Drift Overview
Drift Protocol is a decentralised exchange, open-sourced and built on the Solana blockchain.
📈 Trade
Focus on the strategy, and let Drift take care of your position:
Perpetual Futures / Swaps - Trade the hottest perp markets with up to 101x leverage.
Spot Trading - Trade assets with up to 5x leverage.
Swap Tokens - Swap any pair with up to 5x leverage.
Drift was designed with a goal to be capital efficient but also protective of your assets.
We achieved that by setting up a sophisticated cross-margined risk engine — a system of tools with extensive protection from over-extending risk. For instance:
In the lend/borrow markets, you can also use collateral for perpetual futures and trade more efficiently with spot assets.
Every token you deposit can earn you more through borrowing and also act as collateral for perpetual swaps.
Borrowers can only borrow if they have more collateral than needed, following multiple safety measures for extra protection.
💸 Earn
Lend/Borrow - Earn yield on your deposits through lending.
Insurance Fund Staking - Stake your assets into a vault and earn yield from exchange fees.
Market Maker Rewards - Opt-in only market-making Alpha Program.
(Advanced) Backstop AMM Liquidity (BAL) - Provide liquidity with leverage and earn yield.
🤖 Build
API Documentation - Interact with the protocol programatically.
SDKs - Language bindings in Typescript and Python.
Tutorials - Build a Keeper bot or JIT Trading bot.
Drift Gateway - Self hosted API gateway to easily interact with Drift V2 Protocol.
Drift Protocol is open-source and contributions are welcome. Our support is available at all times on Discord.