Avantis

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What Is Avantis

Avantis is a decentralized perpetual futures (perpetuals) exchange built on Base that enables traders to access leveraged positions across crypto and real-world assets including forex, commodities, and indices with up to 500x leverage.

• AVNT is the native token of Avantis and can be used for governance, staking to earn protocol rewards and fee discounts, and receiving XP boosts for loyalty programs.

• Avantis pioneered zero-fee perpetuals where traders only pay fees when they make a profit, not when opening or closing positions.

• The platform gives traders rebates of up to 20% on losses when they trade against the crowd, creating opportunities for unique strategies.

• Liquidity providers can choose their own risk levels and lock periods, earning fees in USDC from all trading activity.

Avantis’s Value Proposition

Avantis brings traditional financial markets onto the blockchain, allowing anyone to trade global assets without intermediaries.

The platform solves a major DeFi challenge around how decentralized exchanges can offer diverse assets efficiently. Avantis uses synthetic assets (blockchain representations of real-world assets) backed by USDC deposits, making it possible to trade everything from gold to Japanese yen in one place.

What sets Avantis apart is how it aligns trader and protocol interests. Instead of charging fees upfront, the platform only takes a cut when traders win, while also rewarding traders who help balance the market with better prices than they'd get elsewhere.

Key Differentiators of Avantis

• Zero-Fee Perpetuals: The first platform where traders pay nothing to open or close positions. Fees only apply to profitable trades, and only a small percentage of the profit.

• Customizable Risk for Liquidity Providers: Unlike most platforms where liquidity providers have no control, Avantis lets them choose how much risk to take. Users can lock funds for longer periods (14 days to 6 months) to earn up to 4x more rewards.

• Loss Rebates: Traders get up to 20% rebate on losing trades when they trade against the majority, helping the platform maintain balanced risk.

• Dual Price Check System: Avantis uses two independent price sources (Pyth Network and Chainlink) and cancels trades if prices differ by more than 5%, protecting users from bad pricing.

• Real-World Asset Access: Users can trade synthetic versions of traditional assets like currencies, gold, oil, and stock indices alongside crypto.

What Can You Use Avantis For?

• Leveraged Trading: Bet on price increases or decreases for crypto, currencies, commodities, indices, and stocks with up to 500x leverage.

• Diversification Strategies: Combine crypto trades with traditional assets that often move differently, helping spread risk across markets.

• Earning from Liquidity: Deposit USDC to back trader positions and earn fees every time someone trades on the platform.

What Can You Use AVNT For?

• Governance: Users can hold and stake AVNT tokens to vote on platform changes, including which assets to add and how fees work.

• Lower Trading Costs: Users can stake AVNT tokens to get discounts on both regular and zero-fee trades.

How Does Avantis Work?

Avantis works differently from traditional exchanges that match buyers and sellers. Instead, traders bet against a pool of USDC provided by liquidity providers.

For Traders: When users open a position, they deposit USDC as collateral. The platform uses real-time price data from two sources to determine when users enter and exit trades, without needing to someone else to take the other side of their trade.

For Liquidity Providers: Users deposit USDC into vaults and become the counterparty (the other side) of all trades. When traders pay fees or lose money, liquidity providers earn returns. Users can choose how much risk to take by selecting different vault options and deciding how long to lock their funds.

Safety Features: The platform checks prices from both Pyth Network (for speed) and Chainlink (for reliability) before executing trades. If the prices don't match closely enough, the trade is cancelled to protect the user.

Special Incentives: Avantis rewards behaviors that keep the platform balanced. If a trade helps even out the number of long versus short positions, the user get positive slippage (a better entry price than expected). If users trade against the majority, they can get rebates on losses.

All of this runs on smart contracts on Base, making transactions fast and affordable.

Avantis's Team and Funding

Avantis was founded by Harsehaj Singh and Raymond Dong.

Harsehaj Singh, the CEO, previously worked at Pantera Capital leading investments and spent time as an investment banker at Lazard. Raymond Dong, the COO, brings experience from hedge funds and consulting combined with building crypto products. The team includes members who previously worked at Binance, Quantopian, and other major fintech companies.

Funding: Avantis raised $4 million in seed funding in September 2023, led by Pantera Capital. Other investors included Founders Fund, Galaxy Digital, Base Ecosystem Fund, and Modular Capital.

In June 2025, the company raised an additional $8 million in Series A funding, co-led by Founders Fund and Pantera Capital. New investors included Symbolic Capital, SALT Fund, and Flowdesk.

Avantis is also the first perpetuals DEX to receive investment from Base.

Tokenomics

The total supply of AVNT is fixed at 1 billion tokens on the Base network. 

Token Distribution:

• Community (50.1%): More than half goes to users. This includes 12.5% for airdrops to early platform users, 28.6% for ongoing rewards to traders and liquidity providers, and 9% for developers building on Avantis.

• Investors (26.61%): Funding partners who supported the project.

• Team and Advisors (13.3%): The people building and guiding the protocol.

• Foundation (4%): For strategic partnerships and development.

• Liquidity Reserve (6%): For exchange listings and market making.

Vesting Periods: Team, advisors, and investors cannot sell their tokens immediately. Team and advisor tokens are locked for 12 months, then release gradually over 30 months. Investors follow similar long-term schedules. This ensures everyone stays committed to the project's long-term success.

Where can you buy Avantis?

AVNT tokens can be traded on centralized crypto exchanges. The most popular exchange to buy and trade Avantis is Binance, where the most active trading pair AVNT/USDT has a trading volume of $281,795.88 in the last 24 hours. Other popular options include Bybit and Gate.

What is the daily trading volume of Avantis (AVNT)?

The trading volume of Avantis (AVNT) is $5,608,870.05 in the last 24 hours, representing a -39.50% decrease from one day ago and signalling a recent fall in market activity. Check out CoinGecko’s list of highest volume cryptocurrencies.

What is the highest and lowest price for Avantis (AVNT)?

Avantis (AVNT) reached an all-time high of $2.64 and an all-time low of $0.1217. It’s now trading -95.30% below that peak and 2.30% above its lowest price.

What is the market cap of Avantis (AVNT)?

Market capitalization of Avantis (AVNT) is $39,830,053 and is ranked #518 on CoinGecko today. Market cap is measured by multiplying token price with the circulating supply of AVNT tokens (320 Million tokens are tradable on the market today).

What is the fully diluted valuation of Avantis (AVNT)?

The fully diluted valuation (FDV) of Avantis (AVNT) is $124,485,068. This is a statistical representation of the maximum market cap, assuming the maximum number of 1 Billion AVNT tokens are in circulation today. Depending on how the emission schedule of AVNT tokens are designed, it might take multiple years before FDV is realized.

How does the price performance of Avantis compare against its peers?

With a price decline of -8.90% in the last 7 days, Avantis (AVNT) is underperforming the global cryptocurrency market which is up 0.50%, while underperforming when compared to similar Made in USA cryptocurrencies which are down -0.20%.