About

Orion Protocol is a platform that provides access to the crypto market by aggregating liquidity from major exchanges, both centralized and decentralized. It offers a trading terminal with robust tools, including news, market analysis, and trading signals. Orion aims to solve liquidity, custody, accessibility, and scalability issues by providing a non-custodial, decentralized solution that gives users control of their assets while offering access to a wide range of trading pairs.

History

Orion Protocol cofounders Alexey Koloskov and Kal Ali met in early 2018. At the time Alexei was CTO of Holdvest a blockchain company for portfolio management and Kal, then the founding partner of Kanix a software development company.

By leveraging Alexei's technical knowledge of complex banking software and Kal's appetite for continuous development the two developed Orion Protocol to solve some of the issues affecting the DeFi space. Such as lack of liquidity, price discrepancies throughout different exchanges and shortfalls in security on centralised exchanges.

Kal became COO to lead product development and Alexei spearheaded technical development as the CEO. The team funded the majority of their seed round through their resources as well as family and friends until deciding to pursue a private sale on the 14th of July 2020 via Dao Maker, raising 3.41 Million USD.

On the 26th of September 2020, 3.8M ORN tokens were stolen following a hack of KuCoin exchange, which lead Orion Protocol to initiate a token swap rendering the old tokens useless.

On March 31st 2021, Orion Protocol launched its flagship product Orion Terminal, which is a liquidity aggregator of both centralised and decentralised exchanges.

On December 2021, Orion Protocol launched Solarflare, which funnels upcoming launches from different launchpads to the Orion Terminal.