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By Oliver Knight|Edited by Aoyon Ashraf
Jun 23, 2025, 2:57 p.m.
- GTE raised $15M in Series A funding led by Paradigm, aiming to become the fastest decentralized exchange and rival major players like HyperLiquid, Uniswap, and PancakeSwap.
- GTE will use a central limit order book model to offer faster and cheaper spot trading, positioning itself as a more efficient alternative to AMM-based platforms.
- The exchange will be fully non-custodial, allowing users to retain control of their assets while achieving latency levels comparable to centralized giants like Binance and Coinbase.
Decentralized trading venue GTE has raised $15 million in a Series A round led by Paradigm, according to an announcement made on X.
GTE describes itself as the “world’s fastest decentralized exchange,” a label often attributed to HyperLiquid. The derivatives exchange is one of this crypto cycle’s success stories, having racked up more than $1 trillion in cumulative trading volume in 2025, DefiLlama data shows.
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While GTE plans to rival HyperLiquid in terms of speed, it also wants to target Uniswap and Pancake Swap to make spot trades cheaper and more efficient.
The GTE website shows that it will use a central limit order book to match buyers and sellers as opposed to Uniswap’s model, which involves liquidity pools and an automated market maker engine.
GTE co-founder Enzo Coglitore said that he expects latency to rival that of Binance and Coinbase, in an interview with The Block.
Trading firms have long since grappled with latency issues in crypto markets. Even FTX, once billed as the exchange built by traders for traders, had problems with high latency and API bugs.
The difference between GTE and these centralized venues is that GTE will be entirely non-custodial. This means that traders can trade assets without handing over custody to the exchange itself, avoiding the risk of another exchange implosion like FTX.
Read more: Hyperliquid’s HYPE Becomes Fifth Largest Token in Futures Trading
Oliver Knight is the co-leader of CoinDesk data tokens and data team. Before joining CoinDesk in 2022 Oliver spent three years as the chief reporter at Coin Rivet. He first started investing in bitcoin in 2013 and spent a period of his career working at a market making firm in the UK. He does not currently have any crypto holdings.
