we will add $Ankr, $OnX, and extra $BAKE reward, to this farming pool. aETH is a synthetic bond-like asset that is distributed to all ETH stakers and can be traded immediately. aETH is one asset & combined value. aETH represents the staked ETH plus all future staking rewards. Initially, aETH is issued at a ratio of 1:1 to the amount of ETH staked. -
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Raydium
Raydium
Raydium is an automated market maker (AMM) built on the Solana blockchain which leverages the central order book of the Serum decentralized exchange (DEX) to enable lightning-fast trades, shared liquidity and new features for earning yield. Other AMM DEXs and DeFi protocols are only able to access liquidity within their own pools and have no access to a central order book. Additionally, with the majority of platforms running on Ethereum, transactions are slow and gas fees are high. We leverage the efficiency of the Solana blockchain to achieve transactions magnitudes faster than Ethereum and gas fees which are a fraction of the cost. Raydium provides on-chain liquidity to the central limit order book of the Serum DEX, meaning that Raydium allows access to the order flow and liquidity of the entire Serum ecosystem. For traders who want to be able to view TradingView charts, set limit orders and have more control over their trading. -
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Meter
Decentralized Finance Labs
Meter is a high performance infrastructure that allows smart contracts to scale and travel seamlessly through heterogeneous blockchain networks. Meter is a Layer 1 and Layer 2 blockchain protocol. The Meter system consists of two tokens: MTRG, the governance token (eMTRG is the ERC20 version), and MTR, the low-volatility currency token. Financial assets should flow freely among blockchains. Meter’s HotStuff-based consensus allows 1000s of validator nodes, making Meter the most decentralized Layer 2 for Ethereum. Meter processes thousands of transactions per second and transactions are confirmed almost instantly. Meter Passport allows assets and smart contracts travel and communicate across heterogeneous blockchains for the best price, liquidity and yield. Meter is an Ethereum Compatible with unique enhancements. Unlike other Layer 2, DEXes build on Meter are front running/MEV resistant, fast and uncensorable. -
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VoltSwap
Meter
VoltSwap is the first major DEX in the Meter ecosystem. It is a completely community-driven project to showcase the capabilities of the Meter blockchain. The swap has several key features that are specifically designed for retail traders and investors. In addition to the lightning-fast and low gas cost transactions on Meter. DEXes built on Meter is also front running resistant. The network charges a minimum gas price. Transactions that meet the gas price requirement are ordered based on the time the network receives them instead of the gas prices. With more than 110 validator nodes on Meter, Meter is the most decentralized and fastest Ethereum layer 2 side chain. VoltSwap is both censorship and front running resistant yet fully transparent as the original Ethereum. Crosschain arbitrages and onboarding exchange DeFi chains with no KYC restrictions. Since Meter Passport connects to multiple chains, VoltSwap provides the swap capability for swapping assets from different chains. -
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Reef
Reef Finance
Reef chain integrates the best aspects from most commonly used blockchains while maintaining full smart contract compatibility. Reef chain is an EVM compatible blockchain for DeFi. It is fast, scalable, has low transaction costs and does no wasteful mining. It is built with Substrate Framework and comes with on-chain governance. Port your existing applications from Ethereum to Reef chain without modifying your Solidity code. Deploy established ERC-20 assets on Reef and transfer liquidity between Ethereum and Reef chain. Reef chain is built with upgradability and long-term sustainable on-chain governance in mind. Reef chain features next-gen blockchain technology, utilizing Nominated Proof of Stake consensus, EVM extensions, on-chain upgradability, libp2p networking and state of the art cryptography.Reef chain is self-upgradable through the community elected Technical Council. -
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Atlas DEX
Atlas DEX
Atlas DEX is a decentralized cross-chain DEX aggregator that allows users to seamlessly trade cryptocurrencies across multiple chains. Atlas's liquidity aggregation would automatically collate the best prices from multiple DEXs and AMMs, ensuring the lowest slippage for all your trades. Trade any token across multiple blockchains, powered by permissionless bridges. Automatically split your trades across different liquidity pools to access the best price and minimize slippage. Access fast transactions and low fees powered by the Solana blockchain. Atlas DEX currently supports swaps from Solana to either Ethereum, Binance Smart Chain (BSC) or Polygon. You simply have to connect your wallets, pick your desired trading pairs and Atlas DEX will handle the rest! Atlas DEX allows you to trade any token across multiple chains, powered by permissionless bridges. Using Solana's Wormhole tech, the bridging of tokens is done in a secure and decentralized manner. -
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XY FINANCE
XY FINANCE
Provide the fastest, simplest, and most economical cross-chain swap service with seamless experience and liquidity providers can earn yields without impermanent loss! A simple and user-friendly interface that aggregates the liquidity of NFT marketplaces on various chains, allows users to buy, sell and swap NFTs in one transaction. The XY finance ecosystem includes DeFi, GamFi, and NFT. XY Token is the heart of XY Finance's DAO and the protocol. XY Finance has been ensuring all contributors to the leading cross-chain aggregator are incentivized to acquire and retain the XY token. Meanwhile, we are giving utility and value to the XY Token through numerous inventive ways and strategic partnerships. XY Finance consists of two parts, X Swap and Y Pool, to facilitate cross-chain swapping and incentivize the provision of liquidity. Y Pool incentivizes liquidity providers with a swapping fee between chains and our XY Governance token. -
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PancakeSwap
PancakeSwap
The #1 AMM and yield farm on Binance Smart Chain. PancakeSwap is a decentralized exchange running on Binance Smart Chain, with lots of other features that let you earn and win tokens. It's fast, cheap, and anyone can use it. The exchange is an automated market maker (“AMM”) that allows two tokens to be exchanged on the Binance Smart Chain. On top of that, you can earn CAKE with yield farms, earn CAKE with Staking, and earn even more tokens with Syrup pools. In very simple terms, why would we want to drive a slower car that costs more to run? We're all about gamification, so we want to maximize the feedback loop of earning, staking, and earning again: BSC's superior speed and much (much much) lower transaction fees let us do this. While BSC might not have the level of adoption Ethereum does at current, we believe in Binance’s ability and drive to get it mighty close in the foreseeable future. -
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Minswap
Minswap
Minswap is a multi-pool decentralized exchange on Cardano. Swap tokens with minimal cost, minimal time and maximal convenience. No private investment or VC allocation. MIN tokens are fairly distributed to the community with 21.5% allocation to core team and development funds. MIN tokens are rewarded to liquidity providers who stake their liquidity pool tokens. If it is your key, it is your money. Participating in the market without ever leaving your wallet. Supporting new projects in Cardano ecosystem with Initial DEX Offering (IDO) and Initial Farm Offering (IFO). Anybody can list tokens without permission. Anybody can trade tokens without KYC. All trading fees go directly to liquidity providers. MIN token holder vote democratically on protocol changes. With ERC-20 Converter, users can trade Ethereum tokens at much lower fees. Minswap supports the SPOs by a community-oriented ADA delegation policy and Fair Initial Stake Offering. -
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D5 Exchange
D5 Exchange
The first fully on-chain order book DEX for Ethereum, where anyone can create and trade any token pair freely. 🟡 No impermanent loss & no slippage 🟡 Low cost & high order fill rate 🟡 Permissionless listing & Incentivized orders 🟡 The best rate from multiple liquidities ⛓️ A fully decentralized exchange to know where your asset is. -
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Loopring
Loopring
Loopring is an open protocol for building scalable non-custodial exchanges on Ethereum. Leveraging zero-knowledge proofs (zkRollup), it allows for high performance trading (high throughput, low settlement cost), without sacrificing Ethereum-level security guarantees. Users always maintain 100% control of their assets throughout the trade lifecycle. You can trade on Loopring to test it out. Loopring is an open-sourced, audited, and non-custodial exchange protocol, which means nobody in the Loopring ecosystem needs to trust others. Cryptoassets are always under users' own control, with 100% Ethereum-level security guarantees. Loopring powers highly scalable decentralized exchanges by batch-processing thousands of requests off-chain, with verifiably correct execution via ZKPs. The performance of underlying blockchains is no longer the bottleneck. Loopring performs most operations, including order-matching and trade settlement, off the Ethereum blockchain. -
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Orbit Chain
Ozys
Orbit Chain supports 15+ public chains including Bitcoin, Ethereum, BNB, HECO, Polygon, Ripple, Klaytn, ICON, Celo, and Terra. Orbit Chain is committed to researching the interoperability of heterogeneous chains and further developing the overall DeFi ecosystem with better products and services. In doing so, Orbit Chain will create a more widespread audience and a stable blockchain ecosystem by allowing more dApp growth on all connected mainnets. We support communication among blockchain networks as a hub for many blockchains and promise to build an ecosystem where various blockchain projects can create synergies. Finally, we will prove the value and potential of blockchain technology through cooperation with projects and developers, and true decentralization.Starting Price: Free -
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Mercor
Mercor
The Mercor platform is currently completely free. Make sure to give the platform a try and invest in, or develop state-of-the-art, algorithms! Outperform the market. Start investing like a pro. Invest in state-of-the-art algorithms. Create your own profile, connect with fellow traders and developers! Build and deploy your algorithm. Make your bot accessible and earn a commission! Mercor disrupts financial markets by building a bridge between algorithmic trading and every-day investors worldwide. Markets in which licenses and data are inherent to a competitive edge, large institutional investors are dominant. This dominance is caused by the lack of cooperation between private traders and developers. Here at Mercor, we aim to radically change this dominance, by creating an infrastructure that facilitates this cooperation, aiming to democratize the algorithmic trading market.Starting Price: Free -
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LlamaPay
LlamaPay
Automate salaries by streaming them, so employees can withdraw whenever they want. Stream seamless recurring crypto payments! LlamaPay is a multi-chain protocol that allows you to automate transactions and stream them by the second. Recipients can withdraw these funds at any time, eliminating the need for manual recurring payment transactions. Available on all EVM chains with all contracts sharing the same address across chains. Receive payment into centralized exchanges via a 3rd party wallet triggering the claim. Opt to borrow money to fund streams, for when you forget to top-up your balance. LlamaPay operates internally with 20 decimals which will keep precision errors to a minimum. Use LlamaPay to create streams with no end date, or set a custom end date. Anyone can trigger a claim, never run out of balance, any precision errors, and stream indefinitely. LlamaPay is a multi-chain protocol that allows you to automate transactions and stream them by the second.Starting Price: Free -
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Exrond
Exrond
DEX on MultiversX. Trade any token with $EGLD. Staking, rewards & more. We’ve just upgraded the UI and functionality of the stake module on Exrond. You now get all the info displayed and a much better user experience. You can now deploy Staking for any tokens with rewards in that same token or any MultiversX token of your choice. Any project can deploy its own rewards pool and we encourage them to do so in order to boost adoption and increase their community. Every EXR holder will get 10x on their holding. Airdrop in progress. Original liquidity was also adjusted 10x. This was needed for future upgrades. Feel free to claim your rewards, swap, or stake while using xPortal. Anyone in the community can claim a lifetime or daily/weekly/monthly token allocation. Each day you can claim more on Epoch change, so being active gets you more rewards. Anyone can now distribute tokens to the MultiversX community in a permissionless way.Starting Price: Free -
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Balancer
Balancer Labs
Balancer protocol is a non-custodial portfolio manager, liquidity provider, and price sensor. Customizable number of assets and weights within a pool. Trade against all pools in the Balancer ecosystem for best price execution. Pools controlled by smart contracts can implement any arbitrary trading strategy or logic. Exchange tokens without deposits, bids / asks, and order management. All on-chain. Preview an expected trade price for two assets given existing liquidity and slippage. Trades are split through an SOR which performs an optimization across all pools for best price execution. Frontends are open-source and will be made available through IPFS. Trade any tokens without need for whitelisting or approval. A Balancer Pool is an automated market maker with certain key properties that cause it to function as a self-balancing weighted portfolio and price sensor. Up to 8 tokens. Any weights. And programmability through smart-contract owned pools. -
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Bancor
Bancor
Bancor is a protocol for the creation of Smart Tokens, a new standard for cryptocurrencies convertible directly through their smart contracts. Bancor is an on-chain liquidity protocol that enables automated, decentralized exchange on Ethereum & across blockchains. The Bancor Protocol is a fully on-chain liquidity protocol that can be implemented on any smart contract-enabled blockchain. The Bancor Protocol is an open-source standard for liquidity pools, which in turn provide an endpoint for automated market-making (buying / selling tokens) against a smart contract. Bancor Network currently operates on the Ethereum and EOS blockchains, but the protocol is designed to be interoperable for additional blockchains. Our implementation can be easily integrated into any application enabling value exchanges. Our implementation is open source and permissionless, and ecosystem participants are encouraged to contribute to and enhance the Bancor Protocol. -
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Tokenlon
Tokenlon
Smart contract-based decentralized trading, secure, reliable and seamless mobile trading experience. Secure trading at your fingertips. Trustless token-to-token exchange, based on the 0x protocol. See the final price before trading and finalize in just seconds. Trade directly from your wallet. No need to deposit funds into the exchange. Fully control your own crypto. Tokens trade wallet-to-wallet via on-chain atomic swap. Use Face-ID and fingerprint or the imKey hardware wallet for large trades. Market makers provide best-price quotations at any time. As soon as the user clicks to trade, the order is signed and sent to the 0x protocol smart contract. The user receives the new tokens into their imToken wallet after just one or two Ethereum blocks. Tokenlon 5.0 aggregates professional market makers, Curve, Uniswap for more tokens at better prices. And, we release LON to the community via early user merkledrop and liquidity mining. -
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mStable
mStable
mStable is an open and decentralized protocol that unites stablecoins, lending and swapping into one standard. Autonomous and non-custodial stablecoin infrastructure. mStable combines lending income with trading fees to produce higher yielding assets. Smart contract security is mStable’s first priority. The mStable protocol was fully audited by Consensys Diligence and no critical bugs were found. mStable is governed by MTA holders who have staked their tokens to vote on proposals. mStable's governance goes through a process where consensus is reached in progressively concrete stages. Proposals and ideas are surfaced on the Discord or public forum, and are finalized by on-chain signalling by MTA holders. mStable is a collection of autonomous, descentralice, and non-custodial smart contracts. It is built on Ethereum. mStable assets (hereafter mAssets) represent some underlying value peg and are minted/redeemed on-chain via smart contracts. -
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Liquity
Liquity
Liquity is a decentralized borrowing protocol that allows you to draw 0% interest loans against Ether used as collateral. Loans are paid out in LUSD - a USD pegged stablecoin, and need to maintain a minimum collateral ratio of only 110%. In addition to the collateral, the loans are secured by a Stability Pool containing LUSD and by fellow borrowers collectively acting as guarantors of last resort. Learn more about these mechanisms under Liquidations. Liquity as a protocol is non-custodial, immutable and governance-free. Core to the ethos of Liquity, its product layer is just as decentralized as its smart contracts. All frontends are run by third party operators, who are incentivized to do so via LQTY rewards. Liquity was deployed as a complete system, set to run autonomously without human intervention. No one can change or upgrade the contracts and no one has special access.Starting Price: 0.5% Fee -
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SpookySwap
SpookySwap
All in one decentralized exchange for leveraging diversified funds across ecosystems, with the speed of Fantom Opera. Contribute to the pool that everyone swaps from and collect swap fees. Spooky utilizes the Fantom network to deliver top speed, security, and scalable transactions. Your swaps will cost a fraction of a penny! We’re trying to make crypto less cryptic everyday. We value both functionality and usability. The roadmap lays out the planned features for Spooky. These are all subject to change based on community feedback and governance discussions. The goal of this phase is to launch with the minimum features to operate a DEX. During this phase, our team hopes to begin growing the SpookySwap community.Starting Price: 0.2% fee