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Perpetual contracts are a type of futures contract without an expiry date, allowing traders to hold positions for as long as they desire.
Create an account, deposit USDC collateral, and start trading! Please visit the in our docs for help with setup!
IntentX currently allows for trading on 290+ pairs, you can find the full list in our docs on the .
IntentX accounts utilize cross-margin, meaning that your portfolio (all assets and positions) is collateral. This means that your ENTIRE account is at risk for liquidation.
IntentX charges a 0.06% platform fee (0.03% open + 0.03% close) on all positions. Other ‘fees’ include funding rates and the spread(s) quoted by solvers.
Liquidation occurs when your ‘Equity Balance’ drops below the required Maintenance Margin (CVA). Due to your account being cross-margin, all of the assets/positions in the account will be liquidated should this occur.
Yes, we allow up to 60X leverage on trading pairs.
You can use the ‘Manage Account’ page in the UI to view all trading/account statistics and deposit/withdraw funds. Stop Loss and Take Profit will also be usable features in the future.
Click on the ‘Order History’ tab in the trading UI.
Click the ‘Export CSV’ button in the ‘Order History’ tab in the trading UI.
You can manage and view all of your account statistics on the ‘Manage Account’ page.
View the ‘Referrals’ page in the UI to find your referral statistics.
IntentX is currently supported by the Mantle Network & Base L2, with plans to move to many other chains in the future.
Sherlock audits all backend contracts (SYMMIO). Quantstamp will audit all IntentX contracts.
Because IntentX accounts are cross-margin, you must create multiple sub-accounts to have isolated trades.
Make sure that you turn your add-blocker off and refresh the page.
You can view your position uPNL and PNL on the ‘Positions’ and ‘Order History’ tabs respectively in the trading UI. You can view your cumulative PNL on the ‘Manage Account’ page.
Maintenance Margin (CVA) - the overall margin required for your account to remain solvent
Equity Balance - the total account balance at any given moment, factoring in all of your open positions
Remaining Equity to Liquidation - how much equity balance you have remaining before your accounts balance is liquidated.
Allocated Balance - available funds to open orders with and their total allocated amounts
Locked Margin - the total margin engaged across all live positions, acting as a buffer to prevent excessive position openings
Available for Orders - the funds that are still accessible for placing new orders.
Estimated Liquidation Price - the estimated liquidation prices for their new and open positions
You can find support in our documentation or by opening a ticket in our discord.
This means that all of the available open interest provided by the solver is being utilized in open trades. More liquidity will become available as trades are closed/liquidated, or if the solver adds more collateral to facilitate additional OI.
OI is the notional value of all short- and long-open interest on the platform. You can view the current and total OI in the ‘Open Interest’ box within the trading UI.
Select the pair you would like to trade. Once loaded you can view the current and available liquidity for that pair in the ‘Avail. Liquidity’ box in the trading UI.
If your uPNL is positive but you cannot close, the slippage to close may likely cause a liquidation. To address this you can change your slippage in your advanced settings or close the position in smaller increments.
IntentX charges a flat 0.06% platform fee for all trades (0.03% open/close). Additional ‘fees’ may include funding rates and the solver spread.
Use the ’Spread (bps)’ box in the trading UI to view the current solver spread.
Trades can be rejected by the solver at their discretion (I.e. the current price is now dramatically different from the streamed quote). If your request is rejected, please re-input the trade and try again.
Click the ‘Close’ button on your position in the ‘Positions’ tab.
Stop loss and take profit options will be available in the future.
Not currently, but this will be available in the future.
Not currently, but this will be available in the future.
The solver has not confirmed the trade yet, please either force close the order or wait for them to ‘Confirm’ or ‘Reject’ the trade.
The liquidation price for positions are estimated because they are based on the current margin in the account, which is dynamic as it is cross-margin. Please remember these are simply estimates and will change with the margin in your account.
Users with open positions will pay or receive funding fees depending on the underlying contract skew. You can view the current funding rate in the ‘Funding Rate’ box of the trading UI.
CVA is the Maintenance Margin required for your account to remain solvent. Your Equity Balance MUST be higher than your CVA, or your entire account will be liquidated.
Because IntentX does not house liquidity locally, nor have an insurance fund to offset losses, there can be no bad debt in the system in the event of a liquidation. Thus, higher leverage requires a higher CVA to ensure that all counterparties are made whole in the event of a liquidation.
There is a 12-hour withdrawal period to prevent fraudulent activities and double-spending. In the future, we hope to reduce the time to withdraw.
When you open an account on IntentX, you automatically receive a referral link. To find your referral link, click .
Both referrers and referees get a 15% bonus on ‘Trade and Earn’ rewards. Please refer to the for more details.
Follow the guide in your mobile browser, or on our , to set up our PWA on your Android or iOS phone.
Yes, the $INTX token has been live since the 31st of May 2024. Find out more .
The only collateral that can be utilized on IntentX is USDC & USDe, depending on your trading chain. We recommend swapping for USDC using DeFi Llama’s Meta-DEX Aggregator, . We also recommend swapping for USDe using on the Mantle Network.
You can bridge your assets/USDC via any bridge you like to the Base network or Mantle Network. We recommend the .
