

 Welcome to Core — the premier intents-based derivatives platform live on Blast! Core’s goal is to reshape the way that you trade, offering unique solutions like: using $USDB yield to ensure lower funding rates, leveraging intents to offer 250+ trading pairs, and a Trade2Earn program that directly benefits users. This overview provides a straightforward look at how Core stands out and our liquidity bootstrapping phase. We’ll even tell you about how we plan to allocate our juicy [Big Bang ‘Honorable Mention’](https://blastpublic.notion.site/Big-Bang-Winners-1f0a437a78794c34a74352b1b1351c86) allocation and Blast points! # What is Core? Core stands as a best-in-class derivatives DEX on Blast, leveraging intents-based trading to deliver an unmatched trading experience. Through our novel approach to intent-based derivatives trading, enhanced by the strategic use of USDB as yield-generating collateral and a unique user interface, Core provides a streamlined and effective trading journey.  Our dedication to ensuring deep liquidity, minimal fees, and a wide array of trading pairs cements Core’s role as a pivotal platform for traders aiming to get the most out of DeFi. To this end, we’re partnered with SYMMIO for reliable trade settlement and IntentX, as a serviced front-end, enhancing user interaction and accessibility. # **Core’s Unique Selling Points** ## Lower Funding Rates with $USDB  $USDB emerges as a unique and versatile stablecoin created by Blast, featuring an auto-rebasing mechanism connected to MakerDAO’s on-chain T-Bill protocol. This strategy enables the collateral deposited by traders and solvers to generate a yield (approximately 15% APR currently). The benefit of this yield for Core users is considerable: the yield produced by the collateral of both parties has the potential to counterbalance funding rates, effectively decreasing the fees traders incur over time. This results in notable cost savings for both traders and solvers, positioning Core as a platform with the capability to provide the most competitive funding rates on-chain. ## Trade2Earn  At Core Markets, the elimination of conventional liquidity providers (LPs) ensures that all Trade2Earn rewards go straight to traders. This creates a beneficial cycle, spurring greater trading activity, which then amplifies yield for $CORE stakers. Core distinguishes itself as a rare protocol focused on rewarding its active participants, as opposed to fleeting capital chasing after attractive liquidity mining opportunities. Moreover, Core participants (both traders and $CORE stakers) will be awarded 100% of the Blast incentives recieved by Core. This includes farming rewards for protcol owned liquidity! This means that Core users get $CORE emissions, Blast Gold/Points awarded to Core, and any points/tokens farmed by Core (a triple dip)! 👀 👀 👀 # Wen Token? Now!  At Core, we are tired of points farming — we remember the golden days where DeFi power users could farm their favorite tokens! To this end, we have partnered with [Fjord Foundry](https://www.fjordfoundry.com/) and curator [Tempo](https://x.com/tempogrp?s=20) to launch the $CORE liquidity bootstrapping pool (LBP)! We believe that an LBP is the most fair way to launch the token. In an LBP, price decays over time until buyers step in at what they believe is the fair market value for the token. So, remember to be patient and only purchase tokens at the value you see as fair! Immediately following the end of the LBP, we will seed the LP on [redacted], and Trade2Earn, staking and the Blast points API will go live! ### Website: [https://www.core.markets/](https://www.core.markets/ "https://www.core.markets/") ### Twitter: [https://twitter.com/Core_Markets](https://twitter.com/Core_Markets "https://twitter.com/Core_Markets") ### Discord: [https://discord.gg/coremarkets](https://discord.gg/coremarkets "https://discord.gg/coremarkets") ### Medium: [https://medium.com/@Core_Markets](https://medium.com/@Core_Markets "https://medium.com/@Core_Markets") ### Docs: [https://docs.core.markets/](https://docs.core.markets/ "https://docs.core.markets/")















