• Orca Whirlpools Rotation #19 Duration: Thursday December 29, 2022 — Thursday January 12, 2023
• Total Rewards: The rewards are detailed below for each Whirlpool with total rewards of ~5K ORCA per rotation across all pools. All Whirlpools are now open and rewards will begin on Dec 29th at ~24:00 UTC.
• Some new pools have arrived as the new year approaches! Some pools are making their first appearance on Orca, while others are making their debut to the ecosystem as a whole.
• New pools this rotation include projects ranging from blockchain-based social media, to Web3 gaming, to a new dog on the block. To learn more, visit each project’s website to see what they are building out for the Solana community.
• Finally, be on the lookout in the coming days for some new features that will make providing liquidity in Whirlpools even simpler than ever before!

Whirlpools with New Rewards… 🌀

Whirlpools offer market-savvy LPs the opportunity to compete for higher yields

SLCL/USDC (0.3% fee tier) from Solcial

• SLCL rewards: ~4,000 SLCL per week
• ORCA rewards: ~50 ORCA per week

BONK/SOL (1.0% fee tier) from BONK

• BONK rewards: ~3.84 billion BONK per week

BONK/USDC (1.0% fee tier) from BONK

• BONK rewards: ~3.84 billion BONK per week

Other New Whirlpools… 🌀

Check out these new arrivals to Orca’s waters

• DFL/USDC (0.3% fee tier) from DeFi Land
• MBS/USDC (0.3% fee tier) from MonkeyLeague
• PHY/SOL (0.3% fee tier) from Physis

🌊 Deepsea Insights 🌏

This year was a time of great transformation for Orca, Solana, and the entire crypto ecosystem. Over the past twelve months, Orca and Solana both made incredible progress in building out the infrastructure that will enable the future of decentralized finance.

When the year began, Orca’s Whirlpools did not even exist. Now they often power a majority of Solana’s on-chain trading volume. Users also now have the ability to take advantage of the efficiency of concentrated liquidity and permissionlessly launch their own Whirlpools with the token pairs and fee tiers of their choosing.

About Orca

Orca the easiest way to exchange cryptocurrency on the Solana blockchain. There, you can exchange tokens with minimal transaction fees and lower latency than any DEX on Ethereum, all while knowing that you’re getting a fair price. Additionally, users may provide liquidity to a trading pool to earn a share of trading fees.

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Whirlpools Rotation #9

• Duration: Thursday August 11th — Thursday August 25th, 2022
• Total Rewards: ORCA rewards for this Rotation will be ~30K ORCA per week, with the distribution across our pools detailed below. All Whirlpools and Aquafarms are now open and rewards will begin on August 11th at ~20:00 UTC.
• Events: The submission form for the Solana Summer Camp Hackathon is now live, with prizes of up to $50,000 for innovators in DeFi. With Orca co-founder Ori and Orca’s head of BizDev Milan judging, we encourage all podmates who want to build in the ocean of DeFi to participate! 🐳

Double-Dip pools

Double-Dip Whirlpools offer LPs two different token rewards plus trading fees.

#1 SLND/USDC from Solend

• Double-Dip duration: August 11th — September 8th 2022
• SLND rewards: ~1,600 SLND per week
• Orca rewards: ~200 ORCA per week

#2 ABR/USDC, acCELO/USDC, afFTM/USDC extended from AllBridge

• Double-Dip duration: August 11th — September 8th 2022
• ABR rewards: 4,600 ABR per week across all pools
• Orca rewards: ~1,600 ORCA per week across all pools

#3 svtOKAY/SOL extended from Solvent

• Double-Dip duration: August 11th — August 25th 2022
• SVT rewards: ~300 SVT per week
• Orca rewards: ~100 ORCA per week

Other fresh Whirlpools…

Whirlpools offer market-savvy LPs the opportunity to compete for higher yields

#4 KI/USDC from Genopets

• Note: the old version of KI is now listed as depKI/USDC, with the newly released version under KI/USDC.

#5 MEAN/SOL from MeanFi

While these Whirlpools receive no additional token rewards, they are highly capital efficient and provide tactical opportunities for Sharks! 🦈

Deepsea Insights

With every Rotation, there’s always something interesting going on in the Orca ecosystem…

This week’s Deepsea Insight comes courtesy of Hubble Protocol and Marinade!

Hubble’s listing of several Whirlpools last Rotation led to some speculation on how much activity the the new pools would attract. Turns out, there’s been plenty of activity taking place under the sea…

Note the difference between volume and liquidity. With the power of Whirlpools, liquidity in the USDH/USDC can facilitate more than seven times as much trading volume! 🌀

Additionally, Marinade recently transitioned their MNDE rewards to a decentralized model where MNDE holders can vote on directing MNDE to incentivize mSOL liquidity across the Solana ecosystem. Some mSOL pools have received outsized votes (mSOL/ETH 😉) — if you’re a member of the Marinade community, you can vote in their upcoming proposal ending tomorrow to direct rewards.

About Solend

Solend an algorithmic, decentralized protocol for lending and borrowing on Solana. Lending and borrowing have proven themselves to be key in a DeFi ecosystem.

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About MeanFi

MeanFi a censorship-resistant, user-friendly, self-custody, permissionless & trustless bank bringing everyday banking workflows and real-time finance to crypto and DeFi.

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About Genopets

Genopets the world’s first Free-to-Play, Move-to-Earn NFT mobile game that makes it fun and rewarding to live an active lifestyle. A Genopet your digital pet whose evolution and growth is inextricably linked to your own. The steps you take every day power your journey through the Genoverse as you explore, battle, and evolve — earning crypto while you play.

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About Orca

Orca the easiest way to exchange cryptocurrency on the Solana blockchain. There, you can exchange tokens with minimal transaction fees and lower latency than any DEX on Ethereum, all while knowing that you’re getting a fair price. Additionally, users may provide liquidity to a trading pool to earn a share of trading fees.

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Whirlpools Rotation #8 🌀

• Duration: Thursday July 28th — Thursday August 11th, 2022
• Total Rewards: ORCA rewards for this Rotation will be ~35K ORCA per week, with the distribution across our pools detailed below. All Whirlpools and Aquafarms are now open and rewards will begin on July 28th at ~20:00 UTC.
• Events: The Solana Summer Camp online hackathon continues, with prizes of up to $50,000 for innovators in the DeFi space. With Orca co-founder Ori and Orca’s head of BizDev Milan judging, we encourage all podmates who want to build in the ocean of DeFi to participate! 🐳

Double-Dip pools 🐋

Double-Dip Whirlpools offer LPs two different token rewards plus trading fees.

#1 mSOL/USDH from Hubble & Marinade

• Double-Dip duration: July 28th — August 25th 2022
• MNDE rewards: 20,000 MNDE per week
• Orca rewards: ~500 ORCA per week

#2 USDT/USDH from Hubble

• Double-Dip duration: July 28th — September 22nd 2022
• Hubble rewards: 1,000 HBB per week
• Orca rewards: ~100 ORCA per week

Other fresh Whirlpools 🌀

Whirlpools offer market-savvy LPs the opportunity to compete for higher yields

While these Whirlpools receive no additional token rewards, they are highly capital efficient and provide tactical opportunities for Sharks! 🦈

#3 DAI/USDH (USDH by Hubble)

#4 HBB/USDH (from Hubble)

#5 UXD/SOL (from UXD Protocol)

🌊 Deepsea Insights 🌏

With every Rotation, there’s always something interesting going on in the Orca ecosystem…

Not only is there a raft of fresh Whirlpools from Hubble this Rotation: Hubble’s existing Whirlpools have also been attracting some interesting activity over the last two weeks.

Of particular note is the Triple-Dip USDH/stSOL Whirlpool, which is boasting strong volumes and trading fees without even considering the additional HBB, wLDO, and ORCA rewards!

About Hubble

Hubble protocol allows users to take interest-free loans against multiple crypto assets. Hubble works with USDH, Hubble’s decentralized stablecoin.

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About UXD Protocol

UXD Protocol a fully collateralized decentralized stablecoin backed by delta-neutral position using derivatives.

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About Orca

Orca the easiest way to exchange cryptocurrency on the Solana blockchain. There, you can exchange tokens with minimal transaction fees and lower latency than any DEX on Ethereum, all while knowing that you’re getting a fair price. Additionally, users may provide liquidity to a trading pool to earn a share of trading fees.

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Orca is delighted to announce its partnership with Media Network to enable MEDIA rewards for the MEDIA/USDC Whirlpool, which will be live on the next rotation starting Jul 14, 2022.

Introduction to Orca

Orca is a decentralized exchange on the Solana blockchain where you can exchange tokens cheaply, quickly, and confidently. Additionally, you can provide liquidity to regular and concentrated liquidity pools called “Whirlpools” to earn trading fees and token emissions.

Everything you need to know about Whirlpools: how to maximize rewards in simple steps

Whirlpools are Orca’s brand-new concentrated liquidity pools. These pools allow LPs to concentrate their liquidity around specific price ranges, unlocking significant gains in capital efficiency for liquidity providers and better prices for swaps.

What are the main differences with regular pools?

Unlike standard pools, liquidity providers in Whirlpools will compete for trading fees and token emissions, which are divided among liquidity providers according to the parameters of their deposits.

Due to the structure of Concentrated Liquidity and Leverage, users who set a tighter price range around the current token price will receive a higher share of fees and incentives. On the other hand, they are more vulnerable to Divergence Loss (also known as Impermanent Loss or IL).

How do price ranges work?

Traditional pools have liquidity providers that provide liquidity across the entire possible price for a token, from zero to infinity. Users can choose the upper and lower limit for their liquidity when participating in a Whirlpool.

What tokens represent their deposit?

In a standard AMM pool, Liquidity provider tokens represent how much of the total liquidity of a pool is own. As users deposit liquidity, their original tokens go into the pool, and they mint LP tokens in an equivalent amount, increasing both the liquidity in the pool and the total supply of LP tokens.

When withdrawing liquidity, they burn their LP tokens and receive their original tokens back according to the pool balance (which may go up or down depending on the relative price of tokens), decreasing both the liquidity in the pool and the total supply of LP tokens.

As all liquidity in standard pools has the same zero-to-infinite range and no multiplier. All LP tokens are the same, which makes them fungible. In Whirlpools, each liquidity provider decides the range and amount of liquidity deposited into the pool, making each LP token unique and non-fungible.

For more information about Whirlpools, check out the FAQ.

About Media Network

Media Network is a blockchain agnostic, censorship-resistant, and community-powered dCDN enforced by smart contracts.

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About Orca

Orca is the easiest way to exchange cryptocurrency on the Solana blockchain. Users can exchange tokens with minimal transaction fees. And lower latency than any DEX on Ethereum, all while knowing that you’re getting a fair price. Additionally, users may provide liquidity to a trading pool to earn a share of trading fees.

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Following the success of the Closed Beta, Whirlpools will now be available to everywhale!

Whirlpools are Orca’s brand-new concentrated liquidity pools. These pools allow LPs to concentrate their liquidity around specific price ranges, unlocking significant gains in capital efficiency for liquidity providers and better prices for swaps on Orca.

To learn more about concentrated liquidity and the advantages of Whirlpools, check out this announcement post!

Whirlpool’s beta testers used their Orcanaut NFT to access and provide liquidity during the Closed Beta. Their traction during the beta was encouraging, with both $10M in total value locked and $10M in volume traded per day.

They are officially opening up deposits to the entire Solana ecosystem. (Builders can also start integrating using the Whirlpools SDK!) Orca is proud to achieve this key milestone on its journey to become an Apex AMM.

Seven new Whirlpools, all with built-in Double-Dip rewards:

As they migrate its existing pools in favor of Whirlpools, they will be saying goodbye to Aquafarm Rotations and welcoming the hot new thing: Whirlpools Rotations. 

Whirlpools Rotation #1

• Duration: Monday, April 25th, 2022 — Thursday, May 5th, 2022
• Total Rewards: The rewards are detailed below for each Whirlpool. Pools will open for deposits on April 25 at approx. 12:00 UTC, and rewards will begin 24 hours later on April 26 at approx. 12:00 UTC.

They will be kicking off the public launch with some of its most widely traded pairs and a couple of our favorite partners — Marinade and Lido!

1️⃣ mSOL/USDT

• Marinade rewards: 51,616 MNDE per week
• ORCA rewards: 4,000 ORCA per week

2️⃣ mSOL/UST

• Marinade rewards: 51,616 MNDE per week
• ORCA rewards: 2,000 ORCA per week

3️⃣ mSOL/SOL

• Marinade rewards: 17,205 MNDE per week
• ORCA rewards: 2,000 ORCA per week

4️⃣ stSOL/USDC

• Lido rewards: 12,500 LDO per week
• Orca rewards: 10,000 ORCA per week

5️⃣ stSOL/USDT

• Lido rewards: 7,500 LDO per week
• Orca rewards: 4,000 ORCA per week

6️⃣ stSOL/UST

• Lido rewards: 5,000 LDO per week
• Orca rewards: 2,000 ORCA per week

7️⃣ stSOL/SOL

• Lido rewards: 2,500 LDO per week
• Orca rewards: 2,000 ORCA per week

All existing Whirlpools will remain available. Over time, rewards will slowly decrease for its constant product pools and increase for the corresponding Whirlpools.

About Orca

Orca is the easiest, fastest, and most user-friendly AMM and aggregator on Solana.

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