Roadmap
2024 – Foundation
In 2024, the project focuses on building and hardening the core infrastructure of the Solanex DEX and the $SOLDEX token. The primary objective of this phase is to deliver a production-ready on-chain architecture that can securely handle spot and liquidity-pool operations while remaining extensible for future derivatives and AI modules.
The year begins with the completion of the core DEX architecture, including the execution engine, routing logic, and liquidity management layer. In parallel, the $SOLDEX smart contracts are implemented, tested, and prepared for deployment across the initial target networks. This includes finalizing token standards, access control mechanisms, upgradeability patterns (where applicable), and the distribution logic required for presale, liquidity, ecosystem incentives, and team allocations.
Tokenomics are finalized and communicated transparently to the community, after which the public presale of $SOLDEX is launched. The presale is designed not only as a fundraising event, but also as a mechanism to bootstrap an early community of users, market makers, and ecosystem partners who will help test and refine the protocol.
Throughout 2024, the platform undergoes intensive closed and open beta testing. Professional auditors and external security researchers review the smart contracts and critical off-chain components, focusing on correctness, resilience against common DeFi attack vectors, and performance under stress. By the end of the Foundation phase, the goal is to have a fully audited and battle-tested base layer upon which the derivatives and AI functionality can be safely built.
2025 – Expansion & Perpetuals
In 2025, the roadmap shifts from foundational work to product expansion and deeper integration into the broader DeFi stack. The key focus is the introduction of perpetual futures markets and the infrastructure required to support them at scale.
The first pillar of this phase is integration with external DeFi protocols. This includes connectivity to leading liquidity sources, oracles, and risk-management primitives in order to optimize pricing, hedging, and capital efficiency. By composing with external protocols, Solanex aims to minimize fragmented liquidity and provide traders with competitive execution while reducing systemic risk.
The second pillar is the development of a dedicated perpetual futures engine supporting at least 15 major assets, including blue-chip cryptocurrencies and high-demand market pairs. This engine includes funding-rate mechanisms, index price calculation, risk limits, and liquidation logic tailored to the project’s architecture. Margining and collateral management are designed to balance capital efficiency with robust protection against cascading liquidations.
In Q4 2025, the project targets the rollout of a Closed Beta for perps. Access will initially be restricted to a curated group of experienced traders, market makers, and community members, allowing the team to validate assumptions around user experience, risk parameters, and performance under realistic load. Feedback from this phase will directly inform parameter tuning and feature prioritization for the public launch.
To support the derivatives layer, the liquidity infrastructure is further strengthened. This includes improved internal market-making strategies, dynamic fee models, and advanced risk controls across the protocol. Monitoring and alerting systems are upgraded to ensure that extreme market conditions, oracle anomalies, and liquidity shocks can be detected and mitigated in real time.
2026 – AI & Social Trading
The 2026 phase focuses on differentiating Solanex through AI-driven tooling and social trading features that make professional-grade strategies accessible to a broader audience.
A central milestone is the launch of the Solanex AI Layer, an analytics and decision-support framework that operates on top of the DEX and derivatives infrastructure. This layer ingests market data, order flow, and protocol-level metrics to provide real-time insights, anomaly detection, and adaptive trading signals. The objective is not to replace trader decision-making, but to augment it with explainable, data-driven recommendations and automated workflows.
AI-based risk management is integrated directly into the Perpetual DEX. Models are used to continuously evaluate portfolio- and protocol-level risk: monitoring leverage utilization, volatility regimes, correlation clusters, and liquidation queues. Based on these insights, the system can propose or automatically apply dynamic adjustments to margin requirements, position limits, and incentive programs in order to maintain healthy market conditions.
On the user-facing side, Solanex introduces Social Copy Trading and a reputation system for traders. Users can follow, mirror, or allocate capital to strategies managed by experienced traders or algorithmic agents. Performance history, risk metrics, and behavioral patterns feed into a transparent reputation score, enabling users to make informed decisions when selecting strategies to copy. Incentive mechanisms are designed so that successful strategy creators are rewarded proportionally to the value they generate for followers.
To encourage ecosystem growth, a Developer SDK is introduced. This toolkit allows third-party developers, quantitative teams, and algorithmic traders to build custom tools, bots, interfaces, and AI agents on top of the Solanex protocol. The SDK standardizes access to on-chain data, order routing, AI insights, and account management, lowering the barrier to innovation and enabling a broader ecosystem of complementary applications.
Beyond 2026 – Evolution
Beyond 2026, the roadmap focuses on sustainable growth, institutional readiness, and progressive decentralization of protocol governance.
From a market perspective, Solanex aims to expand globally and strengthen its position in key regions with active derivatives trading communities. This includes localized interfaces, region-specific liquidity partnerships, and compliance-aware integrations where applicable. The goal is to make the platform accessible both to retail users and to professional trading firms that require stability, transparency, and predictable operational workflows.
The AI Layer continues to evolve with new DeFi-focused features. Future iterations may include cross-venue execution optimizers, portfolio-level risk dashboards, automated hedging strategies, and domain-specific AI agents that can interact with multiple protocols on behalf of users. The overarching vision is to transform the platform into an intelligent trading and asset-management hub, not just a single-venue DEX.
Finally, the project plans the gradual development of a decentralized DAO structure to oversee key aspects of protocol evolution. While the initial phases maintain a more centralized decision-making model for speed and security, governance responsibilities are expected to be progressively handed over to the community. This may include the ability to propose and vote on parameter changes, treasury allocations, incentive programs, and long-term strategic initiatives, ensuring that Solanex remains aligned with its user base and can adapt to new market realities over time.
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