Orbs, a decentralized Layer-3 blockchain infrastructure provider focused on advanced on-chain trading, has launched Orbs Institutional, a new solution designed to give professional market participants direct access to its execution technology.
The offering targets trading desks, OTC firms, corporate treasuries, custodians and financial platforms seeking to participate in decentralized finance while maintaining the operational standards expected in institutional environments.
The launch builds on infrastructure that has processed more than $2.5 billion in spot trading volume since 2023 across over 30 decentralized exchange integrations and more than 10 blockchain networks.
Previously, the technology was primarily accessible through major decentralized trading venues including PancakeSwap, SushiSwap, QuickSwap and THENA. With the launch of Orbs Institutional, the company is making that infrastructure available directly to institutional users.
Addressing institutional DeFi challenges
Institutional interest in decentralized finance has continued to grow, but adoption remains constrained by concerns surrounding execution quality, custody requirements, transparency and operational controls.
According to Orbs, many firms are interested in accessing on-chain liquidity but remain hesitant to rely on infrastructure that does not meet institutional standards for security and execution.
"Institutions shouldn't have to choose between the efficiency of decentralized markets and the standards they expect from professional trading infrastructure," said Ran Hammer, Chief Business Officer at Orbs. "We've spent years building and refining execution technology that now powers some of the most active trading venues in DeFi. With Orbs Institutional, we're making that infrastructure directly accessible to trading desks, treasuries, custodians and platforms looking to execute on-chain with greater transparency, competitive pricing and full control over their assets."
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At the center of the new offering is Liquidity Hub, Orbs' liquidity aggregation protocol.
The system sources liquidity from decentralized exchanges as well as professional market makers through a private request-for-quote (RFQ) layer. According to the company, this approach is designed to improve execution quality while reducing exposure to common DeFi risks such as maximum extractable value (MEV) exploitation and front-running.
Institutional users also gain access to Orbs' broader suite of execution tools, including dTWAP, dLIMIT and dSLTP, which are designed to support advanced trading strategies and automated order management.
Self-custody and infrastructure compatibility
A key feature of the platform is that assets remain under client control throughout the execution process.
Orders can be signed using existing custody systems, treasury-management platforms or multi-party computation (MPC) infrastructure that supports the EIP-712 signing standard.
According to Orbs, the protocol operates through audited smart contracts, contains no administrative keys and has remained live in production since 2017 without any known exploits.
This self-custodial architecture is intended to provide institutions with greater transparency and control while reducing counterparty risk.
Orbs Institutional supports two primary integration models. Institutional trading firms can connect directly through APIs to access the execution stack and liquidity infrastructure.
Meanwhile, wallets, custodians, exchanges, MPC providers and prime brokers can integrate Orbs' execution capabilities into their own products through white-label or co-branded deployments.
This flexibility allows financial service providers to incorporate decentralized execution tools without having to build the underlying infrastructure themselves.
Preparing next phase of DeFi adoption
Orbs believes institutional participation will play a major role in the next stage of decentralized finance growth.
As digital asset markets mature, demand for transparent, self-custodied and automated execution infrastructure is expected to increase. The company argues that professional market participants increasingly want direct access to on-chain liquidity while maintaining the operational standards required by institutional trading environments.
With Orbs Institutional, the company is positioning itself to serve that growing demand by bringing established DeFi execution technology directly to institutional users rather than solely through decentralized trading platforms.
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