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SynFutures has flipped the switch on an invite-only private beta for what the team calls its most ambitious upgrade yet. The closed test is meant to be a controlled proving ground: a handful of handpicked partners will bootstrap liquidity, stress-test the new infrastructure and help SynFutures polish the trading experience before a wider public rollout.
At the center of the upgrade is a technical rewrite that aims to push on-chain order execution down to roughly five millisecond latency, a speed more commonly associated with top centralized venues. The point, SynFutures says, is to bring that level of responsiveness to a platform that remains fully permissionless and transparent, marrying performance with the open ethos of DeFi.
“This beta is more than a technical step. It’s the beginning of a new chapter for SynFutures and for decentralized derivatives,” said Rachel Lin, CEO of SynFutures. “We’re working hand-in-hand with our closest partners to shape a trading experience that will define the next wave of DeFi adoption.”
Ambitious DeFi Upgrade
The upgrade builds on a track record that already includes more than 250 listed trading pairs and over $300 billion in cumulative volume across earlier versions of the protocol. SynFutures is moving to a perp-native architecture, which the team says will simplify introducing permissionless real-world asset (RWA) markets and creative vault strategies down the line.
Beyond the backend improvements, the company is planning community activations and reward programs to engage users ahead of the public launch. For now, the invite-only phase is explicitly about getting infrastructure, liquidity and institutional readiness dialed in before the platform opens its doors to traders worldwide.
Headquartered in Hong Kong and backed by well-known crypto investors, SynFutures is positioning this rollout as the start of a broader push to build a unified, permissionless and transparent layer for derivatives trading on-chain. If the private beta delivers on its speed and stability targets, it could narrow a key performance gap between on-chain and off-chain trading venues, and make perpetuals onchain feel a lot more like what traders expect from the best centralized exchanges.
