DeFi
Uniswap, Ekubo, and the Rise Of Innovative DEX Designs
April 1, 2025, 7:18 PM
Uniswap, Ekubo, and the Rise Of Innovative DEX Designs
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Inside Ekubo’s Minimal-Overhead AMM and Why Starknet Is the Right Fit
What if DEXs could do more?
Ekubo thinks they can. Their approach? Dedefining efficiency from the ground up, from memory architecture to fee mechanics, decreasing gas costs while unlocking features like TWAMs.
In today’s episode, we sit down with Moody, Ekubo's founder and Uniswap v3 co-author, alongside Benjamin Sturisky from the Starknet Foundation.
We explore why they chose Starknet over Ethereum mainnet, reflecting shared values around validity rollups, Cairo optimization, and account abstraction.
Our conversation covers capital-efficient liquidity, revenue models, the appchain vs. shared ecosystem debate, token launches, and the practical economics of building protocols that work in the real world.
Let's jump in.
The Rollup