what's kuru?
Kuru is a decentralized exchange (DEX) built on the Monad blockchain, designed to provide a seamless trading experience through a fully on-chain central limit order book (CLOB) combined with automated market maker (AMM) liquidity backstops. It functions as an all-in-one trading hub, integrating features like a smart aggregator for optimal routing, a CLOB for precise order matching, a launchpad for new token deployments, and liquidity vaults that allow users to deploy capital into v2-style curves to earn fees. This hybrid model aims to overcome limitations of traditional AMMs by enabling transparent, composable, and high-performance trading directly on-chain. The platform leverages Monad's high throughput and low-latency execution to deliver sub-second trade settlements with minimal gas costs. Users can discover, trade, and launch tokens in a permissionless environment, with tools like on-chain orderbooks ensuring full transparency and composability with other DeFi protocols. Kuru also supports community-driven initiatives, such as avatar minting and campaigns, to engage users during testnet and mainnet phases. By bridging CLOB efficiency with AMM depth, Kuru positions itself as a foundational liquidity layer for Monad's ecosystem, enabling advanced trading strategies while maintaining decentralization and user sovereignty.
Kuru DEX is an example on Monad for AI agent trading integrations during the Moltiverse Hackathon.
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x.com/kuruexchangeListed as an example DEX on Monad for potential AI agent trading integrations during the Moltiverse Hackathon, a 2-week event with $200K in prizes running from 2026-02-02 to approximately 2026-02-16.
Achieved record volume day on January 27, 2026 for the fully on-chain order book on Monad.
The native DEX records $1.7M in TVL, reflecting minimal capital deployment despite Monad's TGE two weeks ago.
Mainnet launch on Monad completed, with 500+ markets and 350+ creators onboarded in first 7 days of operation.
Monad DEXes collectively generate $100m+ daily spot volume since mainnet launch, with Kuru Exchange listed among the top volume contributors alongside major competitors including Uniswap, PancakeSwap, and Curve Finance.
Symphony launches Agentic Fund Launchpad with Kuru integrated as an execution routing option for agentic fund strategies, and introduces a unified rewards program where users earn Kuru rewards through agentic fund trading alongside Symphony Points and other ecosystem incentives starting next week.
Testing reveals Uniswap v4 is not connected, causing poor swap rates as the platform cannot route to the AUSD/WBTC pool.
A scam token appears as the top search result when users search for WMON on the platform, creating a phishing risk.
The platform offers a gamification rewards feature where users who achieve 5,000 in trading volume receive an egg to incubate.
A $50,000 bug bounty program launches for researchers to review core contracts, vault architecture, Kuru Flow, margin systems, and vault logic.
Awaken adds automated tax support and portfolio tracking for Kuru Exchange on Monad.
Users report inability to execute buy or sell transactions on the platform during Monad mainnet day 1 launch due to persistent errors.
Users report a critical bug where swapping all MON to other tokens leaves funds stuck, as the platform cannot handle low gas balance scenarios and prevents swapping back to MON or bridging assets off-chain.
Users report persistent errors when attempting to add liquidity to the platform, with failures across multiple LP configurations and fee tiers.
Monad mainnet is now live with Kuru Exchange operational as a Day 1 application, supporting USDC and CCTP through Circle's integration.
Featured as a key DEX for Monad's mainnet launch (happening in approximately 10 hours from tweet time), offering spot trading on a central limit order book.
Launches Kuru Flow, a smart aggregator that integrates all major DEXs on Monad and incorporates native market dynamics into its routing logic.
Integrates as an oracle source on Switchboard, enabling Monad builders to create price feeds using Kuru's aggregator data.
Curvance integrates Kuru's DEX aggregator directly into its core platform, enabling seamless swaps and trade execution across all major liquidity sources on Monad for Curvance users.
The vault product launches on Monad mainnet to help bootstrap orderbook DEX liquidity.
Rewards program starts in the first week of Monad mainnet launch for users of the platform.
Announces upcoming AMA with Head of Growth @cozymaximalist to discuss building on Monad, with potential alpha to be shared during the event.
Raised $11 million in funding and selected for Monad Momentum Wave 1, an incentive matching program focused on user acquisition.
Selected for Monad Momentum program as a DeFi application alongside Drake Exchange, Seer Trade, Monday Trade, and Symphony.
Paradigm and Electric Capital back the project.
0x protocol will integrate deep liquidity across AMMs and orderbooks on Monad including KuruExchange at launch.
KuruExchange is listed as one of the DEXs in the Monad Day 1 Trading Stack, indicating availability on the Monad blockchain at launch.
Launches Kuru Flow, a new trading interface for the exchange platform.
Project is listed among DeFi protocols planning Token Generation Events in Q4.
New audit competition launched with Cantina to enhance protocol security.
New trading competition announced with $100,000 prize pool, running through September 1.
Raises $11.6M from Paradigm to build onchain CLOB DEX with CEX-level performance and DeFi composability.
Receives strategic investment from Paradigm VC firm.
Raises $11.6M in Series A led by Paradigm.
Implements hybrid CLOB-AMM trading model with Monorail DEX aggregator integration for enhanced trading experience.
Maintains deepest liquidity pool for MON/USDC trading pair on Monad through CLOB infrastructure.
New infrastructure partnership established with Monad blockchain ecosystem.
Third project to achieve nads verification tag, requiring 100 votes with 80% approval rate.
Active bot manipulation and token theft reported on exchange, affecting meme token trading.
Development team considers increasing token allocation from 1% to 5% while addressing technical issues during testnet phase before mainnet launch.
Limited-edition Fantasy Top trait drops announced for top 1000 players in each MAIN 12 league on Monad.
DEX aggregator Monorail completes integration, enabling broader market access and improved price discovery.
Testnet phase achieves 58.6K trading markets with user-created token capability.