Ran currently leads Business Development, Marketing and Communities for Orbs as well as being in charge of Legal and Compliance.
Prior to joining Orbs and after specializing as a corporate lawyer in the fields of high-tech, venture capital and cross border M&A, Ran founded the blockchain, cryptocurrency and digital coin practice at GKH Law Offices and was established as one of Israel’s leading blockchain law practitioners.
What new opportunities does Perpetual Hub Ultra open up for DEXs, and why now?
Perpetual Hub Ultra allows developers to launch decentralised perpetual futures trading platforms with minimal infrastructure or liquidity hurdles.
It provides access to deep liquidity across hundreds of pairs, high leverage, and an interface that rivals centralised exchanges.
While platforms like Hyperliquid have demonstrated what’s possible, there’s still a lack of credible decentralised alternatives.
As demand for perpetual futures grows, especially amid concerns over centralisation, Ultra offers a timely solution.
What comes with the white-label package, and what must a DEX provide to use it?
Perpetual Hub Ultra is a modular, white-label solution. It includes a fully customisable trading interface, an automated hedging and liquidation system, and secure real-time price oracles.
Developers only need to make small smart contract adjustments to integrate it with their tokenomics.
The platform enables venues to hedge using centralised and decentralised liquidity sources, replicating the depth of CeFi order books while simplifying deployment.
How does Orbs handle the challenges of backend complexity and fragmented liquidity for smaller players?
Building onchain perps infrastructure traditionally requires significant engineering, capital, and ongoing maintenance.
Perpetual Hub Ultra reduces these barriers by offering a pre-integrated stack that works across multiple chains. It allows DEXs and developers to launch leveraged trading with deep liquidity and broad asset support, without building bespoke systems.
This can help venues increase volume, user engagement, and potential revenue, without needing to establish their own infrastructure from scratch.
You’ve described Ultra as “CeFi-grade.” What does that mean in terms of user experience?
Ultra is designed to match the feel and performance of centralised trading platforms. It includes a customisable front-end, automated layer-3 risk systems, and reliable oracles.
By combining Orbs’ infrastructure with Symm.io’s intent-based trading architecture, it delivers substantial liquidity, broad asset support, and high leverage from the outset.
The result is a professional-grade platform that feels familiar to users coming from centralised exchanges.
With hundreds of trading pairs and up to 60x leverage, how is risk managed on the backend?
That’s a great question.
Risk management is handled through intent-based trading, where multiple market makers or hedgers compete to fill user orders with the best price.
Once a trade is agreed, smart contracts ensure both parties remain solvent. Trades are isolated, peer-to-peer transactions with no shared risk or liquidity pools.
Orbs’ L3 also powers essential components like the oracle and liquidation systems, allowing for efficient risk control without compromising execution or capital efficiency.
How does Ultra maintain liquidity across venues or chains?
Liquidity remains a key issue for decentralised derivatives platforms. PH Ultra addresses this with an intent-based model that sources liquidity from both onchain and offchain venues, including large centralised exchanges.
This system, which has already proven effective in spot markets through platforms like UniswapX and CoWSwap, enables Ultra to deliver deep, aggregated liquidity from day one, even across multiple blockchains.
What makes Orbs’ layer-3 infrastructure a good fit for this type of product?
Orbs’ Layer-3 is designed for advanced decentralised applications that require logic beyond what L1 or L2 smart contracts can handle.
For perpetuals, this means managing high-performance execution, capital efficiency, and risk at scale.
Orbs serves as an offchain execution layer on top of existing networks, powering modules like the hedger, liquidator, and oracle. Combined with Symm.io’s intent-based smart contract system, it enables a complete, onchain perps solution for DEXs that rivals the performance of centralised platforms.
How do you see the line between CeFi and DeFi evolving with tools like Ultra?
There’s been notable progress in narrowing the gap between centralised and decentralised finance, particularly in spot trading.
Now, we’re starting to see similar developments in derivatives. Just a few years ago, onchain perpetuals struggled for adoption, but today, platforms like Ultra offer a viable and competitive experience.
With better liquidity, execution, and interfaces, DeFi is beginning to match, and in some cases rival, the usability and performance of CeFi venues like Binance and OKX.
How has your background in law and venture capital influenced your work at Orbs?
I started my career in corporate law, advising startups on VC and M&A. That gave me exposure to tech innovation across industries.
As crypto began to grow, I launched a blockchain practice within my firm, helping early-stage projects navigate regulatory issues. Although I’ve since moved on from legal practice, that experience shaped my approach to identifying and solving market problems.
At Orbs, that’s meant recognising the potential of onchain perps early and helping to develop a product that addresses a clear market gap.
Are there upcoming features or integrations that you’re particularly excited about?
What’s promising about Perpetual Hub Ultra is how quickly it can scale. Because the system includes all the core components: UI, hedger, liquidator, oracle, it’s easy for exchanges to integrate.
As more platforms adopt it, liquidity and user activity can grow organically. We’ve already onboarded DEXs like Thena (on BNB Chain) and Spooky (on Sonic), and several others are preparing to integrate across different networks.
That growing network effect could help standardise Ultra as a go-to framework for onchain perps.