🎉 The world's first private onchain exchange, PEX, is live on
@monad.
This is a big one for us. Genuinely excited to finally ship this.
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app.plabs.online/pex
1/ What makes PEX different:
🔒 Full privacy — powered by
@Zcash. Sender, recipient, and amount are all invisible onchain.
🔑 Self-custody — your assets never leave your control. The matcher only sees order intents, never touches your funds.
⚙️ Trustless execution via "virtual notes" — privacy-preserving assets that move and settle according to rules you define yourself, with sender, recipient, and amount never exposed onchain.
This is the part we're most proud of. It's a new primitive, not just a feature.
2/ Okay, now the honest part — because we'd rather tell you ourselves than have you find out mid-trade.
PEX is slow right now. Every order needs a locally-generated proof — for placement, and for execution. That's the cost of the matcher never seeing your balance and control your money. No shortcuts.
3/ While your proof is generating, a CEX trade has already come and gone. We know. We're not going to pretend otherwise.
But "slow" here means "early," not "final." Proof generation is one of the fastest-moving areas in crypto right now, and we're building on that curve, not around it.
We'd rather ship the real thing slow than fake the speed.