> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.pacifica.fi/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# About Us

Pacifica is the largest decentralized perpetuals exchange on Solana, expanding from a high-performance perp venue into a broader trading ecosystem.

Pacifica aims to deliver exceptional core trading performance through a seamless user experience, enhanced by AI-powered smart trading tools that make sophisticated strategies accessible to everyone. We're not just building faster infrastructure - we're reimagining how trading should feel.

Founded in January 2025, Pacifica launched mainnet after only six months in June 2025. Since launch, it has grown into one of the leading perp DEXs on Solana, processing over \$220 billion in cumulative perp volume - with approximately \$1 billion daily volume and over \$100 million in peak open interest.

Pacifica currently supports 65+ perpetual pairs spanning crypto majors, altcoins, RWAs, FX, pre-IPO, and more, with up to 50x leverage and a unified spot-and-collateral margining system. Beyond core perp trading, Pacifica now offers user-deployed Vaults, Swim (tap trading), and an AI Agent and World Monitor, creating a diversified trading ecosystem for retail users, professional traders, market makers, and builders.

From day one, Pacifica has offered CEX-standard APIs across REST and WebSocket, designed for low-latency execution and programmatic trading. We welcome market makers, HFT teams, trading communities, affiliates, and builders to scale atop Pacifica's liquidity and tech stack.

Our team brings together experience across crypto exchanges, HFT, traditional finance, and machine learning, with backgrounds spanning Binance, FTX, Coinbase, NFTperp, Jane Street, Fidelity, OpenAI, DeepMind, ByteDance, MIT, Stanford, NUS, and other leading institutions. This blend of traditional finance, crypto-native, and AI expertise positions us to solve the industry's core challenges: execution speed and quality, a seamless user experience, and intelligent automation at scale.

Pacifica has been self-funded throughout our journey. We haven't raised external capital, ensuring that all value created accrues directly to our users.