Aark's 2024 roadmap outlines a series of innovative and strategic initiatives set to reinvent the perp DEX industry, positioning the platform as a leader in high-leverage trading and user engagement. 2024 Roadmap’s core goals are:

  1. Undisputed leader in 1000x trading
  2. Go-to-destination for higher leverage traders through Retrade System

The year begins with the debut of 1000x, offering a no-failed liquidation model that provides a safe 1000x trading experiences. This launch is poised to not only attract high leverage traders but also establish Aark as the premier destination for 1000x trading, supported by targeted marketing and community-building efforts.

The introduction of the Retrade System marks another significant milestone. This core system is ingeniously designed to retain 1000x leverage users by reimbursing a portion of their trading fees. The Retrade System operates on a unique mechanism that allows users to add additional collateral and re-engage in trading, creating a compelling incentive for continual platform use and increased user loyalty. This strategy is expected to demonstrate exceptional retention power, particularly among high-leverage traders, further cementing Aark's position as the leader of 1000x leverage trading.

Together, the 1000x initiative and the Retrade System encapsulate Aark's vision for 2024 — laying foundations for Perps 2.0 for both CEX and DEX perp traders to love alike.

2024 & 2025

| 1000x | 1Q24 | 1. 1000x Debut: Deploy Aark’s unique Interval structure, a first-of-its-kind no failed liquidation model, to provide safe 1000x trading for the first time in both CEX/DEX. Focus marketing and PR to build brand recognition as the go-to destination for 1000x, attracting higher leverage users, and creating a designated community.

KPI: Track volume of 1000x traders and eventually walletless CEX users with social login development; educate and optimize UX

  1. SocialFi - Chat: Increase user engagement through a chat service for perp traders whose visit rates are most frequent compared to any other user segments. -Partnership with Beoble. | | --- | --- | --- | | Listing/ Multichain | 2Q24 | 1. Listing: Targeting listing and TGE in 1Q24 or early 2Q24.
  2. Multichain: Engaging in close discussions with major EVM/non-EVM chains, such as Sui, Blast, X1 and others. New community base and money lego ecosystem offer a high potential upside for Aark.
  3. 1000x Optimization: Collecting data and running simulations to optimize algorithms, providing the best trading, profit, and liquidation/retrade experiences for users. Focusing on gathering user feedback for UX.
  4. Social Login: One of our features that would expand our major target user from perp DEX users to CEX users. No extension installation is needed, enabling the only step needed for CEX users to google or other social login. Wallet management connected with social login and not device or separate passphrases. | | Retrade System | 3Q24 | 1. Retrade System: The core system for 1000x leverage users’ retention. The Retrade System reimburses trading fees collected from users and 30% of the fees paid from 1000x traders are used to reimburse traders. Users can add additional collateral to receive the reimbursement and trade again on Aark. This mechanism is expected to demonstrate powerful retention for high-leverage traders.

KPI: 30-days retention. Maximize engagement with core customers and solidify Aark as go-to destination for 1000x

  1. Celestial(VIP) Program v2: Aark’s VIP program with top high-volume users. Expand into v2 with more frequent 1:1 customized outreach and telegram chats to apply user feature requests and distribute personalized incentives.
  2. SocialFi - Builder: Clash-of-clan-style trading history management to manage user trading record with PNL by market portrayed by the height of buildings. Features to compare other users’ trading patterns and top PNL users.
  3. LRT/RWA collateral: With increased TVL of LRT/RWA coming to Arbitrum ecosystem, add LRT/RWA assets for double-yield features, creating synergy with LST collaterals. | | Super Long Tail | 4Q24 | 1. Super Long Tail: Cooperation with market makers to balance OI for super long tail assets. After test period, once balancing mechanisms turn out effective, add super long tail assets with OI cap.
  4. veTokenomics: Apply Curve’s veTokenomics to increase use case for veAARK. veAARK can vote for which (1) trade market gets more trade mining incentives; and (2) LP asset gets more yield from trading fees.
  5. Exotics: Add exotic asset trading, starting with Coinbase premium, GBTC discount, Fed interest rate, and others. PR for unique differentiation feature to attract CEX users interested in trading exotics.
  6. Order book: Add order book feature with visualization for AALP's liquidity and limit orders, catering to CLOB-accustomed users, including CEX users.
  7. SaaS - 1000x as a Service: CLOB perp DEXs inherently cannot provide 1000x due to liquidation constraints while pool-based perp DEXs must build a new dedicated pool for 1000x or have their initial pools take on the risk of 1000x. Due to such risk, we expect many exchanges that want to provide 1000x to integrate a third party 1000x provider which Aark intends to provide as a SaaS. | | Exchange Eco | 2025 | 1. Expand Exchange Ecosystem: Provide native spot trading, native token liquid staking with additional yields provided by staking into AALP, launchpad, and other verticals with clear synergies. Expand interoperability through money lego with other Arbiturm or multichain protocols for advanced features.
  8. Governance: Launch Aark DAO for assistance in overseeing the exchange ecosystem. |