what's ambient finance?
Ambient Finance is a decentralized exchange (DEX) protocol designed for efficient cryptocurrency trading. Built as a single smart contract, it offers a user experience comparable to centralized exchanges while maintaining decentralization. The protocol combines two types of liquidity pools: concentrated liquidity pools where providers can specify price ranges for capital efficiency, and ambient liquidity pools that cover the entire price range for broader market coverage. This hybrid approach minimizes slippage and optimizes trading costs across supported chains like Blast and Scroll. Users can perform swaps, provide liquidity to earn fees, and place limit orders on the platform. Ambient emphasizes low fees, fast execution, and security through its architecture. It has introduced a points system to incentivize early participation, potentially leading to future rewards. The protocol's design prioritizes liquidity provider profitability by reducing impermanent loss risks and enhancing overall market depth.
Ambient Finance's perpetuals market position will be discussed in a Twitter Spaces on Jan 8, 2026.
Scheduled for a Twitter Spaces discussion on January 8, 2026 at 2:30 PM UTC featuring a founding contributor discussing Ambient Finance in the competitive perpetuals market.
The founder allegedly rugged all farmers on the platform and is now co-founding a new project called fogo.
Doug Colkitt, co-founder, confirmed as speaker for ETHDenver 2026 conference.
The platform operates a points program that has been running for 1212 days (approximately 3.3 years), ranking as one of the longest active points programs in crypto.
Offers free credits to developers for verified, provably private inference, targeting those building agents.
The platform has perpetuals DEX capabilities, able to combine quality execution with fast listing speed.
The KING-ETH liquidity pool on Swellchain offers 74.2% yields.
Ambient deploys on Fogo, an SVM-compatible L1 chain with sub-second finality and Pyth integration at consensus. The deployment utilizes Ambient's Dual Flow Batch Auctions (DFBA) model, a new trading mechanism that replaces traditional AMMs and CLOBs with oracle-anchored batch auctions designed for MEV resistance and fair price clearing.
Partnership with AUSD/Agora announced as day one partner for Monad deployment, with AUSD serving as core pair token across Ambient pools and LPs earning automatic extra yield powered by Agora.
Industry recognition emerges as the project joins OpenAI, Nvidia, and Deepmind researchers as speakers at an upcoming distributed AI conference.
Major VC a16z backs Solana-forked chain with AI mining mechanism based on training data contributions.
Minable testnet launching soon, expanding existing PoW mining infrastructure.
High yield farming rates available: 103% APY for USDK-SWELL and 77.1% APY for KING-ETH pairs.
Launching new perpetual DEX platform.
Integration with FogoChain reaches 70% completion milestone.
Active yield farming program offers $38.5K in SWELL tokens across USDK holdings and liquidity pools, with boosted rewards until May 20th.
Novel PoW mining system powers 600B parameter AI model infrastructure, backed by Delphi Ventures.
New partnership with Tempest.fi launches custom liquidity models for restaked assets on Swell Chain.
New USDe/ETH vault offering 30-50%+ APY through combined Swell incentives, Ambient points, Ethena points, and LP fees.
DEX integration secured through $13.5M funding and vertical stack featuring Pyth Network price feeds; achieves 54,000+ TPS with sub-10ms finality in devnet.