Understanding the Reasons Behind Raptor Built on SOON in One Article

Raptor and SOON both focus on providing support for traders. Raptor utilizes Uniswap V4 on SOON's SVM to share global liquidity, specifically designed for passive market makers in high-volume trading environments. After continuous efforts and achieving third place at Soon's Hackathon, here’s a brief overview of why Raptor is built on Soon.

1. What is Raptor?

Raptor is a high-performance, secure, fast, and fun DeFi paradise, a decentralized exchange where users can quickly swap and trade on Raptor. It is also a liquidity-rich paradise supported by the SOON SVM Stack.

As a new DEX, Raptor is launching a unique decentralized exchange that leverages Uniswap V4 for the first time on SOON's SVM.

In a rapidly changing bull market, fees and slippage are inevitably driven up significantly, so by transitioning to V4, we hope to provide the best exchange experience for all traders during very intense bull markets.

2. Why is Raptor built on SOON?

Raptor is a new DEX, and SOON is an emerging SVM chain, making both parties ideal partners for development and marketing at a specific time when they are both about to enter the market with our cutting-edge technology. In particular, these features are the reasons we first built on SOON:

High Performance and Cost Efficiency

As a DEX, the ability to execute high-frequency trades with low latency is crucial for us to showcase core functionalities like swapping and liquidity management. The SOON mainnet introduces a decoupled SVM execution layer, achieving unparalleled on-chain performance with 30,000 transactions per second (TPS) and block times under 50 milliseconds. These metrics will soon make the mainnet one of the most efficient Layer 2 solutions on Ethereum. The horizontal scaling roadmap further ensures continuous improvement, theoretically allowing for infinite optimization to meet growing demand.

Cosmic SVM and InterSOON Interoperability

Another important aspect of Raptor is helping users access, bridge, and combine different liquidity across chains. The InterSOON protocol is a decentralized cross-chain messaging layer that enables seamless communication between the SOON chain (including the SOON mainnet and future SVM-based L2s) and other major Layer 1 ecosystems. This establishes a Cosmic SVM network that bridges ecosystems and achieves:

Cross-Chain Application Interoperability

Seamless asset usage across ecosystems
This unified framework allows developers to build multi-chain applications without compromising functionality or user experience. This is an ideal choice for Raptor, which will integrate multi-chain asset interoperability.

Connecting Solana and a Strong Community

SOON is inspired by the Solana innovation-driven ecosystem and its Rust-based developer community, fostering a builder-first culture. By seamlessly integrating Solana native projects into the EVM-based ecosystem, SOON combines Solana's leading innovations in DeFi, DePIN, and meme culture with the vast user base of Ethereum-compatible platforms.

As early builders from Solana, we can see how SOON facilitates genuine interaction and implements incentive structures focused on rewarding meaningful contributions (including hackathons).

3. Future Development: Building the Strongest Liquidity Infrastructure

Raptor's innovative AMM mechanism perfectly aligns with SOON's commitment to scalability and performance. Raptor will build the strongest liquidity infrastructure and unlock new liquidity paradigms.

We will create the best on-chain DEX experience together with the Soon Ecosystem and are committed to an open-source development model that promotes collaboration and innovation within the Soon ecosystem.