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What makes Percolator Trade different from Phoenix, Hyper Liquid and other perp DEXs? On most perp DEXs, every market shares one pool of risk: one margin system, one insurance fund, one pool of liquidity. A blowup in one thin market can drain capital that backs every other market. So those venues have to be conservative. They list a small set of large assets, they decide centrally what gets listed, and new tokens wait or never get listed at all. With Percolator Trade, Markets sit in isolated pools, each with its own liquidity and risk buffer. If one market goes bad, the loss stays there and can’t spread to the rest of the protocol. That isolation is what lets us do what the others structurally can’t: Permissionless listing: Anyone can launch a market on any token in a few clicks, without waiting for governance or a listing team. Long-tail first: A token can have a leveraged market long before the big venues would consider it, because listing it doesn't put anyone else's capital at risk. LPs choose their risk: Liquidity providers back the specific markets they want and earn those markets' fees, rather than being exposed to everything. Underneath that is the Percolator risk engine, the open source engine published by Toly. It is designed to keep each market solvent on its own, even where liquidity is thin. Phoenix and the others are good at being the venue for majors. We're building the venue for everything else.